Chris’s Cache offers three more street-singers: a live Renata Tebaldi performance–without Franco Corelli; Tebaldi cover Milka Stojanovic with Corelli; and Ghena Dimitrova’s second local appearance in which she was menaced by Piero Cappuccilli
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
Matthew Polenzani returned triumphantly to his comfort zone in a Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recital on April 2.
On this day in 1975 soprano Magda Olivero made her historic, belated Metropolitan Opera debut as Tosca
Speranza Scappucci conducts Angel Blue, Jonathan Tetelman, Emily Pogorelc, and Dekhzod Davronov in a broadcast from New York
On this day in 1977 tenor Guy Chauvet made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Samson
On this day in 1999 the Metropolitan Opera main stage premiere of Floyd‘s Susannah.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Leah Hawkins, Karen Cargill, Matthew Polenzani, and Dmitry Belosselskiy in a performance from this fall
Stephen Milling, Bryn Terfel, Elisabet Strid, Toby Spence, and conductor Henrik Nánási star in a broadcast from London recorded earlier this month
On this day in 1970 tenor Nico Castel made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Don Basilo in Le nozze di Figaro
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Elena Stikhina, Maria Barakova, Brian Jagde, Igor Golovatenko, Patrick Carfizzi, and Soloman Howard in a broadcast from New York
Yes, there were other Giocondas if not of quite the same distinction. Chronologically…
On this day in 1879 Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin premiered in Moscow
Puccini’s schmaltziest, most melodic, most dramatically limp, most cynical, most obscure mature work
The first of two Requiem broadcasts this Holy Week:Myung-Whun Chung conducts Angela Meade, Annalisa Stroppa, Fabio Sartori and Riccardo Zanellato in a live broadcast from Venice
And what a luxury it is to experience this musically outstanding Parsifal with a cast of this caliber!
Happy 55th birthday mezzo-soprano Daniela Barcellona
Having relished last week’s American Symphony Orchestra “once-in-a-liftetime” Gurrelieder (my third, in fact), I wanted to keep enjoying Schönberg’s lush early epic.
Born on this day in 1950 mezzo-soprano/soprano Maria Ewing
Speranza Scappucci conducts the Metropolitan Opera opening night of Puccini’s wistful opera with Angel Blue, Jonathan Tetelman, Emily Pogorelc, and Dekhzod Davronov
La forza del destino concluded its run at the Metropolitan Opera with a significant cast change.
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