Questo e Quello
Assuming Facebook and Instagram will remain inaccessible through the evening, here’s something to amuse you meantimes: La Cenerentola from the Teatro Real in Madrid.
Simone Young conducts a new production by Andreas Homoki from the Opernhaus Zürich.
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.
In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Met presents Verdi’s Requiem, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the extraordinary Met Orchestra and Chorus.
Featuring Juan Diego Flórez, Marina Monzó, Marta Pluda, Manuel Amati, Giorgio Caoduro, Nicolò Donini, Matteo Roma, Sergey Romanovsky, Pietro Spagnoli and Jack Swanson.
Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. Marek Janowski’s musical reading was unanimously praised
From the Salzburg Festival, the tenor sings sings Chausson, Schumann, Brahms and Britten, with Mathieu Pordoy.
Sondra Radvanovsky, Russell Thomas and Jamie Barton star in this performance from San Francisco Opera.
Tobias Kratzer’s “novel… wrenching” (New York Times) 2019 production of Tannhäuser as a wildly contemporary parable of art and freedom.
Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros star, with Kirill Petrenko conducting a Krzysztof Warlikowski production.
La Cieca (not pictured) is delighted to welcome back to parterre box two of our nicest advertisers!
Kristine Opolais leads the cast in a film created by the Teatro Comunale Bologna.
Starring Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez and Alessandro Corbelli, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From April 26, 2008.
On this day in 1962 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened at the Billy Rose Theatre, to run 664 performances.
By a margin of more than two to one, the cher public has chosen “O Scarpia, avanti a Dio!” as the greatest of all opera curtain lines.
It’s come down to this: the two finalists in the Best Opera Curtain Line competition.
We move now to the semi-finals of the Best Opera Curtain Line competition.
And now, with your cooperation, cher public, we are about to decide which is the best opera curtain line of all opera curtain lines.
With thanks to commenter Krunoslav for the suggestion, we will kick off our new game with the theme “Best Curtain Line.”
“Director Krzysztof Warlikowski and conductor Alain Altinoglu take on the challenge of revealing the essence of a work in which time and space are merely the remnants of a crumbled mosaic.”
Miss Bette Davis starred in the musical revue Two’s Company, which opened on this day in 1952 at the Alvin Theatre to run only 90 performances.
Happy 93rd birthday soprano Virginia Zeani.
On this day in 1950 Irving Berlin‘s musical Call Me Madam opened at the Imperial Theatre, to run 644 performances.
On this day in 1982 Eva Marton made her Met role debut as La Gioconda opposite Plácido Domingo, Bruna Baglioni and Cornell MacNeil.
“Trove Thursday” offers Offenbach’s irreverent La Belle Hélène featuring the beauteous Véronique Gens.
