Questo e Quello
From Unnatural Acts of Opera, a duo concert with Shirley Verrett and Grace Bumbry at Carnegie Hall.
Happy 80th birthday soprano/mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry.
Soprano Pretty Yende (soon to be a Met Rosina) guests on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show at 11:35 this evening.
“A case of histronic personality disorder a deux.”
Born on this day in 1905 actress Anna May Wong.
A classic 1974 New York City Opera La traviata with Beverly Sills, John Stewart and Dominic Cossa conducted by Julius Rudel.
Happy 55th birthday film director, screenwriter, and producer Todd Haynes.
The Met ushers out this wretched year and rings in the new with an elegant and effective new production of Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette.
Happy New Year Parterrians!
Start your New Year’s Eve out right with a nice passionate chat on the subject of Roméo et Juliette.
Today’s matinee broadcast features a Met performance from earlier in the season. Chat about it here beginning at 1:00 PM.
Born on this day in 1894 actress Pola Negri.
Congratulations to Dame Patricia Routledge.
On this day in 1954 the Harold Arlen–Truman Capote musical House of Flowers opened on Broadway.
Happy 80th birthday actress Mary Tyler Moore.
La Cieca’s nomination for Song of the Year 2016: an elaborate but hideously tasteless unintentional joke.
“We do not go to opera to see stories similar to those we would see in movies.”
Happy 50th birthday tenor Piotr Beczala.
Let’s celebrate the coming of 2017 with a peek at Elsa Lanchester’s cabaret act consisting of bawdy Cockney songs.
On this day in 1830 Donizetti’s Anna Bolena premiered in Milan.
Merry Christmas Parterrians!
Welcome, parterrians, to your Christmas Eve chat beginning at 1:00 PM.
On this night in 1951 Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors premiered on television.
With Christmas Eve 2016 falling on a Saturday, the Met offers contrasting orchestral splendors at noon and 6 p.m.
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
