Judith Malafronte
You may have read Judith Malafronte’s reviews and feature articles in Opera News between 2000 and 2023. You may not have heard her sing Bach, Handel, Monteverdi, and medieval music with various ensembles including the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the St. Louis Symphony, American Bach Soloists, the Göttingen Handel Festival, and the Waverly Consort. She won several competitions in Europe and recorded for Harmonia Mundi. Her interests include walking various Camino routes in Spain, France, and Portugal.
Judith Malafronte on firebrand pedagogues, the old-school singing manual revival, and what many voice teachers are getting wrong.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
Judith Malafronte sits down with bass David Leigh who debuts as Rocco in Washington National Opera’s production of Fidelio next week
Antonacci’s singing is remarkably beautiful for one who clearly doesn’t make that a top priority.
For her first CD in six years, Angela Gheorghiu has chosen Italian repertoire.
The second half of Warner Classics’ Maria Callas Live Remastered set represents the years 1954 to 1964 in the career of La Divina.
All the daring and imagination of La Divina’s live work, particularly in the early years, is revealed in Warner Classics’ Maria Callas: The Live Recordings.
Samantha Hankey, so impressive as Diana and Giove-in-Diana in Juilliard’s recent run of Cavalli’s La Calisto, was the perfect Cenerentola.
Among several fine productions at Aix this summer, Dmitri Tcherniakov’s brilliantly conceived and executed Carmen proved a game changer.
Two productions at the Aix-en-Provence festival shared one look.
