For Mozart’s birthday in 2018 I gathered together 16 of the composer’s finest concert arias in live performances by a dazzling array of singers: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Montserrat Caballé, Gianna d’Angelo, Sabine Devieilhe, Elina Garanca, Reri Grist, Barbara Hendricks, Edda Moser, Jessye Norman, Alex Penda, Sandrine Piau, Graziella Sciutti, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland, Lydia Teuscher and Julia Varady.

Sing out, Wolfgang!

 

Charpentier’s Louise isn’t performed so often, but the San Francisco Opera gave it a chance in 1999 with an impressive cast: Renée Fleming, Felicity Palmer, Jerry Hadley, Samuel Ramey.

The last time I saw Paris

Another René—Jacobs—conducts a delicious broadcast of Georg Philipp Telemann’s rollicking Der Geduldige Sokrates.

My new philosophy

Arianna in Creta is one of Handel’s rarest operas with a superb cast including Sandrine Piau, Kristina Hämmarström and Ann Hallenberg, conducted by Christophe Rousset

Piau’s labyrinth

Opera singers Dorothea Röschmann, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ian Bostridge, Hanna Schwarz Florian Boesch tackle Brecht and Weill’s delicious Die Dreigroschenoper overseen by HK Gruber

Teeth like razors

Sensational soprano Asmik Grigorian, still absent from the US, stars in Tchaikovsky’s rarely heard The Enchantress.

Witch hunt

These plus hundreds of other works remain available for listening and/or downloading. All works posted on TT are listed by composer in this updated archive.

Christopher Corwin

Christopher Corwin began writing for parterre box in 2011 under the pen name “DeCaffarrelli.” His work has also appeared in , The New York Times, Musical America, The Observer, San Francisco Classical Voice and BAMNotes. Like many, he came to opera via the Saturday Met Opera broadcasts which he began listening to at age 11. His particular enthusiasm is 17th and 18th century opera. Since 2015 he has curated the weekly podcast Trove Thursday on parterre box presenting live recordings.

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