Nakonets! Ruka zavershena yeshche raz!
Now this is a piece of (imaginary) casting so obvious you have to wonder if it hasn’t already happened and we missed it.
Recent Stories
Questel for fire
On this day in 1930 Betty Boop made her film debut in Dizzy Dishes, created by Max Fleischer.
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!
You’ve got to taste all the fruit
The current iteration of that altogether necessary resource the Met Future Wiki currently lists a repertoire of 32(!) programs intended for the Met’s 2017-2018 season, which clearly is absurd.
Tucker everlasting
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala promises (note, promises) a particularly glittery roster this year.
Prater song
It will be no surprise that your alte Jungfer (pictured) is particularly fond of the music of Richard Strauss.
Sanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results
On this day in 1876 Thomas Edison (not pictured) patented the mimeograph.
I spy
Born on this day in 1876 dancer and spy Margaretha Geertruida “Margreet” Zelle MacLeod aka Mata Hari (not pictured).
Technicolor Tessie
Born on this day in 1911 actress and producer Lucille Ball.
I’m an ordinary woman
On this day in 1924 the New York Daily News debuted the comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray.
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).
With honor
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with an unexpected heroine: the electrifying Julia Varady, seduced and abandoned by the suavely ardent Giacomo Aragall.
Turban renewal
Legends of a certain age Jessye Norman and Madame (pictured, left to right) announce a new joint venture.
Entrusted
Happy 55th birthday President Barack Obama.
Profiled, covered, revealed, reported
On this day in 1943 Martin Vale‘s melodrama The Two Mrs. Carrolls opened on Broadway at the Booth Theatre.
Wer ein solches Weib errungen
Opera at Caramoor rallied Sunday afternoon with an admirable if erratic performance of Fidelio which was especially memorable for South African soprano Elza van den Heever’s thrilling first-ever Leonore.
Silver lies hidden in the core of dreams
Happy 79th birthday soprano Gundula Janowitz.
To each word a warbling note
“What fools these mortals be!”
It’s about this whale
>Born on this day in 1819 writer Herman Melville.
It doesn’t cost you anything to dream
Born on this day in 1887 composer Sigmund Romberg.
A free soul
“Trove Thursday” presents Beethoven’s Leonore, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf .
Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit
On this day in 1882 Wagner’s Parsifal premiered in Bayreuth.
Chat: Bayreuth Festival
Chat about live broadcasts from this year’s Bayreuth Festival.
Going Hollywood
The Hollywood Bowl is truly the preeminent musical venue in Los Angeles.
