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Parsifal just gives me the creeps – a muddy maundery concoction that wallows in faux religiosity, a creepy view of sin, and naïve redemption.
parterre box serves up an amuse-bouche of Natalie Dessay as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd in Strasbourg!
I just don’t get why anyone takes Mario Lanza seriously as “the tenor of the century” and so forth.
The ultimate in Diva worship – where she can do no wrong.
Daniele Rustioni leads a verismo double bill recorded in Munich last month
Nothing helped me understand Verdi better than Alessandro Manzoni‘s I promessi sposi.
Konstantin Krimmel plays the title role in a live broadcast from Munich
parterre box highlights the livestreamed opening of this year’s Munich Opera Festival with a bit of tonight’s Don Giovanni, Konstantin Krimmel, in another Mozart opera
A live video broadcast from Vienna starring Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov
I first read Edith Hamilton‘s classic book on Greek mythology about sixty years ago.
What better beach read than a juicy diva autobiography?
The earliest days of recording told by F.W. Gaisberg, the man who recorded Patti, Melba, Moreschi, and Tamagno among many others.
Norma returns La Scala this week for the first time in nearly 40 years and parterre box marks the occasion with titular druidess Marina Rebeka singing a bit of Verdi
Not really an opera book but, c’mon, it’s Bach.
Nicky Spence sings the title role in a performance recorded earlier this spring in Cardiff
I did not expect Dorothy Kirsten‘s autobiography to be so rewarding a read: I did so twice.
A reminder to relax and refresh this summer by sharing your innermost operatic thoughts for The Talk of the Town
A live broadcast from Venice featuring Anna Caterina Antonacci as Madame de Croissy
parterre box looks forward to the official start of summer tomorrow with a wistfully pointed performance of Samuel Barber‘s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” by soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha
Yuval Sharon and the American Modern Opera Company meld Monteverdi and George Lewis in a live performance from Lincoln Center
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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