Happy New Year from Ettore Bastianini and Giulietta Simionato Happy New Year from Ettore Bastianini and Giulietta Simionato

I am sure many of us will post the Fledermaus gala, but it doesn’t get better than this, even in a Fledermaus gala

By Leyla Gender-Bender December 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Talking to John Raitt, part two Talking to John Raitt, part two

In the third part of this interview with John Raitt, the singer speaks in great detail how he was cast in his breakthrough role of Billy Bigelow in Carousel.

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No place like Rome No place like Rome

Love grand opera but wary of a six o’clock curtain with five hours of music behind it? (And nothing is grander than Berlioz’s Les Troyens, eh?) Your dilemma has been solved. Show up at the Met at 7:30 or 8:00, whenever they have the first intermission.

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