Questo e Quello
With four hours’ notice and no stage rehearsal, soprano Marisa Galvany went on, making her Met debut as Norma.
Jonas Kaufmann demonstrates his current work ethic.
It’s difficult to reconcile what Schlather writes with what we see onstage, which is a jumble not only of pianos, but of periods and concepts.
On this day in 1985 Giuseppe Sinopoli made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Tosca.
The Metropolitan Opera delivers on the promise of Wagner’s Gesamtkunswerk in a revival of Robert Lepage’s Ring.
On this day in 1953 a revival of Porgy and Bess opened a 305-performance run at the Ziegfeld Theatre.
The gods are at it again.
Hearing Lucas Meachem perform Kindertotenlieder in the crypt of Harlem’s Church of the Intercession was a heart-warming, and ultimately uplifting experience.
Born on this day in composer Samuel Barber (1910) and conductor Thomas Schippers (1930).
Così fan tutte, Mozart’s final Italian comedy with Lorenzo Da Ponte, is this season’s heaviest lift for Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA).
On this day in 1976 mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian.
Let’s all sing “O terra addio” to the those crumbly styrofoam pharaoh toes.
It’s been a rough winter in Chicago, and an especially rough one for lead singers at Lyric Opera of Chicago
“Trove Thursday” leaps to the end of the cycle with a slightly abridged Götterdämmerung featuring Amy Shuard as Brünnhilde.
Happy 88th birthday soprano Mady Mesplé!
Happy 75th birthday soprano Kiri Te Kanawa.
Russell Thomas’s opening aria, “Del piu sublime soglio” displayed an intense attention to the text and some surprisingly beautiful piano phrasing that I’ve never heard risked before and it brought wonder and gooseflesh.
Sixty years ago today, Berg’s Wozzeck was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
Joyce DiDonato and her band fuse Italian Baroque bel canto classics, jazz ballads, and tunes from the Great American Songbook into one illuminating musical program.
On this day in 1830 Vincenzo Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi premiered in Venice.
The most disappointing performance in 30 otherwise glorious years of William Christie and Les Arts Florissants visiting New York City.
On this day in 1970 mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Adalgisa.
The Met season’s final performance of the Donizetti romcom begins at 1:00 PM.
Birthday anniversaries of composers Kurt Weill (1900) and Marc Blitzstein (1905).
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.
