Christopher Corwin
To mark Beverly Sills’s 90th birthday (May 25, 1929) “Trove Thursday” offers the late diva’s acclaimed Massenet heroine opposite her ideal Des Grieux, Alain Vanzo.
By Christopher Corwin
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Hibla Gerzmava returns to Carnegie Hall
Grand Prix winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, soprano Hibla Gerzmava returns to Carnegie Hall, with pianist Ekaterina Ganelina, for a recital in Stern Auditorium/Perlman Stage on Friday, November 1, 2019, at 8:00 pm. Her program will feature art songs by such Russian masters as Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov and Prokofiev coupled with those by Hahn and…
Today the good guy finally gets his chance with San Giovanni Battista by Alessandro Stradella featuring Christophe Dumaux as John the Baptist.
By Christopher Corwin
Mezzo-sopranos often get stuck being the mother, the lady-in-waiting or the “other woman”… but not today!
By Christopher Corwin
“Trove Thursday” presents two live versions of Sunday in the Park with George.
By Christopher Corwin
“Trove Thursday” features a rare live broadcast of Les Dialogues des Carmélites featuring the composer’s favored soprano Denise Duval as Blanche.
By Christopher Corwin
“Trove Thursday” turns to Jacopo Foroni’s rare 1849 historical melodrama Cristina, Regina di Svezia to commemorate the 330th anniversary tomorrow of that enigmatic monarch’s death.
By Christopher Corwin
Peter Mattei, one of my two favorite baritones these days, in an unexpected title role, Britten’s Billy Budd.
By Christopher Corwin
“Trove Thursday” salutes Rosalind Elias today with what—at first glance—might be mistaken for a Met La Gioconda.
By Christopher Corwin
“Trove Thursday” offers Die Frau ohne Schatten conducted by Georg Solti and also featuring Regina Resnik, Donald McIntyre and the inevitable James King.
By Christopher Corwin
“Trove Thursday” offers Mozart’s late opera seria in a Paris “pirate” featuring the high-voltage diva-duo of Anna Caterina Antonacci and Elina Garanca.
By Christopher Corwin
“Trove Thursday” drafts a 1960s All-Star team for Verdi’s Il Trovatore broadcast from the Teatro Colón.
By Christopher Corwin
“Trove Thursday” leaps to the end of the cycle with a slightly abridged Götterdämmerung featuring Amy Shuard as Brünnhilde.
By Christopher Corwin
The most disappointing performance in 30 otherwise glorious years of William Christie and Les Arts Florissants visiting New York City.
By Christopher Corwin
Sondra Radvanovsky returned for her 29th Met Aïda Thursday night (but only her second Aïda.)
By Christopher Corwin
Although Gustav Mahler never wrote an opera, his colossal Eighth Symphony “The Symphony of a Thousand” may give us some glimpses of what a Mahler opera might have sounded like
By Christopher Corwin
Since 1985, from the Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall to the Welsh National Opera visiting BAM and from Chicago Lyric to New York City Opera to the Met, I’ve never encountered a bad Falstaff—or one that didn’t astound and delight me.
By Christopher Corwin
“Trove Thursday” this week features the earliest of the fat-knight operas: Antonio Salieri’s 1799 Falstaff.
By Christopher Corwin
A double-barreled “Trove Thursday” birthday salute to Renée Fleming who turns 60 today.
By Christopher Corwin
Handel’s Radamisto returned to New York when Opera Lafayette movingly performed this early masterpiece.
By Christopher Corwin
“Trove Thursday” offers a broadcast of the French baroque tragédie en musique Alcyone by Marin Marais.
By Christopher Corwin
A beautiful concert of 18th century sacred music arrived at Weill Recital Hall performed by the soulful Polish Wunderkind Jakub Jósef Orlinski.
By Christopher Corwin
I was shocked to realize I hadn’t seen Don Giovanni at the Met since Michael Grandage’s stultifying production opened in 2011.
By Christopher Corwin
For the conclusion of its tribute to the late Montserrat Caballé, “Trove Thursday” offers Dvorak’s Armida.
By Christopher Corwin
Iolanta was crowned on Thursday evening by Sonya Yoncheva’s haunting portrayal of the blind title character.
By Christopher Corwin
