opera in exile
Lise Davidsen and Jonas Kaufmann headline this new production from Covent Garden.
Join the gang at parterre box to watch the world end tonight.
A performance from the Vienna State Opera featuring Carlos Álvarez, Dorothea Röschmann and Adam Plachetka.
The third segment of Der Ring des Nibelungen takes to the interwebs tonight.
From the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Asmik Grigorian stars as Cio-Cio-San.
The second part of the Ring as documented at the Met in 2011.
Mascagni’s bizarre japonaiserie opera features Sonya Yoncheva.
Revisit our old friend The Machine from the Met’s early teens Ring cycle, beginning tonight with Das Rheingold.
A midcentury Met-adjacent cast belts out Ponchielli.
Wagner’s music drama in the Met’s 2016 production.
This afternoon, a 2019 Puccini performance featuring Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala and Thomas Hampson.
Another classic Met Live in HD performance, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
A 1983 concert performance at Carnegie Hall with June Anderson, Marilyn Horne and Samuel Ramey; Henry Lewis conducting.
Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala head the cast in this 2009 performance.
A leap back in time to 2014 for a Met broadcast of La Cenerentola.
Cherubini’s tragedy as performed at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
Tonight’s subject for discussion: Verdi’s La Traviata, starring Diana Damrau and Juan Diego Flórez, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin (not pictured) on the podium.
This afternoon’s chat focuses on Bellini’s La Sonnambula with Anna Moffo (San Francisco 1960.)
A 1960s All-Star team for Verdi’s Il Trovatore broadcast from the Teatro Colón with Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Piero Cappuccilli and, of course, Ivo Vinco.
Andreas Schager and Anja Kampe in a production from the Staatsoper Berlin.
A sparkling performance of Rossini’s La Cenerentola from 1976 featuring the scintillating conducting of Claudio Abbado and Lucia Valentini-Terrani in the title role.
Yet another opera company joins the free streaming trend: the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
In place of the opening night of the Met’s revival of the Massenet opera, La Cieca invites you to listen to live recording from the archives of Trove Thursday.
Monday afternoon’s Opera in Exile selection is Falstaff from the Vienna State Opera.
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.
