The 2023 Turandot is so overrated
The recent highly hyped studio recording of Puccini’s Turandot left me greatly disappointed.
By Moe Rear
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Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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La Damnation de Faust
Marianne Crebassa, Julien Dran, and John Relyea star in a live broadcast of Berlioz's opera from Rome.
Streamed June 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Verdi Requiem
Myung-Whun Chung conducts Ailyn Pérez, Ekaterina Semenchuk, René Barbera, and Roberto Tagliavini in a live broadcast from Rome
Streamed April 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Asmik Grigorian in Recital
Asmik Grigorian performs an eclectic program live from Rome with Lukas Geniušas
Streamed February 11, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Die Walküre
Daniel Harding conducts a live performance from Rome featuring Jamez McCorkle, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Miina-Liisa Värelä, and Michael Volle
Streamed October 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Written on Skin
George Benjamin‘s opera live from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome
I would they had changed voices too!
Chris’s Cache follows up its Gounod R&J installment with a widely varied quintet of additional Romeos and Juliets
At sunset
Sunday afternoon’s all-Richard Strauss concert served as a de facto commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the debut of Renée Fleming, long one of the house’s biggest stars.
Awakenings
There is a simple elegance to the single-composer recital album format. For the listener in the mood for, say, Puccini, it’s a chance to delve into his music without any pesky interruptions by those other guys like Verdi or Massenet. And if one is also in the mood for a particular singer’s art, then the […]
Kaufmann, Italian style
Our Own Ercole Farnese discovered and translated this interview in La Stampa with Jonas Kaufmann, in which the tenor discusses his “his idolatrous success with ladies and gay men, four fifths of the opera-goers.”
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).
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
