Gianni Schicchi and Cavalleria Rusticana
A live video broadcast from the Verbier festival starring Bryn Terfel and Ying Fang
Parterre Box
Change my mind about how Orfeo should end
By giving Orfeo ed Euridice a happy ending, Gluck ruined a wonderful score.
By John Yohalem
131 comments
Les pêcheurs de perles
Marc Minkowski conducts a performance recorded last week at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Change my mind about Ermonela Jaho
Yes, Ermonela Jaho is a compelling swooner. But is she a great singer? I have yet to be convinced!
By Ben Miller
62 comments
The Nine Jewelled Deer
A new opera by Sivan Eldar and Ganavya Doraiswami from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Change my mind about Parterre Box
Parterre Box over the last few years has become the MOST USELESS website.
By Stan Deneroff (Calaf513)
287 comments
Change my mind about Jake Heggie’s operas
Jake Heggie writes operas like a Restoration Hardware couch—soft, expensive, and allergic to mess.
By Michael M. Landman-Karny
137 comments
Tosca
Kristine Opolais, SeokJong Baek, and Bryn Terfel star in a live broadcast from Tanglewood
Die schweigsame Frau
Christian Thielemann conducts a live broadcast from Berlin
Change my mind about Anna Moffo
The musical virtues of Anna Moffo have heretofore eluded me.
By Harry Rose
176 comments
Schön geschmückt und ganz allein!
With the 2025 Bayreuth Festival beginning next week, Grand Tier Grab Bag spotlights the Eva of its opening Meistersinger: Christina Nilsson
Change my mind about the Toscanini Bohème
It’s like making love with someone whose rap never ceases—and includes “helpful suggestions” about how you can be improving your game.
By Peter Russell
79 comments
Oedipe
George Enescu‘s opera in a live broadcast from the Bregenz Festival
Change my mind about The Last Savage
Despite having endured premiers at the Santa Fe Opera, including Cold Mountain, Oscar, and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, all of which were disappointing on every level, Santa Fe Opera’s 2011 production of Menotti‘s The Last Savage is an opera I never care to see or listen to again.
By Darby Fegan
153 comments
Louise
A performance of Gustave Charpentier‘s opera recorded last week at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
La Calisto
A performance of Cavalli‘s opera recorded last week at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Change my mind about Joan Sutherland’s Norma
Joan Sutherland as Norma is something I’ve never been able to get.
By Ivy Lin
159 comments
Les contes d’Hoffmann
A live video broadcast from Zurich starring Saimir Pirgu in the title role
Don Giovanni
A live broadcast from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
America runs on Duncan
The opening of Teatro Nuovo’s Macbeth next week is the first of two opportunities this year to hear the opera in its original 1847 Version
Change my mind about booing singers
I don’t understand the booing of singers, whether it’s booing bad characters, or booing singers who don’t live up to the booer’s expectations.
By Remko Jas
204 comments
Change my mind about performing operetta in English
I so don’t get why any company in the Anglophone world ever bothers to perform Continental operetta in English.
By Last Castrato
139 comments
Take it or Liv it
The opening of the Santa Fe Opera’s season is the perfect occasion to highlight its Susanna, American soprano Liv Redpath