Questo e Quello
On this day in 452 Attila laid siege to the metropolis of Aquileia.
“The music’s fun, but doesn’t Rossini repeat himself?”
Born on this day in 1914 soprano Eleanor Steber.
Happy 60th birthday playwright Tony Kushner.
On this day in 1949 Miss Liberty opened at the Imperial Theater, to run 308 performances.
“Trove Thursday” presentsFerdinando Paër’s 1804 Leonora ossia L’Amore coniugale.
Happy Bastille Day!
On this day in 1668 Antonio Cesti‘s opera Il pomo d’oro premiered in Vienna.
La Cieca sends kudos our most faithful benefactors.
On this day in 1804 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton died after being shot in a pistol duel by Vice President Aaron Burr.
Shirley Verrett remains one of my all-time favorite artists, and I am pleased to introduce her to my Mixcloud site in one of her parade roles: the femme fatale in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila.
Happy 92nd birthday tenor Nicolai Gedda.
Soprano Maralin Niska, a mainstay of New York City Opera and America’s regional opera companies from the 1960s through the 1980s, died at her home in Santa Fe yesterday.
Happy 47th birthday and get well soon tenor Jonas Kaufmann.
According to my taste, Die Fledermaus is an intoxicating opera
Born on this day in 1929 baritone Eberhard Waechter.
Call me old fashioned, but when I go to the opera, I go to hear beautiful singing.
On this day in 2009, Zachary Woolfe made his debut as an opera critic in the Observer.
Anna gets veristic.
If you were in New York on July 7, 1975 chances are you were at the Met reveling in the visiting Bolshoi Opera’s Eugene Onegin.
Born on this day in 1939 mezzo-soprano Elena Obraztsova.
>Happy 58th birthday actress, comedian and screenwriter Jennifer Saunders.
Born on this day in 1889 writer, filmmaker and designer Jean Cocteau.
Intrepid cub reporter Terry Teachout has scored the scoop of the century!
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
