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The Met was built for Saint-François d’Assise. It is a huge work, and it needs a huge space. And Ingo Metzmacher.
Because we have no shortage of mezzos that would be great in this rep
Danielle de Niese can’t get off the phone in a performance recorded in Wales last month
In François Girard‘s production.
… with Erin Morley
Michael Spyres as Pirro; Juan Diego Flórez, Javier Camerena, or Lawrence Brownlee as Oreste; Aigul Akhmetshina as Andromaca; Anastasia Bartoli as Ermione
Lisette Oropesa and Aigul Akhmetshina come to blows in a performance recorded last fall in Madrid.
George London and Leonie Rysanek lead a performance from 1960
Mignon of Ambroise Thomas was performed at the Met many times but has not been for decades.
Opera Lafayette and OperaCréole present Edmond Dédé‘s rediscovered opera in a live stream from the Dekelboum Concert Hall at the University of Maryland
A live opening night broadcast from Munich
Esclarmonde is the only answer to the question of what the Met should revive.
It is time for the Met to revive Puccini‘s masterpiece and his best work IMHO, Il trittico.
It’s fascinating, and gorgeous, and over the top, and it requires a director to make actual decisions in a way that causes clutching of pearls when it happens in a production of a better known opera.
The San Francisco Opera announces its 2025-26 season.
The American bass, a fixture of the Metropolitan Opera between 1967 and 2018, was 83.
Der Freischütz has not been seen at the Met since 1972!
Every mediocre performance of Trovatore (and don’t we know about those?) could instead be a very good performance of Massenet‘s Hérodiade.
Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes — not I vespri siciliani, but the French original.
Korngold‘s opera in a live broadcast from Boston
A live broadcast from the Vienna Staatsoper conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.
Renée Fleming leads a performance recorded in New York in 2007
The forces of the Teatro La Fenice in a performance of Respighi‘s opera recorded last spring at Venice’s Teatro Malibran
Peter—may I call you Peter? It has come to our attention that you are seeking operas with “rich, melodic scores.”
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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