Himself when young
This week features Roger Norrington leading a December 2006 performance of Berlioz/ Enfance du Christ from Berlin
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The impresaria
Born on this day in 1900 soprano and Glyndebourne founder Audrey Mildmay.
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).
His puzzler was sore
On this day in 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas, based on the story by Dr. Seuss, aired for the first time on CBS.
There’s no place like dome
On this day in 1965 the Astrodome opened.
Chat: Salome
Welcome to La Casa della Cieca for the matinee of Salome starting at the Met at 1:00 pm on Saturday, cher public. Please be sure to read the notice after the jump.
But you don’t really care for music, Du ja?
“Hallelujah” will kick off this year’s annual holiday concert in The Imperial City, presumably sung by the event’s headliners, Vesselina Kasarova and Angela Denoke.
Wave theory
Scribe/saxophonist Will Robin (not pictured) surveys some of the many women who are making opera these days.
I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise
Born on this day in 1899 composer, playwright and actor Noel Coward.
Diva, unfiltered
How many books have been published about Anna Maria Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulou Meneghini Callas, great operatic goddess of the dark arts?
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!
Trifecta of horror
Jackie Evancho! Andrea Bocelli! Donald Trump! I mean, what else do you want, a Zuni fetish doll eviscerating Karen Black?
I had a vision of love
On this day in 1918 Puccini’s Il Trittico premiered at the Metropolitan Opera.
Wo ist Salome?
Kirsten Chambers will make her Met debut in the title role of this evening’s performance of Strauss’s Salome, replacing Patricia Racette, who is ill.
Noblesse her heart
“Being a wife, being a mother, entertaining in the summer, doing the pheasant shoots in the winter.”
Conversion narrative
Blood-and-guts singing is the reason to see Nabucco at the Metropolitan Opera this season.
Sulla tua testa vigili la mia benedizion
President-elect Donald Trump has approached crooner Andrea Bocelli to sing at his inauguration.
Drunk to me only with thine eyes
On this day in 1970, Neil Simon’s comedy The Gingerbread Lady opened at the Plymouth Theatre, to run 193 performances.
One can feel nostalgia for places one has never seen
Composer Lisa Bielawa’s Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser will feature world-renowned opera star Deborah Voigt singing “The Queen of Sweden.”
Will you tell me what it’s all for?
“Good God—an adult musical!”
Wearing of the green
On this day in 1964 filming began for the first Star Trek pilot “The Cage.”
Broadway baby
On this day in 1960 the Cy Coleman musical Wildcat opened on Broadway.
