All is full of Renée
Happy 61st birthday to soprano, director, consultant and noted Björk interpreter Renée Fleming.
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The Met’s 2020-2021 season
New productions of Aida, Die Zauberflöte, and Don Giovanni and Met premieres of The Fiery Angel and Dead Man Walking headline the Metropolitan Opera’s 2020–21 season.
In memoriam Mirella Freni
Today’s Trove Thursday was originally scheduled for February 27, which would have been Mirella Freni’s 85th birthday, but instead we remember today the beloved soprano who passed away this past weekend in Puccini.
Come rain or come shine
Happy 100th anniversary of the birth of classical and pop diva Eileen Farrell!
Under the covers
Winter weather has taken a toll on the cast of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s revival of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
If love is out of the question
Live video of Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov in the riddle scene from Turandot, as seen and heard recently in Munich.
Where all the muses work together
Born on this day in 1923 director and designer Franco Zeffirelli.
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).
Le nozze di Figaro
Amanda Woodbury jumps in as the Countess in tonight’s broadcast.
“I love the fast lane”
Born on this day in 1919 actress, businesswoman, singer and socialite Eva Gabor.
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!
This woman is dangerous
Renée Fleming—stylish dame with a stylish name—who lived by jungle law in a big city and clawed her way to where the money was…
Speak loudly
Do we do what we have to do? Or do we have to do what we do?
“Operatic whitewashing”
On the day of the Super Bowl, I attended a near-sold-out screening of the Paris Opéra’s recent production of Rameau’s 1735 opéra-ballet Les Indes galantes at New York’s Alliance Française.
Long live the Queen!
Happy 93rd birthday to soprano Leontyne Price.
Mirella Freni 1935-2020
The beloved lyric soprano has died, according to press reports.
She was not unprepared
On this day in 1974 soprano Kiri te Kanawa made an emergency Met debut as Desdemona (and her broadcast debut.)
Constant surveillance
It’s 2020, Ivo’s the new Ethel Merman, and I caught a preview of his fourth Broadway show and first Broadway musical, West Side Story.
La Damnation de Faust
One final hearing of the Berlioz this afternoon.
What good is the secret to you?
Born on this day in 1888 actress Dame Edith Evans.
Keep the Rome fires burning
Handel’s biting Agrippina finally arrived at the Metropolitan Opera Thursday evening 310 years after its Venetian premiere.
Better than the sum of its parts
Is there any opera more bullet-proof than Le Nozze di Figaro?
Judith
The Bayerische Staatsoper offers an all-Bartok program called Judith this afternoon.
Once Moore with feeling
On this day in 1928 soprano Grace Moore made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mimi.
