Take me out to the ball game
On this day in 1933 Richard Strauss’ Arabella premiered in Dresden.
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Sunset, Sunrise
This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson from breast cancer.
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).
We’ll have a gay old time
Born on this day in 1685 composer John Gay.
Knee deep in flowers we’ll stray
On this day in 1968 “Tip-Toe Thru’ The Tulips With Me” sung by Tiny Tim peaked at #17.
Après lui le déluge
On this day in 1841 Adophe Adam‘s ballet Giselle premiered in Paris.
No saints in two acts
The cast of Wiener Staatsoper’s first-ever performance of Lulu in 1968 reads like a Who’s Who of then-contemporary Austro-German opera: the 28-year-old Anja Silja, Martha Mödl, Waldemar Kmentt, Hans Hotter, Hilde Konetzni, Manfred Jungwirth, Heinz Zednik, and Karl Böhm presiding over a production by Otto Schenk.
Oil, be seeing you
>Today at noon from the Bayerische Staatsoper, a live telecast of the premiere of Halévy’s La Juive.
Imagined possibilities
The opera Patience and Sarah is a fantastic example of radical creativity.
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!
Inside Ott
Happy 29th birthday baritone Jarrett Ott.
And boy were her arms tired
“15 Classical Musicians Who Are Out and Proud”
Fully committed
“Deborah Voigt, whose commitments have increased with her new position as a member of the full-time faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.”
Single entendre
n this day in 1970 the movie Myra Breckinridge premiered.
Rolling on the river
Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas at NYCO charts the emotional trajectory of seven characters aboard a ship called the El Dorado.
Sigh no more
Trove Thursday” presents Béatrice et Bénédict in a 2009 performance featuring Joyce DiDonato and Charles Workman and conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
Choreography is writing on your feet
Born on this day in 1927 dancer and choreographer Bob Fosse.
Citizen journalist
Happy birthday to critic Anne Midgette.
Cruise, control
Cincinnati Opera presented the world premiere Fellow Travelers Friday and I’m here to tell you that not only does the opera have legs, it has balls.
Chat: Pikovaya dama
Parterre fave Stefan Herheim returns to Dutch National Opera to direct Pikovaya dama, in which the director attempts to reflect on the composer’s life, notably his hidden love for men.
Master suite
On this day in 1868 Richard Wagner‘s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg premiered in Munich.
Jersey shore
You don’t often hear the grand operas of Benjamin Britten on smaller stages.
Bleeding love
I have always wanted to see a production of Strauss’ Elektra that made my ears bleed.
