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04/14/12 – La Traviata – 1:00pm
By Giuseppe Verdi Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave Sung in Italian Approximate running time 2 hrs. 35 min. Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first...
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04/21/12 – Siegfried – NOON
By Richard Wagner Librettist: Richard Wagner Sung in German Approximate running time 5 hrs. 30 min. In part three of the Ring, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while...
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04/28/12 – Die Walkürie – NOON
By Richard Wagner Librettist: Richard Wagner Sung in German Approximate running time 5 hrs. 10 min. The second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by Fabio...
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05/05/12 – The Makropulos Case – 1:00pm
By Leoš Janáček Librettist: Leoš Janáček Sung in Czech Approximate running time 2 hrs. 40 min. Count on a tour-de-force performance from Karita Mattila in Janácek’s absorbing drama of a diva’s...
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Wonderful Town, Indeed: Our Top 5 New York Recs
When Jim and I go out of town, we often get away to it all rather than from it all. As such, New York is one of our favorite vacation spots. Here are our Top 5 NYC recs! 5. Take the subway or walk...
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Verdi hits the jackpot in Vegas
Last Saturday, I attended the Metropolitan Opera’s HD broadcast of Rigoletto at the Charles Theater. I was delighted to see that there wasn’t an empty seat in the room and the audience demographic...
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My turn to play groupie!
Judith recently had a wonderful fangirl moment with Emanuel Ax; now it’s my turn. For some years, I’ve been a devotee of Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s singing. Jim and I have seen him perform operatic roles,...
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Julius Caesar re-invented
Here’s an interesting factoid: our Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, goes to the opera. As I was walking out of the auditorium at the Metropolitan Opera at the end of Handel’s Giulio...
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A Rossini Rarity
When Gioachino Rossini was 23 (in point of fact, since he was a leap year baby, he was 5¾), he became composer in residence at the Teatro di San Carlo opera house in Naples. At the end of his 7-year...
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Opera Goes to the Movies, 1935-Style
It’s less and less common to see classical music represented in popular culture these days, especially in a positive sense, so imagine my delight when I recently saw that Turner Classic Movies was...
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