A favorite Wagner performance from Mister Snow
It took me a while to “warm up” to Wagner.
By Mister Snow
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Rigoletto
Quinn Kelsey, René Barbera, and Lisette Oropesa star in a performance recorded in Los Angeles this spring.
Maria Stuarda
A performance recorded earlier this month in Salzburg with Lisette Oropesa and Kate Lindsey
A favorite Wagner performance from Dr. Hodel
Régine Crespin singing the Wesendonck Lieder is the most beautiful Wagner singing I’ve ever heard.
By Dr. Hodel
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A favorite Wagner performance from Remko Jas
All of the Teatro Colón live opera recordings conducted by Fritz Busch are special, but his 1936 Parsifal is my favorite.
By Remko Jas
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Harping on it
The start of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro provides a perfect opportunity to enjoy a bit of the breathtaking Vasilisa Berzhanskaya recorded there last summer
A favorite Wagner performance from CKurwenal
Dame Gwyneth Jones as Brünnhilde pretty much started it all for me.
By CKurwenal
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L’italiana in Algeri
Daniela Barcellona leads a live broadcast from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
A favorite Wagner performance from fletcher
Júlia Várady‘s smoldering, almost feral Sieglinde from the Sawallisch/Lehnhoff Ring, remains my favorite.
By fletcher
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Rigoletto
A performance recorded last month at The Santa Fe Opera starring Michael Chioldi
Soirées musicales & La cambiale di matrimonio
A live broadcast from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
A favorite Wagner performance from Rowna Sutin
This is one of my favorite operas, and visually and story telling-wise, you can’t beat this production.
By Rowna Sutin
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Zelmira
A live broadcast of the opening night of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro with Anastasia Bartoli and Lawrence Brownlee
With so little to be sure of
One final appeal for you to share what most titillates you in the upcoming season for September’s The Talk of the Town
Agrippina
A performance recorded last month at the Festival International d’Opéra Baroque & Romantique de Beaune featuring Les Épopées
A favorite Wagner performance from Yuval Sharon
This performance represents a perfect alignment of piece, performer, director, and conductor – the epitome of Gesamtkunstwerk.
By Yuval Sharon
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Back to the gypsy that I was
In the midst of an eventful summer for the Arena di Verona, one important happening has flown under the radar: the return of Anita Rachvelishvili to her signature role of Carmen, of which Parterre Box features a sample of today
A favorite Wagner performance from Scott Grunow
Rita Gorr as Ortrud, Bayreuth, 1959, Cluytens.
By Scott Grunow
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Bluebeard’s Castle
Iván Fischer leads an all-Hungarian team in a broadcast from the Proms
A favorite Wagner performance from Krunoslav
The superb 1958 Bayreuth Lohengrin, under the wonderful Cluytens.
By Krunoslav
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A favorite Wagner performance from Carmen Paddock
Recency bias is in full swing here, but Glyndebourne’s first ever staging of Parsifal – and my first Parsifal – takes top prize for me.
By Carmen Paddock
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Le nozze di Figaro
A performance recorded earlier this summer at The Santa Fe Opera
A favorite Wagner performance from Mr. Portafiori
I went to hear Eileen Farrell conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the Philharmonic in 1970.
By Mr. Portafiori
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