• Die tote Stadt, English National Opera, 25 March 2023
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from Boulezian
  • Varying the Song: The Rake’s Progress at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from operatraveller
    Stravinsky – The Rake’s Progress Ann Trulove – Sara BlanchTom Rakewell – Matthew SwensenNick Shadow – Vito PrianteKeeper of the Madhouse – Matteo TorcasoTrulove – James PlattMother Goose – Marie-Claude ChappuisBaba the Turk – Adriana di...
  • Of the Sea
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from operaramblings
    ofthesea My review of Ian Cusson and Kanika Ambrose’s new opera Of the Sea is now up at Opera Canada.
  • Somewhere in time
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from parterre box
    The current Met revival of Der Rosenkavalier , while not perfect, has much to feel joyful and excited about.
  • A step backwards into conventionality
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from parterre box
    On this day in 1981 the Metropolitan Opera telecast its new and unremarkable production of La traviata.
  • Jessye Norman – The Unreleased Masters
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from operaramblings
    jessyenormanunreleased Decca have just released a 3CD set of previously unreleased recordings made by the late Jessye Norman between 1989 and 1998 with various orchestras and conductors. The first is a series of extracts from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde...
  • Politics
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Neil Kurtzman
    How can I, that girl standing there,My attention fixOn Roman or on RussianOr on Spanish politics,Yet here’s a travelled man that knowsWhat he talks about,And there’s a politicianThat has both read and thought,And maybe what...
  • Der Rosenkavalier
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from parterre box
    This much-anticipated revival stars Lise Davidsen and Günther Groissböck .
  • I’ll plant my own tree
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from parterre box
    Richard Strauss’ “Bucolic Tragedy in One Act” Daphne is one of his most beautiful and most frustrating works. 
  • The queens’ gambit
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from parterre box
    The sharp and glitzy national tour production of Six doesn’t suffer from a sense of staleness due to familiarity.
  • A fella with an umbrella
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from parterre box
    On this day in 1952 the film Singin’ in the Rain premiered at Radio City Music Hall in NYC.
  • Dark with Excessive Bright
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from operaramblings
    Darkwithexcessivebright I’ve listened to and liked a lot of Missy Mazzoli’s operatic and vocal music but hadn’t had much exposure to her purely instrumental writing so  was interested to get hold of a copy of her new SACD release Dark...
  • Turandot
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from parterre box
    The complete new recording played by Radio Beethoven in Santiago, Chile.
  • Shadowy Visions: Tristan und Isolde at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from operatraveller
    Wagner – Tristan und Isolde Tristan – Samuel SakkerKönig Marke – Albert DohmenIsolde – Carla Filipcic HolmKurwenal – Vincenzo NeriMelot – Mark GoughBrangäne – Dshamilja KaiserEin Hirt – Hugo KampschreurEin Steuermann – Simon...
  • Mounting dread
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from parterre box
    On this day in 1992 the Metropolitan Opera presented a [disastrous] new production of Elektra .
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