The perfect match
If only she’d been able to sing more than 10 minutes of Bjork’s music!
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The grand manner
Born on this day in 1927 soprano Régine Crespin.
Le nozze di Figaro
Believe it or not, it’s the final Nozze of the Met’s 2019-2020 season.
After the parade
Dolly definitely did not have me at Hello!
Beautiful ghost
Born on this day in 1930 soprano and film “ghost” singer Marni Nixon.
Happy birthday Christine Ebersole!
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPdmz55VNOM The actress and songstress is 67 today! Born on this day in 1907 librettist and poet W H Auden. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh41PeFJI7o
Iconography
“American soprano Renée Fleming, one of the most beloved and celebrated singers of our time, is donating her personal archives to Juilliard, her alma mater.”
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!
A new meadow to wander in
Over the past two decades, the understatedly beguiling Sasha Cooke has inched chronologically inwards in her subtle conquest of swathes of mezzo concert repertoire.
Love, loss, and what I sang
Sunday is Handel’s 335th birthday, an event Trove Thursday celebrates with Rodelinda, Regina de’Longobardi, one of the composer’s most popular works.
A fine day for a ‘Parade’
On this day in 1981 the Metropolitan Opera premiered triple bill of Satie’s Parade, Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges.
Love sex magic
By an astounding coincidence, on Monday night Handel’s third and fourth extant operas were being performed simultaneously across the street from each other at Lincoln Center.
Favorite things
Donizetti’s La Favorite remains a relative rarity in the repertoire, especially in the original French version.
Star, flaming
On this day in 1967 soprano Lucia Popp made her Met debut as the Queen of the Night.
Crowning glory
Born on this day in 1926 mezzo-soprano Rita Gorr.
All out of love
The success of Porgy and Bess at the Met forced bass-baritone Eric Owens, the newly installed director of vocal studies at the Curtis Institute, to cancel a long-planned afternoon recital at the school on February 16.
Happy Presidents Day!
A day dedicated to celebrating all U.S. presidents, past and present.
A delicate balance
Saturday’s performance of Così fan tutte demonstrated that even the cool, acerbic wit of Mozart’s most controversial comedy can warm our hearts in these icy winter months.
Dissolute
On this day in 1966 Metropolitan Opera debut of tenor Alfredo Kraus as the Duke of Mantua.
Manon
A performance from Fall 2019 featuring Lisette Oropesa and Michael Fabiano.
I’ve always been lucky
On this day in 1939, Lillian Hellman‘s play The Little Foxes opened at the National Theatre, providing actress Tallulah Bankhead with perhaps her greatest vehicle.
All is full of Renée
Happy 61st birthday to soprano, director, consultant and noted Björk interpreter Renée Fleming.
