Canta che ti passa
Happy 93rd birthday soprano Virginia Zeani.
Questo e Quello
You don’t need analyzing
On this day in 1950 Irving Berlin‘s musical Call Me Madam opened at the Imperial Theatre, to run 644 performances.
I’m so happy I can’t stop crying
On this day in 1982 Eva Marton made her Met role debut as La Gioconda opposite Plácido Domingo, Bruna Baglioni and Cornell MacNeil.
The bad and the beautiful
“Trove Thursday” offers Offenbach’s irreverent La Belle Hélène featuring the beauteous Véronique Gens.
Curtain up! Light the lights!
On this day in 1974 the Winter Garden Theatre was evacuated due to a bomb threat.
Tragic mike
The Metropolitan Opera Guild has come such a long way since the days of dear Mrs. August Belmont!
Things go better with woke
“This influx comes during a time in which opera companies around the country… are struggling to compete with the addictive quick-pleasure center that is the smart phone.”
“On stage, I am in the dark”
Departed this world on this day 42 years ago in Paris.
“I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset”
Happy 74th birthday soprano Jessye Norman.
Broadcast: Last Night at the Proms
Jamie Barton graces the Last Night at the Proms starting at 2:00 PM EDT.
Slapstick Tragedienne
Born on this day in 1933 actor and director Zoe Caldwell.
“Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value”
Born on this day in 1874 composer Arnold Schoenberg.
Where’er you woke
Our Own Jamie Barton graces the Last Night of the Proms with her “queer fat femme energy.”
Funny fascist
Leave it to Opera News to whitewash the revolting reactionary politics of Franco Zeffirelli.
Dido it again
“Trove Thursday” presents Purcell’s remarkably concise Dido and Aeneas in a pair of fascinatingly different interpretations.
And Carthage flames tomorrow
Born on this day in 1938 mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos.
Miss me blond
From the technical standpoint San Francisco Opera’s Billy Budd was pretty much flawless.
Learning scales will never seem so sweet again
Born on this day in 1899 West End, Broadway and film crooner Georges Metaxa.
Wolf whistle
Sam Neuman shares tips and tricks for behaving like a cultured person at the opera.
My name is Barbuta
Queen of the Photo Shoot Cecilia Bartoli has done it again.
Paris original
Born on this day in 1890 fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
Get this Pati started
Politics and romance entangled in a spectacular fashion at San Francisco Operas’s Roméo et Juliette.
“We are asleep until we fall in love!”
Born on this day in 1828 writer Lev Nikolayevich “Leo” Tolstoy.
Cold dead hands
The press department at the English National Opera is considering a revamp of the company’s press seating policy.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
