Riot grrrls
On this day in 1913 Igor Stravinsky‘s Le Sacre du printemps premiered in Paris; a riot ensued
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Leah Hawkins Winner of the Beverly Sills Award
The $50,000 prize from the Metropolitan Opera recognizes “extraordinarily gifted singers with rising Met careers.”
The Hours
Kensho Watanabe leads Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Joyce DiDonato, and Sean Panikkar in a broadcast from New York
The red attachment of women
Washington National Opera’s final production of the season, seen May 22, is also its high point: a new Turandot directed by Francesca Zambello, updated to the 20th century and featuring the world premiere of a completion of Puccini’s score by composer Christopher Tin and playwright and screenwriter Susan Soon He Stanton.
Wird’s nicht eine schöne Welt?
Born on this day in 1925 baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Monuments man
It has been a great season for prolific Bay Area composer Jake Heggie.
High flying, adored
Born on this day in 1907 sopranos Lina Pagliughi…
Götterdämmerung
Gianandrea Noseda conducts a live broadcast from Zurich of Andreas Homoki‘s production featuring Klaus Florian Vogt, Wolfram Schneider-Lastin, Christopher Purves, David Leigh, and Camilla Nylund
Upper stratasphere
Happy 86th birthday soprano Teresa Stratas
La fanciulla del west
Marco Armiliato conducts a 2018 performance with Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, and Zeljko Lucic
Bubbles and squeak
Born on this day in 1929 soprano and administrator Beverly Sills
Siegfried
Gianandrea Noseda conducts a live broadcast from Zurich of Andreas Homoki‘s production featuring Klaus Florian Vogt, Tomasz Konieczny, Christopher Purves, David Leigh, and Camilla Nylund
Rebel in her manner and her speech
On this day in 1966 Jerry Herman‘s Mame opened on Broadway
A mouth so fair it must be kissed
“What a day, what a day for an Auto-da-fe!” and it’s also always a good day for Candide, so Chris’s Cache presents a pirate recording of a 1971 staging starring Mary Costa, Frank Porretta, and William Lewis.
High drama
Happy 88th birthday soprano Ingeborg Hallstein
Carmen
Diego Matheuz conducts Clémentine Margaine, Michael Fabiano, Ailyn Pérez and Ryan Speedo Green in a broadcast from New York
O hehrstes Wunder!
Born on this day in 1813 composer Richard Wagner
Roméo et Juliette
Carlo Rizzi conducts Elsa Dreisig, Benjamin Bernheim, Lea Desandre,
Huw Montague Rendall, and Jean Teitgen in a performance from Paris recorded last spring
Everything the light touches
Like Emily discovering her gift in The Weight of Light, Vanguard fellows (ideally) come through a process of intense multivocality with a stronger sense of their own individual voice.
Un grande spettacolo
On this day in 1892 Leoncavallo‘s Pagliacci premiered in Milan
Flower maiden
Erin Morley closed Vocal Arts DC’s season on May 13th with a recital in the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, partnered by pianist Gerald Martin Moore.