“You have to discover you”
On this day in 1967 Barbra Streisand‘s A Happening in Central Park took place in New York.
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Semiramide
Conducted by Maurizio Benini; starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazako and Ryan Speedo Green. Transmitted live on March 10, 2018.
Dark and darker
San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago have announced the cancellation of their respective 2020 fall seasons.
Jawdropper
Robert Wilson is many things: a visionary (certainly); an iconoclast, artist, director, and designer of sets, lighting, costumes, movement (and furniture). Yet his work is never boring (well, at least not intentionally).
Un ballo in maschera
Jesús López Cobos leads Piotr Beczala, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Krassimira Stoyanova in this performance from the Vienna State Opera on April 26, 2016.
It’s a curse
Born on this day in 1899 soprano Helen Traubel.
Armida
Conducted by Riccardo Frizza; starring Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, John Osborn, Barry Banks and Kobie van Rensburg. Transmitted live on May 1, 2010.
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!
Die singende Stadt
A documentary on how Stuttgart Opera’s Parsifal was produced in 2009/10.
We are magicians
In Moses und Aron Schoenberg’s struggle with the essence of his own Jewishness is the cosmic glue that bonds Kosky’s to Schoenberg’s vision.
We’ve often rewound the clock
Born on this day in 1894 orchestrator and composer Robert Russell Bennett.
Rodelinda
Conducted by Harry Bicket; starring Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser and Shenyang. Transmitted live on December 3, 2011.
Table for three
On this day in 1972 the Metropolitan Opera presented an all-star Rigoletto with Sherrill Milnes, Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti.
The Gambler
Performance of Prokofiev’s Igrok on October 7, 2017 at the Vienna State Opera.
“Rust, bones and the wind”
Terror and breakdown is hinted at strongly, almost blatantly, but the characters never seem to move an inch past the comfort zone.
Center square
Born on this day in 1926 comedian and actor Paul Lynde.
Il trittico
From San Francisco Opera, filmed live in HD at the War Memorial Opera House in 2009.
Moses und Aron
Barrie Kosky and Vladimir Jurowski collaborate on this splendid production of Schoenberg’s unfinished masterpiece.
La fanciulla del West
Nina Stemme and Jonas Kaufmann star in this performance conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, as telecast October 5, 2013.
Tabloid
Born on this day in 1899 photographer and journalist Weegee.
The Ghosts of Versailles
John Corigliano and William M. Hoffmann‘s gay fantasia on royalist themes, as telecast on January 10, 1992.
Ariadne auf Naxos
Lise Davidsen, Stephen Gould and Erin Morley star in this performance from the Vienna State Opera.
S that all there S?
Starry galas are popping up everywhere lately so it’s time for Trove Thursday’s, a challenging panoply trodding mostly off the beaten path—with an S-twist!
A rose is still a rose
Born on this day in 1864 composer Richard Strauss. Born on this day in 1913 mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens.
