Alceste
La Fenice’s production of Gluck’s lesser-known original Italian version features soprano Carmela Remigio.
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Listen to my voice
Born on this day in 1921 tenor Franco Corelli.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
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.
History come to life
On this day in 1975 soprano Magda Olivero made her legendary Metropolitan Opera debut as Tosca.
Don Carlo
Intrigue in the Spanish court with Marina Poplavskaya, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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.