Down by the bay
Michael Anthonio crunches the numbers on San Francisco Opera’s recent seasons and goes straight to the top to General Director Matthew Shilvock for a look at where SF Opera has been and where it’s headed
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Hold me closer, temple dancer
Born on this day in 1919 dancer Marge Champion
Symphoniste fantastique
Born on this day in 1935 conductor Seiji Ozawa
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Marc Minkowski conducts Benjamin Bernheim, a fourfold Kathryn Lewek, Christian Van Horn, and Kate Lindsey in a live broadcast from the Salzburg Festival
Forêt through the trees
On this day in 1829 Rossini‘s Guillaume Tell premieres in Paris
What ever happened to her?
When the subject of New York City Opera comes up, you always hear the same query: “What happened to City Opera? Are they even performing these days??”
Where’s craft?
Born on this day in 1922 soprano/mezzo-soprano/opera director Regina Resnik
Carmen
Anja Bihlmaier conducts Rihab Chaieb, Evan LeRoy Johnson, Lukasz Goli?ski, and Janai Brugger in a Proms concert performance of Glyndebourne’s production
Letter rip
One of the goals of both Trove Thursday and now Chris’s Cache has been to share pirate recordings of the valuable NYC groups that have presented concert operas over the decades.
Learing eye
Born on this day in 1926 baritone Thomas Stewart
I’m in the mood for adulation
The first clip of Pablo Larraín‘s Maria Callas biopic staring Angelina Jolie has been released
Fjord model T
Dmitri Tcherniakov’s interpretation of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Höllander presents an engrossing character study about Senta and the Dutchman’s struggles against their insular community’s stifling conformism.
A voice and something more
parterre‘s very own Max Keller opens up in The New York Times (!) about how starting T has affected their voice
Irish cream
Happy 75th birthday Irish mezzo-soprano (not Canadian pop singer) Ann Murray
L’Elisir d’amore
Roberto Kalb conducts Yaritza Véliz, Jonah Hoskins, Luke Sutliff, and Alfredo Daza in a performance recorded earlier this summer in Santa Fe
Pansexual relations
Love makes fools of us all – that seems to be the theme of this summer’s Glimmerglass Festival.
Dutch process
Born on this day in 1915 soprano Gré Brouwenstijn
A plan and not quite enough time
Born on this day in 1918 composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein
L’Orfeo
A performance recorded earlier this summer in Graz featuring Michael Hell conducting Valerio Contaldo, Johanna Rosa Falkinger, Anna Manske, Iris Vermillon, and Wolfgang Bankl
I am woman, hear me roar
Happy 68th birthday director and administrator Francesca Zambello
Punct contrapunct
Born on this day in 1900 composer Ernst Krenek
Sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Don’t cry for me, Birgit Nilsson
First impressions
Born on this day in 1862 composers Claude Debussy