Undead of the night
For those pining for Puccini with the Met out of commission. Trove Thursday steps up with the composer’s brief first opera Le Villi with Krassimira Stoyanova, José Cura and Franz Grundheber, led by Simone Young.
Joseph Calleja
37 pieces since 2006 — in 11 roles, at 7 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
37
pieces
11
roles
7
companies
21
years
By role
5 pieces as Rodolfo — stats above show all coverage for Joseph Calleja.
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The Wurm turns
Luisa Miller snowballs toward disaster and death.
Black Friday
Usually the longer I know a work the more I look forward to rediscovering it, but that’s just not the case with the Verdi Requiem.
Fifty shades of gold
Anticipation of events like the Metropolitan Opera’s 50th Anniversary bash turns me back into the newly opera-soused kid who begged his parents to let him watch the highlights of the Bing Gala on the family color television.
Spring will be a little late this year
La bohème is such a popular romantic opera that hardly anyone ever notices that Mimì and Rodolfo undergo what in modern terms would be called speed dating.