Perché chiuso?
On this day in 1975 soprano Magda Olivero made her historic, belated Metropolitan Opera debut as Tosca
Harold C. Schonberg
7 pieces since 2015.
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Keeper of the dumpster fire
To get right to the point, the performance did not come together despite some good elements and was a major missed opportunity.
One grand, fluid line
On this day in 1975 soprano Magda Olivero made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Tosca.
Everyone sang out
On this day in 1961 the Metropolitan Opera presented the historic debuts of Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli in Verdi’s Il trovatore.
“Pseudo-Greek”
On this day in 1960 soprano Eileen Farrell made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of a new production of Gluck’s Alceste.
“I like to sing love songs”
Born on this day 99 years ago, actress and singer Doris Day.
Trick or trill
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.