Questo e Quello
On this day in 1961 tenor Sandor Konya made his Met debut as Lohengrin.
The BBC’s program of live broadcasts of Wagner’s Ring starts this afternoon with Das Rheingold at 1:30 PM.
Sondra Radvanovsky changed my opinion of her through a single performance—I’ll never think of her the same way again; the power of her singing overwhelmed my previous impressions.
With Liber scriptus came the biggest discovery for me, the vocal talent of Elena Stikhina.
Uneven operas, like Verdi’s Ernani, which just recently finished its Scala run, more often work as theatre on the micro level than the macro.
Happy 80th birthday soprano Edda Moser.
Earlier this month I got the opportunity to sample two very different Baltic operas.
On this day in 1959 mezzo-soprano Giulietta Simionato made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Azucena.
Sondra Radvanovsky takes up candle-toting duties tonight at 7:25 in a live broadcast of Tosca from the Met. Discuss!
Today at 1:30 PM, live video of Médée from the Staatsoper Berlin.
“Trove Thursday” offers due local Lombardi: one with Renata Scotto and José Carreras, the other with Aprile Millo and Carlo Bergonzi.
“A University of Michigan student is suing the school and renowned opera singer David Daniels, also a U-M professor, alleging Daniels sexually assaulted him.”
With a program of Schumann, Wagner, Ravel and de Falla, mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca and pianist Kevin Murphy delivered a underdone performance at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night.
Born on this day in 1926 soprano Galina Vishnevskaya.
“Renée Fleming herself will sing, of course…”
Isn’t it nice to know a lot? And a little bit not.
Happy 63rd birthday soprano and teacher Cheryl Studer.
I really cannot exaggerate the extent to which I truly did not know what was going on in New York City Opera’s production of Maria de Buenos Aires.
Those readers who know my musical tastes will not be shocked to find that I have a somewhat conflicted view of Mozart’s operatic works.
How do we celebrate a long career in opera, particularly one as illustrious as Plácido Domingo‘s?
On this day in 1961 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with La fanciulla del West starring Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker and Anselmo Colzani.
It’s high time we see Funny Girl through a different lens.
I hardly know where to heap my praise first.
On this day in 1883 the Metropolitan Opera House opened with Gounod’s Faust.
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.
