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Chat: Roméo et Juliette
Start your New Year’s Eve out right with a nice passionate chat on the subject of Roméo et Juliette.
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).
Chat: L’Italiana in Algeri
Today’s matinee broadcast features a Met performance from earlier in the season. Chat about it here beginning at 1:00 PM.
Vamp until ready
Born on this day in 1894 actress Pola Negri.
As though tiny fish are swimming in your veins
On this day in 1954 the Harold Arlen–Truman Capote musical House of Flowers opened on Broadway.
She knows the routine
Happy 80th birthday actress Mary Tyler Moore.
Ja, sah er Baden ahn der Ruf
La Cieca’s nomination for Song of the Year 2016: an elaborate but hideously tasteless unintentional joke.
Balls
“We do not go to opera to see stories similar to those we would see in movies.”
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!
Fifty shades of Piotr
Happy 50th birthday tenor Piotr Beczala.
Come to the unstable
Let’s celebrate the coming of 2017 with a peek at Elsa Lanchester’s cabaret act consisting of bawdy Cockney songs.
Pasta, Pasta, trop’oltre vai
On this day in 1830 Donizetti’s Anna Bolena premiered in Milan.
Chat: Hansel and Gretel
Welcome, parterrians, to your Christmas Eve chat beginning at 1:00 PM.
“I never travel without my parterre box”
On this night in 1951 Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors premiered on television.
There arose such a clatter
With Christmas Eve 2016 falling on a Saturday, the Met offers contrasting orchestral splendors at noon and 6 p.m.
Evergreen
Happy 70th birthday soprano Edita Gruberova (with music for the holidays.)
Ed Rosen
Legendary opera fan and producer of opera recordings Ed Rosen has died.
Inspiration is an awakening
Born on this day in 1858 composer Giacomo Puccini.
All she wants to do do do is dance
On this day in 1921 Jerome Kern’s Sally starring Marilyn Miller was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld on Broadway.
Brevity is the soul of wit
Tonight’s chat features the enshortened English language version of The Magic Flute the Met has put forth as their annual Christmas entertainment for the kiddies.
Mahlerei
strong>Christian Gerhaher does not appear at first to sing but rather to speak on pitches, telling stories, explaining words by lingering on them or biting them off short.
