Manon Lescaut
Starring Kristine Opolais, Roberto Alagna, Massimo Cavalletti and Brindley Sherratt, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From March 5, 2016.
Starring Kristine Opolais, Roberto Alagna, Massimo Cavalletti and Brindley Sherratt, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From March 5, 2016.
Musikalische Leitung: Lothar Zagrosek. Regie: Christof Nel.
Some consider Katharine Hepburn a tomboy — I don’t share that view, but the particular iconoclastic style she was already cultivating in her early days certainly suits Jo March.
On this day in 2010 Broadway musical legends Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch joined the cast of A Little Night Music at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
Starring Jane Eaglen, Katarina Dalayman, Ben Heppner, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. From December 18, 1999.
Born on this day in 1895 soprano Kirsten Flagstad.
Starring Hui He, Elizabeth DeShong, Bruce Sledge and Paulo Szot, conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi. From November 9, 2019.
The New York Philharmonic presents Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Stephanie Blythe, Shuler Hensley, Jason Danieley, Jessie Mueller, Kate Burton and John Cullum.
Stay tuned as La Cieca attends this Zoom press conference with Peter Gelb and special guest zoomers.
Born on this day in 1925 soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs and tenor Nicolai Gedda.
I feel like Jonas Kaufmann is trying to tell us something.
Starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien and Alexei Tanovitski, conducted by Valery Gergiev. From October 5, 2013.
Countertenor Carlo Vistoli with Ensemble Sezione Aurea led by Filippo Panteri perform a program of 17th century music of Venice.
Happy 51st birthday tenor Jonas Kaufmann.
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcello Giordani and Mark Delavan, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From March 16, 2013.
Sonya Yoncheva, Charles Castronovo, Iain Paterson and Elsa Dreisig star; Daniel Barenboim conducts.
A broadcast of Weill and Brecht’s pungent Die Dreigroschenoper
On this day in 1930 a cabaret singer named Ethel Merman made her vaudeville debut.
Oh, yes, it’s Ladies’ Night and the feeling’s right! Oh, yes, it’s Ladies’ Night! Oh, what a night!
Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s production from the Staatsoper Berlin, featuring Anita Rachvelishvili.
What does the opera singer of the future look like?
“Dying in the third act is much more intense, as the sickness has the same symptoms as COVID-19, so suffocation, pain, agony, fever—all this must be present and real.”
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