Questo e Quello
Happy 76th birthday soprano Judith Blegen.
Oh, that slippery Don Giovanni—so elusive, so chaotic, so open to no end of interpretation!
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.
Claus Guth, in a staging of Handel’s Orlando for Theater an der Wien, decided to revisit a PTSD theme.
Happy 49th birthday soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek.
“Trove Thursday” features a rare live broadcast of Les Dialogues des Carmélites featuring the composer’s favored soprano Denise Duval as Blanche.
On this day in 1926 Puccini’s opera Turandot premiered in Milan.
The “the ‘most authentic aspect of Lepage’s production is the overall failure of its illusionist agenda.”
“Michaela Schuster will sing Fricka in tomorrow’s performance of Wagner’s Die Walküre, replacing Jamie Barton,” says the Met’s press office.
Odyssey Opera’s Ägyptische Helena was a beautifully executed production of a flawed opera.
Happy 64th birthday to performance artist Lypsinka.
On this day in 1961, Judy Garland made the rafters of Carnegie Hall ring with her celebrated solo concert.
The distinguished British soprano died today. She was 88.
Quite an eye-opener from the Staatsoper Stuttgart this morning at 11:00 AM: a live video stream of Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges!
Happy 83rd birthday mezzo-soprano Fiorenza Cossotto.
The sexiest moment on Broadway this season features a 73-year-old man and a single button.
On this day in 2005, the Metropolitan Opera presented a new production of Faust.
Legrenzi married the quirky libretto to a score of transcendental beauty.
All roads lead to Rome.
On this day in 2015 Renée Fleming made her Broadway debut in Joe DiPietro‘s comedy Living on Love.
La Cieca is happy to invite the cher public to take a few hours to ponder a complete performance of Wagner’s Parsifal (from Berlin in 2015).
Happy 54th birthday soprano Natalie Dessay.
The pretty boy who got a bum rap.
“Trove Thursday” turns to Jacopo Foroni’s rare 1849 historical melodrama Cristina, Regina di Svezia to commemorate the 330th anniversary tomorrow of that enigmatic monarch’s death.
Happy 71st birthday soprano Catherine Malfitano.
