Questo e Quello
Let’s call this meeting to order. My name is Patrick and I’m a boxset-aholic.
Happy 58th birthday soprano Renée Fleming.
Fort Worth Opera earlier today parted ways with its general director of 16 years, Darren K. Woods.
“Pretty Yende will sing the role of Elvira in tomorrow evening’s performance of Bellini’s I Puritani, replacing Diana Damrau, who is ill.”
Tancredi, given on February 10th, was a credit to Opera Philadelphia, who offered a well-considered and compelling production.
This week we get closer to completing the operas of Benjamin Britten with The Rape of Lucretia.
Happy birthday mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.
Which octogenarian fixture of the operatic world is preparing to make a farewell of sorts, perhaps as soon as late summer of this year?
Happy birthday tenor Anthony Dean Griffey!
Someone—a deranged purist no doubt—heckled Javier Camarena from the balcony of the opera house for withholding the infamous high F during “Credeasi, misera.”
This afternoon’s broadcast, cher public: Bizet’s Carmen, starting at 1:00 PM.
On this day in 1896 Oscar Wilde‘s Salomé premiered in Paris.
Grab your veils, cher public, and join the listening party for I puritani tonight at 7:30 tonight.
Today is the 90th anniversary of the birth of the great American diva.
On this day in 1881 Jacques Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffman premiered in Paris.
An unstaged performance of Juditha Triumphans by five soloists and the Venice Baroque Orchestra under Andrea Marcon.
I never made it through more than a few chapters of any Tolstoy work. And I never made it through Chapter One, Volume One of War and Peace. Yeah, I know. I suck. Turns out I was just not using the left side of my brain, because War and Peace can actually be a fun, entertaining,…
According to the Svenska Dagblatet, the internationally renowned Swedish singer died yesterday.
“Trove Thursday” presents an intriguingly unconventional all-star performance of Bizet’s Carmen featuring Christa Ludwig.
Born on this day in 1885 composer Alban Berg.
What better time for a competition in which you, the cher public (pictured), attempt to predict the future?
Born on this day in actress 1920 (more or less) Lana Turner.
LOC will offer a winning combination of uninspired repertoire and soporific casting.
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
