When Pushkin comes to shove When Pushkin comes to shove

An incoherent production of Ruslan and Lyudmila at the Hamburg State Opera may dispense with the fantastical, but Glinka‘s magic remains.

By December 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We’ll always have Paris (or maybe not) We’ll always have Paris (or maybe not)

The revival of Don Carlo(s) which opened on November 3 restored the translated Italian text and the cut 1882 four-act revision not seen at the Met since Rudolf Bing’s last season in 1972.

By November 05, 2022 at 9:00 AM
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Like an angel passing through my room Like an angel passing through my room

Tonight at the Met should have welcomed Barrie Kosky’s production of Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel; in its absence Trove Thursday steps in with a recent broadcast featuring this summer’s breakout star Ausrine Stundyte as the enigmatic Renata.

By November 12, 2020 at 10:00 AM
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Atlantis in Atlanta Atlantis in Atlanta

“Once upon a time / Lived a foolish king. / Mocking Death, his crime, / Pure chaos he bring.”

By October 27, 2020 at 2:28 PM
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Sadko, but true Sadko, but true

“Trove Thursday” escapes to an exotic place with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko.

By August 22, 2019 at 10:00 AM
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The boys of summer The boys of summer

“Trove Thursday” turns to a quintet of baritone/bass voices: Matthias Goerne, Simon Keenlyside, Georg Nigl, Thomas Quasthoff and René Pape performing works by Pfitzner, Sibelius, Adams, Martin and Schubert.

By August 15, 2019 at 10:00 AM
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Come what May Come what May

At “Trove Thursday” it’s May Night, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1880 comic opera, in a recent broadcast from Moscow led by pianist-conductor Mikhail Pletnev.

By May 03, 2018 at 9:42 AM
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Steal me, sweet thieves Steal me, sweet thieves

Ali Baba ou Les Quarantes Voleurs continues straight-tone September with Teresa Stich-Randall as its heroine while Alfredo Kraus scales the heights with another Nadir.

By September 21, 2017 at 1:15 PM
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Woman behind bars Woman behind bars

“Trove Thursday” presentsFerdinando Paër’s 1804 Leonora ossia L’Amore coniugale.

By July 14, 2016 at 7:27 PM
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tsar of all the regies

Boris Pokrovsky, a famed Russian opera director who staged many of the Bolshoi Theatre’s biggest productions in the Soviet era, died on Friday at age 97. [via AP] Here’s a scene from Pokrovsky’s lavish 1980 production of Sadko: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/SaSxMYmAIMQ” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

By June 05, 2009 at 12:43 PM
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what to say about caballe?

[La Cieca’s old, old, old friend Camille attended Montserrat Caballe‘s Valentine’s Day duo recital earlier this month. Her reactions — which she admits it took her some days to sort out in her mind — follow.] After some reflection and reviewing Caballe’s Orange Festival Norma, once again, I can merely pipe up with my opinion…

By February 26, 2009 at 5:48 PM
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