The debut of soprano Angel Blue is but one highlight of tonight’s live broadcast from the Met.
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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.
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.
This afternoon the Royal Opera House offers a first glimpse of Richard Jones‘ new production of La bohème, the first at that theater since about 1735 or so.
This afternoon at 1:00 PM, The Ghosts of Versailles from Los Angeles Opera: all this and Patti LuPone too!
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.)
As if to usher in next week’s daily broadcasts from Bayreuth, this afternoon offers a choice between two Wagner operas: Lohengrin from the Vienna State Opera and Tannhäuser from Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Summertime, and the canto is bel from Lyric Opera of Chicago, starting at 1:00 PM EDT.
A telecast from the Norske Opera of Puccini’s Tosca, directed by Calixto Bieito.
he listening and the commenting on this Lyric Opera of Chicago broadcast begin at 1:00 pm today.
This afternoon’s discussion centers around Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Don Quichotte, broadcast at 1:00 PM.
La Cieca (not pictured) assumes the cher public will be here for the duration of Les Troyens from Lyric Opera of Chicago starting this afternoon at 1:00 PM. (Photo: Todd Rosenberg)
For your listening and discussing pleasure this afternoon, cher public, we offer Lucia di Lammermoor from Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Here’s where you can discuss La Fleming‘s penultimate Marschallin, as these nice young people seem to be doing.
