It’s Choose Your Own Sir John Day at parterre, cher public.
Bass James Morris marks his 1,000th Met performance in tonight’s broadcast of Turandot.
Pulthunk Jordan de Souza leads a new production of Debussy’s opera directed by Barrie Kosky, a video from the Komische Oper Berlin, starting at noon EDT.
To hear and to discuss: Weber’s Oberon starring Jonas Kaufmann, this afternoon at 1:00 PM.
I think affairs that you must keep Masonic are better bets if little pets get big broadcasts.
This broadcast from the Royal Opera House features Michael Fabiano and Nicole Car among the bohemians.
The debut of soprano Angel Blue is but one highlight of tonight’s live broadcast from the Met.
A live recording of the Barber/Menotti weepie from the 2016 Wexford Festival
The performance and the obligatory parterre chat both begin at 6:30 PM EDT.
In a classic live performance from more then 50 years ago, Montserrat Caballé is Desdemona to the Otello of James McCracken.
An exciting performance and a legendary feud.
Without the graffiti, San Francisco Opera’s Aïda is notable for Leah Crocetto in the title role.
Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia featuring Krassimira Stoyanova, Ildar Abdrazakov and Juan Diego Flórez.
This afternoon at 1:00 PM, The Ghosts of Versailles from Los Angeles Opera: all this and Patti LuPone too!
Michael Fabiano and Sonya Yoncheva star in Great Performances at the Met’s telecast of La Traviata tonight at 9:00 PM.
A new Pelléas et Mélisande from the Vienna State Opera featuring Simon Keenlyside as Golaud.
Listening and discussion of the new Salzburg Festival Aïda, featuring Anna Netrebko in her role debut as the titular princess in captivity.
Let’s listen, cher public, to Siegfried, live from the Bayreuth Festival, starting at 10:00 AM.
The Bayreuth Ring (and perhaps the parterre discussion?) continues at 10:00 AM.
Get your kicks on Siegfried-Wagner-Alee.
We move on to Bayreuth’s revival of Parsifal.
Today’s conversation piece from Bayreuth: a revival of Tristan und Isolde with Stephen Gould and Petra Lang conducted by Christian Thielemann.
The cher public are invited to hear and comment upon the opening performance of the 2017 Bayreuth Festspiele, featuring a new production of Meistersinger directed by Barrie Kosky. Broadcasts from various sources begin between 9:45 and 10:00 AM EDT. (These daytime Bayreuth listening parties continue into next week.)
Mariusz Kwiecien heads the cast of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Don Giovanni, starting at 1:00 PM today.
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.
