Le nozze di Figaro
The cream of the Met’s 1990s roster join forces for a controversial* staging of Mozart’s comedy.
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The Bartered Bride
Video from the January 6, 2019 performance at the Bayerische Staatsoper.
A gala day is enough for me
The discussion of the Metropolitan Opera’s “At-Home Gala” set a new record for parterre box articles, with 11,590 pageviews and 1,877 comments!
World of Wunders
For an ecstatic outburst lasting less than a minute I swiftly gathered up an exaltation of Sieglindes from live performances spanning nearly 80 years. In fact, there were so many I decided to split up the quiz into three parts.
The Cat’s meow
This Cat seems more together than most. Unlike many of the teleplays we’ve considered so far, this one is actually directed by a Tony-winning theater director, and I’d venture that accounts for its relative success.
You’ve got to come back a star!
Born on this day in 1930 soprano Roberta Peters.
Rosalind Elias 1930-2020
The stalwart Met mezzo-soprano died earlier today.
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!
Prince Igor
Oksana Dyka, Anita Rachvelishvili and Ildar Abdrazakov star in this Live in HD video from March 1, 2014.
Iphigénie en Tauride
Staatsoper Stuttgart continues it s#OpertrotzCorona series.
“Never admit to anything to anybody”
Born on this day in 1906 actress and author Mary Astor.
Luisa Miller
Sonya Yoncheva stars in the title role of Verdi’s stirring drama, opposite Piotr Beczala as her lover, Rodolfo.
Mitridate, Re di Ponto
“The efforts long ago of the king of Pontus to resist Roman domination of the Mediterranean remind us of recent attempts by some European leaders to change the rules of the Union.”
“Dawn of a New Day”
On this day in 1939, the Metropolitan Opera launched a gala “New York World’s Fair Season.”
Aida
The legendary opera farewell of Miss Leontyne Price, as transmitted live on January 3, 1985.
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino At- Home Concert
Alexander Pereira presents Cecilia Bartoli, Vittorio Grigolo, Mikhail Petrenko, Diana Damrau, Ludovic Tézier, Francesco Meli, Lisette Oropesa, Luca Salsi, Thomas Hampson, Krassimira Stoyanova, Michele Pertusi, Eva Mei, Leo Nucci, Sonya Yoncheva, Fabio Sartori, Anna Pirozzi and Saioa Hernández performing live from their respective living rooms.
“I change the mood”
Born on this day in 1917 actress Danielle Darrieux.
Marnie
Isabel Leonard stars as Nico Muhly‘s enigmatic heroine.
What the ‘Cat’ dragged in
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is sometimes called the American King Lear, which nods to themes of a father and his disappointing children… but I think it’s also Shakespearean in its sprawl and grandeur.
Eye of a storm
Two of the leading postwar Czech sopranos appear together in Janacek’s Kát’a Kabanová when Trove Thursday presents Gabriela Benacková‘s gleaming heroine in her US debut relentlessly persecuted by Nadjezhda Kniplová’s implacable mother-in-law.
Les Troyens
With Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre), Brandon Jovanovich (Enée) and Joyce DiDonato (Didon).
Two on the Nile
On this day in 1928 Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli graced the boards of Public Hall, Cleveland in a Met touring performance of Aida.
Roberto Devereux
Sondra Radvanovsky stars as Queen Elizabeth I, with Matthew Polenzani in the title role, Elina Garanca and Mariusz Kwiecien.
Simon Boccanegra
From the Rome Opera in 2012 conducted by Riccardo Muti.
