Questo e Quello
Thirty years ago today Dolora Zajick made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Azucena.
On this day in 1965 mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Eboli.
Today’s sad news has prompted a change of program in parterre saturday afternoon. Our Own JJ is putting together a program in tribute to Montserrat Caballé, to begin at our regular time of 2:00 PM.
Born on this day in 1887 soprano Maria Jeritza.
The prodigiously gifted and widely beloved Catalan soprano has died. She was 85.
It’s surprising to read that, as of this writing, La fanciulla del west has only had 105 performances at the Metropolitan Opera.
I count myself as privileged to have witnessed Götterdämmerungat the Royal Opera House during this season’s revival of Keith Warner’s Ring.
For this revisiting of Tosca, San Francisco Opera decided to highlight the glamorous lifestyle of the Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio.
Happy 95th birthday actress Glynis Johns.
Ardent, astonishing, animated Anthony Roth Costanzo has just unveiled the music video for “Vivi, tiranno.”
What it boils down to is the author flaunting his anti-racist bona fides by mocking Anna Netrebko based on her national origin.
Carnegie Hall’s season opener last night fetched the usual glitterati.
According to Francophobe Norman Lebrecht, the ex-con plans to attend an opera about cannibalism.
“Trove Thursday” offers a triple bill by that extraordinary composer Hector Berlioz.
Happy 62nd birthday actor and director Christoph Waltz.
Ryan Speedo Green will sing Colline in tonight’s performance of Puccini’s La Bohème.
The conclusion of our Fanciulla del West video overview in three parts looks at a trio of performances from the 2010s.
On this day in 1968 soprano Marion Lippert made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Turandot.
She’s everything that every girl should be!
“What emerges from this handsome but sentimental film is a portrait of the artist in decline, cocooning herself in defensive victimhood.
America’s longest-standing theatrical lightning rod, Robert Wilson premiered his ethereal, time-collapsing production of Le trouvère.
Puccini’s Girl closes out the 20th century and gallops into the 21st.
On this day in 1966 Die Frau Ohne Schatten was first heard at the Met, featuring baritone Walter Berry making his debut as Barak.
A live telecast of Die Tote Stadt from the Berlin Komische Oper!
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.
