“Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration”
Happy Labor Day / Labour Day US and Canadian parterrians!
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For those about to frock
Says Jamie Barton: “It’s so important for me to stand up proudly as a bisexual woman.”
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).
Locker room talk
The Great Domingo Question loomed above all other topics in the sleepy month of August.
Song of passion
Happy 78th birthday soprano Julia Varady.
Broadcast: Semiramide
An integral performance recorded earlier this month at the Pesaro Festival.
Quel jour radieux!
On this day 190 years ago, Rossini’s Guillaume Tell premiered in Paris.
Every little thing she does is magic
Born on this day in 1922 operatic polymath Regina Resnik.
The Lady in the vanguard
“Trove Thursday” remembers the company’s very first Lady Macbeth via Leonie Rysanek’s NYC debut in a concert performance of Verdi’s Shakespeare masterpiece less than a year before her first Met appearance.
“No great inner event befalls those who summon it not”
Born on this day in 1862 playwright Maurice Maeterlinck.
Way down upon the Swan Knight river
On this day in 1850 Wagner’s Lohengrin premiered at the Staatskapelle Weimar.
Nè sul tuo regio sasso sperar soavi accenti
It’s time for Plácido Domingo to man up and withdraw from the Met’s 2019-2020 season.
Back down south
La Cieca is delighted to announce that friend of the box Jonathan Blalock has joined the Atlanta Opera as Individual Giving Officer.
Fire down below
Happy 70th birthday Canadian pop singer Irish mezzo-soprano Ann Murray.
“Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume”
On this day 1920 in the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect.
By Lenny means necessary
Born on this day in 1918 composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
Wien disposition
Following classic recordings documenting the work of Karl Böhm and Herbert von Karajan. Orfeo’s 150 Years Wiener Staatsoper box moves on to new releases that are seeing their first incarnation on an officially available disc.
Three sisters who are not sisters
Dell’ Arte Opera Ensemble’s “Scenes from the Tower” evening is devoted to three operas composed by women, and the metaphorical tower is women’s sequestration from the opera stage.
“We are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race”
Born on this day in 1945 gay liberation and AIDS activist, drag queen and transgender pioneer Marsha P. Johnson.
Fortunate sun
Bass Zachary James models his brand-new tattoo of the winged sun featured in the Philip Glass Akhnaten scenic design by Tom Pye.
Things go better without Koch
A multibillionaire right-winger—best remembered locally for plastering his name on the once-beloved New York State Theater at Lincoln Center—has died.
Wien to me
Orfeo’s 150 Years box chronologically documents some of the finest nights of live opera from the Wiener Staatsoper in the years following its restoration in 1955.
Frankly forty
Like an echo from the caves of Coccamaura, film, drag and cabaret legend Charles Busch came forth whilst Deirdre wept cool tears.
Sadko, but true
“Trove Thursday” escapes to an exotic place with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko.