A favorite Mozart performance from Peter
One of the most purely gorgeous voices I’ve ever heard live.
By Peter
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A favorite Mozart performance from Eli Jacobson
Mozart: Zaide, K.344 / Act 1: “Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben” · Lucia Popp · Vienna Haydn Orchestra · István Kertész from Mozart Opera Festival ? 1972 Decca Music Group Limited
By Eli Jacobson
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Die Frau ohne Schatten
A live broadcast of a new production from the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
A live video broadcast from Reggio Emilia featuring rising stars Annalisa Stroppa and Benedetta Torre.
Ariadne auf Naxos
A live performance starring Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres
A favorite Mozart performance from Patrick Mack
One of my most favorite pieces is Barbarina’s delightful opener to Act IV of Le nozze di Figaro, “L’ho perduta, me meschina!” from the recording conducted by Otto Klemperer.
By Patrick Mack
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Act III at last
John Yohalem reports from the New York Dramatic Voices performance of Act III of Die Walküre
Roadkill, twice over
Though I’ve sometimes complained that the Paris Opera, while supposedly short of cash, changes its productions nearly as often as the rest of us change our socks, André Engel’s Cunning Little Vixen first appeared there 17 years ago. At the time it was billed as ‘new’, though it actually dates back further still, to 2000 at the Lyon Opera. I saw it when it arrived at the Bastille and wrote it up at the time.
La fanciulla del west
Carmen Giannatasio sings her first Minnie, under Riccardo Frizza, in a live broadcast from Bologna.
A favorite Mozart performance from David Phillips
Nothing to add here – Just heavenly singing from one of my all-time favorites.
By David Phillips
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I was on your side, Bill, when you were losin’
Target Margin Theater proudly boasts that Show/Boat: A River, its small-scale and bare-bones staging of Show Boat (at the Skirball Center on Washington Square through the 26th), is a “bold reimagining” of the classic Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein show, a “new adaptation that explores America’s transformation from the Jim Crow 1880s to the Chicago of the Great Migration to the challenges of today,” but I don’t see it.
A favorite Mozart performance from Emery Kerekes
Sabine Devieilhe sings a lot of stellar Mozart — Ilia, Susanna, Blonde, a fierce Queen of the Night — but it’s her 2015 concert-aria recording, featuring hubby Raphael Pichon and his period ensemble Pygmalion, to which I return most often. Stick around until the VERY end of the final track for an ass-kicking surprise. (Or should I say…ass-licking? ;)
By Emery Kerekes
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Concerted efforts
Seven years ago, Trove Thursday presented an anthology of sixteen Mozart soprano concert arias. In 2025, Chris’s Cache adds to this month’s Mozart-fest with a deep dive into three of the most celebrated of those works: Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!; Bella mia fiamma; and Ch’io mi scordi di te.
A favorite Mozart performance from Remko Jas
The combination of a young opera director who is a little bonkers and a seasoned Mozart soprano (this was Lenneke Ruiten‘s 13th Mozart role on stage) resulted in one of the best performances of Nozze di Figaro I’ve ever seen.
By Remko Jas
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Perspectives, reflections, obscurity, and illusion
Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann‘s opera at the Prototype Festival re-sets Rashomon in the Pacific Northwest and binds its characters into a hellish cycle of violence with a dark, hypnotic score
A favorite Mozart performance from Sanford
As most of you probably know, I worship at the altar of Moffo the way some worship Callas. She has so many great complete recordings, including Falstaff, Luisa Miller, Lucia, Rigoletto, etc. But one of her very best is this Nozze. Carlo Maria Giulini leads an absolutely perfect cast.
By Sanford (AKA Gedda Life)
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Shocker and awe
In 2011, Sondra Radvanovsky‘s Tosca proved promising; fourteen years later, it was absolutely magnificent, a completely satisfying musical and dramatic embodiment of a challenging role by an artist at the peak of her powers.
La traviata
Nadine Sierra, Javier Camarena, and Artur Rucinski lead a live broadcast from Barcelona.
A favorite Mozart performance from Harry Rose
I was so beguiled by Erika Baikoff when I saw her perform at the Sag Harbor Song Festival back in September. Such a lovely and musical voice that just flows and when she sang this, she got mid-note applause during the final sustained B.
By Harry Rose
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A favorite Mozart performance from Krunoslav
Sometimes–to negotiate the High Gee!s, as it were–you just need to call in Edda Moser.
By Krunoslav
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Tosca
A performance recorded in November at the Metropolitan Opera