Questo e Quello
Claude Debussy wrote a number of large-scale vocal/choral pieces two of which are featured today on “Trove Thursday”: La Damoiselle élue and Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien.
On this day in 1956 the Metropolitan Opera celebrated the 25th anniversary of the debut of soprano Lily Pons with a special gala performance.
Joining the talking and singing heads of Aria Code is Our Own JJ, deconstructing “Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix.”
On this day in 1969 opened one of the most notorious flops of the 1960s, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, which opened at the Broadhurst Theatre to run only four performances.
Widely-publicized parterre box garnered 3,623,050 pageviews for the more than 1,200 articles published during 2018.
Alban Berg’s compact yet potent oeuvre has long played an outsized role in shaping my understanding of music’s aesthetic evolution.
On this day in 1908 composer Gustav Mahler made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera conducting Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.
Use bodily force and get your friends to one of the next five performances of the Met’s new production of Adriana Lecouvreur. It is everything!
We reach the final day of “The Advent of Anna” in anticipation of her first Met Adriana Lecouvreur, to be broadcast tonight at 5:55 PM.
On this day in 2009 Yannick Nézet-Séguin made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Carmen.
As 2018 draws to a close, let’s hear Anna Netrebko in a showpiece she has sung throughout her career, Marfa’s Aria from The Tsar’s Bride.
On this day in 1954 the Harold Arlen–Truman Capote musical House of Flowers opened at the Alvine Theatre to run 165 performances.
The Met’s mini-Flute is broadcast at 1:00 PM.
The year is 2017. To Violetta, a role she sang first in 1994, Anna bids farewell.
On this day in 1962, the Met offered its premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos.
Ambrogio Maestri IS Queen Anne in The Favourite!
In 2016, Anna Netrebko takes on her second Wagner role, Elsa in Lohengrin.
Happy 52nd birthday tenor Piotr Beczala!
We close 2018 with Le Comte Ory with an enviable nearly all-Italian cast of prime-time Rossini specialists: Mariella Devia, Cecila Bartoli, Ewa Podles, William Matteuzzi, Claudio Desderi and Pietro Spagnoli.
The future Mrs. Yusif Eyvazov sings Il trovatore in 2015.
Born on this day in 1901 actress and diseuse Marlene Dietrich.
Diana Damrau returns as Violetta for the Met’s broadcast.
Anna boldly leaps forward into her most dramatic role yet: Lady Macbeth at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2014.
On this day in 1830 Donizetti’s Anna Bolena premiered at the Teatro Carcano in Milan.
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.
