Old pros Gregory Kunde and Pier Luigi Pizzi anchor a new staging of Stiffelio co-produced by three theaters in Emilia-Romagna.
Franz Welser-Möst leads a rigorous, if emotionally staid, performance of Verdi‘s Requiem at Carnegie Hall.
Part of the annual Festival Illica honoring the city’s native son Luigi Illica, the performance offered a precious opportunity to hear a rare score by an even rarer composer in a gorgeous medieval piazza.
Grand Tier Grab Bag anticipates Elina Garanca‘s upcoming Zwischenfach pivot by sharing her in some other not-quite-mezzo repertoire opposite Brian Jagde.
Vincent Lombardo pays poetic tribute to the 60-year-long career of Robert Wilson.
Daniele Rustioni, who starts his tenure as Met Principal Guest Conductor with Don Giovanni this week, might just be the opera conductor we’ve all been waiting for — and he’s betting on a long haul.
Grand Tier Grab Bag offers a face off of two Polish divas from Aleksandra Kurzak‘s debut performances as Aïda in Verona this summer.
A new recording of Boito‘s Nerone from Cagliari shows off an epic opera with fire and flamboyance
Macbeth at the Festival Verdi in Parma aims big — on a small scale
A pair of Otellos – in Madrid and Parma – is a study in contrasts.
Anna Pirozzi and Luca Salsi reunite in blazing form in Tosca at the Teatro San Carlo
There was that Tristan.
Wolf Trap Opera’s stirring production of Dialogues des Carmélites was a welcome respite from a brutally hot and humid DC summer.
Daniela Barcellona leads a live broadcast from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
A live broadcast from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
A recent review of Olga Maslova as Aïda is as good a reason as any to share a clip of her fascinating Turandot
It’s Norma, darling. We know.
Jessica Pratt’s last-minute Norma in Milan might well be the stuff of legend
Performances of Pittori fiamminghi and Madama Butterfly in picturesque Castell’Arquato were a fine way to honor Luigi Illica, the city’s native son
When such a canonically ossified work like Verdi’s Aïda is directed at all (let alone as ambitiously as Damiano Michieletto at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), it does feel like a completely different opera
A new production of Dialogues des Carmélites featuring Anna Caterina Antonacci proves that it’s hard to be an iconoclast in Venice.
A brilliant L’italiana in Algeri in Rome has Larry Wolff once again thinking about “singing Turks”
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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