Peter Sellars‘s triple bill of Viennese modernism featuring Erwartung and a concert performance of The Raft of the Medusa stare down death at the Salzburg Festival
Lisette Oropesa and Kate Lindsey star in a live video broadcast from Salzburg
A live broadcast from the Salzburg Festival
Chris’s Cache would argue that Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery is a much more enjoyable alternative to the pandemic-canceled Barrie Kosky The Fiery Angel
A live video broadcast from Vienna starring Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov
A live video broadcast from Vienna
A live performance streamed from the Wiener Staatsoper.
Asmik Grigorian’s scorching turn in Il trittico in Paris has Nigel Wilkinson wondering, ‘what is it that makes Americans so weepy?’
Lydia Steier‘s production in a live video stream from Vienna
Ahead of her return to the Met, soprano Corinne Winters chats with Kevin Ng about her repertoire, overcoming biases about her voice type, and how she plans to play “energetic, young women” as long as she can.
Christopher Corwin on three stylish sopranos delighting audiences live in New York and on recording in a trio of new releases.
A performance recorded earlier this month at the Salzburg Easter Festival.
In 1972, when I was 12 years old, my mother took me to the Salzburg Festival.
A live broadcast of Prokofiev‘s opera from Vienna’s Theater an der Wien
One of my favorite scenes from Donizetti is the Act I finale from Anna Bolena.
A stylish and funny Così fan tutte at LA Opera is a pretty glam affair, according to Patrick Mack.
Prompted by Washington Concert Opera’s upcoming Luisa Miller, Chris Cache’s misbehaves five times by offering just the opera’s final act with sopranos from the 1970s, some of whom might be considered “under-appreciated”: Gabriella Tucci, Adriana Maliponte, Renata Scotto, Gilda Cruz-Romo, and Katia Ricciarelli.
Eli Jacobson inaugurates parterre box’s new “Perspectives on the Aria” feature with a deep dive into Leonore’s “Abscheulicher!” from Beethoven’s Fidelio which returns to the Metropolitan Opera tomorrow with the Met’s current dramatic soprano star Lise Davidsen as Leonore.
Ahead of a broadcast in Europe on Arte on Sunday, parterre box has snagged a snippet of Asmik Grigorian‘s eagerly anticipated role debut as Norma in Vienna
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