Questo e Quello
Anita Cerquetti had one of the most remarkable, most brief careers in opera in the past century.
Happy 70th birthday tenor José Carreras.
From the Bayerische Staatsoper, a live telecast of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, starting at 1:00 PM today.
Everyone’s favorite disingenuous alt-right music critic, Jay Nordlinger, explains that the real problem in opera today is not enough blackface.
Born on this day in 1921 Deanna Durbin.
La Royale hostessed a Fridays Under 40 reception before the opera, then graced a parterre box during the performance.
Anna Netrebko will sing Turandot at the Met in a “forthcoming season.”
Get ready, cher public, for the first Met Saturday matinee broadcast.
This is our anniversary day, cher public.
On this day in 1953 the Wright-Forrest-Borodin musical Kismet opened on Broadway.
Much like Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which launched the Met’s 2016-2017 season, Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin is an opera about love and death.
It is a good rule of thumb that if you emerge from a massive grand opera like Aida feeling any less than overwhelmed, you have a right to be somewhat disappointed.
On this day in 1840 Donizetti’s La Favorite premiered in Paris.
Whether near or far, cher public, you can enjoy the Met premiere of L’Amour de Loin in the company of other denizens of La Casa della Cieca.
Joyce DiDonato’s atest album, In War & Peace: Harmony through music, is more specific than it sounds.
La Cieca thought it would be nice to revisit an Unnatural Acts of Opera podcast which included selections from the diva’s 1958 US recital tour.
On this day in 1951 Benjamin Britten‘s Billy Budd premiered in London.
Happy 73rd birthday soprano Luana DeVol.
Anna has gone auburn!
So interesting an operatic topic as Barbara Cartland and her brain pills goes unset.
On this day in 1948 Verdi’s Otello was the first opera to be telecast from the Metropolitan Opera.
This week’s opera is Die Liebe der Danae.
Born on this day in 1923 actress Gloria Grahame.
Operatic history can be cruel where multiple works with the same subject are concerned
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
