Lyric Opera of Chicago 2024-25
Windy City audiences can look forward to a a season of classics interspersed with a contemporary work and a world premiere
Parterre Box
Ernani
A recorded performance from Bregenz in 2023 starring Saimir Pirgu, Franco Vassallo, Goran Juric, and Guanqun Yu, conducted by Enrique Mazzola
La forza del destino
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Lise Davidsen, Brian Jadge, Judit Kutasi, Igor Golovatenko, Patrick Carfizzi, and Soloman Howard in a live broadcast from New York
Roméo et Juliette
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Nadine Sierra, Benjamin Bernheim, Samantha Hankey, Frederick Ballentine, and Will Liverman in a broadcast from New York
Salome
Mark Albrecht conducts Lise Lindstrom, John Daszak, Katarina Dalayman, Nicholas Brownlee, and Joel Prieto in a live opening night broadcast from Rome
Ernani
Thomas Schippers conducts Carlo Bergonzi, Leontyne Price, Cornell MacNeil, and Giorgio Tozzi in a broadcast from 1962
Animal Farm
All animals are equal, but some are more equal that others in a live video relay of Alexander Raskatov‘s new opera from Vienna with Gennady Bezzubenkov, Wolfgang Bankl, Michael Gniffke, Andrei Popov, Stefan Astakhov, Karl Laquit, Artem Krutko, and Margaret Plummer and conducted by Alexander Soddy
Turandot
Metropolitan Opera debuts for Oksana Lyniv and Elena Pankratova in a live broadcast from New York also featuring Aleksandra Kurzak, SeokJeongBaek, and Vitalij Kowaljow
Farà di capello al bravo uffizial
In anticipation of a full review, cher public is invited to weigh in on the lamentable perruque situation in this season’s new forza
La forza del destino
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the opening night of a new production with Lise Davidsen, Brian Jadge, Judit Kutasi, Igor Golovatenko, Patrick Carfizzi, and Soloman Howard
Mozart and Beethoven in Concert at the Met
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a 2023 performance of Mozart’s Requiem with Golda Schultz, Emily D’Angelo, Dmytro Popov, Vladyslav Buialskyi and a 2022 performance of the finale of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Elza van den Heever, Jamie Barton, Piotr Beczala, and Ryan Speedo Green
Metropolitan Opera 2024-25
The Metropolitan Opera reveals its upcoming season
San Francisco Opera 2024-25
The first of the major American opera houses to announce its 2024-25 season did so today
Omar
Jamez McCorkle, Cierra Byrd, Daniel Okulitch, Brianna J. Robinson, and
Neal Ferreira in a broadcast of Rhiannon Giddens’s and Michael Abels’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera from Boston last spring
Il trovatore
Roberto Aronica, Lucas Meachem, Marta Torbidoni, Chiara Mogini, and Gianluca Buratto in a live broadcast from Bologna conducted by Renato Palumbo
Un ballo in maschera
A broadcast from fall 2023 featuring Charles Castronovo, Angela Meade, Quinn Kelsey, Liv Redpath, and Olesya Petrova conducted by Carlo Rizzi
Video: Celebrating James Jorden
The parterre team is glad to make available a professionally produced recording of the February 3rd memorial held in honor of parterre box founder James Jorden
Hamlet
Louis Langrée conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Stéphane Degout, Jodie Devos, Renée Tatum, and Raymond Aceto in a broadcast of Ambroise Thomas’s opera from last fall
Elektra
A broadcast from last month of the much-discussed London production featuring Ausrine Stundyte, Sara Jakubiak, Karita Mattina, Charles Workman, and Lukasz Golinski conducted by Antonio Pappano
Valentines from the Met: Great Love Duets
A valentine from New York
Adriana Lecouvreur
Daniele Rustioni conducts Tamara Wilson in her Einspringerin debut in the title role alongside Brian Jagde, Clémentine Margaine, Maurizio Muraro, and Misha Kiria in a performance recorded last year in Paris
Gianni Schicchi & L’heure espagnole
Carlo Lepore, Vuvu Mpofu, Giovanni Sala, Ya-Chung Huang, Karine Deshayes, and Markus Werba are conducted by Michele Mariotti in a live broadcast from Rome
Pique Dame
Aziz Shokhakimov conducts Asmik Grigorian, Brandon Jovanovich, Violeta Urmana, and Roman Burdenko in the premiere of Benedict Andrews‘s production from Munich
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Kazem Abdullah conducts Will Liverman, Leah Hawkins, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Michael Sumuel, and Victor Ryan Robertson in a broadcast recorded this fall from New York
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).