Questo e Quello
The international finalists for the International Opera Awards have been internationally named from international artists.
“Renée Fleming and Ben Whishaw… two iconic beauties millennia apart.”
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.
On this day in 1957 soprano Martha Mödl made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Brünnhilde in Siegfried.
“Can the Diva Who Once Ruled the Met Make a Comeback?”
Looking at the Houston Grand Opera’s 2018/19 season, I think Hurricane Harvey subconsciously must have had an impact on the choice of operas.
On this day in 1781: the premiere of Mozart’s Idomeneo in Munich.
Certain critics need to get the fuck over themselves.
Born on this day in 1873 writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.
Only in Los Angeles, City of La La, could this season have happened.
Live from the Komische Oper in Berlin: the premiere of Barrie Kosky‘s new production of La bohème.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s “Music of Faith” with the Philadelphia Orchestra was a sensational concert, perhaps the best I’ve heard in more than a season.
On this day in 1974, Carol Channing opened in the musical Lorelei at the Palace Theatre. The show ran 320 performances.
Nico Muhly‘s psychological thriller.
On this day, premiere performance anniversaries!
Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle both use themes of vision and revelation to ask compelling questions about knowledge, responsibility, and gender.
Iolanta was crowned on Thursday evening by Sonya Yoncheva’s haunting portrayal of the blind title character.
The Future Met Wiki’s details on the company’s 2019-2020 season (due to be unveiled a few weeks from now) still includes occasional lacunae as to casting.
I do not envy Jennifer Rowley the task of stepping into Anna Netrebko’s shoes.
Triple operatic premiere day!
Hear the symbols ring as the Met’s moody double bill returns to the stage.
Sondra Radvanovsky in a “Three Queens” concert and The Queen of Spades, plus three cycles of the Ring (senza Sondra) highlight Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2019-2020 season.
A 1985 broadcast of Don Giovanni featuring Cheryl Studer, Gundula Janowitz (as Elvira!), Krisztina Laki, Gösta Winbergh, Hermann Prey (in a rare outing as the Don) and Malcolm King conducted by Jeffrey Tate.
Our Own Joel Rozen in Slate ponders the good gay vs. bad gay politics of Zachary Woolfe‘s New York Times celebration of Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
On this day in 1958 soprano Inge Borkh made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Salome.
