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Not exactly obscure, but she has such elegance and poise
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Mark-Anthony Turnage‘s acclaimed new opera based on Thomas Vinterberg‘s film in a recent performance from Covent Garden.
Hilda Harris and Catherine Malfitano in an 1981 broadcast to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ravel‘s opera
Karolina Bengtsson is just at the beginning – we are going to hear from her, I am quite sure…
Karina Canellakis conducts Janácek‘s final opera live from Amsterdam.
Recent rapturous musings about Huw Montague Rendall and curiosity about Aigul Akhmetshina‘s return to the Met as Rosina in May have prompted the box to share a recent sample of the pair in “Dunque io son.”
Never saw her in anything, only on You Tube videos and in a few recordings.
For me, Renée Doria epitomizes the best of French style – pointed diction, a slightly lemon-y timbre that cuts through any cloying sentimentality…..love her!
… as Minnie in La fanciulla del west
The opening night of a new production live from the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
Corinne Winters sings the title role in Janácek‘s opera live from Munich.
She demonstrated impressive artistry in repertoire that ranged from Spanish music to Mozart and Verdi. I only saw her twice at the Met in Mozart but they were both memorable performances.
The conclusion of the Metropolitan Opera’s annual competition, live from New York
parterre‘s protean publisher and historical singing authority Nick Scholl sits down with the Bel Canto Boot Camp team to discuss the old school and what makes for good filth
A drama/trauma-tic soprano in the model of Gencer and Olivero, Martile Rowland sang a brilliant Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux (a last minute replacement for Zampieri, another controversial pick) at a concert, did half a Puritani at the Met, and sang the other “Gencer” roles such as Paolina in I Martiri, the title roles in Caterina Cornaro and Linda di Chamounix, and then retired to teach in the midwest somewhere(?).
But two weeks remain for readers to stoke the fires of daily discussion over at The Talk of the Town!
A live broadcast from New York – and Lise Davidsen‘s final broadcast before her maternity leave!
Federica Lombardi is Norma in a performance recorded in Vienna last month.
Joyce Guyer’s silvery soprano, impeccable musicianship and beguiling stage presence made her an invaluable member of the Met roster in the late 1990s and early 2000s, appearing most frequently in harmony with others in such assignments as Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Woglinde in Wagner’s Ring Cycle and as a Parsifal Flower Maiden.
Hoping to speed up the arrival of spring, parterre box coaxes you to Michael Spyres‘s blazing pira with an in-house sampling of his Manrico from last fall’s Il trovatore in Houston.
Although not exactly unknown, why she isn’t a big star is mysterious to me.
I first encountered Karina Gauvin in 2003 in the Boston Early Music Festival’s production of Conradi’s Ariadne. It does not happen often that I encounter an unknown singer with such a gorgeous sheen to their voice. Her performance was a knockout.
Eugenia Burzio is the most demented soprano on record, for me at least.
