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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.
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).
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.
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.
Le nozze di Figaro
Amanda Woodbury jumps in as the Countess in tonight’s broadcast.