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Happy 87th birthday Dame Joan Collins!
Happy 87th birthday Dame Joan Collins!
Alain Altinoglu made his debut as music director of La Monnaie with this production.
Joan Sutherland is Donna Anna in this vintage telecast from March 16, 1978.
As the late Arlene Saunders had a very limited commercial discography and performed mostly in Europe, I thought some readers might be curious to hear more of her.
Born on this day in 1813 composer Richard Wagner.
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Puccini’s final masterpiece.
Juan Diego Flórez sings the title role in this performance from 2017.
Trove Thursday goes mini-epic with Gustave Charpentier’s naturalistic slice-of-life of fin-de-siêcle Paris in a rare 1999 Renée Fleming performance of Louise co-starring Jerry Hadley, Samuel Ramey and Felicity Palmer.
On this day in 1959, the greatest musical of all, Gypsy, opened at the Broadway Theatre, to run 702 performances.
Sondra Radvanovsky, Kathleen Kim, Stephanie Blythe, Marcelo Álvarez and Dmitri Hvorostovsky star in this HD from December 8, 2012.
John Adams‘ opera as broadcast from De Nederlandse Opera in 2007.
On this day in 1978 tenor Rockwell Blake made his Met debut on tour in Minneapolis as Don Ottavio.
Eva Marton, Leonie Rysanek, Peter Hofmann, Leif Roar and John Macurdy star in this telecast from January 10, 1986.
A new series where we pit Zerbinetta against Zerlina, Caballé against Callas, Berg against Bellini in the ultimate operatic showdown.
What options are there for the Met and the other performing arts organizations trying to envision restarting performances in the fall?
The Vienna State Opera streams a performance of Weber’s opera from June 14, 2018 featuring Adrian Eröd, Camilla Nylund, Daniela Fally, Alan Held and Andreas Schager.
Born on this day in 1861 soprano Nellie Melba.
Conducted by James Levine, starring Nadine Sierra, Elza van den Heever, Alice Coote and Matthew Polenzani. Transmitted live on March 25, 2017.
Barrie Kosky‘s campy production of the 1923 operetta by Oscar Straus.
Tonight Opera in Exile focuses on an opera about exile, as transmitted live by the Met on January 7, 2017.
Although Kim Stanley’s big-screen appearances were rare—four major film roles, plus the uncredited narration in To Kill a Mockingbird—she was the leading lady of television drama’s “Golden Age.”
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