Il trovatore
San Francisco Opera’s first livestream (with a 48-hour on-demand viewing window) of the new season.
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Carmen
For your Friday evening chatting pleasure, a video from the Opéra Comique, Paris.
El último sueño de Frida y Diego
“Gabriela Lena Frank‘s score for Frida y Diego was nothing short of extraordinary, at times recalling Béla Bartók (in her treatment for climaxes) or Giacomo Puccini (in her handling of choruses), but the musical idioms were certainly her own. I particularly mesmerized by many instrumental solos peppered throughout the score (most particularly the bassoon and violin solos), and Frank used such device to define the characters, almost in a way of leitmotif.”
Voyna i mir
Vladimir Jurowski conducts a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov of Prokofiev’s epic. Streamed live from the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Salome
A live video stream of a new production of Strauss’s opera from the Vienna State Opera.
Giulio Cesare
Emmanuelle Haïm and Calixto Bieito collaborate on a new production of Handel’s opera seria from the Dutch National Opera.
Aida
Recorded at the Vienna State Opera earlier this month: Anna Netrebko sings her first Aida and Jonas Kaufmann his first Radames at the Vienna State Opera, Elina Garanca makes her long-awaited debut as Amneris, Luca Salsi can be heard as Amonasro.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
A live performance from the Vienna State Opera featuring Michael Volle, Georg Zeppenfeld, Wolfgang Koch, David Butt Philip and Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, conducted by Philippe Jordan.
Lohengrin
Premiere of a new production from the Bayreische Staatsoper.
Cardillac
Tomasz Konieczny plays the title character, a goldsmith who is possessed by his jewelry, in a live videocast of Paul Hindemith’s opera.
Lakmé
Léo Delibes’ opera, streamed from the Opéra Comique in a production staged by Laurent Pelly and featuring Sabine Devieilhe.
Carmen
Live from the Vienna State Opera starring Elina Garanca and Piotr Beczala.
Die Walküre
Live video from the Finnish National Opera and Ballet.
Idomeneo
Performance of July 11 at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
Turandot
“In a dystopian game show, reminiscent of Hunger Games, the Princess presides over a surveillance state in which men are culled and the reproduction of the human race is conducted in breeding labs.”
Nabucco
Conductor: Nicola Luisotti; Stage director: Andreas Homoki; Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real, Madrid.
Maria Stuarda
Heading the cast of this Irish National Opera production is mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught.
La traviata
In this video from 2015, soprano Lisette Oropesa makes her role debut as Violetta in a new production of Verdi’s La traviata at the Academy of Music.
Turandot
A new production of Puccini’s lyric drama is conducted by Zubin Mehta and directed by Philipp Stölzl.
The two faces of Karita
An evening with Finland’s most famous opera star.
Tristan und Isolde
Just starting from the vienna State Opera.
Lucia di Lammermoor
Evelino Pidò leads Lisette Oropesa, Benjamin Bernheim and George Petean in this live broadcast from the Vienna State Opera.
Die Walküre, Act 1
Elisabeth Teige and Brandon Jovanovich are the cursed twins in this production from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, directed by Stefan Herheim.
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
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).
