On this day in 1981 the Metropolitan Opera telecast its new and unremarkable production of La traviata.
Today is Mozart’s 266th birthday and I had already planned a Trove Thursday celebration when I learned that Maria Ewing had died on January 9.
On this day in 1986, the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre.
During the 70s, Kiri Te Kanawa, particularly singing Mozart, became one of my favorite singers.
Oh, yes, it’s Ladies’ Night and the feeling’s right! Oh, yes, it’s Ladies’ Night! Oh, what a night!
I had my head in my hands groaning in disbelief instead of joining in the general applause around me.
“Trove Thursday” offers Così fan tutte with Pilar Lorengar, Josephine Veasey, Lucia Popp, Luigi Alva and Kieth Engen with Georg Solti conducting.
While James Levine’s name might not immediately spring to mind when pondering the great Mozart conductors, he does have a long and distinguished career leading operas by the Austrian master.
John Corigliano‘s first and second symphonies won the Grawemeyer and the Pulitzer, respectively; the premiere of his Third Symphony wasn’t even reviewed by the Times. His score for The Red Violin won an Oscar™; his score for Edge of Darkness ended up on the cutting room floor. Is there an American composer at once more…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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