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Bernie Williams and Jonathan Tetelman take over Carnegie Hall for one night. You’ll be fine.

Lisette Oropesa as Elvira in Bellini's "I Puritani." Photo: Paola Kudacki / Met Opera

Feature

Make them die through singing

Ahead of a new production opening at the Met on New Year’s Eve, director Charles Edwards and Lisette Oropesa discuss creating an I puritani that is stark and serious — and sings.

Recording Reviews

Contes stop won’t stop

Juan Diego Flórez and Damiano Michieletto concoct an absinthe-fueled fever dream in a new DVD from The Royal Ballet and Opera and Opusarte.

Ailyn Pérez as Madama Butterfly at the Teatro del Liceo, 2024 / Photo: David Ruano

Grand Tier Grab Bag

Ritorna un’altra volta

Parterre Box anticipates Ailyn Peréz's upcoming New York performances of Madama Butterfly with the Puccini role most closely associated with her

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Global warming meets the cool factor in The Seasons.

Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Life in the Faust lane

Théâtre de l'Athénée Louis-Jouvet mounts a raucous production of Hervé’s Le petit Faust. 

Better the devil you know

America's own Faust gets a compelling operatic treatment, courtesy of DC's IN Series

Mein Lieder Schwan

Matthew Polenzani charms the pants off of Philadelphia.

Yvonne Kenny sings “Christmas Day”

An Australian Christmas where the paddocks are brown, the gullies are green, and the singing is, frankly, better behaved than most of us will be by lunchtime.

Jessye Norman sings Christmas music at the Ely Cathedral

Though there are a number of fine recording of holiday music by opera singers (Eileen Farrell!), this great performance of Jessye Norman was captured on video as well.

Luciano Pavarotti sings “O Holy Night”

A beautiful Christmas album is Pavarotti‘s ‘Oh, Holy Night” conducted by Kurt Herbert Adler.

Malena Ernman sings “Jul, jul, strålande jul”

This has been my favorite Christmas song since I first heard this performance, the opening track of Malena Ernman's first Christmas album.

Anne-Sofie von Otter sings “Koppangen”

There's plenty of full-on Christmas music to love in Anne Sophie von Otter's "Home for Christmas."