Questo e Quello
Happy 70th birthday tenor Neil Shicoff.
Amore Opera, an old-fashioned, adventurous little company that performs ambitious and sometimes delectably obscure but worthy repertory at the Riverside Theatre, is now (through Sunday) presenting Un ballo in maschera.
Live from the Bayerische Staatsoper, Gluck’s “reform opera” stars Charles Castronovo and Dorothea Röschmann.
Happy 74th birthday mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade.
On this day in 1979 distinguished film actress Liv Ullmann made her Broadway song-and-dance bow.
The opera proved somewhat puzzling—the score representing more a collage of fragmented and incidental musical ideas, and the libretto a turgid, slow-moving mass of purple prose.
Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco in a rare NYC concert performance with Margaret Price, Carlo Bergonzi and Sherrill Milnes.
Galas, Charles Ludlam‘s legendary “modern tragedy” about a larger-than-life Greek opera diva with a tumultuous offstage life, opens Sunday, June 16.
Born on this day in 1931 mezzo-soprano/soprano Shirley Verrett.
Born on this day in 1894 actress, comedienne and diseuse Beatrice Lillie.
Norman Lebrecht will open season with his own unrepentant ignorance.
Staatsoper Berlin and the Met are programming Ken Ludwig‘s classic Lend Me a Tenor.
Born on this day in 1924 record and video producer John Culshaw.
Happy Memorial Day, US Paterrians.
Happy 81st birthday soprano Teresa Stratas.
Live from the Vienna State Opera!
Born on this day in 1929 soprano and administrator Beverly Sills.
Blame it on the Madonna-Whore Complex, cher public, but this years most hotly-contested parterre box “Pubie” award ended in a tie!
On this day in 1966 Angela Lansbury opened in Jerry Herman‘s Mame at the Winter Garden Theatre.
If there is one thing kids really stan, it’s charcuterie tailgating!
To mark Beverly Sills’s 90th birthday (May 25, 1929) “Trove Thursday” offers the late diva’s acclaimed Massenet heroine opposite her ideal Des Grieux, Alain Vanzo.
Happy 83rd birthday soprano Ingeborg Hallstein.
Minnesota Opera’s stab at boosting revenue with extra performances of something surefire never caught fire.
Born on this day in 1813 composer Richard Wagner.
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.
