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All the fine young cannibals Offenbach's Robinson Crusoรฉย is salvaged from obscurity.ย 

All the fine young cannibals

09.12.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Joan Sutherland sings โ€œThe Twelve Days of Christmasโ€ Auntie Joan goes the whole nine yards on this one and invigorates it to make it work in a way as no one else can.

Joan Sutherland sings โ€œThe Twelve Days of Christmasโ€

09.12.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mezzo in the dark It is a physical pleasure to hear Kate Lindsey at close quarters.

Mezzo in the dark

08.12.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scenes from a revolution "This isnโ€™t an opera that touches on queer themes; itโ€™s a bundle of queer themes tied up in an opera."

Scenes from a revolution

08.12.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jamie Barton sings โ€œMaria Wiegenliedโ€ Like Type 2 Diabetes, symptoms of YAS (Yuletide Aversion Syndrome) commonly creep up on gay men after manopause.

Jamie Barton sings โ€œMaria Wiegenliedโ€

08.12.2025 10:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Form over function A consideration of Anika Kildegaardโ€™s extraordinary recital in Philadelphiaโ€”and the oddity of recitals themselves.ย 

Form over function

06.12.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy holidays from Mary Costa, Bing Crosby, and Robert Goulet This monthโ€™s theme โ€“ โ€œOpera singers celebrate the holidaysโ€ โ€“ conjured up a vast lexicon of memories of growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Happy holidays from Mary Costa, Bing Crosby, and Robert Goulet

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Paris is always a good idea Though perhaps showing its age, a storied production of La bohรจme nonetheless makes a welcome return to the Los Angeles Opera

Paris is always a good idea

05.12.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jonas Kaufmann sings โ€œAll I Want for Christmas Is Youโ€ "It duz... not... SCHVING!!!!"

Jonas Kaufmann sings โ€œAll I Want for Christmas Is Youโ€

05.12.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kathleen Battle sings โ€œHark! The Herald Angels Singโ€ One of my favorite Christmas recordings is Kathleen Battle's A Christmas Celebration.

Kathleen Battle sings โ€œHark! The Herald Angels Singโ€

04.12.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lightning strikes twice New York audiences got a taste of Ben Bliss in Mozart this fall, but this week Grand Tier Grab Bag offers snippets of the tenor trying his hand at Handel earlier this year.

Lightning strikes twice

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Gabriela Beลˆaฤkovรก sings Czech Christmas Music Gabriela Beลˆaฤkovรก is featured in a wonderful Christmas album called Carolling, released by Supraphon in the early 1990s.

Gabriela Beลˆaฤkovรก sings Czech Christmas Music

03.12.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Get in the zone Tamara Wilson and Stanislas de Barbeyrac are the standouts in Calixto Bieito's underwhelming Die Walkรผre in Paris

Get in the zone

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Renata Tebaldi sings โ€œO Divine Redeemerโ€ "O Divine Redeemer" is, I suppose, more properly an Advent or Lenten piece. But when Renata Tebaldi asks us to hear her "croy", who can resist?

Renata Tebaldi sings โ€œO Divine Redeemerโ€

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Shades of gray MasterVoices presents a strongly-cast Sweet Smell of Successโ€”but the merits of this noir musical are hardly black or white.ย 

Shades of gray

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So brutal but also so joyful Composer Philip Venables talks about queer utopias and bending gender and genre in The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions which opens at the Park Avenue Armory this week.

So brutal but also so joyful

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Anna Moffo sings โ€œO Holy Nightโ€ Anna Moffo, in glorious voice and looking gorgeous as usual, sings "O Holy Night," one of my favorite Christmas tunes.

Anna Moffo sings โ€œO Holy Nightโ€

01.12.2025 10:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iโ€™m still thinking about George Taboriโ€™s Pagliacci I love Taboriโ€”his staging of Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung are among my five favorite opera performances of all time.

Iโ€™m still thinking about George Taboriโ€™s Pagliacci

30.11.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Big time sensuality Barbara Strozzi links two sensuous programs by Lโ€™Arpeggiata and Catapult Opera.ย 

Big time sensuality

29.11.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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To Be a Poet is a Condition Are todayโ€™s stars enough to sustain Andrea Chรฉnier?

To Be a Poet is a Condition

28.11.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Out of the mouths of babes Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.

Out of the mouths of babes

28.11.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Monkey business The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera combines spectacle and sentiment.

Monkey business

27.11.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oceanic feeling Grand Tier Grab Bag features a complete performance of Ernest Chausson's Poรจme de l'amour et de la mer ahead of a particular year for both its soloist and conductor.

Oceanic feeling

26.11.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iโ€™m still thinking about Martin Kusejโ€™s Rusalka The production is based on the Elisabeth Fritzl story, and it really made me reconsider this opera's fairy tale storyline.

Iโ€™m still thinking about Martin Kusejโ€™s Rusalka

26.11.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Everything the light touches Vincent Lombardo pays poetic tribute to the 60-year-long career of Robert Wilson.

Everything the light touches

25.11.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hear, O Israel As Messiah season begins, Christopher Corwin reports on two of Handelโ€™s forays into the Old Testament.

Hear, O Israel

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Iโ€™m getting married in the morning Washington National Opera presented a well-sung and humorous Marriage of Figaro, buoyed by clever direction and a strong cast, particularly Rosa Feolaโ€™s Countess and Joรฉlle Harveyโ€™s Susanna.

Iโ€™m getting married in the morning

24.11.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Medieval Times Carl Orffโ€™s cantata tries its fortunes at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Medieval Times

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Iโ€™m still thinking about Peter Sellarsโ€™s Cosรฌ fan tutte I never thought an opera production could be this well done.

Iโ€™m still thinking about Peter Sellarsโ€™s Cosรฌ fan tutte

24.11.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weโ€™re still thinking about Robert Carsenโ€™s Mefistofele Les Camilles both agree on this one. And WHY? You ask??!

Weโ€™re still thinking about Robert Carsenโ€™s Mefistofele

22.11.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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