Broadcast: Das Rheingold
Get your kicks on Siegfried-Wagner-Alee.
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Deep in my heart, dear
Born on this day in 1887 composer Sigmund Romberg.
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!
Princess in captivity
A first glimpse of Anna Netrebko‘s styling for her role debut as Aïda at Salzburg.
Consecrating
On this day in 1882 Wagner’s Parsifal premiered in Bayreuth.
Woman on the Vergy
“Trove Thursday” offers Gemma di Vergy with the lovely, largely now forgotten Adriana Maliponte in the title role.
Broadcast: Parsifal
We move on to Bayreuth’s revival of Parsifal.
Mostly Mozart in the Jungle
Tack on a little symphonic Beethoven and some particularly zany hosting patter from Bernadette Peters, and you start to lose focus, or at least some sense of, um, what matters mostly.
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).
Unbridled enthusiasm
“You see, Elaine, Dimitrij was a simple country boy, you might say a cockeyed optimist…”
“A. Netrebko Sings Oltrano”
Overhearing preparations for the Salzburg Aïda.
Wine coolers are the first thing, morals follow on
Skirting the leafy, patrician Berkshires of Western Mass, and flush with wine coolers and white people, pastoral Tanglewood doesn’t much resemble the dark Nibelung settings of Norse myth.
All about Eva
Happy 50th birthday soprano Anne Schwanewilms.
Broadcast: Tristan und Isolde
Today’s conversation piece from Bayreuth: a revival of Tristan und Isolde with Stephen Gould and Petra Lang conducted by Christian Thielemann.
Broadcast: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
The cher public are invited to hear and comment upon the opening performance of the 2017 Bayreuth Festspiele, featuring a new production of Meistersinger directed by Barrie Kosky. Broadcasts from various sources begin between 9:45 and 10:00 AM EDT. (These daytime Bayreuth listening parties continue into next week.)
Time remembered
Born on this day in 1894 soprano Yvonne Printemps.
Annals of gerontocracy
Placido Domingo, who, in 20 years of trying, has never yet got either the words or the rhythms right in the role of Siegmund, has been announced to conduct Die Walküre at Bayreuth next season.
Tree for the show
The late-mid 1730s were transitional years for Handel, to put it nicely.
Deine Divadienste will die Frau
I wish to introduce our younger Parterrians to the magical Martha Mödl to commemorate the opening of the Bayreuther Festspiele which opens tomorrow afternoon.
“Oatmeal tastes so good on its own, you don’t even need to add sugar”
Happy 49th birthday singer and actress Kristin Chenoweth.
Home girl
Happy 45th birthday soprano Anja Harteros.
Broadcast(s): Getting medieval
As if to usher in next week’s daily broadcasts from Bayreuth, this afternoon offers a choice between two Wagner operas: Lohengrin from the Vienna State Opera and Tannhäuser from Lyric Opera of Chicago.
