(A)nything (B)ut (C)armen
Calling from 2066, Brendan Latimer argues that the best way to save opera might be to just blow up the standard repertoire altogether.
East Coast
Silent Night
A live broadcast of Kevin Puts's and Mark Campbell's opera from New York
Streaming and discussion start Mar 20 at 1:00 PM
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Il trovatore
Ailyn Pérez shares a favorite performance from 1971 featuring Richard Tucker, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett, and Mario Sereni
Streaming and discussion start Mar 13 at 1:00 PM
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Roméo et Juliette
Piotr Beczala shares a favorite performance from 1947 starring Jussi Björling and Bidú Sayão
Streaming and discussion start Mar 6 at 1:00 PM
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Luisa Miller
Montserrat Caballé, Richard Tucker, and Sherrill Milnes star in an archival performance from 1968 selected by Quinn Kelsey
Streaming and discussion start Feb 27 at 1:00 PM
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Lead balloon
At Wolf Trap Opera, a season-closing Tosca is weighed down by an incoherent setting during Italy’s Anni di piombo.
Das Rheingold
Herbert von Karajan conducts a performance from 1969 featuring Theo Adam, Zoltán Kelemen, Anna Reynolds, and Lili Chookasian selected by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Streaming and discussion start Feb 20 at 1:00 PM
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's latest opera in a performance recorded in New York last October
Streaming and discussion start Feb 13 at 1:00 PM
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Leontyne Price in Verdi at the Met
Scenes from Verdi operas in celebration of the 100th birthday of Leontyne Price
Streaming and discussion start Feb 6 at 1:00 PM
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Così fan tutte
Federica Lombardi, Duke Kim, Samantha Hankey, and Andrey Zhilikhovsky are the four lovers in a performance recorded in October in New York
Streaming and discussion start Jan 30 at 1:00 PM
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La fanciulla del West
Vida Miknevičiūtė is Minnie opposite SeokJong Baek and Christopher Maltman in a live broadcast from New York
Streaming and discussion start Jan 23 at 1:00 PM
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Die Fledermaus
A performance from the Metropolitan Opera recorded in 1967 featuring Mary Costa, Roberta Peters, Kitty Carlisle, John Reardon, Arturo Seri, and Donald Gramm
Streaming and discussion start Jan 2 at 1:00 PM
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Hansel and Gretel
Vladimir Jurowski conducts Christine Schäfer, Alice Coote, Philip Langridge, and Rosalind Plowright in a Metropolitan Opera broadcast from 2008
Streaming and discussion start Dec 26 at 1:00 PM
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The Magic Flute
The Met's inescapable Magic Flute, abbreviated and in English translation, once again live from New York
Streaming and discussion start Dec 19 at 1:00 PM
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Maria Stuarda
Lisette Oropesa and Angela Meade face off in a live broadcast from the Met
Streaming and discussion start Dec 12 at 1:00 PM
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Aryeh ready for a miracle?
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen shows that he’s at the top of a crowded pack of countertenors in two recent New York performances with Philharmonia Baroque.
Samson et Dalila
Clay Hilley, Aigul Akhmetshina, and Quinn Kelsey star in the first Saturday Matinée Broadcast of the season, live from New York
Streaming and discussion start Dec 5 at 12:00 PM
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Faerie tale theatre
Zémire et Azor, André-Ernest-Modest Grétry‘s riff on “Beauty and the Beast”, gets a rare outing in the Berkshires.
Hit me with your best shot
Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s production of Der Freischütz in Munich may fire a few blanks, but the musicians are all on target.
Bel canto snarl for bel canto snarl
Rising stars Chelsea Lehnea and Ricardo José Rivera are the protagonists of this week’s Grand Tier Grab Bag.
The juice is on the loose
The bonkers, bewildering Die ägyptische Helena begets a suitably lush musical and creative treatment at Bard SummerScape.
Sealing the deal
The Bayerische Staatsoper’s summer festival wound down with Lotte de Beer’s darkly effective production of Gounod ’sFaust.
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).