Questo e Quello
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!
Andris Nelsons and Kristine Opolais announced today they have divorced.
I found Fellow Travelers intellectually and politically riveting, musically thrilling, and profoundly moving. It was a triumph.
Happy 68th birthday mezzo-soprano/soprano Maria Ewing.
Walls of tinted glass engirdled a heated portico-terrarium, where two figures could be seen polishing off the last of their Crêpes Suzette.
Iestyn Davies’s theatrical blandness combined with his vocal unsuitability for the role left a hole at the center of Rinaldo.
On this day in 1964 the Jule Styne-Bob Merrill musical Funny Girl opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, to run 1348 performances.
A regular day in 2018 Washington, D.C., or Verdi’s Don Carlo?
Born today, two colossi of the lyric theater: in 1867 conductor Arturo Toscanini and in 1910 soprano Magda Olivero.
Martina Serafin serves up the ice in this afternoon’s Met broadcast starting at 1:00 PM.
At Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, Zerline, the heroine of Auber’s once beloved Fra Diavolo , undresses down to frilly French skivvies.
On this day in 1920, the Metropolitan Opera presented its first performance of Eugene Onegin.
Coming up at 3:15 PM, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.
Wedlock, betrayal, sibling rivalry, feminism, and union strikes give the opera Morning Star much of its driving thematic material.
Lucia di Lammermoor, a bloody story of a young woman’s mental degeneracy amidst feuding families, remains Donizetti’s most popular exploration of the landscape and culture of Britain.
Thursday evening Piramo e Tisbe demonstrated that its assembled forces were the little opera theatre of ny that could.
On this day in 1977 soprano Ileana Cotrubas made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mimi.
Tonight’s broadcast of the Met’s season premiere of Lucia di Lammermoor stars Olga Peretyatko-Mariotti and Vittorio Grigolo.
“Trove Thursday” presents a live Tristan 2 concert featuring one of my favorite dramatic sopranos. Gertrude Grob-Prandl.
Birthday greetings to two musical theatre giants: Stephen Sondheim, 88, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, 70.
On this day in 2008 soprano Angela Meade made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elvira in Ernani.
No 50th anniversary career tribute would be complete without covering Edita Gruberova’s legendary status as the premier Zerbinetta of her long reign in the role!
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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