Live from the Bayerische Staatsoper, a live video webcast of Les Vêpres siciliennes begins a 1:00 PM New York time.
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.
The melee in Mycenae returns for listening and discussion starting at 1:00 PM!
That’s how they’re going to do it tonight, starting at 7:25 PM.
Make an Assyrian of yourself!
The controversial heroine of Ermonela Jaho sings, with the opera beginning at 1:00 PM.
The neurosis kicks in at 7:55.
Make an Assyrian of yourself tonight starting at 7:25 PM!
Yet another whack at Trovatore tonight starting at 7:25, cher public!
The debut of soprano Angel Blue is but one highlight of tonight’s live broadcast from the Met.
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.
Lise Lindstrom and Roberto Alagna (not pictured) head the cast of the Royal Opera House’s Turandot.
Mary Zimmerman explains (more or less) “what’s wrong with opera audiences?”
Four of La Cieca’s favorite people, Diana Soviero, Ira Siff, Robert Lombardo and Ken Benson, assemble on November 9 at the impressively named “Metropolitan Opera Guild Learning Center”…
So how about another angle on Mawrdew Czgowchwz? Since, at the end of the novel, the eponymous oltrano decides to take a brief hiatus from her métier of “musicry” to star in motion picture, how about we produce (in the boundless realm of imagination) a film based on the McCourt novel? Above, La Cieca’s nominee…
The premiere of a new production of Lohengrin at Bayreuth is obviously this week’s hot topic. La Cieca suggests we continue on this thread thd discussion that began elsewhere on parterre.com and is also raging over at opera-l. (La Cieca invites the cher public and visitors to post links from other sites as well where…
