Boris Godunov
Mussorgsky’s original 1868/69 version, as performed by the Bayerische Staatsoper.
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.
Starring Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna, as transmitted live from the Met on January 10, 2009.
In operatic pathology, diseases are endowed with preposterous mythological properties: they are both an emblem of desire and the punishment for desire. They are crime, confessional, and executioner all rolled into one.
With most of us dug in for the duration, there’s no better time to tuck into a CD box set of neglected treasures. Not that I needed an excuse, mind you.
From the summer of 2018, Rubinstein’s opera performed at Bard SummerScape.
Bus Stop deals with uncomfortable questions of sex and longing, and it also examines a desire for human connection that often comes up short.
Born on this day in 1938 actress Claudia Cardinale.
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