You’re soaking in it
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Life sentence
Janácek’s disconcerting commentary on youth and immortality received a full-throated performance.
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!
I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life
Born on this day in 1923 soprano Victoria de los Angeles.
Search for Tamara
The 2016 Richard Tucker Award recipient is Tamara Wilson.
The Minnesanger of Seville
Seville bills itself as the “City of 150 operas,” and celebrated this fact at the Exposition of 1992 by erecting a magnificent new opera house, the Teatro de la Maestranza, right beside the Plaza de Toros.
The lady is a camp
Verdi’s Macbeth gets true blood-and-guts treatment from Guillermo Sarabia and the legendary Marisa Galvany.
Parterrian makes international news
Dallas native Roger Kaiser, identified as the guy who sprinkled a mentor’s ashes in the pit of the Met yesterday (and all that came after) is a parterre commenter.
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).
Leave out the bitters
On this day in 1940 Panama Hattie opened at the 46th Street Theatre, to run 501 performances.
Powder keg
A source close to the Met says tonight’s L’italiana in Algeri has been canceled in the wake of an incident this afternoon when “somebody dumped an unknown white powder into the pit following act 3″ of Guillaume Tell.
Rock, star
The centerpiece of Janácek’s Jenufa was the performance of Karita Mattila as the murderous Kostelnicka.
The progress of a rake begins
On this day in 1787 Mozart’s Don Giovanni premiered in Prague.
Heart in darkness
>The Crypt Sessions, in collaboration with On Site Opera, presented the world premiere of Gregg Kallor’s The Tell-Tale Heart
Chat: Jenufa
If there’s anything the Kostelnicka likes, it’s having people talk about her.
Journey to the center of the mirth
From 2008, Unnatural Acts of Opera recalls 1988, when Rossini’s Il viaggo a Reims invaded the Wiener Staatoper.
Thin again at the far end
Happy 77th birthday actor, comedian, writer, and film producer John Cleese.
Singin’ in the reine
Stepping into the role of Dido will be American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham.
O que é que a Netrebko tem?
Anna Netrebko, headliner of Sunday’s Richard Tucker Gala, is now a Latin from Manhattan.
Nice day for a white pantsuit
Born on this day in 1947 Senator, Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton
The boy friend
On this day in 1995 Victor/Victoria opened at the Marquis Theatre, to play 734 performances.
Rooting for the underdoge
“Take a good deal of trouble with it, because it is a fine subject, delicate and full of pathos.”
