The upcoming visit of the Hungarian State Opera to Lincoln Center has been fraught with cancellations and a lack of easy-to-find information but “Trove Thursday” pitches in with a preview of one of the tour’s most enticing offerings: Karl Goldmark’s Die Königin von Saba in a broadcast with Anja Silja, Sabine Hass, Siegfried Jerusalem and Wolfgang Brendel conducted by Julius Rudel. Read more »
For the second annual edition of “Handel rarities for my birthday” three early Italian cantatas on this week’s “Trove Thursday”: Aminta e Fillide with Nuria Rial and Philippe Jaroussky as the lovers; Karina Gauvin, Dorothee Mields and Marina de Liso tangle as Clori Tirsi e Fileno; and Sandrine Piau loses herself in Il Delirio Amoroso. Read more »
This riotous opera transports the Oedipus tale to an apocalyptic 1980s London, plagued by police violence, racism, and socioeconomic decay. Intrepid composer Mark-Anthony Turnage’s (Anna Nicole) 1988 breakthrough brilliantly combines cockney-accented profanity and irreverent drama with an audacious score and outstanding four-person cast. Eddy (tenor Alex Otterburn), our modern-day Oedipus, dreams of a better life. After hearing a fortune teller’s disturbing prediction, he resolves at all costs to avoid shagging his own mum (soprano Susan Bullock) and inadvertently killing his father (tenor Andrew Shore). But he is unable to outrun fate, landing in the prophetically maternal arms of an East End café manager (mezzo soprano Allison Cook). Thirty years later, Greek still resonates, offering an incisive, brash contemporary statement on accountability and family. Read more »
Anticipating the fascinating pair of all-Berlioz concerts at Carnegie Hall by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique, “Trove Thursday” offers a triple bill by that extraordinary composer: La Mort de Cléopâtre with Tatiana Troyanos; Vinson Cole and François LeRoux in Lélio and, instead of just a single singer, a starry sextet explores Les Nuits d’été: Nicolai Gedda, Renata Scotto, Christian Gerhaher, Susan Graham, Anne-Sofie von Otter and Karen Cargill. Read more »
“Trove Thursday” features a great composer who had little success on the stage—Franz Schubert.
Celebrating its third anniversary and next week’s Met opening, “Trove Thursday” offers a sumptuous banquet of the third and final chapter of divas in the “wrong language.”
“Trove Thursday” offers a broadcast from last year’s London world premiere of Nico Muhly’s Marnie.
“Trove Thursday” gives a preview of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila with a broadcast featuring an unexpected temptress—Dolora Zajick—who will celebrate the 30th anniversary of her Met debut next month.
Sometimes the fates conspire, preventing an artist from recording the role for which he is his generation’s touchstone.
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