Tauride zone
This week Trove Thursday presents Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride in three stirring broadcasts starring Rita Gorr, Gré Brouwenstijn and Sena Jurinac
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I was always Sylvia
Born on this day in 1924 actress Sylvia Miles.
This nearly was mime
Born on this day in 1910 actor and director Jean-Louis Barrault.
Great and happy, but not quite live
This was a great and happy event, but it wasn’t so much a musical one.
I ain’t the sentimental kind
On this day in 1949 Mae West headlined a revival of her most famous play, Diamond Lil, which she first played more than 20 years earlier.
Miss me blonde
Happy 61st birthday soprano Karita Mattila.
Old school
Born on this day in 1910 singer, actress and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle Hart.
By Porpora demand
Important European revivals this season would like to return Nicola Porpora to the remarkable prominence he held during the first half of the 18th century. Trove Thursday argues his case with a “pirate” recording of Polifemo featuring Franco Fagioli in a star performance along with Xavier Sabata (pictured), Laura Aikin, Mary-Ellen Nesi and Christian Senn.
Rainy day
Happy 93rd birthday actor and dreamboat George Maharis.
That’s why I pulled the trigger
Watching Gloria Grahame—lips moist and parted, eyes staring off into some faraway middle distance—is absolutely arresting. She looks like the quintessential Noir femme fatale that was, in fact, probably her principal calling card.
The slave who would be empress
On this day in 1056 Byzantine Empress Theodora died childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
Love for sail
Last weekend, On Site Opera presented What Lies Beneath, a program of maritime-themed operatic excerpts staged aboard the 19th century schooner Wavertree (now a part of the South Street Seaport Museum).
Forget your sympathy
Born on this day in 1906 actress Joan Blondell.
Tenors al fresco
Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres are two singers at the top of their game, as this concert showed, virtually peerless in music as punishing as it is pretty.
“I never thought of myself as a type”
Born on this day in 1930 Ben Gazzara.
The real king
Bay Street Theater deserves enormous credit for transforming Camelot from a clumsy historical epic into a breezy, human fairytale about leaders who cannot lead.
Going strong
Born on this day in 1916 actress, comedian and singer Martha Raye.
Gamine attractions
On this day in 1951, the film An American in Paris debuted in London.
Get ready for the judgment day
In anticipation of the Met’s reopening performance on September 11, another serving of pandemic-hoarding arrives on Trove Thursday with 10 rare live performances of the Verdi Requiem’s concluding “Libera me.”
I only have eyes for you
Born on this day in 1909 actress, dancer and singer Ruby Keeler.
Met, Orchestra reach agreement
A new collective bargaining agreement between the Metropolitan Opera and its orchestra, the last of the Met’s three largest unions to reach an agreement, was ratified today.
On the edge of my seat
The San Francisco Opera became the first US opera company to present a full-blown production indoors on its home turf this season when they ushered the US opera audience into 2021-22 Season on Saturday September 21 with a stellar performance of Giacomo Puccini’s perennial favorite Tosca.
Listen to the sound of the city
Happy 63rd birthday actor Steve Guttenberg.