Christina Nilsson‘s successful Met debut as Aïda was for me one of the shining highlights of the 2025 season.
Valentin Schwarz‘s and Simone Young‘s Ring, in its final outing at Bayreuth, is dramaturgically messy and musically excellent.
Matthias Davids‘s reactionary new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg might be fun, but no one comes to Bayreuth for fun.
With the 2025 Bayreuth Festival beginning next week, Grand Tier Grab Bag spotlights the Eva of its opening Meistersinger: Christina Nilsson
In a satanic panic, this week Chris’s Cache presents trio of performances of Mefistofele
Elina Garanca is back at the Met for the first time since 2020 — her Amneris is, in a word, sensational.
Christina Nilsson‘s debut enlivens the Met’s new Aïda.
On this day in 1883 the Metropolitan Opera House opened with Gounod‘s Faust.
Amilcare Ponchielli’s La Gioconda might not be a perfect opera (though I don’t see why not) but it is one of my favorites…
On this day in 1883 the Metropolitan Opera House opened with Gounod‘s Faust.
On this day in 1973 the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Les Troyens.
Trove Thursday bids adieu to 2019 with Bizet’s rare La Jolie Fille de Perth with the enchanting Christiane Eda-Pierre as the heroine who survives her madness.
“Trove Thursday” keeps the evil deeds going this All Saints’s Day with a vintage La Scala broadcast of Arrigo Boito’s only completed opera Mefistofele.
The grand illusion is that we know it all. From four hundred years of opera, we’ve distilled the worthy survivors.
With help from the Met’s invaluable performance archive, here is a look back at just some of what you could have seen, and perhaps did see, on October 31st through the years at the Met.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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