Nothing makes me feel better than the 1961 performance of Turandot
The old Nilsson/Corelli radio checks from the 1960s are a reminder that what this opera needs are VOICES.
By Ivy Lin
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Recent Stories
Ain’t no mountain high enough
A new production of La sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera is musically charming if dramatically confounding.
Seeing double
Jonas Kaufmann has a new lieder album called Doppelgänger, but the contents of the album vary depending on how you purchase it.
Nothing makes me feel better than Roberta Peters in Die Zauberflöte
Other queens have been richer of voice or more dramatically compelling, but none I have ever heard succeeds in sounding something other than human.
By Jon Taylor/Armerjacquino
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Broadcast
La bohème / Dallas Opera
Bekhzod Davronov, Sylvia D’Eramo, Takaoki Onishi, and Emily Pogorelc lead a performance recorded last spring in Dallas
Streamed October 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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La sonnambula / Metropolitan Opera
A live opening night broadcast from New York starring Nadine Sierra and Xabier Anduaga
Streamed October 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Only vaulting ambition
Macbeth at the Festival Verdi in Parma aims big — on a small scale
Nothing makes me feel better than Conchita Supervia
Conchita Supervia (1895-1936), Spanish mezzo, never fails to lift my spirits, in practically everything she sang.
By Lisa Hirsch
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Broadcast
The Bartered Bride / Wiener Staatsoper
A live broadcast of Smetana's opera featuring Pavol Breslik and Slávka Zámečníková
Streamed October 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Broadcast
Semele / Royal Ballet and Opera
Ben Bliss and Pretty Yende lead a performance recorded last spring in London
Streamed October 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The 500 Fingers of Dr. H
Surely you agree that piano concerti are inherently political.
Moor is more
A pair of Otellos – in Madrid and Parma – is a study in contrasts.
Nothing makes me feel better than Tosca
Suck it, Joseph Kerman: Puccini’s “Shabby Little Shocker” has outlived you and will probably bury us all.
By Peter Russell
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Broadcast
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay / Metropolitan Opera
A live broadcast from New York
Streamed October 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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What belongs to us
Kevin Ng sits down with PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist and critic Garth Greenwell to talk about sex, queerness, and the “promise of opera.”
Nothing makes me feel better than Grisélidis
From an early age I knew I should have been French.
By Belfagor
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Streamed September 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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It all began tonight
West Side Story opened LA Opera’s 40th anniversary season with fury and flair
Folle ebbrezza!
Today’s Grand Tier Grab Bag features a snippet from Carolina López Moreno and Antonio Pappano‘s recent Rondine in London.
Broadcast
The Cunning Little Vixen / Gran Teatre del Liceu
Peter Mattei and Elena Tsallagova lead a live broadcast from Barcelola
Streamed September 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Storybored
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was, somehow, a fun night at the opera—just not one that felt specifically operatic.
Next season I’m excited for Bellini operas at the Met
We will have two Bellinis in new productions, with the best possible casts that can be assembled.
By Last Castrato
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Broadcast
Tosca / Wiener Staatsoper
Elena Stikhina, Jonathan Tetelman, and Ludovic Tézier star in a live broadcast from Vienna
Streamed September 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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