Questo e Quello
This diva looks like that diva as that other diva.
On this day in 1879 Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin premiered in Moscow.
When Anthony Tommasini finds more political content in the Ring than your stage director does, you’re doing it wrong.
Happy 77th birthday bass Samuel Ramey.
“Trove Thursday” offers Die Frau ohne Schatten conducted by Georg Solti and also featuring Regina Resnik, Donald McIntyre and the inevitable James King.
Happy 69th birthday mezzo-soprano/soprano Maria Ewing.
Frankly, I can’t imagine there’s a future for I Married an Angel.
Die Walküre crystallizes the cycle’s questions, ideas, and stakes.
On this day in 1964 the Jule Styne-Bob Merrill musical Funny Girl opened on Broadway.
And a hearty “Hojotoho!” to all of you, cher public!
Saturday night, Lyric Opera of Chicago gave us a wonderful evening of vocalism in honoring Renée Fleming’s 25th anniversary at Lyric.
On this day in 1943 the Metropolitan Opera on tour performed La traviata at the Chicago Civic Opera House.
Born on this day in 1808 prima donna Maria Malibran.
The Philistines lose yet once again this afternoon at 1:00.
A return to Amore Opera’s production of Meyerbeer’s Dinorah to hear the second cast underlined two conclusions.
On this day in 1977 soprano Ileana Cotrubas made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mimi.
The rarely-heard Hans Werner Henze opera is telecast live from the Staatsoper Stuttgart beginning at 2:20 PM.
Kiss Me Kate is a sophisticated soufflé of a show: a comedy of manners, requiring effortless verve and elegance in the playing.
Born on this day in 1912 soprano/mezzo-soprano Martha Mödl.
“Trove Thursday” offers Mozart’s late opera seria in a Paris “pirate” featuring the high-voltage diva-duo of Anna Caterina Antonacci and Elina Garanca.
On this day in 1975 the Metropolitan Opera completed its first integral Ring cycle since 1962.
The chat is late, but it’s here! (Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera)
Amore Opera, one of New York’s smaller opera companies, is presenting the first local run of Dinorah, ou le Pardon de Ploërmel since before the war.
“Robert Lepage‘s direction of a crucial scene in the Ring is even worse than Otto Schenk‘s, if such a thing is possible.”
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.
