L’Elisir d’Amore
Starring Pretty Yende, Matthew Polenzani, Davide Luciano and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, conducted by Domingo Hindoyan. From February 10, 2018.
Starring Pretty Yende, Matthew Polenzani, Davide Luciano and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, conducted by Domingo Hindoyan. From February 10, 2018.
Born on this day in 1893 actress Lillian Gish.
Starring Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez and Alessandro Corbelli, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From April 26, 2008.
I am embarrassingly bad at vocal ID quizzes—I may never get over the one where I was convinced every single excerpt was Leontyne Price—but I do love to put them together.
On this day in 1962 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened at the Billy Rose Theatre, to run 664 performances.
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Starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From February 7, 2009.
“Pèlerin Deslieux had arrived to escort her to Carnegie Hall. They would walk over together. ‘There’s a queue from here to there!’ he told her.”
“Camp” is exactly the lens through which The Velvet Touch is best examined, including an utterly bewildering cross-pollinating of genres.
With Christian Nickel, Lisette Oropesa, Emanuela von Frankenberg, Regula Mühlemann, Stella Roberts, Goran Juric, Andreas Grötzinger, Daniel Behle, Christian Natter, Michael Laurenz, Ludwig Blochberger.
Starring Katarina Dalayman, Jonas Kaufmann, Peter Mattei, Evgeny Nikitin and René Pape, conducted by Daniele Gatti. From March 2, 2013.
On this day in 1958 Don Ameche and Elaine Stritch opened on Broadway in the musical Goldilocks.
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Christa Ludwig, Siegfried Jerusalem, and Matti Salminen, conducted by James Levine. From May 5, 1990.
Born on this day in 1813 composer Giuseppe Verdi. Born on this day in 1924 soprano Leyla Gencer.
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Siegfried Jerusalem and James Morris, conducted by James Levine; From April 26, 1990.
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, James Morris and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. From April 8, 1989.
For the fourth annual edition of “Handel for my birthday” Trove Thursday serves up three heaping portions of “old-fashioned oratorio.”
On this day in 1979, the musical revue Sugar Babies opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, to run 1,208 performances.
Starring Christa Ludwig, Siegfried Jerusalem, James Morris and Ekkehard Wlaschiha, conducted by James Levine. From April 23, 1990.
Born on this day in 1917 actress and dancer June Allyson.
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung, Johan Botha, Peter Mattei, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by James Levine. From October 31, 2015.
On this day in 1963 Barbra Streisand guest starred on The Judy Garland Show.
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