The pleasure principle
Lisette Oropesa casts a spell as the titular sorceress in the Royal Ballet and Opera’s fizzy revival of Alcina.
royal ballet and opera
Contes stop won’t stop
Juan Diego Flórez and Damiano Michieletto concoct an absinthe-fueled fever dream in a new DVD from The Royal Ballet and Opera and Opusarte.
Bernstein Double Bill
Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place in a performance recorded last fall in London
Die Walküre
Antonio Pappano leads a performance recorded in London last month
Turandot
And a more recent live recording, this time from London featuring Sondra Radvanovsky and SeokJong Baek
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).