Zachary Woolfe (not pictured) makes his way to Bayreuth to try to unravel the Evgeny Nikitin mystery.
Evgeny Nikitin‘s controversial tattoos have left many people puzzled and given rise to a good deal of speculation.
I sang with Labadie last year and he was wonderful to work with. Very detailed.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 0 minutes ago
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 0 minutes ago
I just happened to have inherited a huge bin of CDs from my dear old friend, Shirley, who recorded everything she went to, for decades. There is a Medea or Medée in concert from NYC, with spoken...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Harry Rose · 2 minutes ago
Oh, this is a wildly exciting choice. Thank you Camille!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 4 minutes ago
I adore those big production numbers in movie musicals. I wish I could go out on the street, hear the music, break into song, and suddenly virile hunky guys in tight pants and tall boots would...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 4 minutes ago
Thank you for this selection. I'm very intrigued by Amartuvshin Enkhbat and have not yet heard him in person.
In theater on this date: Laura Keene made her final Broadway appearance in 1871’s Nobody’s Child. IN addition to acting, she produced and directed it. Marshall Farnum, brother of Dustin and...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 8 minutes ago
Yes, she does. Good she has been teaching.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 9 minutes ago
My parents were there! Also-Oedipe- Vanzo and Berbié's local debuts though that got lost in the clamor. I actually like that cabaletta when done as well as Devia does it, the ending feels...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 10 minutes ago
Please don’t dispell my rosy pinions!
He’s the first thing to have made me happy on a stage in a long winter’s night.
Yeah, well, the brunette ones of Caravaggio always look hungover.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Leyla Gender-Bender · 10 minutes ago
Like some of those putti, he looks pretty , um, worldly to me!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Leyla Gender-Bender · 15 minutes ago
June didn't do much "bustin' out" in Boston, although a little might have leaked out at the edges.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 17 minutes ago
You’re Ant Nettie? Hope you rule with an iron fist in that boarding house of yours to keep them sailors from all kind of shenanigans! Just sheer, unadulterated unapologetic Amurican cornpone. I...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 21 minutes ago
Devia: that woman displays a nearly flawless vocal technique
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 26 minutes ago
Pleeeeez—Nicht Böser Bosie!!!
See my description above⬆️
A favorite Donizetti performance from Leyla Gender-Bender · 27 minutes ago
Okay. Gotcha
Since no one need hear my spew here, I’ll save it. Suffice it to say — Mr Cutting was a putto stepped straight out of a Caravaggio canvas, con voce d’angelo!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Leyla Gender-Bender · 28 minutes ago
https://youtu.be/VCCuhpp3bb0?si=8vDjBSu6RBpuZWsj how I usually perceive an R & H show. I grew up watching these movies and my...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 29 minutes ago
I agree, but here's something that bothered me more that is also specific to Boston. It was a missed opportunity to make the Colonial Theatre a character in the show. How is the world...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 40 minutes ago
Here's another thing that pisses me off about the BLO version. There is a (highly) relevant consideration that the overall conceit evaded, because it was so abstract, nowhere and...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 47 minutes ago
Thank you!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Leyla Gender-Bender · 56 minutes ago
Tristan has been the season-launching opera three times before now, but good luck finding someone to provide a firsthand account of the last time.
“The island is only small / But the fairies inhabiting it / Welcome us all”
That means you—and your even more significant other—should you win this pair of seats. Enter now »
“The island is only small / But the fairies inhabiting it / Welcome us all”
That means you—and your even more significant other—should you win this pair of seats. Enter now »
Zachary Woolfe (not pictured) makes his way to Bayreuth to try to unravel the Evgeny Nikitin mystery.
Evgeny Nikitin‘s controversial tattoos have left many people puzzled and given rise to a good deal of speculation.
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Yannick leads The Philadelphia Orchestra, superstars Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, and world-class singers in a rare concert performance that reveals every detail and nuance of this richly harmonic score. Experience the passion and cold-hearted revenge of this scandalous opera. Get tickets now!
Yannick leads The Philadelphia Orchestra, superstars Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, and world-class singers in a rare concert performance that reveals every detail and nuance of this richly harmonic score. Experience the passion and cold-hearted revenge of this scandalous opera. Get tickets now!
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