Questo e Quello
“Die Zauberflöte is an opera!” “No, it’s the first musical comedy!”
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It is speculated that on this day in 1607 William Shakespeare’s Macbeth was first performed.
“Pitting the eminent conductor James Levine against the Metropolitan Opera, which fired him in 2018 amid accusations of sexual misconduct…”
Beauteous Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique appeared Sunday afternoon with the visiting Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer.
“Who are you? Who do you want to be?” The search for one’s identity is explored in American composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s brand new opera If I Were You.
Born on this day in 1911 actress and producer Lucille Ball.
Anna Netrebko has canceled her Bayreuth debut this summer.
The Glyndebourne Festival production of Mozart’s comic saga is telecast beginning at 12:30 PM New York time.
It’s the cher public’s choice of two Verdian opera this afternoon!
Happy 59th birthday baritone Simon Keenlyside.
What better way to mark the passing of the monumental Hal Prince?
Born on this day in 1925 theatre and opera director John Dexter.
We’re two gay men, with 30-plus years between us, who went together to see the Broadway adaptation of Buz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!
Your top ten posts on parterre box for the month of July are actually a Top 13, thanks to a (near) three-way tie.
“Trove Thursday” presents a complete Prodanà Nevesta (aka Die Verkaufte Braut, of course) by Smetana plus extended excerpts from a broadcast of Spontini’s La Vestale in its rarely heard original French version.
The live performance from Bayreuth begins at 10:00 AM.
Born on this day in 1936 designer Yves Saint-Laurent.
The theatrical producer and director, who was associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the 20th century, has died. He was 91.
The second summer session of the Russian Opera Workshop concludes this week with concert performances of Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans.
A hefty thunderclap shook Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Shed just as Andris Nelsons raised his baton for the third act of the weekend’s concert Die Walküre.
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Pick a little, talk a little
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
