A Baroque Valentine’s with Opera Lafayette | Feb | DC & NYC
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
A live broadcast from New York
A live broadcast from New York
A broadcast from 1975 celebrates 50 years since the Met debut of Beverly Sills
A live broadcast from New York
A live broadcast from New York
A live broadcast from New York
A muted and merry carousel ride out of feudalism in the Met’s production of Le nozze di Figaro
A live broadcast from New York
Look, for one of the most-staged operas in the repertoire, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte seems awfully difficult to stage.
A live broadcast from New York
Hilda Harris and Catherine Malfitano in an 1981 broadcast to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ravel‘s opera
Christina Nilsson‘s debut enlivens the Met’s new Aïda.
The conclusion of the Metropolitan Opera’s annual competition, live from New York
Fidelio, which opened last week at the Metropolitan Opera, will always be relevant, I fear.
The term “narrative prosthesis” refers to the tendency for works of literature to use disability as the conflict upon which the whole narrative hinges. Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is a quintessential example of “narrative prosthesis.”
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.
