Daisy, you’re the one I adore
On this day in 1951 soprano Victoria de los Ángeles made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Marguerite
Virgil Thomson
14 pieces since 2016.
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11
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“Nadine Conner did everything right”
On this day in 1952 the Metropolitan Opera presented a new production of La bohème directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
A harmonious ensemble of color
On this day in 1951 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a new production of Aida.
“A vocal artist out of the ordinary”
On this day in 1951 soprano Victoria de los Angeles made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Marguerite.
Out of the ordinary
On this day in 1951 soprano Victoria de los Angeles made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Marguerite.
Speak loudly
Do we do what we have to do? Or do we have to do what we do?
When off-off was on to something
Promenade is a powder keg but the powder may not be as explosive as it hints.
Cave dwellers
Composer/librettist David Hertzberg’s The Rose Elf, which gave its world premiere in the Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs last weekend, is indeed a marvel of elfin proportions.
The boy was having a real success
On this day in 1948 tenor Giuseppe di Stefano made his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Duke of Mantua.
Change the world – I want to get off
A dozen women or more talk and sing about all sort of important and exciting things, with “a man” near the bottom of their list of priorities.
Il core vi dono
With February 14th falling on a Sunday, there will be no Valentine’s Day Met performance this year.
Flying too high with some guy in the sky
If only—if only half the creativity and spectacle that Encompass New Opera Theatre has lavished on its lively production of The Astronaut’s Tale (at the BAM Fisher through Sunday) had been expended on the pretentious libretto by the late Jack Larsonand the quirky, unappealing score by Charles Fussell…