As a frequent visitor of Parterre’s Jones Home (ah, the early internet!), I’d be remiss not to share this favorite clip of two queens maximizing their joint slay.
For me, Hans Hotter‘s interpretation of Wotan is a convincingly successful interpretation of this role.
Surprised that none of our favorite Wagner performances happen to come from Tannhaüser, Parterre Box turns to Russell Thomas to fill the gap
I’d long ago given up on my Goldilocks search for a “just right” complete Tristan und Isolde recording starring Jon Vickers, my hands-down tenor of choice.
Richard Lynn bravely asks what we’re hoping to get out of the continued Peter Gelb-bashing — and whether our expectations of him have ever been fair
The Santa Fe Opera’s fine first Die Walküre finds Wagner in America at a crossroads.
Chris’s Cache presents a performance with New York prodigal son Jakub Józef Orliński in a signature role
The complete RCA Furtwängler Tristan is actually my top favorite, but the Ponnelle staging in Bayreuth featuring René Kollo and Johanna Meier is my top sentimental favorite, because it was my first full Wagner performance.
Antonio Pappano conducts a performance live from the BBC Proms
Rigoletto at The Santa Fe Opera is a near miss.
I’d never heard Götterdämmerung in a live performance until 1985 at The Dallas Opera. OMG, so long ago!
La bohème at The Santa Fe Opera feels warmed over in more ways than one.
Jacquelyn Stucker leads a performance recorded last month in Santa Fe
It took me a while to “warm up” to Wagner.
Well, I had a favorite—Sabine Kalter. But 15 years later, I changed my mind. It was Sabine Kalter.
Quinn Kelsey, René Barbera, and Lisette Oropesa star in a performance recorded in Los Angeles this spring.
A performance recorded earlier this month in Salzburg with Lisette Oropesa and Kate Lindsey
Régine Crespin singing the Wesendonck Lieder is the most beautiful Wagner singing I’ve ever heard.
Christof Loy‘s Louise in Aix-en-Provence scratches at the urban– and operatic– unconscious
All of the Teatro Colón live opera recordings conducted by Fritz Busch are special, but his 1936 Parsifal is my favorite.
The start of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro provides a perfect opportunity to enjoy a bit of the breathtaking Vasilisa Berzhanskaya recorded there last summer
Dame Gwyneth Jones as Brünnhilde pretty much started it all for me.
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