Questo e Quello
Happy 50th birthday mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.
The Met’s season premiere of Evviva Las Vegas.
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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.
It may have taken 28 years to see Robert Carsen’s production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the U. S., but it was worth waiting for.
“Bryan Hymel has withdrawn from upcoming performances as the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto, due to personal reasons,” says the Met’s press office.
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Happy 95th birthday director and designer Franco Zeffirelli.
Nina Stemme’s Elektra is familiar to me in three different incarnations.
Director Casey Hushion attempts to spice up Call Me Madam in ways that make it feel more than ever like an out-of-touch relic.
Handel’s Radamisto returned to New York when Opera Lafayette movingly performed this early masterpiece.
Jakub Józef Orlinski as Harry Potter!
Utopia Opera is fond of the less well known branches of the Savoy repertory (as the company name suggests), and is currently (through next weekend) doing a job on an early and rare bird of the flock, The Sorcerer.
On this day in 1966 soprano Pilar Lorengar made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Donna Elvira.
A joyous 92nd birthday to Miss Mary Violet Leontyne Price.
Barbara Hannigan‘s electrifying performance with the Juilliard Orchestra on Friday night proves that she is as much a force to be reckoned with on the podium as she is onstage.
The Met’s creepy double bill is broadcast this afternoon starting at 12:30 PM.
UrbanArias’ recording of Paul’s Case is an antidote to the intellectual pretensions that regularly drag contemporary opera performance toward tediousness and boredom.
On this day in 1974 soprano Kiri Te Kanawa made an “emergency” Met debut as Desdemona.
La Fille du Régiment, Donizetti’s half-spoken ode to La France about a girl raised by a division of daddies, is at once infamous and beloved for the string of nine high C’s capping act one.
On this day in 1996 mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli made her Metropolitan Opera stage debut as Despina.
The Donizetti comedy returns to the Met tonight starting at 7:30 PM.
Considering the size and the logistics for staging Les Troyens, every new production of Berlioz’s epic masterpiece is a special event.
The Paris Opera continued their 350th anniversary celebration January 26 with a brand new production of Alessandro Scarlatti’s 1707 oratorio Il Primo Omicidio ovvero Caino.
“Trove Thursday” offers a broadcast of the French baroque tragédie en musique Alcyone by Marin Marais.
On this day in 1928 soprano Grace Moore made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mimi.
