opera in exile
A classic performance of Bernd Alois Zimmermann‘s opera from the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
What happens at the Met stays at the Met.
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.
This 2003 performance from the Bayerische Staatsoper is presented as a tribute to the late Sir Peter Jonas.
Veteran Donizetti stylists Joan Sutherland and Alfredo Kraus team for this 1982 telecast.
This presentation from the Dutch National Opera and Ballet begins streaming at 1:00 PM, one hour earlier than our usual afternoon discussion.
Anthony Dean Griffey sings the title role in John Doyle‘s notorious lemon of a production.
From the Grand Théâtre de Genève under the baton of Marc Minkowski.
Majestic Jessye Norman in a legendary Met portrayal from 1987.
A production from the Poznan Opera at Polish National Opera, as performed September 20, 2019.
Conducted by the composer and starring Audrey Luna, Isabel Leonard, Alek Shrader, Alan Oke, and Simon Keenlyside. Transmitted live on November 10, 2012.
A visually luxurious production from the Finnish National Opera and Ballet.
Jonas Kaufmann makes the gigantic stretch of playing a melancholy artist.
The classic double bill of potboilers, as telecast in 2015.
Gregory Kunde heads this cast of this new production from l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège.
On what would have been the last night of the 2019–20 Met season, Susan Froemke’s acclaimed 2017 documentary.
As performed by the Finnish National Opera on 11 March 2019.
Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti star in this pioneering video from March 15, 1977.
Is there ever enough Renée Fleming?
Renée Fleming rocks a chin-length bob as Countess Madeleine in Richard Strauss’s final opera.
Kaija Saariaho’s modern masterpiece, as transmitted live on December 10, 2016.
Krzysztof Warlikowski directs Christopher Maltman and Eva-Maria Westbroek in this production from Dutch National Opera in 2017.
Simon Keenlyside, Marlis Petersen, Jennifer Larmore and James Morris star in this Live in HD video from March 27, 2010.
Susan Bullock, Toby Spence and Kate Royal star in Benjamin Britten‘s 1953 opera.
The cream of the Met’s 1990s roster join forces for a controversial* staging of Mozart’s comedy.
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.