Questo e Quello
“Trove Thursday” offers Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar with Albina Shagimuratova, Alisa Kolosova, Dmytro Popov and Gennadi Bezzubenkov.
On this day in 1918 Puccini’s Il Trittico premiered at the Metropolitan Opera.
Mr. Plummer is very wise and La Cieca intends (in a general sense) to continue to follow his example.
Happy 90th birthday actress Genevieve Page.
“Sir Bryn Terfel has had to withdraw from the Met’s new production of Puccini’s Tosca as he takes enforced rest due to vocal fatigue.”
Join La Cieca at the final frontier of Claus Guth‘s controversial new production of La Bohème, webcast at 1:30 PM today.
>Happy 60th birthday playwright, actor, film director and (sort of) opera director Robert Lepage.
“Puccini’s operas seldom take well to abstraction, since the composer engraved every detail of what should happen into the score so specifically that there was little wiggle room left.”
On this day in 1960 the Cy Coleman musical Wildcat (Lucille Ball‘s only Broadway show) opened at the Alvin Theatre, to run 141 performances.
Starting at 6:00 PM, a live broadcast of this year’s Richard Tucker festivities.
Born on this day in 1914 actress and singer Dorothy Lamour.
I really wished to avoid joining the pig pile of derision that has fallen on SF Opera’s premiere of John Adams and Peter Sellars’ Girls of the Golden West.
It’s the mini-version of Flute this afternoon, starting at 12:30 PM.
Forgotten operas when revived may prove to be only their own reward.
Born on this day in 1897 actress Hermione Gingold.
It was odd, if not downright uncomfortable, to watch Le Nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera.
My takeaway from this evening is that I want to hear a lot more from Amber Wagner.
On this day in 1949 the Jule Styne musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes opened on Broadway.
“Trove Thursday” presents an all-star five-act Don Carlo from forty years ago tonight.
Opening night of the 2017 La Scala season features Andrea Chenier starring Yusif Eyvazov, Anna Netrebko and Luca Salsi.
Christophe Dumaux quickly slipped in and out of town this weekend to sing Handel and Vivaldi in a marvelous gala concert with the Sejong Soloists at Zankel Hall.
Born on this day in 1863 composer Pietro Mascagni.
Norman Dello Joio, who was knocking about winning prizes for film and TV scores, composed The Trial at Rouen, his second opera on the subject, for NBC.
On this day in 1966 the Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones two-character musical I Do! I Do! opened at the 46th Street Theatre, to run 560 performances
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
