Questo e Quello
The Met’s new Tatiana is 42 today.
“Some people said I have to say more,” Netrebko said.
“JEALOUSY, revenge, hopeless romance and a breathtaking wall of fire bring epic operas Aida and La Boheme to life in award-winning opera producer Ellen Kent’s new tour.”
“When Vanni Marcoux as Scarpia in Tosca pursued Mary Garden, a Floria Tosca, around his room on the stage at the Boston Opera House a week ago Monday night, seized her in an amorous frenzy and threw her upon a couch, a part of cultured Boston gasped.”
More on “Chavarotti” after the jump.
La Cieca hears that soprano Pretty Yende, a standout Met debutante last season in Le Comte Ory, has signed with the company for for four roles over the next three years: Pamina and Lucia in 2014-2015, Adina in 2015-2016 and Rosina in 2016-2017.
Our Own JJ has been thinking about Bayreuth some more, this time in the pages of Musical America.
Karita Mattila (pictured) sings a little Verdi.
Put on a happy face, cher public, and discuss off-topic and general interest subjects to your hearts’ content.
Coincidental with the ongoing parterre discussion about the careers of dramatic sopranos, our friends at Opera Depot are saluting the immortal Astrid Varnay.
Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s opera David et Jonathas, written for a celebration at a Jesuit school in 1688, premiered together with a Latin verse drama, Saul, now lost.
“Women are lucky if they get a good 10-year run with these big parts like Brünnhilde and Isolde.”
Congratulations to world’s wittiest diva Martina Arroyo, who has just been named a recipient of the the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors.
Vanity project or not, these albums present a sensitive and talented artist showing off two little-seen sides of himself.
In the program for Opera Omnia’s production of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno di Ulisse, Crystal Manich, the company’s stage director, speaks of producing “baroque works in non-traditional ways.”
The winners of the ninth annual F. Paul Driscoll Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence (or, as they are colloquially known, the “Opera News Awards”) have been revealed.
Marek Janowski’s second recorded Ring cycle began on an off note, with a Rheingold that was fleet and lucid but failed to impress in the important musical moments.
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
