The Miller’s daughter
On this day in 1849 Verdi’s Luisa Miller premiered in Naples
On this day in 1849 Verdi’s Luisa Miller premiered in Naples
The Saturday Matinee Broadcast season starts with a performance from the Metropolitan Opera
A live Sant’Ambrogio opening night broadcast from Milan
Born on this day in 1863 composer Pietro Mascagni
Patrick Mack reviews yet another Puccini album from Jonas Kaufmann
On this day in 1846 Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust premiered in Paris
On Tuesday night, in the commodious concert hall of the Morgan Library, the Boston Early Music Festival forces brought Georg Philipp Telemann’s Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho to New York.
Happy 64th birthday composer Osvaldo Golijov
December at Chris’s Cache kicks off with two of Verdi’s lesser-known operas: La Battaglia di Legnano and I Due Foscari.
Happy 86th birthday mezzo-soprano Yvonne Minton
Washington Concert Opera returned on November 24th for its first show of the 2024-2025 season with a production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, another (relative) rarity from the composer following last year’s season-closing presentation of La rondine.
A recent conversation with a friend who has loved Die Frau ohne Schatten for twice as long as I have been alive revealed that we both had some unresolved questions about the plot.
World AIDS Day 2024
An announcement from Windy City Operaman
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Christina Colanduoni on Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Chris’s Cache ends the month with another “fun” opera but one even rarer than last week’s Rossini: Der Wildschütz by Albert Lortzing.
On this day in 1948 Verdi‘s Otello was the first opera to be telecast from the Metropolitan Opera.
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