Hoppscotch
On this day in 1959 Alban Berg‘s Wozzeck had its Metropolitan Opera premiere (in English)
Karl Böhm
63 pieces since 2007 — at 8 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
63
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8
companies
20
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8 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Karl Böhm.
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Jailhouse Roccos
Chris’s Cache wraps up November with Régine Crespin’s Chicago Leonore; two rare Met Fidelios headed by Christa Ludwig and Hildegard Behrens; and a concert performance with Birgit Nilsson led by Leonard Bernstein, plus a final twist: excerpts of Carol Vaness in Leonore.
Miss Nilsson did all the right things
On this day in 1965 the Metropolitan Opera presented a new production of Salome.
A soldier’s play
On this day in 1959 Alban Berg‘s Wozzeck had its Metropolitan Opera premiere.
Tone police
Sixty years ago today, Berg’s Wozzeck was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
The right box
Let’s call this meeting to order. My name is Patrick and I’m a boxset-aholic.
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.
Unchained melody
When a new production of Fidelio premiered at the Met in 1960, the opera had been absent from the repertoire since 1951, the post-war return of Kirsten Flagstad as a still effective Leonore and led by Bruno Walter. In the period between the two productions a new generation of singers had begun to make their […]