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
Parterre Box
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
Simon Boccanegra
Lorenzo Viotti conducts a live opening night broadcast from Milan with Luca Salsi, Ain Anger, Roberto De Candia, Andrea Pellegrini, Eleonora Buratto and Charles Castronovo
Carmen
Daniele Rustioni conducts Angel Blue, Aigul Akhmetshina, Piotr Beczala, and Kyle Ketelsen in a broadcast from the Met
In pagine di Mortier
“The endowment is there certainly not to be raided, but to be used in a time of crisis rather than going out of business,” says Peter Gelb.
Berlioz and Wagner
John Nelson conducts Michael Spyres and Joyce DiDonato in a live broadcast from Strasbourg
Manon Lescaut
A live opening night broadcast from Bologna with Erika Grimaldi, Claudio Sgura, and Luciano Ganci conducted by Oksana Lyniv
Madama Butterfly
Xian Zhang conducts Aleksandra Kurzak, Eve Gigliotti, Matthew Polenzani, and Davide Luciano live from New York
Dead Man Walking
Yannick Nézet-Seguin conducts Ryan McKinny, Joyce DiDonato, Latonia Moore, and Susan Graham in a broadcast from October 21, 2023
Ewa Podles, 1952-2024
The celebrated and unique Polish contralto was 71.
Madama Butterfly
Fabio Luisi conducts a live broadcast from Genoa featuring Lianna Haroutounian, Fabio Sartori,Vladimir Stoyanov, and Manuela Custer
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).