Local tenor is a treat
The press release for the Royal Opera’s 2018-2019 season promises “world-renowned opera stars including Michael Fabiano, Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko and Eva Maria Westbroek among other treats.
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Spring awakening
Happy vernal equinox, today at 12:15 PM EDT.
BASTA: Witness for the persecution
“Have you seen the lawsuit yet?”
Down in the depths
If opera as a genre in justified in its claim to one particular story, history confirms that the Orpheus myth would be that story.
Yaas, queen!
Three Metropolitan Opera premieres on this date!
Broadcast: Les Vêpres siciliennes
Live from the Bayerische Staatsoper, a live video webcast of Les Vêpres siciliennes begins a 1:00 PM New York time.
MIsfit
On this day in 1977 Alban Berg‘s Lulu premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in the as-yet incomplete two act version.
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!
Broadcast: Elektra
The melee in Mycenae returns for listening and discussion starting at 1:00 PM!
Separated at paillette
Christopher Maltman’s “Liza with a Z” drag for the finale of Così fan tutte at the Met recalls another iconic diva of the opera’s 1960s setting.
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).
Demoiselle
On this day in 1951 soprano Victoria de los Angeles made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Marguerite in Faust.
The help
As Despina in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Così fan tutte, Kelli O’Hara injects much needed vitality into an otherwise lethargic evening.
Suit yourself
La Cieca just received a package of pdf files the sender says is a copy of James Levine‘s lawsuit against the Met.
Each in her style a Delilah reborn
Happy birthday to a brace of perennial divas: Christa Ludwig (pictured), age 90, and Teresa Berganza, age 83!
“But what about black heel marks?”
James Levine is both a floor wax and a dessert topping!
Broadcast: Così fan tutte
That’s how they’re going to do it tonight, starting at 7:25 PM.
Hello, Bart!
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Alexandrina in Alexandria
Giulio Cesare in Egitto featuring the artist formerly known as Alexandrina Pendatchanska in the title role.
Age: still young
Two very different Broadway musical dramas opened on this date: Menotti’s The Consul in 1950 and Lerner and Lowe’s My Fair Lady in 1956.
Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
“The background chorus characters in the Broadway show I saw tonight unobtrusively included a gay couple, and jaded though I sometimes am I think that’s really neat.”
Every day a little death
Neumeier adapted the story close to home, making Orpheus a choreographer and his wife a star ballerina.
On this day of victory
On this day in 1847 Verdi’s Macbeth premiered at the Teatro della Pergola in Firenze.
Love me or leaf me
On this day in 1997 Robert Carsen made his Met debut with a new production of Eugene Onegin.
