Christopher Corwin on three stylish sopranos delighting audiences live in New York and on recording in a trio of new releases.
A Baroque Valentine’s with Opera Lafayette | Feb | DC & NYC
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
A live broadcast from New York
An uneven new cast can’t dim the glow of Richard Eyre‘s incisive Le nozze di Figaro at the Met
Brian Jadge will be replaced by Brandon Jovanovich in the upcoming revival of The Queen of Spades, announces the Met press office
Elza van den Heever and Peter Mattei (and the stage elevator) elevate an assertive, if not definitive, new Salome at the Met
A performance recorded last fall in New York
A live broadcast from New York
A live broadcast from New York
A broadcast from 1975 celebrates 50 years since the Met debut of Beverly Sills
A live broadcast from New York
A live broadcast from New York
A muted and merry carousel ride out of feudalism in the Met’s production of Le nozze di Figaro
A live broadcast from New York
Look, for one of the most-staged operas in the repertoire, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte seems awfully difficult to stage.
A live broadcast from New York
Hilda Harris and Catherine Malfitano in an 1981 broadcast to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ravel‘s opera
Christina Nilsson‘s debut enlivens the Met’s new Aïda.
The conclusion of the Metropolitan Opera’s annual competition, live from New York
Fidelio, which opened last week at the Metropolitan Opera, will always be relevant, I fear.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
