Questo e Quello
Karita Mattila is a gift to this planet.
On this day in 1919 Mary Pickford, D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks launched United Artists.
Mariusz Trelinski will direct Tristan und Isolde for Metropolitan Opera in a production that will premiere there on opening night 2016.
“Don’t bother with The Loft or The Boy Next Door: the most spine-chilling thriller currently playing isn’t on the screen of your local multiplex but on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.”
On this day in 1968 Golden Rainbow, starring Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé, opened at the Shubert Theater.
On this day in 1960 La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, premiered in Italy.
Thanks to La Cieca’s extensive network of spies, she is able to present for your perusal, cher public, the proposal for the revival of the New York City Opera presented by the higher bidder for the company.
Defying a computer breakdown and an online outage, I fled to a smoky Iranian Internet café to upload this performance of Don Giovanni. It was worth the trouble.
On this day in 1933, the sisters Christine and Léa Papin murdered their employer’s wife and daughter in Le Mans, France.
On this day in 1893 Puccini’s Manon Lescaut premiered in Turin.
Take a break from whatever sports game may be played today, cher public, and discuss a few off-topic and general interest subjects.
On this day in 1861 Friedrich Hebbel’s Siegfrieds Tod premiered in Weimar.
Andriana Chuchman will sing the role of Valencienne in this season’s April and May performances of Lehár’s The Merry Widow.
On this day in 1661, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, was ritually executed after having been dead for two years.
The Met’s planned premiere of Iolanta/Bluebeard’s Castle was cancelled due to the Great Blizzard That Wasn’t.
On this day in 1781 Mozart’s Idomeneo premiered in Munich.
Fifteen years after his first parterre box interview, that criterion of countertenors David Daniels speaks of Oscar Wilde, Marilyn Horne, marriage and political art.
On this day in 1813 Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was first published in the United Kingdom.
On this day in 1302 Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence, where he served as one of six priors governing the city.
This evening’s performance of Iolanta/Bluebeard’s Castle has been cancelled.
On this day in 1833 Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia premiered in Milan.
Today’s program documents the only time Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti performed La traviata together at the Met.-
A Countertenor Cabaret, starred no fewer than 14 of these once-rare songbirds, in the cabaret space of the Duplex on Sheridan Square.
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
