Ahead of a broadcast in Europe on Arte on Sunday, parterre box has snagged a snippet of Asmik Grigorian‘s eagerly anticipated role debut as Norma in Vienna
Larry Wolff continues his musings on Verdi’s varied career, this time over Giovanna d’Arco at the Teatro Regio in Parma
Nigel Wilkinson takes on the first installment of the Paris Opera’s new Calixto Bieito-directed Ring Cycle
A live broadcast from Milan
Revivals of Falstaff in Milan and Don Carlo in Naples have Larry Wolff thinking across the six decades of Verdi‘s career
A live opening night broadcast from Rome.
A rare performance of Mascagni’s opera recorded at the Wexford Festival last fall.
Danielle de Niese can’t get off the phone in a performance recorded in Wales last month
Lisette Oropesa and Aigul Akhmetshina come to blows in a performance recorded last fall in Madrid.
When the birthdays start to pile up in the double digits in big round numbers, you start to examine your past and review what you have done with your life.
A live broadcast from the Vienna Staatsoper conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.
The forces of the Teatro La Fenice in a performance of Respighi‘s opera recorded last spring at Venice’s Teatro Malibran
Nigel Wilkinson reports on Teodor Curentzis and Peter Sellars‘s new production of Rameau‘s Castor et Pollux in Paris.
This is an astonishing recording by one of the greatest singers of the 19th century.
William Christie curates an evening of French Baroque music in a live broadcast from Carnegie Hall.
A live broadcast of a new production from the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Though I’ve sometimes complained that the Paris Opera, while supposedly short of cash, changes its productions nearly as often as the rest of us change our socks, André Engel’s Cunning Little Vixen first appeared there 17 years ago. At the time it was billed as ‘new’, though it actually dates back further still, to 2000 at the Lyon Opera. I saw it when it arrived at the Bastille and wrote it up at the time.
Carmen Giannatasio sings her first Minnie, under Riccardo Frizza, in a live broadcast from Bologna.
Nadine Sierra, Javier Camarena, and Artur Rucinski lead a live broadcast from Barcelona.
I was so beguiled by Erika Baikoff when I saw her perform at the Sag Harbor Song Festival back in September. Such a lovely and musical voice that just flows and when she sang this, she got mid-note applause during the final sustained B.
In Munich, performances by 97-year-old Herbert Blomstedt and 32-year-old Thomas Guggeis show the city’s orchestral ensembles at their best
The celebrated Austrian director, known for his picturesque and conservative stagings, was 94.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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