Questo e Quello
Teatro Real continued their 200 years’ celebration by premiering a piece that they have never done before, Francesco Cavalli’s opera La Calisto.
Born on this day in 1890 two legendary tenors.
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.
Our Own Joel Rozen is no longer Our Own, except of course in the most important sense that we will always adore him.
I’ve never liked the term “crossover.”
Soprano Iulia Isaev proved to be in just about every way a lovely Tosca.
All these events are simply too big for a one-act opera.
Happy 73rd birthday soprano Diana Soviero.
Wagner’s Ring is an artistic masterpiece that is peerless in its ability to continually reveal layers of musical, theatrical, and philosophical insight
Joel Puckett and Minnesota Opera hit it out of the park.
On this day in 1977 Alban Berg’s Lulu premiered at the Metropolitan Opera.
Austin McCormack‘s lascivious choreography outshone a tepid and tedious staging of Saint-Saëns’s old-testament epic.
The year 2020 marks the first staged performances of Turandot on Anna Netrebko‘s schedule. She introduces her complete interpretation at the Bayerische Staatsoper January 28 and 31 and February 3.
On this day in 1951 soprano Victoria de los Angeles made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Marguerite.
A sunny opera for an overcast afternoon: the Met’s broadcast of Falstaff begins at 1:00 PM.
On this day in 1991 soprano Renée Fleming made her impromptu Metropolitan Opera stage debut as Countess Almaviva.
On this day in 1956 Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, to run 2,717 performances.
The Entry of the Cher Public into Valhalla begins at 7:55 PM.
Gregory Kunde will sing Samson in the March 16, 19, and 23 performances of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila, replacing Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is ill.
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“Trove Thursday” drafts a 1960s All-Star team for Verdi’s Il Trovatore broadcast from the Teatro Colón.
On this day in 1991, a new production of Wagner’s Parsifal premiered at the Metropolitan Opera.
Suddenly in the middle of March 2019 the Metropolitan Opera realized that perhaps a few of the company’s multitudes of stagehands and technicians might be of the feminine persuasion.
Happy 90th birthday mezzo-soprano Rosalind Elias.
Is there any opera that can take more of a beating while still making an impact than Eugene Onegin?
