Claudio Abbado made his Met debut on 7 October 1968 conducting Verdi’s Don Carlo, led five more performances through 14 November, and then never returned. Chris’s Cache offers the only complete recording I’ve run across from that run.
A live broadcast from Venice featuring Anna Caterina Antonacci as Madame de Croissy
Francesco Filidei’s new opera The Name of the Rose struggles to bridge the past and the present in Milan
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”
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
George Benjamin‘s opera live from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome
John Yohalem wraps up Donizetti Month at parterre box with a look back at nearly six decades of Donizetti operagoing.
A live broadcast from Milan of the world premiere of Francesco Filidei’s opera based on Umberto Eco‘s novel
Corinne Winters dons the habit in a live broadcast of a unique double bill from Rome
Jessica Pratt sings the title role in a live broadcast from Trieste
Pascal Dusapin‘s dynamic and demanding traversal of Dante‘s Commedia arrives at the Paris Opera
A live broadcast from Venice’s Teatro la Fenice
Donizetti wrote so much great music, it’s hard to single out a favorite opera, or even a preferred aria!
Florian Leopold Gassmann‘s rare comedy live from Milan
Prompted by Washington Concert Opera’s upcoming Luisa Miller, Chris Cache’s misbehaves five times by offering just the opera’s final act with sopranos from the 1970s, some of whom might be considered “under-appreciated”: Gabriella Tucci, Adriana Maliponte, Renata Scotto, Gilda Cruz-Romo, and Katia Ricciarelli.
A performance recorded earlier this year at the Teatro Regio di Parma.
Larry Wolff continues his musings on Verdi’s varied career, this time over Giovanna d’Arco at the Teatro Regio in Parma
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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