A live video broadcast from Vienna
Opera Director and Detroit Opera Artistic Director Yuval Sharon begins his recent book A New Philosophy of Opera by imagining a future – some forty to fifty years from now – in which opera ceases to exist as an art form.
Antonio Pappano leads a performance recorded in London last month
Asmik Grigorian pulls a hat trick in Puccini‘s triple bill recorded (and reviewed) last month in Paris
Contrasting approaches to Regie duke it out in Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci and Rusalka in Munich
Krzysztof Warlikowski‘s Der Rosenkavalier at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées surpasses even Nigel Wilkinson‘s high ‘WTF threshhold’
In a satanic panic, this week Chris’s Cache presents trio of performances of Mefistofele
Francesco Filidei’s new opera The Name of the Rose struggles to bridge the past and the present in Milan
A double bill of rare Bizet works in Paris is not something any of us needs to do more than once
Joseph Caldwell produced this charming tale from a year spent in Italy on the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Following last week’s performances in Cleveland, Ronnie Banerjee compares six different versions of the Kostelnicka’s monologue from Leos Janácek’s Jenufa for “Perspectives on an Aria”
Corinne Winters is back at the Met and back in the pages of parterre box, which inclines us to share a bit of Winters in Jenufa
A live performance streamed from the Wiener Staatsoper.
The Met’s mostly successful revivals of The Queen of Spades and La bohème showcase the returns of Sonya Yoncheva and Corinne Winters
Henze‘s opera in a live broadcast from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Seven Deadly Sins, Mahagonny Singspiel, and The Songs of Happy End live from Milan
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
George Benjamin‘s opera live from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome
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.
Philippe Jaroussky conducts a performance recorded last month in Montpellier featuring Levy Sekgapane
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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