La Damnation de Faust
Starring Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani and John Relyea, conducted by James Levine. From November 22, 2008.
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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.
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).
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.
Dancing is still the hardest profession
Happy 89th birthday actress, singer, and dancer Mitzi Gaynor.
Lulu
Starring Marlis Petersen, Susan Graham, Daniel Brenna, Paul Groves, Johan Reuter and Franz Grundheber, conducted by Lothar Koenigs. From November 21, 2015.
Billy Budd
“Peter Mattei, one of my two favorite baritones these days, in an unexpected title role, Britten’s Billy Budd.”
Significant mother
As Phaedra’s tragic, all-consuming passion for her stepson Hippolytus has fascinated artists for centuries, Trove Thursday offers two of its lesser-known musical settings: Pizzetti’s opera Fedra with Régine Crespin and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson performing the cantata Phaedra, Britten’s final vocal work.
“That was beautiful”
Born on this day in 1910 soprano and founder of the Harlem School of the Arts Dorothy Maynor.
Nixon in China
Starring Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena and Richard Paul Fink, conducted by John Adams. From February 12, 2011.
The triumph of the Undiva
Renée Fleming garnered a most un-unvdivaesque flurry of pageviews in August.