Questo e Quello
The annual starry event (featuring 2018 Award winner Christian Van Horn) will be webcast live at 6:00 PM.
On this day in 2013 the world premiere of Nico Muhly‘s Two Boys took place at the Met.
The Met is on it with something something woker than woke: a noirish psychodrama of a frigid hysteric who seeks redemption via Freudian analysis!
Live video stream from the Staatsoper Stuttgart starting at 11:00 AM.
Born on this day in 1889 actress Margaret Dumont.
The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Nico Muhly‘s Marnie graces tonight’s free streaming broadcast.
At last weekend’s Opus Klassik Awards, Diana Damrau sings ABBA (with Juan Diego Flòrez among the backup artists.)
Lyric Opera of Chicago resumed its season on Wednesday evening with the new-to-Chicago production of Puccini’s perennial audience pleaser La bohème.
On this day in 1994 baritone Bryn Terfel made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Figaro.
He returned. He sang. He didn’t get hanged.
Beautiful singing, thoughtful staging, lovely melodies… a perfect escape from daily life.
“Trove Thursday” presents Karl Goldmark’s Die Königin von Saba in a broadcast with Anja Silja, Sabine Hass, Siegfried Jerusalem and Wolfgang Brendel conducted by Julius Rudel.
Born on this day in 1898 actress and singer Lotte Lenya.
“Berlioz Takes a Trip” proclaimed the free psychedelic buttons available at Carnegie Hall Monday referring to Symphonie Fantastique,the evening’s surefire crowd-pleaser.
On this day in 1991 soprano Deborah Voigt made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Amelia.
Wolfgang Koch has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera’s fall performances of Puccini’s Tosca, due to illness.
Born on this day in 1962 baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
“Yonghoon Lee will sing Radamès in tonight’s performance of Verdi’s Aida, replacing Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is ill,” says the Met press office with a perfectly straight face.
This new production of the 1847 original version of Verdi’s first stab at Shakespeare features the extraordinary performances of Luca Salsi and Anna Pirozzi as the Thane of Cawdor and his merry wife.
Why do we go to the opera? Because the world needs a reminder of the power of forgiveness, particularly in these dark and gloomy times!
On this day in 1976, four Met debuts in Il trittico.
“Hadrian leans mournfully against the sarcophagus containing Antinous’s body as five male dancers in G-strings stand statuesque in the background.”
On this day in 1964 Metropolitan Opera’s opening night was a new production of Aida.
Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Chicago Federation of Musicians Local #10-208 (CFM) announced today that they have reached a multi-year labor agreement extending through the 2020/21 season
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.
