“Paul Appleby will sing the role of Don Ottavio in this season’s September and October performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, replacing Rolando Villazón, who has withdrawn due to illness,” the Met’s press department tells us.
I think it's a combination of availability (since the Met competes with so many other houses) and repertory; there really isn't anything for Elza to do next year, except Donna Anna;...
By chance and home from college for Xmas break I saw MARTHA at the Met (Konya, Fenn, Elias, Tozzi.) That season (1967/1968) was the last time it was given at the Met. Caruso outstanding in the...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 27 minutes ago
Camillyushcherrima! You had said that you wanted to share your opinion on Aïda Pascu? Have you heard this?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 54 minutes ago
Sounds a bit scrappy for so deep into the run. I bet it’s fun in person.
I thought that The Visit at Williamstown was an arch and pretentious mess, which seems to be their house style. But that scene of Chita dancing with herself as a young woman (oh, wait, should have...
April 23rd was momentous for many entertainment reasons, among which are: William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
Yes the Met performed this charming opera hundreds of times for many years. Then they just dropped it. Same with Mignon. Bring them back!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
While not a fan, for me the voice makes no impact from the lower middle down, I agree that her Empress in Frau was superb.
But she is called that in the text at times
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
Verdi had thought so for a time.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
Yes indeed: Met Tour Metropolitan Theater, Boston, Massachusetts, Sun, April 23, 1961 MARTHA (101) In English Friedrich von Flotow Lady Harriet Victoria de los Angeles Lionel Richard Tucker Nancy...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 2 hours ago
I actually prefer the office regie Roberto Devereux over this one when it comes to EG's assumption of the title role. She is somehow more effective in it IMHO. But this one is fine too.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 3 hours ago
Boieldieu's La dame blanche has an invisible title character.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 3 hours ago
i have never heard her live, but if that is the case then she'll do well!
Cornelia cara, thank you. So glad to see this as I have been waiting for someone to nominate it since making a Solomonic decision upon whom I’d suggest for this category, and in having chosen...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 3 hours ago
I don’t know that I agree with you, but La Grazia, young and impetuous, once proclaimed it should be titled “Amneris.”
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 3 hours ago
It’s very easily done by accident if you’re using a touch screen, just as I find myself following accounts and saving reels I haven’t the slightest interest in on Instagram.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 3 hours ago
Marvelously entertaining article. But why oh why is Elza not appearing at the Met next season? The Met seems to be doing this nowadays. They create an audience for a star, and then there is a lapse...
Amer says I blocked him but I didn't mean to. How do I unblock him? I figured it out and unblocked him.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 4 hours ago
“Paul Appleby will sing the role of Don Ottavio in this season’s September and October performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, replacing Rolando Villazón, who has withdrawn due to illness,” the Met’s press department tells us.
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“The island is only small / But the fairies inhabiting it / Welcome us all”
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Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
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