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I was born to do this
On this say in 1429 Joan of Arc arrived at the seige of Orleans.
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!
Number one with a bullet
“Trove Thursday” presents Jonas Kaufmann‘s only performance (thus far) of Max in Weber’s Der Freischütz.
Just be sure to spell my name wrong
On this day in 1965 Barbra Streisand starred in My Name is Barbra on CBS.
No luck, only the will to gain power!
On this day in 1922 Fritz Lang‘s film Dr Mabuse, der Spieler premiered in Berlin.
Dark of the moon
Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from the Met’s Norma scheduled for opening night 2017
Deep talks, long walks, telephone calls
On this day in 1970 Company opened at the Alvin Theatre to run 690 performances.
Chat: La bohème
Welcome, cher public, to the real-time chat for tonight’s Met broadcast of La boheme, starting at 7:25 PM.
Site unseen
Giuseppe Verdi was so unhappy with the first production of his Giovanna d’Arco at La Scala in 1845 that he swore an oath to himself that he would never entrust that theatre with a prima again.
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).
Screen queen
This season’s Met Donizetti Tudor Trilogy concluded with Roberto Devereux, given its penultimate performance by HD transmission Saturday, April 16. It is good to see these works finally given here; they are too important, too crucial a part of the operatic repertory to have been ignored for as long as they have.
Cold Turkey
The no-star, slapstick revival of John Dexter’s 37-year-old production of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail that opened Friday night proved James Levine’s tenure as Music Director of the Met will end in two weeks with neither a whimper nor a bang.
Four conversations are three too many
Which diva gets to sing “I hope you die! I hope you die soon! I’ll be waiting for you to die!”
What does a woman want?
On this day in 1926 Puccini’s opera Turandot premiered in Milan.
For me, the safest place is out on a limb
Happy 82nd birthday actress/author Shirley MacLaine.
Chat: Otello
Welcome, cher public, to the real-time chat (pictured) for this afternoon’s Met broadcast of Otello, starting at 1:00 PM.
The song of a heart that’s free
On this day in 2005 the first video was uploaded to YouTube.com.
Chat: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Welcome, cher public, to the real-time chat (pictured) for this evening’s Met broadcast of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, starting at 7:25 PM.
A free soul
To be honest, I have never seen anything quite like Matthias Goerne in recital. He seemed so wonderfully free.
O vagabonda stella d’Oriente
Happy 81st birthday mezzo-soprano Fiorenza Cossotto.
Il giocondo
With six leads in Gioconda, you can reliably hope that three or four will be worth listening to, or why would they have revived the opera?
Isn’t it romantic?
“Trove Thursday” salutes the Czech soprano Gabriela Benacková with a rare broadcast of Robert Schumann’s only opera Genoveva in which she sings the title role.
Only a day away
On this day in 1977 the Strouse and Charnin musical Annie opened at the Alvin Theater, to run for 2,377 performances.
