Will you answer too?
On this day in 1924, the operetta Rose-Marie opened at the Imperial Theatre, to run 557 performances.
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Peter Grimes
Starring Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Donald Runnicles. From March 15, 2008.
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).
Wozzeck
In lieu of the geoblocked COVID Fan Tutte, here’s Berg’s Wozzeck featuring the incongruously glamorous Karita Mattila and Sir Simon Keenlyside as the doomed couple conducted by Sir Mark Elder.
Saloon singer
Born on this day in 1922 actress and singer Yvonne de Carlo.
Elektra
Starring Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier, Burkhard Ulrich and Eric Owens, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. From April 30, 2016.
Oedipus Rex
In consonance with the Met’s evening programming this week of “20th Century and Beyond” works, we are proud to offer for your afternoon listening discussion Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio whatever-it-is featuring Jessye Norman.
Slow curtain
We put together these two very different movies from more than half a century apart—Of Human Bondage (1934) and The Whales of August (1987)—and thus get a sense of the long arc of a career.
Change partners
On this day in 1940 Vivien Leigh married Laurence Olivier.
Dish honored
Lise Davidsen turned in a fine performance Saturday, cementing her up-and-coming star status in an eclectic program given from the Oscarshall Palace in Oslo.
Falstaff
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Paolo Fanale, Ambrogio Maestri and Franco Vassallo, conducted by James Levine. From December 14, 2013.
Actors should be overheard
Born on this day in 1898 actress Shirley Booth.
Don Carlo
Starring Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto and Eric Halfvarson, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From December 11, 2010.
The end of Columbia Artists
La Cieca has heard that Columbia Artists Management Inc. will cease operations on Monday, August 31.
Good health and a bad memory
Born on this day in 1915 actress Ingrid Bergman.
Lise Davidsen in Oslo
“A program of the soaring arias and songs that have rocketed her to stardom around the world: selections from Wagner’s Tannhäser, Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, as well as Scandinavian songs by Sibelius and Grieg.”
La traviata
Starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez and Quinn Kelsey, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin (not pictured). From December 15, 2018.
Il corsaro
Michael Fabiano in one of his specialties as the dashing hero of Il corsaro torn between Tamara Wilson and Nicole Cabell.
Show stopper
Born on this day in 1947 actress and singer Alice Playten.
Un ballo in maschera
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Kathleen Kim, Stephanie Blythe, Marcelo Álvarez and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From December 8, 2012.
I masnadieri
A recent I Masnadieri with risen stars Lisette Oropesa and Russell Thomas.
Practically perfect in every way
On this day in 1964, Mary Poppins premiered in Los Angeles.
For art’s sake
Few operas scream “summertime easy listening” like Pfitzner’s Palestrina—all 225 minutes of it—so Trove Thursday presents a performance from the Royal Opera’s 1997 New York visit conducted by Christian Thielemann.
Luisa Miller
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczala, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. From April 14, 2018.