Questo e Quello
On this day in 1980 baritone Leo Nucci made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Renato.
“Trove Thursday” this week features the earliest of the fat-knight operas: Antonio Salieri’s 1799 Falstaff.
Happy 66th birthday actress and songstress Christine Ebersole.
On New Years’ Eve 2019 the Met will offer a gala truly worthy of the name when Anna Netrebko sings acts from La bohème, Tosca and Turandot.
On this day in 1934 the Gertrude Stein / Virgil Thomson opera Four Saints in Three Acts opened on Broadway.
The Metropolitan Opera will announce its 2109-2020 season (including the company premiere of Glass’s Akhnaten) at noon tomorrow (Wednesday.)
Born on this day in 1843 soprano Adelina Patti.
Congratulations to venerable Opera News on their new hire, art director Harvey Dent.
Happy Presidents Day!
The expression “gayer than eight guys fucking nine guys” gets thrown around a lot these days…
On this day in 1904, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly had its “disastrous” premiere at La Scala.
That mysterious bass-baritone leads the cast in today’s Met matinee broadcast starting at 1:00 PM.
The Day Before Spring , while not exactly experimental, shows a young and adventurous team thinking both traditionally and out-of-the-box.
On this day in 1966 the Metropolitan Opera debut of tenor Alfredo Kraus as the Duke of Mantua.
New York City Opera has announced the resignation of the chairman of its board, Roy G. Niederhoffer.
You’d want to expect that every Met retread would draw the same curiosity, the same large crowds, to Lincoln Center.
Live from the Teatro Comunale di Modena.
On this day in 1938, Lillian Hellman’s play The Little Foxes opened at the National Theatre to run 410 performances.
“El espectáculo que reviviría al Maria Callas en escenarios chilenos a través de hologramas fue definitivamente cancelado.”
A week before the traditional date for the announcement of the Met’s 2019-2020 season, the clairvoyants who cobble together the Future Met Wiki have essentially the entire schedule ready for your perusal.
Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward’s 1935 “folk” opera, graced the stage of Dutch National Opera for the first time last month, and it was resounding success from start to finish.
A double-barreled “Trove Thursday” birthday salute to Renée Fleming who turns 60 today.
The “Red Priest” of Venice once made reference to his “94 operas” in a letter to his patron.
Happy 60th birthday to soprano, actress, media personality, creative consultant and parterre box muse Renée Fleming.
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.
