Questo e Quello
Role debut as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, 2013.
Merry Christmas, parterrians!
Tenor Stephen Costello will sing the role of Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday, December 26, replacing Juan Diego Flórez, who is ill.
Kristin Lewis, making her Met debut, will sing the title role in Verdi’s Aida, replacing Sondra Radvanovsky, who has withdrawn for personal reasons.
Fill in the leads for Manon Lescaut, La Rondine and Edgar.
(The Board threatened to beat Peter Gelb to death with their lorgnettes or something.)
On this night in 1951 Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors premiered on television.
In 2011, Anna Netrebko headlined new productions of Anna Bolena in Vienna and New York.
Happy 72nd birthday soprano Edita Gruberova.
The Met falls back to October for a pre-recorded broadcast of La fanciulla del West this afternoon at 1:00 PM.
Russian repertoire figures very centrally in AVA’s mission.
After a blizzard strands Renée Fleming in New York City, Anna Netrebko jumps in as star attraction at the Dresden Semperoper’s New Year’s Eve concert in 2010.
Born on this day in 1858 composer Giacomo Puccini.
“We’ve realized that, actually, the status quo is not an option if we want to survive, let alone thrive.”
In addition to Jessye Norman, this event paid homage to the shamefully obscure soprano Sissieretta Jones—once billed as “The Black Patti.”
Anna trills herself to death in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, 2009.
On this day in 1920 Jerome Kern‘s Sally, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre to run 561 performances.
Heretofore I’d avoided the Met’s abridged, English-language holiday presentations.
Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel in an unusual broadcast conducted by Herbert von Karajan featuring Sena Jurinac and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as the mischievous pair—performing in Italian!
A scene from a 2008 film of La bohéme, starring Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón.
On this day in 1999 John Harbison‘s The Great Gatsby premiered at the Met.
Hear and discuss the condensed-for-kids version tonight at 7:30.
Mark Morris’ saucy, psychedelic The Hard Nut has returned to the Brooklyn Academy of Music yet again this week for its 27th Christmas since the ballet premiered in Brussels.
Anna Netrebko opens the 2007-2008 season of The Met: Live in HD in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette.
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.
