Questo e Quello
“Dress fitting for my new role debut as Abigaille.”
On this day in 1988 Carrie: The Musical opened at the Virginia Theatre, to run five performances.
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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.
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New Amsterdam Opera specializes in American singers whose abilities are as yet little known.
In the more than 500 years of the history of operas, rarely (if ever) has a coming of age story, particularly one from the child’s point of view, been presented as the main topic of the opera.
Britten’s penultimate opera, the anti-war ghost story Owen Wingrave, was composed for television performance in 1971.
On this day 1959 Judy Garland made her Metropolitan Opera House debut.
On this day in 1907 Paul Dukas’ rarity Ariane et Barbe-bleue premiered in Paris with soprano Georgette Leblanc in the leading role.
The final streaming broadcast of the Met season is beginning!
The 2020 Glyndebourne Festival features the company’s first production ever of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, in a production directed by Barrie Kosky and starring Danielle de Niese.
Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann in La forza del destino—all of it!
Mezzo-sopranos often get stuck being the mother, the lady-in-waiting or the “other woman”… but not today!
Happy 64th birthday mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter.
“The opera The Lord of Cries. . . . with the equally astounding Anthony Roth Costanzo.”
“Hello, Clarice!”
Happy birthday to countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.
The Metropolitan Opera has named soprano Lisette Oropesa as the winner of the 14th annual Beverly Sills Artist Award.
In our current political climate with issues of immigration, tribalism, and white nationalists, the 1957 musical West Side Story has a distinctly contemporary feel.
As you can imagine, oaths are sworn, curses are flung with avidity, and a mysterious shepherd sings a tune of foreboding from a distant mountain gorge just when you’d expect it.
On this day in 2018 the Metropolitan Opera celebrated 50 years at Lincoln Center.
Cycle II represented an embarrassment of musical riches.
Two atmospheric but bleak works provide a musical illustration of the notion that misery loves company.
The story shows what may happen when corrupt individuals occupy positions of trust.
Born on this day in 1941 soprano Ghena Dimitrova.
