Fidelio
Lise Davidsen and Jonas Kaufmann headline this new production from Covent Garden.
Lise Davidsen and Jonas Kaufmann headline this new production from Covent Garden.
Join the gang at parterre box to watch the world end tonight.
A performance from the Vienna State Opera featuring Carlos Álvarez, Dorothea Röschmann and Adam Plachetka.
Born on this day in 1899 film diva Gloria Swanson.
The third segment of Der Ring des Nibelungen takes to the interwebs tonight.
From the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Asmik Grigorian stars as Cio-Cio-San.
One Met casualty this spring is Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda so Trove Thursday fills in with a triple-header.
On this day in 1964 the Jule Styne–Bob Merrill musical Funny Girl opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, to run 1,348 performances.
The second part of the Ring as documented at the Met in 2011.
Mascagni’s bizarre japonaiserie opera features Sonya Yoncheva.
Revisit our old friend The Machine from the Met’s early teens Ring cycle, beginning tonight with Das Rheingold.
My introduction to the work was the Angel LP from 1964 with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and George Szell… and yes, I’m aware that it’s a performance that tends to divide rooms.
A midcentury Met-adjacent cast belts out Ponchielli.
Born on this day in 1808 soprano Maria Malibran.
Wagner’s music drama in the Met’s 2016 production.
When La Cieca reached out asking for content, I resurrected a hoary standby—the vocal ID quiz.
This afternoon, a 2019 Puccini performance featuring Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala and Thomas Hampson.
What we see here from Strasberg is frustratingly literal and drably conventional—it looks to me like he’s channeling a lot of received wisdom about how Chekhov should be staged and bringing almost nothing of his own to the process.
On this day in 1977 soprano Ileana Cotrubas made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mimì.
Another classic Met Live in HD performance, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
A 1983 concert performance at Carnegie Hall with June Anderson, Marilyn Horne and Samuel Ramey; Henry Lewis conducting.
Today is Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday, and it’s not going as planned.
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