Bye bye baby
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”
Italy
Der junge Lord
Henze‘s opera in a live broadcast from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Weill Triptych
Seven Deadly Sins, Mahagonny Singspiel, and The Songs of Happy End live from Milan
Written on Skin
George Benjamin‘s opera live from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome
Masques et bergamasques
John Yohalem wraps up Donizetti Month at parterre box with a look back at nearly six decades of Donizetti operagoing.
Il nome della rosa
A live broadcast from Milan of the world premiere of Francesco Filidei’s opera based on Umberto Eco‘s novel
Suor Angelica & Il prigioniero
Corinne Winters dons the habit in a live broadcast of a unique double bill from Rome
Lucia di Lammermoor
Jessica Pratt sings the title role in a live broadcast from Trieste
Salome
A live broadcast from Florence starring Lidia Fridman in the title role
Selvaggia e aspra e forte
Pascal Dusapin‘s dynamic and demanding traversal of Dante‘s Commedia arrives at the Paris Opera
A favorite Donizetti performance from Lisette Oropesa
Donizetti wrote so much great music, it’s hard to single out a favorite opera, or even a preferred aria!
By Lisette Oropesa
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L’opera seria
Florian Leopold Gassmann‘s rare comedy live from Milan
Alcina
The opening night of a new production live from the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
Act out, Luisa
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.
Giovanna d’Arco
A performance recorded earlier this year at the Teatro Regio di Parma.
Voce di donna o diavolo
Larry Wolff continues his musings on Verdi’s varied career, this time over Giovanna d’Arco at the Teatro Regio in Parma
Rigoletto
A live broadcast from Florence’s Maggio Musical Fiorentino
Of paunches and princes
Revivals of Falstaff in Milan and Don Carlo in Naples have Larry Wolff thinking across the six decades of Verdi‘s career
Maria Egiziaca
The forces of the Teatro La Fenice in a performance of Respighi‘s opera recorded last spring at Venice’s Teatro Malibran
La fanciulla del west
Carmen Giannatasio sings her first Minnie, under Riccardo Frizza, in a live broadcast from Bologna.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).