Boy trouble
On this day in 1996 tenor Roberto Alagna made his Met debut as Rodolfo.
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Parsifal
The Metropolitan Opera starts Good Friday early with a stream of their 2013 Live in HD video.
Violanta
Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s second opera, written when the composer was only 17.
“Così l’anima mia…”
While Harry Rose finishes his senior thesis on Gabriele d’Annunzio, Trove Thursday joins in his fascination with Dante’s damned adulteress with two settings (both from Amsterdam!) of Francesca da Rimini.
“Diamonds is my career”
On this day in 1928 Mae West played triple threat as playwright, director and star of Diamond Lil, which ran for 323 performances at the Royale Theatre.
Falstaff
This Met Live in HD video starring Ambrogio Maestri was transmitted live on December 14, 2013.
Alceste
La Fenice’s production of Gluck’s lesser-known original Italian version features soprano Carmela Remigio.
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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!
Listen to my voice
Born on this day in 1921 tenor Franco Corelli.
La fanciulla del West
The Met’s 100th anniversary revival of the Puccini western.
Guillaume Tell
Nicola Alaimo, Juan Diego Flórez and Marina Rebeka star in a production from the Pesaro Rossini Festival in 2013.
Long lost daughter
On this day in 1975 Rossini’s Siege of Corinth had its American stage premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. Soprano Beverly Sills made her official Met debut as Pamira.
Aida
Anna Netrebko and Anita Rachvelishvili are rival princesses in the Met’s Live in HD.
Talking to Tanja Ariane Baumgartner
The first part of a chat with the dramatic mezzo-soprano.
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
A rare revival of Rimsky-Korsakov’s fanciful opera from La Monnaie.
Her heart belongs to daddy
On this day in 1989 soprano Sumi Jo made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Gilda.
Norma
Bellini’s bel canto tragedy starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
Open your heart
Happy 90th birthday soprano Mary Costa.
Macbeth
Verdi’s melodrama stars Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Zeljko Lucic and René Pape, conducted by Fabio Luisi.
Praying for rain
Like many artistic homosexuals, I’ve been through an Altman phase, a Cher phase, a Sandy Dennis phase and a Karen Black phase, so you needn’t explain yourself to me.
Il turco in Italia
The Rossini dramma buffo performed at La Scala features Rosa Feola as Donna Fiorilla.
Shadow play
On this day in 1859 Meyerbeer’s Le pardon de Ploërmel premiered in Paris.
The Mother of Us All
That most American of all operas, as performed in February by the Metropolitan Museum in collaboration with The Juilliard School and the New York Philharmonic.
Das Wunder der Heliane
Opera in Exile veers off on a temporary tangent today, programming two fringe/niche works.
