28 pieces since 2007 — at 5 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
6 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Carlos Kleiber.
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It’s like making love with someone whose rap never ceases—and includes “helpful suggestions” about how you can be improving your game.
You know in some of those old Jeanette MacDonald movies where she plays a prima donna and receives applause in a public setting? That’s just what happened when the three of us walked into that restaurant, one patron calling out “Brava!”
Trove Thursday remembers Edita Gruberová with live recordings of two of the three operas I heard her perform at the Met: a 1985 Munich La Traviata with Neil Shicoff and Wolfgang Brendel conducted by Carlos Kleiber and an I Puritani from Vienna 1994 featuring two other artists who recently left us too soon: Marcello Giordani and Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
I can’t think of an opera this year that I’ve enjoyed as much as Tuesday’s Met Macbeth, thanks especially to the smashing house debut of Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi as its blazing Madame M.
Tuesday the Met unveils its sixth new production of La Traviata since moving to Lincoln Center.
Arabella with Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting a prime-time 1980s Munich cast.
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