Nothing makes me feel better than the 1966 Salzburg Festival <em>Nozze</em> Nothing makes me feel better than the 1966 Salzburg Festival <em>Nozze</em>

This performance truly “never fails to lift my mood.”

By DC K October 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Boys don’t cry Boys don’t cry

Who will prevail in Trove Thursday’s Fidelio Drag Race finals: Gwyneth Jones/Leonard Bernstein 1970 or Julia Varady/Nikolaus Harnoncourt 1986?

By December 10, 2020 at 10:00 AM
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Composer’s intentions Composer’s intentions

A live broadcast of the prologue to Ariadne auf Naxos featuring Julia Varady, a favorite sopranos in a role she sang only rarely.

By June 15, 2017 at 12:53 PM
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I won’t dance, don’t ask me I won’t dance, don’t ask me

A live Un Ballo in Maschera featuring Jon Vickers, Amy Shuard, Lucia Popp, Shirley Verrett and Peter Glossop.

By May 25, 2017 at 12:55 PM
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A ‘Ring’ for the rest of us A ‘Ring’ for the rest of us

I was once accused—by my own mother, mind you!—of having too many recordings of Verdi’s Aida.  The blistering audacity of that recrimination did get me to thinking: How many recordings of Aida is too many? I mean, you’ve got the old classic you cut your teeth on. Then there’s he one where the tenor and…

By July 09, 2015 at 2:14 PM
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Opening knight Opening knight

The 1965 season was a time of big changes at the Vienna State Opera.

By August 29, 2013 at 9:15 AM
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strum und drang

Undaunted by Hurricane Hannah, La Cieca continues her presentation of Lohengrin at Unnatural Acts of Opera. Lohengrin: Jess Thomas Elsa: Claire Watson Telramund: Walter Berry Ortrud: Christa Ludwig Koenig Heinrich: Martti Talvela Heerrufer: Eberhard Waechter Vienna State Opera, Karl Boehm, 1965. Lohengrin Act 2

By September 06, 2008 at 6:16 PM
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