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Chris’s Cache celebrates Karita Mattila, one of its favorite singers, in a special double-bill featuring the soprano performing Janáček, one of her signature composers.
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Peter’s arabian nights
The moral stench seeps through Peter Gelb‘s decision to partner with the Saudi government, but what new sources of funding for the Met don’t have red flags?
Next season I’m excited for Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Barrie Kosky directs Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Sickos: “Yes… ha ha ha YES!”
By Ben Miller
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Vengo a salvarti!
This week, Parterre Box features summer Einspringerin Marigona Qerkezi in some different Verdi fare.
Next season I’m excited for Arabella and The Monkey King
In a world of guilty pleasures, Arabella is mine.
By Tom Cannon Jr.
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Next season I’m excited for Eugene Onegin
I’d love to have a better answer than ‘movie star directs opera’, but I’m curious to see what Ralph Fiennes does with Eugene Onegin in Paris.
By Carmen Paddock
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Broadcast
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District / BBC Proms
John Storgårds conducts a live performance from the BBC Proms featuring Amanda Majeski
Streamed September 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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My soul is eager for this kind of pain
Ross Wassermann tracks the development of “Che farò senza Euridice?” — and “J’ai perdu mon Eurydice” — for this month’s Perspectives on an Aria
Next season I’m excited for Les pêcheurs de perles
This season, I’m looking forward to Washington Concert Opera’s (WCO) production of Georges Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles on 14 March 2026.
By Andrew Lokay
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Broadcast
Orfeo / Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht
A live broadcast from Utrecht featuring La Fonte Musica
Streamed August 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A favorite Wagner performance from Ivy Lin
So many Frida Leider clips to choose from, but I’ll pick this one because it is so different from what we might think of as the “typical” Wagnerian dramatic soprano.
By Ivy Lin
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Streamed August 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Broadcast
Zaide oder der Weg des Lichts / Salzburg Festival
A live broadcast of several Mozart works from the Salzburg
Streamed August 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A favorite Wagner performance from Le Petit Yniold
Nowhere are the contradictions between Wagner’s small-mindedness, his meanness of spirit, and his human insight on clearer display than in Hans Sachs monologue Wahn, Wahn überall Wahn in the third Act of Mesitersinger.
By Le Petit Yniold
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Da tempeste
My recollections of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in Louisiana twenty years ago today, come with a pair of odd bookends: it starts with Verdi’s Don Carlo and ends with Puccini’s Il trittico.
A favorite Wagner performance from Darby Fegan
The 1966 Bayreuth Festival production of Tristan and Isolde, conducted by Karl Böhm provides Nilsson with the cast she truly deserved, including Wolfgang Windgassen, Christa Ludwig, Martti Talvela, and Eberhard Waechter.
By Darby Fegan
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What becomes the legends most?
Wagner month at Parterre Box concludes in grand and explosive style: octogenarian Hanna Schwarz and sexagenarian Karita Mattila in crucial moments from Das Rheingold and Lohengrin.
Broadcast
Le nozze di Figaro / BBC Proms
This summer's Glyndebourne cast in a live broadcast from the BBC Proms
Streamed August 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Drink me
Chris’s Cache offers Nadine Sierra and Xabier Anduaga, the stars of the upcoming production of La sonnambula, in a performance of another favorite bel canto opera
A favorite Wagner performance from Moe Rear
Die Walküre Met 12/6/1941- Helen Traubel, Astrid Varnay (debut), Kerstin Thorborg, Lauritz Melchior, Friedrich Schorr, Alexander Kipnis, cond. Erich Leinsdorf
By Moe Rear
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A favorite Wagner performance from Tim Meijers
Eva Maria Westbroek in her prime, in a role in which I find her unsurpassed among current singers.
By Tim Meijers
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Broadcast
La traviata / Dallas Opera
A performance recorded in Dallas last year featuring Yaritza Véliz and Javier Camarena
Streamed August 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Streamed August 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Marriage is what brings us together today
Le nozze di Figaro in Santa Fe is a light and kindly revival while The Turn of the Screw is crisp and atmospheric