Fidelio
From April 29, 2019, a live performance from Vienna featuring Anne Schwanewilms and Brandon Jovanovich.
From April 29, 2019, a live performance from Vienna featuring Anne Schwanewilms and Brandon Jovanovich.
Happy 85th birthday mezzo-soprano Fiorenza Cossotto.
Sonya Yoncheva heads the cast of this January 27, 2018 Live in HD telecast from the Met.
Simon Rattle leads this performance from November 2018 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
Happy 88th birthday comedian, film director, screenwriter, and actress Elaine May.
This Met Live in HD video stars Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier and Eric Owens, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Mussorgsky’s original 1868/69 version, as performed by the Bayerische Staatsoper.
The 1950 movie seems intent to turn the story into a screen romance, eliding or ignoring the play’s mournful tenor.
This Met Live in HD video stars Renée Fleming, Elina Garanca, Erin Morley and Günther Groissböck, conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
From the Vienna State Opera with Camilla Nylund, conducted by Michael Boder.
Happy 55th birthday soprano Natalie Dessay.
Cilea’s melodrama stars Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczala and Ambrogio Maestri, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Rotterdam Philharmonic in a performance recorded on February 17 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris.
Happy 72nd birthday soprano Catherine Malfitano.
The Met’s “Viewers’ Choice” selection, with Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani and Dwayne Croft, conducted by Patrick Summers.
From Opernhaus Zurich starring Joyce DiDonato, Olga Kulchynska and Benjamin Bernheim, conducted by Fabio Luisi.
Happy 80th birthday soprano/mezzo-soprano Anja Silja.
Featuring a ménage à trois of talent: Juan Diego Flórez, Diana Damrau and Joyce DiDonato.
Somewhere in all of this, I decided it was time to try Callas.
From La Scala, featuring Lisette Oropesa, Fabio Sartori, Michele Pertusi and Massimo Cavalletti.
Last night should have seen my favorite of this season’s revivals but instead Trove Thursday must step up with Jean-Marie Leclair’s irresistibly captivating Scylla et Glaucus conducted by Christophe Rousset.
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