Mad about the Boyar
“Trove Thursday” offers a belated 55th birthday nod to Dmitri Hvorostovsky with a blazing live performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride.
“Trove Thursday” offers a belated 55th birthday nod to Dmitri Hvorostovsky with a blazing live performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride.
Born on this day in 1945 Harris Glenn Milstead AKA “Divine.
For all you Carl Maria von Weber fans out there, here’s Günther Groissböck.
Riccardo Zandoni’s Il Grillo del Focolare is an opera after all.
Emma Thompson is winning rave reviews for her performance as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally‘s Master Class.
For her first CD in six years, Angela Gheorghiu has chosen Italian repertoire.
Born on this day in 1898 actress and singer Lotte Lenya.
James Levine has quietly been slotted into the spring reprise of the Met’s new Tosca.
Bass James Morris marks his 1,000th Met performance in tonight’s broadcast of Turandot.
On this day in 1965 the Burton Lane-Alan Jay Lerner musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever opened on Broadway.
“Heinrich, come on over for dinner! / We’ll be so glad to see you!”
Erin Wall was an elegant, warm, and sensitive Arabella.
How on Earth will these fictitious luminaries of turn-of-the-century Swedish society keep their clothes clean?
“Non faccio più opere: ho pochi anni da vivere non posso passare tempo a discutere con un idiota che offende la nostra cultura.”
Happy 55th birthday baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
Pulthunk Jordan de Souza leads a new production of Debussy’s opera directed by Barrie Kosky, a video from the Komische Oper Berlin, starting at noon EDT.
Happy 80th birthday actress Linda Lavin.
To hear and to discuss: Weber’s Oberon starring Jonas Kaufmann, this afternoon at 1:00 PM.
Born on this day in 1893 actress Lillian Gish.
From the perspective of current identity politics, Puccini’s Turandot is a disaster of epic proportions.
On this day in 54 Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (known as “Nero”) succeeded Claudius as Roman Emperor.
Opera Vlaanderen opened its 2017-18 season with a rare staging of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane.
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