Trove Thursday presents that perennial holiday favorite Berg’s Wozzeck.
“He towered over the listless supporting cast like Daniel Day-Lewis guest-starring in a marionette show.”
Simon, Simon, Simon: how we do love you (and miss you)!
George Gagnidze and Zeljko Lucic will share the title role of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Met this fall, replacing Simon Keenlyside…
I’m a long-time fan of the Opera in English series funded by The Peter Moores Foundation that started, fittingly enough, with conductor Reginald Goodall’s performances of Wagner’s Ring cycle recorded live from the London Coliseum and released by EMI
Celebrating Simon Keenlyside, the most popular artist on your alte Jungfer’s Mixcloud Web site.
“Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Luca Salsi will sing the role of Rodrigo in this season’s performances of Verdi’s Don Carlo, replacing Simon Keenlyside, who has withdrawn from the run due to illness.” So says the Met’s press department.
This week, Our Own Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin shares a modern classic: Wozzeck from the Opéra national de Paris, featuring Simon Keenlyside.
This week, Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin has been unusually generous, sharing a performance of Pelléas et Mélisande featuring the dream pairing of Simon Keenlyside and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
Another season opens this weekend, the much-admired series of livestreams from the Bayerische Staatsoper.
La Cieca thought it would be amusing to do a bit of speculation about what’s to come as we approach the middle of the decade.
Has it been a year already? Apparently so.
Sponsored
Did somebody say something?
Act now to join the starry ranks of The Talk of the Town contributors for a new quarter of à propos chitter chatter!
×
Sign up for Parterre’s free newsletter.
Exclusive opera reviews, commentary, and top reads
delivered to your email weekly…ish.