Questo e Quello
Born on this day in 1879 actress Ethel Barrymore.
Born on this day in 1923 actress and singer Alice Ghostley.
Happy 71st birthday soprano Kathleen Battle.
Born on this day in 1938 wide-ranging mezzo-soprano Huguette Tourangeau.
Happy 67th birthday soprano Ashley Putnam.
On this day in 1930 Betty Boop made her film debut in Max Fleischer’s cartoon Dizzy Dishes.
“Trove Thursday” features its two favorite baritones in a pair of comforting settings of the Requiem.
Born on this day in 1755 castrato and composer Luigi Marchesi.
“Die Zauberflöte is an opera!” “No, it’s the first musical comedy!”
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…”
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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.
Born on this day in 1890 conductor Erich Kleiber.
The Glyndebourne Festival production of Mozart’s comic saga is telecast beginning at 12:30 PM New York time.
Happy 59th birthday soprano Deborah Voigt.
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!
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.
