Women beware women
Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now presented new works in which women were variously gang-raped, eviscerated and executed by firing squad.
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Faster, higher, stronger
Happy 66th birthday tenor Rockwell Blake.
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).
Musical theater of the absurd
It’s easy to see why Leonard Bernstein’s Candide was a flop when it premiered on Broadway.
Dirty dancing
The DVD of Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen‘s 2013 opera The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Theory of revolution
Jonas Kaufmann announced that he feels ready to return to the stage after calling in sick since last autumn
Kunstdiva
Happy 60th birthday soprano/mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier.
That is the explanation of the crime
anatomy theater, receiving its New York premiere Saturday night at this year’s Prototype Festival, is a conceptual exercise in which nothing, absolutely nothing is left to the imagination.
Ever ever ever
Happy 80th birthday songstress and diva Dame Shirley Bassey.
Sea, no evil
Breaking the Waves is not only a “real opera,” it is an immensely powerful work of music drama.
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!
Robbed blind
Which internationally famous but vocally shaky diva may soon find her career waning if her upcoming appearance in one of her signature roles gets nixed?
Chat: Nabucco
Listen and discuss, cher public, as the Met broadcasts Nabucco.
‘Mid pleasures and palaces
On this day in 1893 Hermann Sudermann‘s Heimat premiered in Berlin.
Comparisons are odious
One thing that is killing opera is the practice of critics’ comparing the singers they heard last night to dead or retired artists.
I used to think I needed a man to define myself
Born on this day in 1928 actress and model Capucine.
Suivez-moi dans le temple
2017 happily brings the return of Trove Thursday with a rare and enthralling live performance of Gluck’s Alceste featuring Jessye Norman.
“Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it”
Born on this day in 1863 theatre and opera producer Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky.
Together again for the first time
From Unnatural Acts of Opera, a duo concert with Shirley Verrett and Grace Bumbry at Carnegie Hall.
Pedal to the metal
Happy 80th birthday soprano/mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry.
And I pity any girl who isn’t she tonight
Soprano Pretty Yende (soon to be a Met Rosina) guests on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show at 11:35 this evening.
Stone soup
“A case of histronic personality disorder a deux.”
I come from old Hong Kong, but now I’m a Hollywood star
Born on this day in 1905 actress Anna May Wong.
Conspicuous consumption
A classic 1974 New York City Opera La traviata with Beverly Sills, John Stewart and Dominic Cossa conducted by Julius Rudel.
