The Met recently submitted another eye-roll inducing entry for the Woke Olympics with their Women’s History Month slate.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads an epic Wagner opera concert
Yannick leads The Philadelphia Orchestra, superstars Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, and world-class singers in a rare concert performance that reveals every detail and nuance of this richly harmonic score. Experience the passion and cold-hearted revenge of this scandalous opera. Get tickets now!
Yannick leads The Philadelphia Orchestra, superstars Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, and world-class singers in a rare concert performance that reveals every detail and nuance of this richly harmonic score. Experience the passion and cold-hearted revenge of this scandalous opera. Get tickets now!
Suddenly in the middle of March 2019 the Metropolitan Opera realized that perhaps a few of the company’s multitudes of stagehands and technicians might be of the feminine persuasion.
Barihunk John Chest headlines San Francisco Opera’s Billy Budd in the fall of 2019.
Scribe/saxophonist Will Robin (not pictured) surveys some of the many women who are making opera these days.
Pick a little, talk a little
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Win Free Tickets to Nina Stemme at Carnegie Hall
“The island is only small / But the fairies inhabiting it / Welcome us all”
That means you—and your even more significant other—should you win this pair of seats. Enter now »
“The island is only small / But the fairies inhabiting it / Welcome us all”
That means you—and your even more significant other—should you win this pair of seats. Enter now »
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