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A Baroque Valentine’s with Opera Lafayette | Feb | DC & NYC
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
“The Metropolitan Opera announced the appointment of Daniele Rustioni to the position of Principal Guest Conductor for a three-year term.”
A live broadcast from Barcelona.
A performance from Boston recorded earlier this fall and reviewed here
A live video broadcast from Vienna.
A performance from Théâtre des Champs-Elysées recorded earlier this month
Lise Davidsen takes her first sip of Liebestrank in a live broadcast from Munich
A live broadcast from New York
The premiere of a new Ring Cycle live from Munich
A free livestream from Dallas Opera
Puccini‘s adaptation closes out the Teatro Regio’s Manon-Manon-Manon project with a live broadcast from Turin
Not that one, the other one! Daniel Auber‘s opera in a live broadcast as part of Turin’s Manon-Manon-Manon triptych
A performance recorded last fall at the Rome Opera
György Kurtág‘s only opera live from the Wiener Staatsoper
Marco Armiliato conducts Benjamin Bernheim, Erin Morley, Pretty Yende, Clémentine Margaine, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, and Christian Van Horn in a live broadcast from New York
Michele Mariotti conducts Allan Clayton, Sophie Bevan, Simon Keenlyside, Clive Bayley, Jacques Imbrailo, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers in a live broadcast from Rome
STEMdiva status
Ahead of a special boozy, bawdy Valentine’s Day concert, artistic director of Opera Lafayette Patrick Quigley speaks with soprano Maya Kherani about her journey from MIT to rising American Baroque star.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.