God, I love that photo of Lisa della Casa. She can sing, too!

As I mentioned in a previous post, one of my two favorite operas is Les Troyens,

Pierre Boulez continuously challenged me and totally changed the way I listen to music.

This week’s “Montag mit Marianne” highlights an extremely homoerotic Peter Grimes at Theater an der Wien (Christof Loy, Regisseur.)

A much-loved diva overdue for this site is Anna Moffo.

It may be bordering on cliché, but here’s the Bach Weihnachtsoratorium, complete with all six sections.

I think my love/hate relationship with Händel stems from the fact that during my early days as an operagoer there simply wasn’t any to hear.

A while back, there was a great outcry for some Meyerbeer…

Has anyone ever seen a truly great production of La forza del destino?

Two years before she brought the role to Wiener Staatsoper in a production somewhat dominated by Jonas Kaufmann, soprano Nina Stemme sang her first-ever Minnie in La fanciulla del West at Stockholm’s Royal Opera. 

It’s time for the annual celebration of the birth of Leonie Rysanek (who, as you know, is your alte Jungfer’s Diva of Divas).

Chances are that if you know the title Esclarmonde, you pretty much already know the basics.

Whatever happened to Stefania Bonfadelli?

Among the goals for my Mixcloud page are more Mozart, and to pay tribute to more of our living legends.

I guess you have spoken: “Bring us insane divas in operas we already know!”

My attempt at garnering some attention for forgotten and ignored Czech operas hasn’t exactly been a success.

For those of you who can’t make it to the Met’s opening night, I am happy to provide you the opportunity to experience another Otello with a cast that was unmatchable for 1981.

While they seemed made for each other as stage partners, Montserrat Caballé and Luciano Pavarotti sang relatively few performances together.

While Bernard Herrmann is remembered primarily for the seven films on which he collaborated with Hitchcock, he also composed one opera: Wuthering Heights, written between 1943 and 1951.

Since the 1916 version of Ariadne auf Naxos which we all know and love had its premiere at Wiener Staatsoper, it seems most appropriate to bring you this 1967 performance from the same venue, with a legendary cast at its zenith.

In attempting to get a little bit of everything onto my Mixcloud page, I realized that I inadvertently neglected some essentials: 1) Leyla Gencer 2) La Gioconda.