opera in exile
Conducted by Sir Mark Elder; starring Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna. Transmitted live on October 20, 2018.
Juan Diego Flórez and Luca Pisaroni star in this performance recorded at the Vienna State Opera on January 13, 2017.
Conducted by Alan Gilbert; starring Sasha Cooke, Thomas Glenn, Gerald Finley, Richard Paul Fink and Eric Owens. Transmitted live on November 8, 2008.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin discusses The MET Orchestra and welcomes guests Angel Blue, Renée Fleming, Thomas Lausmann, Missy Mazzoli, Donald Palumbo and Ailyn Pérez.
Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano and Thomas Hampson star in this performance transmitted live on March 11, 2017.
Semyon Bychkov leads Ferruccio Furlanetto, Christopher Ventris, Herbert Lippert, Andrzej Dobber, Ain Anger and Elena Maximova in this 2014 performance from the Vienna State Opera.
Conducted by Dante Anzolini; starring Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson and Alfred Walker. Transmitted live on November 19, 2011.
Anthony Roth Costanzo contracts a severe case of monotheism in this Philip Glass opera transmitted live on November 23, 2019.
Alain Altinoglu and Dmitri Tcherniakov team for this production filmed in 2016 at the Opernhaus Zurich.
Born on this day in 1819 composer Jacques Offenbach…
Carnegie Hall presents this celebration, recognizing the importance of this historic day and acknowledging the long road still ahead.
Jonas Kaufmann stars in this production from the Salzburg Festival in March 2015.
Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci and Bonaldo Giaiotti star in this performance conducted by James Levine, as transmitted live on March 24, 1984.
Tomás Netopil leads a cast including Angela Denoke, Misha Didyk and Jane Henschel in a performance recorded at the Vienna State Opera on April 27, 2017.
Conducted by Patrick Summers; starring Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, and Paul Groves. Transmitted live on February 26, 2011.
A repeat viewing of this version of Schoenberg’s concert work, as staged by Pierre Audi for the Dutch National Opera.
Conducted by Maurizio Benini; starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazako and Ryan Speedo Green. Transmitted live on March 10, 2018.
Jesús López Cobos leads Piotr Beczala, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Krassimira Stoyanova in this performance from the Vienna State Opera on April 26, 2016.
Conducted by Riccardo Frizza; starring Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, John Osborn, Barry Banks and Kobie van Rensburg. Transmitted live on May 1, 2010.
A documentary on how Stuttgart Opera’s Parsifal was produced in 2009/10.
Conducted by Harry Bicket; starring Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser and Shenyang. Transmitted live on December 3, 2011.
Performance of Prokofiev’s Igrok on October 7, 2017 at the Vienna State Opera.
From San Francisco Opera, filmed live in HD at the War Memorial Opera House in 2009.
Barrie Kosky and Vladimir Jurowski collaborate on this splendid production of Schoenberg’s unfinished masterpiece.
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.
