Broadcast: Parsifal
We move on to Bayreuth’s revival of Parsifal.
Questo e Quello
Mostly Mozart in the Jungle
Tack on a little symphonic Beethoven and some particularly zany hosting patter from Bernadette Peters, and you start to lose focus, or at least some sense of, um, what matters mostly.
Unbridled enthusiasm
“You see, Elaine, Dimitrij was a simple country boy, you might say a cockeyed optimist…”
“A. Netrebko Sings Oltrano”
Overhearing preparations for the Salzburg Aïda.
Wine coolers are the first thing, morals follow on
Skirting the leafy, patrician Berkshires of Western Mass, and flush with wine coolers and white people, pastoral Tanglewood doesn’t much resemble the dark Nibelung settings of Norse myth.
All about Eva
Happy 50th birthday soprano Anne Schwanewilms.
Broadcast: Tristan und Isolde
Today’s conversation piece from Bayreuth: a revival of Tristan und Isolde with Stephen Gould and Petra Lang conducted by Christian Thielemann.
Broadcast: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
The cher public are invited to hear and comment upon the opening performance of the 2017 Bayreuth Festspiele, featuring a new production of Meistersinger directed by Barrie Kosky. Broadcasts from various sources begin between 9:45 and 10:00 AM EDT. (These daytime Bayreuth listening parties continue into next week.)
Time remembered
Born on this day in 1894 soprano Yvonne Printemps.
Annals of gerontocracy
Placido Domingo, who, in 20 years of trying, has never yet got either the words or the rhythms right in the role of Siegmund, has been announced to conduct Die Walküre at Bayreuth next season.
Tree for the show
The late-mid 1730s were transitional years for Handel, to put it nicely.
Deine Divadienste will die Frau
I wish to introduce our younger Parterrians to the magical Martha Mödl to commemorate the opening of the Bayreuther Festspiele which opens tomorrow afternoon.
“Oatmeal tastes so good on its own, you don’t even need to add sugar”
Happy 49th birthday singer and actress Kristin Chenoweth.
Home girl
Happy 45th birthday soprano Anja Harteros.
Broadcast(s): Getting medieval
As if to usher in next week’s daily broadcasts from Bayreuth, this afternoon offers a choice between two Wagner operas: Lohengrin from the Vienna State Opera and Tannhäuser from Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Mother of Exiles
Born on this day 1849 poet Emma Lazarus.
Birthday enjoyed by all
Happy 60th birthday actor Jon Lovitz.
Drunk in both head and heart
This week’s “Trove Thursday” offers Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice featuring Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
Move over, sun, and give me some sky
Born on this day in 1938 actress Natalie Wood.
Im Körper des Feindes
Congratulations to our friends at the Bayerische Staatsoper for their successful application to real-time opera performances of face-swapping software!
One little name to remember is better than having a string
Happy 91st birthday actress Helen Gallagher.
Tragedy tonight
In May of last year tenor Piotr Beczala and soprano Anna Netrebko sang in Lohengrin for the first time under the baton of Christian Thielemann in his home house at the Staatskapelle Dresden.
Burn notice
On this day in 64 the Great Fire of Rome began under the Emperor Nero.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).