While Godfather III is definitely the weakest movie in the eponymous trilogy, partly due to a miscasting of Mary Corleone, I have nothing but praise for the wonderful, almost inspirational use of Cavalleria Rusticana in the finale of the movie.
The Met’s mostly successful revivals of The Queen of Spades and La bohème showcase the returns of Sonya Yoncheva and Corinne Winters
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).
The Met doesn’t have the monopoly on Salome this spring — look no further than Catapult Opera’s San Giovanni Battista which opens in Brooklyn next month.
Henze‘s opera in a live broadcast from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
The Talented Mr. Ripley x Eugene Onegin.
Rachel Willis-Sorensen is the winner of the 2025 Beverly Sills Award, per the Met press office
An innovative score and fluid production by Denyce Graves-Montgomery are highlights of Virginia Opera’s production of Loving v. Virginia
Seven Deadly Sins, Mahagonny Singspiel, and The Songs of Happy End live from Milan
Cameron Kelsall reports on a transcendent Jenufa from the Cleveland Orchestra
Wagner is used as incidental music or background to probably more films than any other operatic composer.
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at the Kennedy Center: not a poorly made opera, but so relentlessly mid.
Asmik Grigorian’s scorching turn in Il trittico in Paris has Nigel Wilkinson wondering, ‘what is it that makes Americans so weepy?’
Some of you may remember the 1987 thriller Someone to Watch Over Me.
Lydia Steier‘s production in a live video stream from Vienna
Interrupted Melody was the wonderful biographical film about the singer Marjorie Lawrence. I thought it was a wonderful blending of opera with a 1950s Movie.
Rolando Villazon stars in a performance of Monteverdi‘s opera from Salzburg’s Mozartwoche recorded in January
John Adams‘s newest opera in a live broadcast from New York
Tristan transcriptions for violin, piano, and orchestra.
George Benjamin‘s opera live from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome
Antony and Cleopatra is perhaps not the showcase Elizabeth DeShong deserves, so Grand Tier Grab Bag highlights the superlative mezzo in two clips
Jeanette MacDonald singing in her movies got the ball rolling for my lifelong interest in opera.
Ahead of her return to the Met, soprano Corinne Winters chats with Kevin Ng about her repertoire, overcoming biases about her voice type, and how she plans to play “energetic, young women” as long as she can.
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