La clemenza di Tito
Raphaël Pichon conducts Pene Pati, Karine Deshayes, Marianne Crebassa, Lea Desandre, Emily Pogorelc, and Nahuel di Pierro in a recent performance from Aix-en-Provence
Broadcast
Ariodante
Federico Maria Sardelli conducts Cecilia Molinari, Teresa Iervolino, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Theodora Raftis, and Manuel Amati in a live broadcast from the Festival della Valle D’Itria in Martina Franca
Norma
Fabio Luisi conducts Jacquelyn Wagner, Valentina Farcas, Airam Hernández, and Goran Juric in a live broadcast from the Festival della Valle D’Itria in Martina Franca
Das Rheingold
Antonio Pappano conducts Christopher Maltman, Christopher Purves, Sean Panikkar, Marina Prudenskaya, Kiandra Howarth, and Wiebke Lehmkuhl in a performance recorded in London last fall
Le nozze di Figaro
Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts Peter Mattei, Golda Schultz, Tommaso Barea, Anna El-Khashem, and Rebecka Wallroth in a live performance from the Verbier Festival
Così fan tutte
Philippe Jordan conducts Federica Lombardi, Emily D’Angelo, Peter Kellner, Filipe Manu, Kate Lindsey, and Christopher Maltman in a performance from last month in Vienna
Madama Butterfly
Daniele Rustioni conducts Ermonela Jaho, Adam Smith, Mihoko Fujimura, and Lionel Lhote in a slightly delayed broadcast of Andrea Breth‘s production from Aix-en-Provence
Così fan tutte
A performance recorded earlier this month in London featuring Golda Schultz, Samantha Hankey, Daniel Behle, Andrè Schuen, Gerald Finley, and Jennifer France conducted by Alexander Soddy
Samson
Raphaël Pichon conducts the Pygmalion ensemble and Jarrett Ott, Jacquelyn Stucker, Lea Desandre, and Nahuel Di Pierro in Claus Guth‘s revivification of Rameau and Voltaire‘s lost opera live from Aix-en-Provence
Iphigénie en Aulide et en Tauride
A broadcast of Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s back-to-back Gluck productions from Aix-en-Provence featuring Corinne Winters, Russell Braun, Véronique Gens, Florian Sempey, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, and Alexandre Duhamel with Le Concert d’Astrée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm
Pelleas et Mélisande
Ben Bliss, Sabine Devieilhe, Franz-Josef Selig, Sophie Koch, and Christian Gerhaher are conducted in a live broadcast from the Munich Opera Festival by Hannu Lintu
Samson
Raphaël Pichon conducts the Pygmalion ensemble and Jarrett Ott, Jacquelyn Stucker, Lea Desandre, and Nahuel Di Pierro in Claus Guth‘s revivification of Rameau and Voltaire‘s lost opera from Aix-en-Provence
Iphigénie en Aulide et en Tauride
A broadcast of this summer’s Gluckathon from Aix-en-Provence featuring Corinne Winters, Russell Braun, Véronique Gens, Florian Sempey, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, and Alexandre Duhamel with Le Concert d’Astrée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm
L’incoronazione di Poppea
Julie Fuchs, David Hansen, Magdalena Kozená, Xavier Sabata, and Nahuel Di Pierro are conducted by Jordi Savall in a performance recorded last summer in Barcelona
Madama Butterfly
Daniele Rustioni conducts Ermonela Jaho, Adam Smith, Mihoko Fujimura, and Lionel Lhote in a performance from Aix-en-Provence
Turandot
Michele Gamba conducts a performance of Davide Livermore‘s new production featuring Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Rosa Feola, and Vitalij Kowaljow live from La Scala
Il trittico
Philippe Jordan conducts Michael Volle, Joshua Guerrero, Anja Kampe, Eleonora Burrato, Michaela Schuster, Ambrogio Maestri, and Serena Sáenz in a performance from Vienna last fall
Idomeneo
Simon Rattle conducts Andrew Staples, Elsa Dreisig, Magdalena Kozená, Sabine Devieilhe, Allan Clayton, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mozart‘s opera seria recorded last December
Lakmé
Daniela Candillari conducts Aigul Khismatullina, Josh Lovell, Dean Murphy, Thomas Lehmann, and Mireille Lebel in a 2022 performance from Deutsche Oper Berlin
Das Lied von der Erde
Recent Richard Tucker Award winner Clay Hilley and Samuel Hasselhorn perform the tenor-baritone version of Mahler‘s song cycle in a performance recorded earlier this month in Frankfurt conducted by Alain Altinonglu
Turandot
Ewa Vesin, Stefano La Colla, Venera Gimadieva, and Michele Pertusi lead a live broadcast from Brussels conducted by Ouri Bronchti
Roberto Devereux
A performance from the Dutch National Opera featuring Barno Ismatullaeva, Ismael Jordi, and Angela Brower conducted by Enrique Mazzola recorded earlier this spring
Andrea Chenier
Antonio Pappano conducts Jonas Kaufmann, Sondra Radvanovsky, Aleksei Isaev, Katia Ledoux, and Elena Zilio in one of his valedictory performances from this spring
Così fan tutte
Philippe Jordan conducts Federica Lombardi, Emily D’Angelo, Peter Kellner, Filipe Manu, Kate Lindsey, and Christopher Maltman in a production by Barrie Kosky from Vienna
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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).
