Staring into the abbess
Dan Johnson gives an inside look at the creation of Sarah Kirkland Snider‘s rapturous new opera Hildegard which opens at New York’s PROTOTYPE Festival next week.
New York
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The new opera by Mason Bates and Gene Scheer in a performance recorded in New York last fall
Streamed January 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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I Puritani
A live New Year's Eve broadcast from New York featuring Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee
Streamed December 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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O stars of wonder, stars of night
A starry (and potentially annual) Christmas gala lights up Carnegie Hall.
Handel at the Met
The Met celebrates 300 years of Rodelinda with a look back at over 40 years of Handel performances at the house
Streamed December 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Contes stop won’t stop
Juan Diego Flórez and Damiano Michieletto concoct an absinthe-fueled fever dream in a new DVD from The Royal Ballet and Opera and Opusarte.
The Magic Flute
A performance of the beloved (and inescapable) abridged English-language version of Mozart's Singspiel live from New York
Streamed December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Mein Lieder Schwan
Matthew Polenzani charms the pants off of Philadelphia.
Old friends, new friends
Les Arts Florissants present two ravishing programs in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Andrea Chénier
Daniele Rustioni conducts Giordano's melodrama live from New York
Streamed December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Sublime loneliness
Across three evenings at the 92nd Street Y, Konstantin Krimmel and Ammiel Bushakevitz traversed all of Schubert‘s major song cycles with stark intensity.
Follow your bliss
In recital for the Los Angeles Opera, tenor Ben Bliss makes the case for the next stage of his career.
The Magic Flute
The inescapable family favorite, live from New York
Streamed December 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Mezzo in the dark
It is a physical pleasure to hear Kate Lindsey at close quarters.
Scenes from a revolution
“This isn’t an opera that touches on queer themes; it’s a bundle of queer themes tied up in an opera.”
Jamie Barton sings “Maria Wiegenlied”
Like Type 2 Diabetes, symptoms of YAS (Yuletide Aversion Syndrome) commonly creep up on gay men after manopause.
By Peter Russell
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Porgy and Bess
A live broadcast of the Gershwins' opera from New York
Streamed December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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So brutal but also so joyful
Composer Philip Venables talks about queer utopias and bending gender and genre in The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions which opens at the Park Avenue Armory this week.
Big time sensuality
Barbara Strozzi links two sensuous programs by L’Arpeggiata and Catapult Opera.
To be a poet is a condition
Are today’s stars enough to sustain Andrea Chénier?
Hear, O Israel
As Messiah season begins, Christopher Corwin reports on two of Handel’s forays into the Old Testament.
By Christopher Corwin
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Andrea Chénier
Umberto Giordano's verismo opera in a live broadcast from New York
Streamed November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I’m still thinking about Peter Sellars’s Così fan tutte
I never thought an opera production could be this well done.
By Brian Newhouse
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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).