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Fidelio / Wiener Staatsoper
A live radio broadcast from Vienna featuring Malin Byström and David Butt Philip.
Streamed December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Now I’m an old believer
Big voices overwhelm Claus Guth‘s toothless staging of Khovanshchina at the Berlin Staatsoper.
“Last Christmas” at the 2014 Christmas in Vienna concert
“Vesselina’s Chest Voice” is my new drag name.
By Kevin Ng
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Andrea Chénier / Metropolitan Opera
Daniele Rustioni conducts Giordano's melodrama live from New York
Streamed December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Sublime loneliness
Across three evenings at the 92nd Street Y, Konstantin Krimmel and Ammiel Bushakevitz traversed all of Schubert‘s major song cycles with stark intensity.
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Faust / Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Pene Pati sings the title role in a live broadcast from Amsterdam
Streamed December 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Joan Sutherland sings “Joy to the World”
Dear Joan with her trills and ornaments brings “Joy to the World” every holiday season. Wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.
By Moe Rear
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I do declare
This spring’s Talk of the Town is craving your operatic dominance and your submissions by January 15.
Follow your bliss
In recital for the Los Angeles Opera, tenor Ben Bliss makes the case for the next stage of his career.
Charlotte Margiono sings “Joseph, lieber Joseph mein”
Christmas kitsch is great fun, of course, but Christmas can be just as wonderful without it, as this great singer proves.
By Remko Jas
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Streamed December 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Carmen, again?
Gulfshore Opera’s vigorous production of Carmen answers a familiar question.
Psyché’d up
It would be difficult to find a better description for Ambroise Thomas’s newly-recovered Psyché, recently heard in a new recording from Palazzetto Bru Zane, than the one uttered by her suitors: “Charmante Psyché!”
Leontyne Price sings “Oh Come All Ye Faithful”
Christmas should be over the top, opulent, a little sad, utterly sincere, and ever so vulgar.
By Jon Dryden Taylor/Armerjacquino
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My sister’s keeper
Grand Tier Grab Bag highlights La Scala’s opening night prima donna Sara Jakubiak with an excerpt of her Chrysothemis recorded last year.
All the fine young cannibals
Offenbach‘s Robinson Crusoé is salvaged from obscurity.
Joan Sutherland sings “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
Auntie Joan goes the whole nine yards on this one and invigorates it to make it work in a way as no one else can.
By Les Camilles
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Mezzo in the dark
It is a physical pleasure to hear Kate Lindsey at close quarters.
Scenes from a revolution
“This isn’t an opera that touches on queer themes; it’s a bundle of queer themes tied up in an opera.”
Jamie Barton sings “Maria Wiegenlied”
Like Type 2 Diabetes, symptoms of YAS (Yuletide Aversion Syndrome) commonly creep up on gay men after manopause.
By Peter Russell
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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District / Teatro alla Scala
A live broadcast from Milan of Teatro alla Scala's traditional Sant'Ambrogio opening night starring Sara Jakubiak
Streamed December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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La bohème / Metropolitan Opera
Daniele Rustioni conducts the first Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinée Broadcast of the season live from New York
Streamed December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Věc Makropulos / Wiener Staatsoper
Marlis Petersen is the ageless Emilia Marty in a live video broadcast from Vienna
Streamed December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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