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.
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Tosca
Eleonora Burrato makes a role debut and Andrea Battistoni conducts a live opening night performance from Munich with Charles Castronovo and Ludovic Tezier
Die Walküre
Gianandrea Noseda conducts a live broadcast of Andreas Homoki‘s production from Zurich with Eric Cutler, Christof Fischesser, Tomasz Konieczny, Daniela Köhler, and Camilla Nylund
Seville row
On this day in 1978, tenor Rockwell Blake made his Met debut on tour in Minneapolis as Don Ottavio
A peach of a girl
Born on this day in 1861 soprano Nellie Melba
Das Rheingold
Gianandrea Noseda conducts Tomasz Konieczny, Matthias Klink, Claudia Mahnke, and Christopher Purves in a live broadcast of Andreas Homoki‘s production from Zurich
The Hours
Kensho Watanabe leads Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Joyce DiDonato, and Sean Panikkar in a broadcast from New York
Once you have found him never let him go
Bassi Profondi Day
I’m a stranger here myself
In 1982 I saw Turandot at the San Francisco Opera, the year after I became an opera fan, and it was my first live opera.
Orfeo ed Euridice
J. David Jackson conducts Anthony Roth Costanzo, Ying Fang, and Elena Villalón in a live broadcast from New York
Ai nostril fidi nunzio
Happy 75th birthday bass Ferruccio Furlanetto
Seiji’s angels
The father of us all
Baptized on this day in 1567 composer Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi
Dagonistic pluralism
To bring a well-known story to the stage, many methods are available.
Considerate la vostra semenza
Born on this day in 1957 soprano Daniela Dessì
Carmen, domesticated
On May 2, Rebecca Herman‘s conceptualizing of Carmen was a significant departure from the traditional depiction of a marginalized “other,” maintaining a traditional staging in Seville.
With a sound but half its own
Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann made her New York recital debut at Weill Hall on May 8.
Utopia, limited
Born on this day in 1842 composer Arthur Sullivan
It’s raining on prom night
On this day in 1988 Carrie-The Musical opened on Broadway and closed after 5 performances
Madama Butterfly
Asmik Grigorian, as Cio Cio San, along with Jonathan Tetelman, Lucas Meachem, and Elizabeth DeShong are conducted by Xian Zhang in a broadcast from New York
The Hours
Kensho Watanabe leads Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Joyce DiDonato, and Sean Panikkar in a broadcast from New York
Hilley terrain
Heldentenor Clay Hilley is the winner of the 2024 Richard Tucker Award