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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.
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.
The Met’s creepy double bill is broadcast this afternoon starting at 12:30 PM.
The Donizetti comedy returns to the Met tonight starting at 7:30 PM.
Some Bizet work for Saturday afternoon.
Stefan Herheim‘s intensely enjoyable “barocke Muppet-Show” take on Handel’s opera starts streaming at 1:00 PM today on OperaVision.
Live from the Komische Oper in Berlin: the premiere of Barrie Kosky‘s new production of La bohème.
Nico Muhly‘s psychological thriller.
Hear the symbols ring as the Met’s moody double bill returns to the stage.
Astounding Anita Rachvelishvili gets mixed up with Saxe and violets
It’s the final Otello broadcast of the Met season.
This rainy afternoon’s Met broadcast: Otello.
We reach the final day of “The Advent of Anna” in anticipation of her first Met Adriana Lecouvreur, to be broadcast tonight at 5:55 PM.
The Met’s mini-Flute is broadcast at 1:00 PM.
Diana Damrau returns as Violetta for the Met’s broadcast.
The Met falls back to October for a pre-recorded broadcast of La fanciulla del West this afternoon at 1:00 PM.
La Cieca invites the cher public (not pictured) to hear and discuss this afternoon’s broadcast of La traviata from the Met.
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel makes his long-awaited Met debut tonight at 8:00 PM.
Your doyenne’s origin myth must always be understood to begin with the bite of a radioactive soprano way back in 1976.
La Cieca invites the cher public (pictured) to hear and discuss this afternoon’s broadcast of Il trittico.
The thrilling trio of Jonas Kaufmann, Gerald Finley (pictured) and Anja Harteros star in the Bayerische Staatsoper’s production of Otello.
As such, your doyenne provides links to various departments at Amazon.com through which you may peruse possible gifts for your nearest and dearest (including, of course, yourself.)
Bizet returns to the Met tonight at 7:30, and it’s broadcast live!
The BBC’s program of live broadcasts of Wagner’s Ring starts this afternoon with Das Rheingold at 1:30 PM.
Sondra Radvanovsky takes up candle-toting duties tonight at 7:25 in a live broadcast of Tosca from the Met. Discuss!
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