Tosca
Xian Zhang conducts Aleksandra Kurzak, SeokJong Baek, and George Gagnidze in a live broadcast from New York
Parterre Box
Rigoletto
Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts Quinn Kelsey, Stephen Costello, Nadine Sierra, and J’nai Bridges in a live broadcast from New York
La fiamma
Carlo Rizzi conducts a live performance of Respighi‘s final opera from Deutsche Oper Berlin with Olesya Golovneva, Georgy Vasiliev, Ivan Inverardi, Martina Serafin, Doris Soffel, and Sua Jo
Il Bajazet (Il Tamerlano)
Federico Maria Sardelli conducts a performance of Vivaldi‘s opera with Renato Dolcini, Sonia Prina, Loriana Castellano, Raffaele Pe, and Lucia Cirillo from earlier this summer at Venice’s Teatro Malibran
Le Nozze di Figaro
Julia Jones conducts a broadcast from this season in London featuring Luca Micheletti, Ying Fang, Huw Montague Rendall, Maria Bengtsson, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Peter Kálmán, and Rebecca Evans
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Marco Armiliato conducts Benjamin Bernheim, Erin Morley, Pretty Yende, Clémentine Margaine, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, and Christian Van Horn in a live opening night broadcast from New York
Grounded
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Emily D’Angelo, Ellie Dehn, Ben Bliss, and Greer Grimsley in an opening night broadcast of Jeanine Tesori and George Brant‘s new opera from the Met
Turandot
James Conlon conducts a raved about performance from Los Angeles earlier this spring featuring Angela Meade, Russell Thomas, Guanqun Yu, and Morris Robinson
Lucine Amara 1925-2024
The dependable American soprano, a fixture of the midcentury Metropolitan Opera, died on September 6
La fabbrica illuminata & Erwartung
Jérémie Rhorer conducts Sarah Maria Sun in Nono and Heidi Melton in Schoenberg in an 20th century soprano-centric double bill live from Venice.
Ifigenia in Aulide
Christophe Rousset conducts Les Talens Lyriques and Max Emanuel Cencic, Jasmin Delfs, Dennis Orellana, Olena Leser, Nicolò Balducci, and Daniel Giulianini in a broadcast of Porpora‘s opera from the 2024 Bayreuth Baroque Festival
Highway 1, USA & The Dwarf
James Conlon conducts an eclectic double bill of William Grant Still and Alexander Zemlinsky featuring Nicole Heaston, Norman Garrett, Chaz’men Williams-Ali, Rodrick Dixon, Erica Petrocelli, Kristinn Sigmundsson, and Emily Magee recorded in Los Angeles last spring
Urbi et Orbelian
One day after the announcement that General Director Michael Capasso is retiring, New York City Opera announces the “installation” of Music Director and Principal Conductor Constantine Orbelian as Executive Director.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Douglas Boyd conducts the Garsington Opera company in a live Proms performance featuring Iestyn Davies, Lucy Crowe, Richard Burkhard, Caspar Singh, James Newby, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Camilla Harris, Nicholas Crawley, and Christine Rice
Incapassotated
Michael Capasso, General Director of the enfeebled remains of New York City Opera, announces his retirement
The Queen of Spades
Brandon Jovanovich, Asmik Grigorian, Roman Burdenko, Boris Pinkhasovich, Violeta Urmana, and Victoria Karkacheva in a performance lead by Aziz Shokhakimov recorded earlier this year in Munich
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Marc Minkowski conducts Benjamin Bernheim, a fourfold Kathryn Lewek, Christian Van Horn, and Kate Lindsey in a live broadcast from the Salzburg Festival
Carmen
Anja Bihlmaier conducts Rihab Chaieb, Evan LeRoy Johnson, Lukasz Goli?ski, and Janai Brugger in a Proms concert performance of Glyndebourne’s production
I’m in the mood for adulation
The first clip of Pablo Larraín‘s Maria Callas biopic staring Angelina Jolie has been released
A voice and something more
parterre‘s very own Max Keller opens up in The New York Times (!) about how starting T has affected their voice
L’Elisir d’amore
Roberto Kalb conducts Yaritza Véliz, Jonah Hoskins, Luke Sutliff, and Alfredo Daza in a performance recorded earlier this summer in Santa Fe
L’Orfeo
A performance recorded earlier this summer in Graz featuring Michael Hell conducting Valerio Contaldo, Johanna Rosa Falkinger, Anna Manske, Iris Vermillon, and Wolfgang Bankl
Der Rosenkavalier
Karina Canellakis conducts Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Paula Murrihy, Matthew Rose, Ying Fang, and David Portillo in a performance recorded last month at The Santa Fe Opera
The Gambler
Timur Zangiev conducts Sean Panikkar, Peixin Chen, Asmik Grigorian, Violeta Urmana, and Juan Francisco Gatell in a live broadcast from the Salzburg Festival
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).