Questo e Quello
Hei-Kyung Hong makes a rare Met appearance in Turandot tonight.
Next week the Italian soprano Mariella Devia celebrates her 70th birthday so “Trove Thursday” salutes her with one of her earliest New York successes: Delibes’s Lakmé
Edita Gruberova essentially revived and propagated the bel canto repertoire in central Europe, specifically in the German-speaking countries.
Conductor and director Herbert von Karajan was born on this date.
Happy 58th birthday soprano Jane Eaglen.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin‘s triumphant Elektra at the Met was the subject of parterre box’s most-read article in March 2018.
On this day in 1975 soprano Magda Olivero made her historical, belated Metropolitan Opera debut as Tosca.
Years later, the wife—now a world-famous opera singer—
On this day in 1977 tenor Guy Chauvet made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Samson.
It’s practically heretical to let Holy Week go by without a session of Parsifal.
On this day in 1891 Mme. Vera Galupe-Borszkh sang the role of “Violetta” in Verdi’s La traviata for the very first time in her career.
It’s fortunate that the Met’s production of Luisa Miller featured the incomparable Piotr Beczala in the role of Rodolfo.
Hop on the Q train to Coney Island, cher public, by which I mean tune in your radio at 1:00 PM, to hear and to discuss!
A new production of La traviata by Daniel Kramer, the current artistic director of ENO, brings fresh ideas to the classic drama.
On this day in 1999 the Metropolitan Opera offered its first production of Carlisle Floyd‘s Susannah.
Amadigi di Gaula performed the Opera Settecento orchestra last Saturday night at St. George—Handel’s own parish church—fit perfectly into the venue.
Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper’s victory lap at Carnegie Hall concluded Thursday night with a sumptuous Der Rosenkavalier spectacularly conducted by Kirill Petrenko
Good Friday 2018.
Verdi’s Sturm und Drang opera returns to the Met tonight at 7:25.
The important thing is that she’s happy.
“Trove Thursday” offers a vernal take on Massenet’s magical Cendrillon (in English) featuring two sopranos: Margaret Price—not yet 30—and Anne Pashley, then just 35.
On this day in 1982 conductor Bernard Haitink made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Fidelio.
It can be confidently asserted that Edita Gruberova is one opera’s most gifted comediennes.
Happy 76th birthday Samuel Ramey!
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.
