Questo e Quello
Starting at 7:55 PM, a broadcast of the first Verdi Requiem of the season, live from the Met.
Your doyenne La Cieca (pictured, obviously) invites you to join her for a special holiday weekend treat this afternoon.
Born on this day in 1848 soprano Lilli Lehmann.
Happy Thanksgiving USA Parterrians from La Cieca (pictured, left.)
“Semiramide—a better opera than this dude expected!”
Coot-owned and -operated blog which never reviews anything complains that the New York Times classical music section is reviewing the wrong things.
“Trove Thursday” pays tribute to Dmitri Hrovostovsky with a broadcast of his final new role, Rubinstein’s The Demon.
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s spectacularly colorful and glitzy new production of The Pearl Fishers opened on Sunday.
Vincenzo Bellini’s La Straniera was presented at George Washington University’s dreary Lisner Hall on Sunday.
It’s a fairly traditional post-Patrice-Chereau Ring, set during the Industrial Revolution.
On this day in 1898 Pietro Mascagni’s Iris premiered in Rome.
The heartbreaking news of the death of Dmitri Hvorostovsky has been confirmed.
It is not easy for an opera company to follow a spectacular production of La Traviata with Massenet’s Manon.
Born on this day in 1694 writer and philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet (known as Voltaire.)
On this day in 1808 Beethoven’s Fidelio premiered in Vienna.
Whatever its flaws, La finta giardinera is indeed a wise rep choice for grad students eager to cut their teeth.
By a happy coincidence, the American Opera Series Network offers a broadcast of the Faccio adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Born on this day in 1926 singer and actress Dorothy Collins.
Born on this day in 1911 actor, choreographer and director Charles Walters.
Verdi’s La forza del Destino starring beloved soprano Aprile Millo as Leonora, a role she never performed at the Met.
C-major has made available the first DVD/Blu-ray of Franco Faccio’s Amleto.
Born on this day in 1926 soprano Maralin Niska Dice.
La Cieca thinks you can guess how elated she is that Anna Netrebko has actually become Auntie Mame.
Could Barbara Hannigan be Joni Mitchell’s classical counterpart?
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
