Il core vi dono
With February 14th falling on a Sunday, there will be no Valentine’s Day Met performance this year.
Maria Jeritza
14 pieces since 2012 — in 5 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
14
pieces
5
roles
2
companies
15
years
By role
By company
Role Elisabeth
Role Empress
Storm of the century
A sense of celebration was definitely in the air last Thursday at the Vienna State Opera.
Role Fedora
Double cross
Sonya Yoncheva’s first-ever Princess Romazov was one of this summer’s casualties but Trove Thursday steps up with a rare 1960 in-house pirate of Giordano’s Fedora starring Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi along with a pair of Tebaldi-di Stefano Puccini highlights from the early 1950s.
Role Helen
“A Teutonic Zaza”
On this day in 1928, the Metropolitan Opera presented the American premiere of Richard Strauss‘s Die Ägyptische Helena with Maria Jeritza in the title role.
Role Turandot
Burning and bitter beauty
On this day in 1927 the Metropolitan Opera opened its 1927 season with a revival of Turandot featuring Maria Jeritza and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi.
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.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).