A favorite Donizetti performance from Darby Fegan
Fiorenza Cossotto in her prime had few equals, particularly in the Italian repertoire
By Darby Fegan
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Parterre Box
A favorite Donizetti performance from Lisette Oropesa
Donizetti wrote so much great music, it’s hard to single out a favorite opera, or even a preferred aria!
By Lisette Oropesa
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More people should listen to Corinne Winters
After her Mimìs in the springtime Bohème, she will perhaps be less under the radar here.
By Camille
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More people should listen to Ida Miccolis
Ida Miccolis (1920-2005), Brazilian soprano, never or rarely sang outside Brazil.
By Eli Jacobson
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L’opera seria
Florian Leopold Gassmann‘s rare comedy live from Milan
Moby-Dick
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer‘s whale of an opera live from New York
More people should listen to Lella Cuberli
One of the great Rossini sopranos of the 1980s and sadly under-recorded in that rep.
By PCally
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Mañana por la mañana
One might be surprised to not see the blusteringly charismatic Saioa Hernández mentioned amidst the litany of favorite under-appreciated sopranos. Then one hears what she’s been up to lately.
More people should listen to Dorothy Kirsten
Reading Dorothy Kirsten‘s autobiography twice last year made me revisit her work anew.
By Niel Rishoi
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More people should listen to Dorothy Maynor
I discovered this magical soprano when I was a teenager, and came across a mixed program RCA Victor LP recital.
By David Fox
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More people should listen to Maria Caniglia
Maria Caniglia sings with unabashed commitment and honesty. She sings as if the music was born with her.
By Scott Grunow
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Stimme der Ungehörten
All disciples of the box are reminded one final time to furnish operatic discussion material for the next quarter of The Talk of the Town
Iolanta
A live broadcast of Tchaikovsky‘s opera from Vienna starring Sonya Yoncheva
More people should listen to Aga Mikolaj
Aga Mikolaj (born Agnieszka Beata Mikolajczyk) sang Strauss and Mozart with a gorgeous, shimmering tone.
By Ben Miller
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More people should listen to Rosanna Carteri
Not exactly obscure, but she has such elegance and poise
By Kevin Ng
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Festen
Mark-Anthony Turnage‘s acclaimed new opera based on Thomas Vinterberg‘s film in a recent performance from Covent Garden.
L’enfant et les sortilèges and Les mamelles de Tirésias
Hilda Harris and Catherine Malfitano in an 1981 broadcast to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ravel‘s opera
More people should listen to Karolina Bengtsson
Karolina Bengtsson is just at the beginning – we are going to hear from her, I am quite sure…
By Daniel
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From the House of the Dead
Karina Canellakis conducts Janácek‘s final opera live from Amsterdam.
Unreleased cut
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.”