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Celebrating 150 years of Strauss‘s opera with a 1986 performance featuring Kiri Te Kanawa, Håkan Hagegård, Judith Blegen, Tatiana Troyanos, David Rendall, and Michael Devlin conducted by Jeffrey Tate
Nicola Luisotti conducts Alex Esposito, Piero Pretti, Maria Agresta, Kamelia Kader, and Maria Teresa Leva in a live opening night broadcast from Venice
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After a century of searching, the world has perhaps finally found a definitive Magda in ethereal soprano Ailyn Pérez.
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Hailed as the first opera by an African-American composer performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones was a huge audience and box office hit in the Fall of 2021 when it reopened the Met after two seasons shut down by COVID-19.
On this day in 1975 soprano Katia Ricciarelli made her Met debut as Mimi
Heartbeat Opera’s The Extinctionist — composed by Dan Schlosberg with a libretto by Amanda Quaid — is the first opera, as far as I know, to stage a pap smear.
Oh, La traviata, how do I love thee? Let me count the recordings.
On this day in 1996 tenor Roberto Alagna made his Met debut as Rodolfo
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Francesco Lanzillotta conducts a live broadcast from Rome as Lisette Oropesa makes a role debut as Amina alongside John Osborn and Roberto Tagliavini
I confess to being a “bad” dance fan: over the decades I’ve learned that if I don’t love (or at least like) the music, I won’t love the dance.
On this day in 1992 soprano Deborah Polaski made her Met debut as Kundry
Evan Rogister conducts Ryan Speedo Green, Latonia Moore, and Brittany Renee in a broadcast from New York
If it didn’t all work, it wouldn’t work at all.
