“She wanted to be Beyoncé. She still does”
All right, folks, if you’re going to troll La Cieca, you might try just a little subtlety.
Today’s Rusalka video overview covers filmed performances of Dvorák’s opera since 2010.
While some once-popular Met operas have fallen into neglect in the past quarter century, Rusalka has returned regularly since its 1993 premiere.
Renée Fleming doesn’t sound Southern. In fact, she doesn’t even sound Earthian.
“An adventurous mix of music by Samuel Barber, Anders Hillborg and Björk…”
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 Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala promises (note, promises) a particularly glittery roster this year.
Sunday afternoon’s all-Richard Strauss concert served as a de facto commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the debut of Renée Fleming, long one of the house’s biggest stars.
The Met’s cobranding efforts are really beginning to pay off.
If I were Renée Fleming, I, too, would indulge myself.
The annual Richard Tucker Gala is probably the event of the year to indulge your love of verismo staples and can belto screaming.
The winter 2014 final run of the Met’s first/only Rusalka production (a new one is scheduled in a few seasons) seemed both a nod to the theater’s past and a hint of its future.
Fleming will have only about 700 people to captivate tonight when she performs at Walk Festival Hall for the Grand Teton Music Festival.
Christian Thielemann’s spirited, precise conducting and the superb, sumptuous playing of the Staatskapelle Dresden are the finest features of this strongly cast performance of Strauss’s Arabella.
“If Maria Callas remains the prototype of the stormy operatic diva, then Renée Fleming is the anti-Callas.”
As if wowing a capacity crowd at his Met debut recital were not enough, protean performer Andrea Bocelli has branched out into an entirely new field as a wardrobe stylist. He’s pictured here with satisfied clients Angela Gheorghiu and Renée Fleming.
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.
