Cendrillon
Starring Kathleen Kim, Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote and Stephanie Blythe; conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Transmitted live on April 28, 2018.
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To seek and find
The candor of some aspects of Now, Voyager—which at times can feel fairly formulaic—has moments that are truly startling, and there is something surprisingly modern and frank in the not-entirely-fulfilling concluding moments.
Hérodiade
“Trove Thursday” presents the late great Belgian mezzo Rita Gorr parenting Régine Crespin.
Music, give us hope
It was hard for me not to get choked up, watching two of AVA’s most promising young graduates having to make this opportunity for themselves, and doing it with such palpable good humor.
Five years later
Trove Thursday began on September 10, 2015, so today we celebrate the podcast’s fifth birthday with a diva-starry Aïda double-bill: Galina Vishnevskaya vies for her soldier-hero with Irina Arkhipova, then Jessye Norman wins the guy (but loses her life) in spite of Mignon Dunn.
Infection
Tonight’s performance of Don Carlo at the Bolshoi Opera has been canceled because bass Ildar Abdrazakov has tested positive for COVID-19.
A successful designer must be a gambler
Born on this day in 1890 designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
La Damnation de Faust
Starring Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani and John Relyea, conducted by James Levine. From November 22, 2008.
Platée
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt is an irresistibly self-absorbed sea-nymph in Rameau’s Platée which also features a dazzling star-turn by Mireille Delunsch as La Folie.
If we shadows have offended
Born on this day in 1873 opera and stage director Max Reinhardt.
Roméo et Juliette
Starring Diana Damrau, Vittorio Grigolo, Elliot Madore and Mikhail Petrenko, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. From January 21, 2017.
Teach me tonight
Virtual vocal coach Karen takes on the lean, lovely, lustrous larynx of Dusty Pörn.
Lakmé
One of Mariella Devia‘s earliest New York successes: Delibes’s Lakmé with Nicolai Gedda and Paul Plishka.
Mean girl
Born on this day in 1921 actress Alexis Smith.
Manon
Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot star in this performance conducted by Fabio Luisi. Transmitted live on April 7, 2012.
La jolie fille de Perth
In tribute to soprano Christiane Eda-Pierre, who died September 5.
Happy Labor Day!
Here’s ineffable Lainie Kazan, putting the “MDA” in the MDA Labor Day Telethon.
The Tempest
Starring Audrey Luna, Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, Alek Shrader, Alan Oke, William Burden, Toby Spence and Simon Keenlyside, conducted by Thomas Adès. From November 10, 2012.
I’m an ordinary woman
Happy 83rd birthday actress, singer and comedienne Jo Anne Worley.
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
An opera project by Marina Abramovic (2020) from the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Because I’m blonde
Happy 60th birthday soprano Karita Mattila.
Porgy and Bess
Starring Angel Blue, Golda Schultz, Latonia Moore, Denyce Graves, Frederick Ballentine, Eric Owens, Alfred Walker and Donovan Singletary, conducted by David Robertson. From February 1, 2020.
La Voix humaine
Barbara Hannigan sings Poulenc’s monodrama led by Esa-Pekka Salonen.