Christopher Corwin on three stylish sopranos delighting audiences live in New York and on recording in a trio of new releases.
The Jupiter Ensemble with Lea Desandre and Anthony Roth Costanzo offers sleek and sexy HIP inaugurates the Frick Collection’s new Stephen A. Schwartzman Auditorium
Lise Davidsen‘s singular Senta dominates the forces of the Norwegian National Opera in a roiling new recording of Der fliegende Holländer out now on Decca Classics
Sofia Coppola‘s cult classic Marie Antoinette is best known for blending a whimsically baroque visuals with a post-punk score.
John Yohalem wraps up Donizetti Month at parterre box with a look back at nearly six decades of Donizetti operagoing.
Matthew Travisano takes on Mimì’s Act III aria from La bohème — not that one, the other one — in the latest installment of the “Perspectives on an Aria” series
A live broadcast from Milan of the world premiere of Francesco Filidei’s opera based on Umberto Eco‘s novel
A performance recorded earlier this month at the Salzburg Easter Festival.
Corinne Winters dons the habit in a live broadcast of a unique double bill from Rome
Félix Fourdrain‘s “féerie” Les Contes de Perrault by the Frivolités Parisiennes is as fun for adults as it is for children
Donizetti’s never been a desert island composer of mine, but he comes close when I hear Edita Gruberova in her prime.
Don Carlos returns to the Opéra National de Paris and it’s an unusually happy occasion
Jessica Pratt sings the title role in a live broadcast from Trieste
It may be blasphemy to admit—particularly this month—but usually I can either take or leave Donizetti’s serious operas. However, I love the composer in comic mode, so Chris’s Cache runs with that sentiment in offering three recordings of Don Pasquale.
Madison Schindele on loving Die Frau ohne Schatten as a “woman of childbearing age”
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.
Pascal Dusapin‘s dynamic and demanding traversal of Dante‘s Commedia arrives at the Paris Opera
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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