Ptolemy about it
Chris’s Cache presents a performance with New York prodigal son Jakub Józef Orliński in a signature role
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A favorite Wagner performance from Niel Rishoi
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.
By Niel Rishoi
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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).
Suor Angelica
Antonio Pappano conducts a performance live from the BBC Proms
Jester to me
Rigoletto at The Santa Fe Opera is a near miss.
A favorite Wagner performance from Roger Pines
I’d never heard Götterdämmerung in a live performance until 1985 at The Dallas Opera. OMG, so long ago!
By Roger Pines
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If you’re cold, they’re cold
La bohème at The Santa Fe Opera feels warmed over in more ways than one.
The Turn of the Screw
Jacquelyn Stucker leads a performance recorded last month in Santa Fe
A favorite Wagner performance from Mister Snow
It took me a while to “warm up” to Wagner.
By Mister Snow
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A favorite Wagner performance from Nick Scholl
Well, I had a favorite—Sabine Kalter. But 15 years later, I changed my mind. It was Sabine Kalter.
Rigoletto
Quinn Kelsey, René Barbera, and Lisette Oropesa star in a performance recorded in Los Angeles this spring.
Maria Stuarda
A performance recorded earlier this month in Salzburg with Lisette Oropesa and Kate Lindsey
A favorite Wagner performance from Dr. Hodel
Régine Crespin singing the Wesendonck Lieder is the most beautiful Wagner singing I’ve ever heard.
By Dr. Hodel
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Sing out, Louise
Christof Loy‘s Louise in Aix-en-Provence scratches at the urban– and operatic– unconscious
A favorite Wagner performance from Remko Jas
All of the Teatro Colón live opera recordings conducted by Fritz Busch are special, but his 1936 Parsifal is my favorite.
By Remko Jas
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Harping on it
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
A favorite Wagner performance from CKurwenal
Dame Gwyneth Jones as Brünnhilde pretty much started it all for me.
By CKurwenal
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A matinée, a Pinto play
Perhaps a piece of Mahler’s? For Wagner Month, Chris’s Cache offers the unexpected collaboration Die drei Pintos, started by Wagner-predecessor Carl Maria von Weber and completed by one of Wagner’s followers, Gustav Mahler
¡Sí, se puede!
The world premiere of Dolores and Charpentier‘s David and Jonathan bring the heat to West Edge Opera’s 2025 Festival.
Cross my heart and hope to die
Wolf Trap Opera’s stirring production of Dialogues des Carmélites was a welcome respite from a brutally hot and humid DC summer.
L’italiana in Algeri
Daniela Barcellona leads a live broadcast from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
A favorite Wagner performance from fletcher
Júlia Várady‘s smoldering, almost feral Sieglinde from the Sawallisch/Lehnhoff Ring, remains my favorite.
By fletcher
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Rigoletto
A performance recorded last month at The Santa Fe Opera starring Michael Chioldi
Shadows of a doubt
R.B. Schlather‘s shadowy production with Heartbeat Opera at the Williamstown Theatre Festival proves that Vanessa might be coming into its own at last