Questo e Quello
Tancredi is a serious opera, which means that at its heart lies a dilemma.
The 2018 Bayreuth Festival continues with Die Walküre, with a live broadcast starting at 10:00 AM EDT.
Happy 53rd birthday writer J.K. Rowling!
Stefan Herheim productions may be many things, but they’re always theatrical.
The 2018 Bayreuth Festival continues with Der Fliegende Holländer.
On this day in 1932 Walt Disney‘s Flowers and Trees premiered.
Happy 55th birthday mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina.
For those of you who need a bit of a break from Bayreuth, may La Cieca suggest a telecast of Strauss’s Salome?
Happy 77th birthday conductor Riccardo Muti.
The 2018 Bayreuth Festival continues with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , with a live broadcast starting at 10:00 AM EDT.
“Too sexy” is a hell of an accusation for a woman wearing a giant mesh Brillo pad!
Happy 66th birthday soprano Carol Vaness.
The 2018 Bayreuth Festival continues with Tristan und Isolde, with a live broadcast starting at 10:00 AM EDT.
La Cieca wishes to be among the first to congratulate Jessye Norman, who has emerged from semi-retirement to leap upon the musical theater bandwagon.
This year’s Salzburg Festival opens Saturday with a new production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, an opera often performed elsewhere in translation, so “Trove Thursday” offers two for the price (!) of one.
The 2018 Bayreuth Festival continues with Parisfal, with a live broadcast starting at 10:00 AM EDT.
Happy 50th birthday soprano Anne Schwanewilms.
As the first of the 2018 opera productions last Saturday, the Merola Opera Program chose Mozart’s rarely-performed early serenata, Il re pastore.
Born on this day in 1853 theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright David Belasco.
The 2018 Bayreuth Festival opens today with Lohengrin, directed by Yuval Sharon, with a live broadcast starting at 10:00 AM EDT.
Sunny, lakeside Cooperstown presents a peppy, exuberant, winning production of West Side Story, the musical.
Caramoor imported the venerable West-Coast period orchestra Philharmonia Baroque to perform Atalanta, an obscure pastoral work by Handel.
Happy 50th birthday singer and actress Kristin Chenoweth.
Dapper countertenor Ray Chenez is temporarily putting aside the turbans of his operatic career for, well, the turbans of a Broadway diva as he appeals via Indiegogo for funding to record a CD of show tunes.
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.
