A well-known Met Aïda with a starry cast from 1967 is TildyDiva’s Favorite Verdi Performance
In a satanic panic, this week Chris’s Cache presents trio of performances of Mefistofele
Anticipating the first new local Aïda in thirty-six years, Chris’s Cache revisits Verdi’s popular opera in four unusually interesting in-house recordings from the Met 1961-1976.
On this day in 1966 the Metropolitan Opera presented a new production of Elektra.
A live broadcast of the prologue to Ariadne auf Naxos featuring Julia Varady, a favorite sopranos in a role she sang only rarely.
It’s time for the annual celebration of the birth of Leonie Rysanek (who, as you know, is your alte Jungfer’s Diva of Divas).
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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