Broadcast: Rigoletto
The Met’s season premiere of Evviva Las Vegas.
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Dream a little ‘Dream’
It may have taken 28 years to see Robert Carsen’s production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the U. S., but it was worth waiting for.
Put your Dukes up
“Bryan Hymel has withdrawn from upcoming performances as the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto, due to personal reasons,” says the Met’s press office.
Broadcast: La Gioconda
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Endless love
Happy 95th birthday director and designer Franco Zeffirelli.
General Elektra
Nina Stemme’s Elektra is familiar to me in three different incarnations.
Close ‘Call’
Director Casey Hushion attempts to spice up Call Me Madam in ways that make it feel more than ever like an out-of-touch relic.
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).
Lost in Thrace
Handel’s Radamisto returned to New York when Opera Lafayette movingly performed this early masterpiece.
Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?
Jakub Józef Orlinski as Harry Potter!
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!
Mage of all work
Utopia Opera is fond of the less well known branches of the Savoy repertory (as the company name suggests), and is currently (through next weekend) doing a job on an early and rare bird of the flock, The Sorcerer.
Nella bruna la costanza
On this day in 1966 soprano Pilar Lorengar made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Donna Elvira.
“Who I am is the best I can be”
A joyous 92nd birthday to Miss Mary Violet Leontyne Price.
Follow her lead
Barbara Hannigan‘s electrifying performance with the Juilliard Orchestra on Friday night proves that she is as much a force to be reckoned with on the podium as she is onstage.
Broadcast: Iolanta / Bluebeard’s Castle
The Met’s creepy double bill is broadcast this afternoon starting at 12:30 PM.
Exactly the kind of boy he had always wanted to be
UrbanArias’ recording of Paul’s Case is an antidote to the intellectual pretensions that regularly drag contemporary opera performance toward tediousness and boredom.
Love in the afternoon
On this day in 1974 soprano Kiri Te Kanawa made an “emergency” Met debut as Desdemona.
Can you ‘Fille’ the love tonight
La Fille du Régiment, Donizetti’s half-spoken ode to La France about a girl raised by a division of daddies, is at once infamous and beloved for the string of nine high C’s capping act one.
Maid in Manhattan
On this day in 1996 mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli made her Metropolitan Opera stage debut as Despina.
Broadcast: La Fille du régiment
The Donizetti comedy returns to the Met tonight starting at 7:30 PM.
This means war
Considering the size and the logistics for staging Les Troyens, every new production of Berlioz’s epic masterpiece is a special event.
Tales as old as time
The Paris Opera continued their 350th anniversary celebration January 26 with a brand new production of Alessandro Scarlatti’s 1707 oratorio Il Primo Omicidio ovvero Caino.
Halcyon days
“Trove Thursday” offers a broadcast of the French baroque tragédie en musique Alcyone by Marin Marais.
