Questo e Quello
On this day in 1954 the floperetta Hit the Trail closed at Mark Hellinger Theater after four performances.
“Joyce DiDonato and Rufus Wainwright will discuss a variety of topics…”
“Trove Thursday” returns with an unbeatable combination: Janet Baker and Handel.
On this day in 1993, the first issue of parterre box, the queer opera zine was published.
Count on the New York Times to include in a photo caption all the information you really wanted to know.
Since its founding 20 years ago, Washington, DC-based Opera Lafayette has devoted its considerable imagination and energy to reviving lesser-known 17th and 18th century French operas.
A readers’ discussion of Gaetano Donizetti garnered the most pageviews of any parterre posting in November.
On this day in 1840 Gaetano Donizetti’s opera La Favorite premiered at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
La Cieca invites you, the cher public, to give a round of applause to our beloved sponsors for the month of December.
On this day in 1968, the musical Promises Promises opened at the Shubert Theater, to run 1,281 performances.
If only there were a way to make the onerous (yet necessary) task of holiday shopping just a bit easier!
A while back, there was a great outcry for some Meyerbeer…
On this day in 1955, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream, starring Helen Traubel as the proprietress of a small-town brothel, opened at Shubert Theater to run 245 performances.
Born on this day in 1797 composer Gaetano Donizetti.
Rufus (Prima Donna) Wainwright sinks his teeth into a little Mascagni, partnered by a very game Sarah Fox.
Emilio Sagi’s production of The Barber of Seville is ungepotchket in the flesh.
Born on this day in 1881 Austrian author Stefan Zweig,
Born on this day in 1903 Broadway impresario David Merrick.
Congratulations to Leitbreite, whose cunning ears identified all but one of the singers in last week’s “Orpheus” quiz.
Happy Thanksgiving U.S. Paterrians!
Die Meistersinger is a bold stroke of programming, in a not particularly exciting way.
Unlike my friend Greg Freed, who entertainingly wrote of his ambivalence about seeing Il trovatore in a movie theater this season, I have embraced the Met Live in HD transmissions as a part of the modern operagoing experience.
On this day in 1887 Victorien Sardou’s melodrama La Tosca premiered in Paris.
Might Max Emanuel Cencic be the countertenor for people who hate countertenors?
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
