Questo e Quello
Happy 70th birthday soprano Edita Gruberova (with music for the holidays.)
Legendary opera fan and producer of opera recordings Ed Rosen has died.
Born on this day in 1858 composer Giacomo Puccini.
On this day in 1921 Jerome Kern’s Sally starring Marilyn Miller was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld on Broadway.
Tonight’s chat features the enshortened English language version of The Magic Flute the Met has put forth as their annual Christmas entertainment for the kiddies.
strong>Christian Gerhaher does not appear at first to sing but rather to speak on pitches, telling stories, explaining words by lingering on them or biting them off short.
On this day in 1981 Harry Krieger and Tom Eyen‘s musical Dreamgirls opened at the Imperial Theater.
The chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee took to the cable waves this morning to reassure the American people that Andrea Bocelli did not, repeat not, turn down the President-elect’s offer to sing at the January 20 event.
This week features Roger Norrington leading a December 2006 performance of Berlioz/ Enfance du Christ from Berlin
Born on this day in 1900 soprano and Glyndebourne founder Audrey Mildmay.
On this day in 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas, based on the story by Dr. Seuss, aired for the first time on CBS.
On this day in 1965 the Astrodome opened.
Welcome to La Casa della Cieca for the matinee of Salome starting at the Met at 1:00 pm on Saturday, cher public. Please be sure to read the notice after the jump.
“Hallelujah” will kick off this year’s annual holiday concert in The Imperial City, presumably sung by the event’s headliners, Vesselina Kasarova and Angela Denoke.
Scribe/saxophonist Will Robin (not pictured) surveys some of the many women who are making opera these days.
Born on this day in 1899 composer, playwright and actor Noel Coward.
How many books have been published about Anna Maria Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulou Meneghini Callas, great operatic goddess of the dark arts?
Happy 99th birthday soprano Hilde Zadek.
Jackie Evancho! Andrea Bocelli! Donald Trump! I mean, what else do you want, a Zuni fetish doll eviscerating Karen Black?
On this day in 1918 Puccini’s Il Trittico premiered at the Metropolitan Opera.
Kirsten Chambers will make her Met debut in the title role of this evening’s performance of Strauss’s Salome, replacing Patricia Racette, who is ill.
“Being a wife, being a mother, entertaining in the summer, doing the pheasant shoots in the winter.”
Blood-and-guts singing is the reason to see Nabucco at the Metropolitan Opera this season.
President-elect Donald Trump has approached crooner Andrea Bocelli to sing at his inauguration.
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
