“The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen…”
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.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Yusif Eyvazov, who were married in Vienna just now.
Now, understand, this is the snippiest of snippets, but it is indeed the first hint of Anna Netrebko‘s Turandot!
This is the tenth season of the Met’s HD broadcasts, not that I would know it.
“This throwback to the golden age of opera—superhuman singing greeted with frenzied ovations—was a function of a perfect storm of excitement.”
A clearly moved Hvorostovsky basked in the moment and momentarily broke character to acknowledge the love.
Anna, Bart and Peter talk about the Met’s new season with the always engaging Michael Cooper of the New York Times.
Emue aux larmes, la diva lui a donné son consentement.
Anna Netrebko adds yet another veristic aria to her burgeoning repertoire: “L’altra notte in fondo al mare” from Boito’s Mefistofele.
La Cieca hears that Anna Netrebko‘s forthcoming Verismo CD will include the complete Act Four of Manon Lescaut.
The above is, bar none, the greatest headline ever written.
Long rumored, here it is: Anna Netrebko sings “Suicidio!” from La Gioconda!
Yet another new role for Anna Netrebko on the horizon: in a press conference yesterday in Mexico, the soprano announced she plans to sing Adriana Lecouvreur.
The program Anna Netrebko sang at Beaver Creek on Thursday included her first public performance of “Suicidio!” from La Gioconda.
Last night’s complete concert version of Die Csárdásfürstin from Dresden is viewable, after the jump.
You figured it out a fortnight ago, cher public.
The role debut of a world-class singer is always a time of great anticipation, hopefully to be followed by celebration, if not unbridled jubilation.
An early preview of the new Netrebko/Barneboim/Strauss CD
, including Anna’s first performance of the “Vier letzte Lieder.”
“This is obviously a difficult situation. But who knows Hans New Rock, knows his cool and objective aesthetic decision.”
During the Munich Opera Festival performances of Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (28th and 31st of July 2015) Kristine Opolais will replace Anna Netrebko in the title role.
Join the party, cher public, for the free web broadcast of Macbeth tonight starting at 7:15. Of course, La Casa della Cieca will be buzzing!
That miracle of the internet age, the slow leak, has begun.
Maestro Christian Thielemann has made his choice for Lohengrin casting in Dresden and, later, Bayreuth: “Anna Netrebko als Elsa und Piotr Beczala in der Titelpartie.”
