Tannhäuser
Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner’s Tannhäuser live from New York with Elza van den Heever, Ekaterina Gubanova, Andreas Schager, Christian Gerhaher, and Georg Zeppenfeld
Broadcast
Mefistofele
Michele Mariotti conducts John Relyea, Joshua Guerrero, Maria Agresta, Sofia Koberidze and Marco Miglietta in a live opening night broadcast from Rome
Wozzeck
Simon Rattle conducts Christian Gerhaher, Malin Bystrom, Thomas Blondelle, Brindley Sherratt, and Peter Hoare in a performance from Aix-en-Provence recorded this summer
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Kazeem Abdullah conducts Will Liverman, Leah Hawkins, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Michael Sumuel, and Victor Ryan Robertson in a live broadcast from New York
Le Grand Macabre
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Georg Nigl, Sarah Aristidou, Andrew Watts, Maria Nazarova, Isabel Signoret, Wolfgang Bankl, and Hans Peter Kammerer in a broadcast from Vienna.
L’Aube rouge
Guillaume Tornaire conducts Andreea Soare, Andrew Morstein, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Ava Dodd, Hannah O’Brien, Emma Jüngling, and Dominica Williams in Camille Erlanger‘s 1911 opera from this year’s Wexford Festival
Florencia en el Amazonas
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Ailyn Pérez, Gabriella Reyes, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Mario Chang, Michael Chioldi, Mattia Olivieri, and Greer Grimsley in the Met premiere of Daniel Catán and Marcela Fuentes-Berain‘s opera.
Le nozze di Figaro
Raphaël Pichon conducts Andrè Schuen, Adriana González, Sabine Devieilhe, Krzysztof B?czyk, and Lea Desandre in a performance recorded at this year’s Salzburg Festival.
Un ballo in maschera
Carlo Rizzi conducts Angela Meade, Liv Redpath, Olesya Petrova, Charles Castronovo, and Quinn Kelsey in a broadcast from New York
Manon Lescaut
Jader Bignamini conducts Anna Netrebko, Davide Luciano, Joshua Guerrero and Evgeny Solodovnikov in a broadcast from Vienna.
Operalia 2023 Finals
Live from Cape Town, South Africa, the finals of the 2023 Operalia Competition
Parsifal
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Andreas Schager, Georg Zeppenfeld, Elina Garanca, Derek Welton, and Jordan Shanahan in a recording from this summer’s Bayreuth Festival.
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Kazeem Abdullah conducts Will Liverman, Leah Hawkins, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Michael Sumuel, and Victor Ryan Robertson in a season premiere broadcast from New York
Das Rheingold
Alain Altinonglu conducts Gábor Bretz, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Anett Frisch, Scott Hendricks, and Nicky Spence live from Brussels.
L’amore dei tre re
Pinchas Steinberg conducts Evgeny Stavinsky, Roman Burdenko, Giorgio Berrugi, Giorgio Misseri, Andrea Tanzillo, and Chiara Isotton in Italo Montemezzi‘s fairytale opera live from Milan.
La bohème
Carlo Rizzi conducts Federica Lombardi, Matthew Polenzani, Adam Plachetka, Olga Kulchynska, and Christian Van Horn (again) in a broadcast from New York
La forza del destino
Sondra Radvanovsky, Brian Jagde, Etienne Dupuis, and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in a (surely very loud) broadcast from London conducted by Mark Elder.
Un ballo in maschera
Carlo Rizzi conducts Angela Meade, Liv Redpath, Olesya Petrova, Charles Castronovo, and Quinn Kelsey in a broadcast from New York
Picture a day like this
George Benjamin and Martin Crimp‘s latest opera from London conducted by Corinna Neymeyer and starring Ema Nikolovska, Jacquelyn Stucker, Beate Mordal, and Cameron Shahbazii
La bohème
Carlo Rizzi conducts Federica Lombardi, Matthew Polenzani, Adam Plachetka, Olga Kulchynska, and Christian Van Horn in a broadcast from New York
Il trittico
Philippe Jordan conducts Michael Volle, Joshua Guerrero, Anja Kampe, Eleonora Burrato, Michaela Schuster, Ambrogio Maestri, and Serena Sáenz in Tatjana Gürbaca‘s new production from Vienna.
Nabucco
Daniele Callegari conducts George Gagnidze, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Maria Barakova, SeokJong Baek in the second of 14 (yes, 14!) performances of Verdi’s opera at the Met this season
Aida
Nicola Luisotti conducts Marina Rebeka, Elina Garanca, Yusif Eyvazov and Gabriele Viviani in a live broadcast from the Staatsopen Unter den Linden.
Les Martyrs
Donizetti’s Les Martyrs in a broadcast from Vienna with Roberta Mantegna, John Osborn, and Mattia Olivieri
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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).
