L’opera seria
Florian Leopold Gassmann‘s rare comedy live from Milan
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Moby-Dick
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer‘s whale of an opera live from New York
More people should listen to Lella Cuberli
One of the great Rossini sopranos of the 1980s and sadly under-recorded in that rep.
By PCally
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Mañana por la mañana
One might be surprised to not see the blusteringly charismatic Saioa Hernández mentioned amidst the litany of favorite under-appreciated sopranos. Then one hears what she’s been up to lately.
This magic moment
Look, for one of the most-staged operas in the repertoire, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte seems awfully difficult to stage.
More people should listen to Dorothy Kirsten
Reading Dorothy Kirsten‘s autobiography twice last year made me revisit her work anew.
By Niel Rishoi
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Haircut and paste
Back to Rameau again this week with Samson at the Opéra Comique, my third Rameau production in as little as three months, after Les Fêtes d’Hébé in the same house, and Castor et Pollux at the Palais Garnier.
More people should listen to Dorothy Maynor
I discovered this magical soprano when I was a teenager, and came across a mixed program RCA Victor LP recital.
By David Fox
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New world coming
This week, Chris’s Cache highlights Bernarda Fink and Inga Kalna in an opera by Johann Gottlieb Naumann
More people should listen to Maria Caniglia
Maria Caniglia sings with unabashed commitment and honesty. She sings as if the music was born with her.
By Scott Grunow
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Stimme der Ungehörten
All disciples of the box are reminded one final time to furnish operatic discussion material for the next quarter of The Talk of the Town
Violent delights
Some people were introduced to the art form listening to the Met’s NBC broadcasts on a glowing tube radio or watching acid-trip animated adaptations on the BBC or seeing Elmer Fudd sing, “Kill the Wabbit.” I came to opera through simulated drive-by shootings soundtracked by The Marriage of Figaro.
Iolanta
A live broadcast of Tchaikovsky‘s opera from Vienna starring Sonya Yoncheva
More people should listen to Aga Mikolaj
Aga Mikolaj (born Agnieszka Beata Mikolajczyk) sang Strauss and Mozart with a gorgeous, shimmering tone.
By Ben Miller
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More people should listen to Rosanna Carteri
Not exactly obscure, but she has such elegance and poise
By Kevin Ng
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Festen
Mark-Anthony Turnage‘s acclaimed new opera based on Thomas Vinterberg‘s film in a recent performance from Covent Garden.
L’enfant et les sortilèges and Les mamelles de Tirésias
Hilda Harris and Catherine Malfitano in an 1981 broadcast to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ravel‘s opera
More people should listen to Karolina Bengtsson
Karolina Bengtsson is just at the beginning – we are going to hear from her, I am quite sure…
By Daniel
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From the House of the Dead
Karina Canellakis conducts Janácek‘s final opera live from Amsterdam.
Blue Saturday
A grand concert from Angel Blue has Patrick Mack wondering, “where’s her crossover album?”
Unreleased cut
Recent rapturous musings about Huw Montague Rendall and curiosity about Aigul Akhmetshina‘s return to the Met as Rosina in May have prompted the box to share a recent sample of the pair in “Dunque io son.”
More people should listen to Karan Armstrong
Never saw her in anything, only on You Tube videos and in a few recordings.
By Windy City Operaman
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