'Spargi' Showdown: Seven Top Singers Tackle Legendary Aria
Over the weekend, I caught a striking production of Luigi Cherubini's Medea at the Glimmerglass Festival—a festival on which whose board, in the interest of full disclosure, my husband's family used to...
View ArticleFour Ways of Performing a Mad Scene
Mad scenes abound in opera. Tonight, the Met's Summer HD Festival continues with Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, offering one of the meatiest manic moments for the bass-baritone (here, René Pape)....
View ArticleDonizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Saturday at 12 pm, tune in to hear Russian coloratura soprano Albina Shagimuratova as Lucia in Gaetano Donizetti's masterpiece, with tenor Joseph Calleja as her love interest, Edgardo. Donizetti...
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Defending Donizetti
The voice recognition function on my new smartphone is a lot better than the earlier version of the device. "She" recognizes and correctly spells Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Bellini, Rossini, Berlioz,...
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Donizetti's 'Lucia di Lammermoor' From Barcelona
It's hard to think of a heroine with a fate more heartbreaking — or more shocking — than that of Donizetti's Lucia, whose famous mad scene is one of the greatest moments in any opera. This production...
View ArticlePiotr Beczala and Nadine Sierra Star in 'Lucia'
Tune in Saturday at 1 pm to hear Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor from San Francisco, starring soprano Nadine Sierra in the title role and tenor Piotr Beczala as Edgardo. Nicola Luisotti conducts this...
View ArticleDonizetti's Stunning 'Lucia di Lammermoor' Is Your Saturday at the Opera...
The stunning Lucia di Lammermoor Donizetti’s beautifully tragic masterpiece, is your Saturday at the Opera production. Listen in at 1 pm for the music of love, madness and — if this performance is new...
View Article5 Opera Characters Who Are Having a Worse Day Than You
You woke up late, your toothbrush fell in the toilet, you missed your train, you were late to a very important meeting, you’re tired, you’re hungry, and you think you forgot to apply deodorant. You’re...
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'Lucia di Lammermoor' Returns as The Met Opera Broadcast
Please note the special start time of this broadcast, 12:30 pm.On Saturday, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast will present Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti’s popular tragic opera about...
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Lucia di Lammermoor: Love and Madness
On Saturday at 1 pm, Lyric Opera of Chicago broadcasts continue with Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti’s tragic tale of an attempt to break up an honest love that goes horribly awry. Albina Shagimuratova...
View ArticleDonizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor: Listeners’ Choice
This Saturday at 1 pm, the Met Opera presents the winner of the first-ever Listeners’ Choice poll: the historic 1956 recording of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor starring Maria Callas in her only...
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Soprano Nadine Sierra on Singing Lucia
Soprano Nadine Sierra is singing the title role of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera. The modern staging by director Simon Stone is set in the American Rust Belt and focuses on...
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Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Listen Saturday, May 21st at 1pm.Program notes courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.Click here for the upcoming Metropolitan Opera broadcast schedule.The Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season of Saturday...
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