New world coming
This week, Chris’s Cache highlights Bernarda Fink and Inga Kalna in an opera by Johann Gottlieb Naumann
Bernarda Fink
13 pieces since 2011 — in 6 roles, at 3 companies, most often at Wiener Staatsoper.
13
pieces
6
roles
3
companies
16
years
Role Alonso
Role Dido
Dido it again
“Trove Thursday” presents Purcell’s remarkably concise Dido and Aeneas in a pair of fascinatingly different interpretations.
Role Geneviève
Back to the beach
Now it’s time to grab Albert Einstein for a lengthy swim.
Role Irene
Plain and fancy
This mostly wonderful performance of Handel’s Theodora opened the 2009 Salzburg Festival in honor of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death. Written at the beginning of the last decade of the composer’s life, it was a work that he held in very high regard even though he knew its subject matter would not excite. Only […]
Role mezzo-soprano
Summer of the mezzo
August on “Trove Thursday” begins with Midsummer Mezzo Madness featuring a sterling quartet of lower-voiced ladies
Role Tancredi
The boys from Syracuse
Trove Thursday begins February with two striking versions of Rossini’s Tancredi.
I’ll take the fall
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).