Now sleeps the crimson petal
Gregory Spears’s Sleepers Awake mystifies and delights at Opera Philadelphia.
East Coast
Kuda, woulda, shoulda
A strong revival of Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera and a recital by Benjamin Bernheim offered the chance to hear “Kuda, kuda” twice in two days.
La bohème
A live broadcast from New York
Streamed April 21, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Dodging a bullet
Dull conducting makes Der Freischütz miss its mark at Carnegie Hall.
Eugene Onegin
Asmik Grigorian and IIurii Samoilov lead a live opening night broadcast from New York
Streamed April 20, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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In the garden of Eden
Gregory Spears, whose newest opera Sleepers Awake opens this week at Opera Philadelphia, is reviving Romanticism
Innocence
Kaija Saariaho's final opera in a live broadcast from New York
Streamed April 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Music to heal the hurt
Ten years since the death of countertenor Brian Asawa, Charles Stanton remembers his friend and corrects the record on his untimely passing.
By Charles Stanton
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Northern lights
SoCal goes Scandi in two recent concerts, with one featuring an appearance by Lise Davidsen.
La bohème
A live broadcast from New York
Streamed April 15, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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Landing the plane
With Nixon, Klinghoffer, and Andris Nelsons on the mind, Parterre Box offers a recording of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s recent John Adams outing.
That time of evening
Golda Schultz soldiers through illness at the New York Philharmonic.
Heaven, here within my heart
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra explores love and death in an intense, intelligent program featuring soprano Corinne Winters.
Rose to the occasion
The embattled Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bring Adams and Dvorák to Carnegie Hall.
Don Giovanni
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a performance recorded last fall in New York
Streamed April 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Darkling I listen
Golda Schultz casts darkness in an alluring light in an intimate recital at the New Orleans Opera Festival.
A specter, haunting
Kaija Saariaho’s spectral, shattering Innocence makes its Metropolitan Opera debut.
Festspiel for the consecration of the French Quarter
The inaugural New Orleans Opera Festival goes big across the Big Easy.
Cavalcade of stars
Back-to-back casts in the Metropolitan Opera’s revivals of Madama Butterfly and La traviata offer ample opportunity for soprano-gazing.
Innocence
The opening night of Kaija Saariaho's final opera, live from New York
Streamed April 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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French revolution
Benjamin Bernheim opens up to Emma Hoffman about what really makes a French tenor ahead of his New York recital debut.
La gioconda
Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Fiorenza Cossotto, and Cornell MacNeil are the golden age quartet in a performance of Ponchielli's opera from 1968
Streamed April 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Youth has no age
Led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Yoann Combémorel, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra proves themselves the equal of any major American orchestra in a program of Mahler, Wagner, and Dawson.
Anime sante degli avi
Madama Butterfly confronts anime, virtual reality, and weeaboos in Matthew Ozawa‘s bold production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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).