Don Carlo
Intrigue in the Spanish court with Marina Poplavskaya, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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Utterly bewitching
Who could doubt that Leontyne Price contains multitudes?
Il pirata
What could be more appropriate for Opera in Exile than a production that never happened?
Anyone’s daughter
One of the more unfortunate losses from the Met’s closure is its revival of Simon Boccanegra, so Trove Thursday steps up with a 1975 Berlin performnace of Verdi’s dark masterpiece with Ingvar Wixell, Gundula Janowitz, José van Dam and Bruno Prevedi.
If you hit the jackpot
On this day in 1963, Liza Minnelli, age 17, made her off-Broadway debut in a revival of Best Foot Forward.
Nixon in China
Making history at the Met with John Adams and Peter Sellars.
From a social distance
Naturally the top ten posts on parterre box for the month of March focused on the encroaching menace of COVID-19.
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 Frau ohne Schatten
A spectacular production of Richard Strauss‘s enigmatic masterpiece from the Vienna State Opera.
This was Sebastian’s garden
There’s no way for any production of Suddenly Last Summer to completely avoid at least a whiff of camp.
Happy April 1!
This afternoon’s “Opera in Exile” features a live recording of Fedora with Franco Corelli and Maria Callas.
Il barbiere di Siviglia
From the first season of Live in HD, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez and Peter Mattei star.
L’elisir d’amore
More repertoire from the Vienna State Opera.
Dialogues des Carmélites
Last season’s stunning Met revival of the Poulenc classic.
The Tsar’s Bride
Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s eerie production of the Rimsky-Korsakov romance is performed by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
Sexy and sinewy
Having just watched and written about the famous Actors Studio Three Sisters, it also feels right to turn now to The Cherry Orchard—Chekhov’s final play—in a production from the BBC.
Time is very kind to her
On this day in 1892, Adelina Patti sang her first and only performance of La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Tannhäuser
Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung, Johan Botha, Peter Mattei and Gunther Groissböck star in Wagner’s romantic opera.
Don Giovanni
Ivo van Hove‘s production of the Mozart opera, as seen at the Opéra national de Paris.
Flop of steel
On this day in 1966 the musical It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman opened at the Alvin Theatre.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Annette Dasch, Johan Botha and Michael Volle, conducted by James Levine headline this performance from 2014.
A problem like Maria
To opera denizens, Terrence McNally is probably best known for Master Class, a fictionalized account of Maria Callas’s 1970s Juilliard master classes, which was a surprise hit on Broadway in the 1990s.
