Questo e Quello
This is just plain depressing.
Noted method actress Reneé Fleming is caught up the glamour and footlights of it all.
Riccardo Muti’s vision of Aida’s score largely emerged as one of subtlety, musicality, and restraint.
The singers and the orchestra carry the show, but where do they carry it?
Happy birthday baritone Jarrett Ott!
“I have been looking for a hydrangea print for years,” she told reporters.
The Princeton Festival has long been a “Little Engine that Could,” but the current operatic offering, John Adams’ Nixon in China, is a good deal more than that.
On this day in 1967 the Metropolitan Opera presented its first Met in the Parks performance in Crocheron Park, Bayside, Queens.
Live from the Zurich Opera, a new production of Verdi’s Biblical melodrama. The telecast begins at 1:00 PM.
One of the main problems with My Undying Love was that it did not appear to know what audience it was pitching to.
Born on this day in 1927 director-choreographer Bob Fosse.
Stonewall threads some difficult needles with great success overall in this last installment of New York City Opera’s Pride Month Programming.
Born on this day in 1906 filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist Billy Wilder.
From Twitter.
Anna Caterina Antonacci headlines the New York City Opera’s 2019-2020 season with a one night only concert performance of Britten’s Gloriana.
With the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Candide, they saved the best (of all possible worlds) for last.
“Darn, it sure is hot in New Mexico.”
Born on this day in 1921 Oscar and Tony winning actress Judy Holliday.
Michael Fabiano sits down with Matt Baume on The Sewers of Paris podcast.
Trove Thursday presents La Périchole featuring Frederica von Stade’s only performance of the title role in a rare NYC concert version narrated by the inimitable Madeline Kahn.
Brigitte Fassbaender‘s sound is piquant and, I’d hazard to guess, instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with her work.
On this day in 1967, the Metropolitan Opera presented La Gioconda as part of Lincoln Center’s Festival ’67.
Madonna‘s dream of singing at La Scala has been dashed!
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” went the introduction to the 1940s radio program The Shadow, an apt description for the San Francisco Opera’s production of Rusalka.
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.
