Il core vi dono
With February 14th falling on a Sunday, there will be no Valentine’s Day Met performance this year.
14 pieces since 2012 — in 5 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
With February 14th falling on a Sunday, there will be no Valentine’s Day Met performance this year.
A sense of celebration was definitely in the air last Thursday at the Vienna State Opera.
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.
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.
On this day in 1927 the Metropolitan Opera opened its 1927 season with a revival of Turandot featuring Maria Jeritza and Giacomo Lauri-Volpi.
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.
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