Questo e Quello
Sources in whose reliability La Cieca has an almost holy faith suggest turning one’s perfect vision westwards.
Karita Mattila has just rather casually let slip that she has “signed in for [her] first Isolde.”
Today at 1:00 PM, Boito’s Mefistofele kicks off the Met’s 88th year of live Saturday broadcasts over the Toll Brothers–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network.
The New Camerata Opera performs a double bill of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, sometimes dubbed the first English opera, and Gustav Holst’s Savitri.
On this day no skies are gray on that great white way.
Great news for contemporary music fans!
On this day in 1962 conductor Ernest Ansermet made his in-house Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Pelléas et Mélisande.
Tuesday the Met unveils its sixth new production of La Traviata since moving to Lincoln Center.
On this day in 1948 Verdi’s Otello was the first opera to be telecast from the Met.
The last broadcast this season of the Bizet tuner starts at 7:30 PM for your listening and discussing pleasure.
“This lavish new production stars Opera legend and Tony Award nominee RENÉE FLEMING.”
Born on this day in 1904 soprano Helen Jepson.
Now that you know what the costume is supposed to represent, it’s time to offer suggestions (with images if you like) as to what her outfit actually looks like.
On this day in 1843 Michael Balfe’s The Bohemian Girl premiered in London.
The ever-astonishing Cecilia Bartoli riffs on the Gershwins’ “Summertime.”
On this day in 1961 soprano Joan Sutherland made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Lucia di Lammermoor.
On this day in 1959, the musical Once Upon a Mattress transferred uptown to Broadway.
The proceedings took the virtue of longevity too much to heart; the night stretched on interminably.
Twitter legend Karita Mattila, elegantly muumuu’d Thomas Hampson and Les Boys headline Rufus Wainwright‘s grandiose opera Hadrian.
On this day in 1938, two Met debuts in La bohème: tenor Jussi Bjoerling and soprano Mafalda Favero.
Plácido Domingo opens his golden anniversary season at the Met with a performance of Gianni Schicchi.
Alexander Birch Elliott will sing Zurga in all remaining performances of Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles, replacing Mariusz Kwiecien, who has withdrawn due to illness.
As such, your doyenne provides links to various departments at Amazon.com through which you may peruse possible gifts for your nearest and dearest (including, of course, yourself.)
Give the creators credit for producing an emotional response.
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.
