#verdi

[mingiblr]

I am incredibly Fond of them.

[detroitlib]

Portrait of soprano Leontyne Price in Verdi's opera, "Aida." Stamped on back: "Copyright photograph by Dominic. Dominic, 31, Chelsea Square, S.W.3., tel. Flaxman 6118." Label on back: "As Aida in her English debut role at the Royal Oper House, Covent Garden, July, 1958." Handwritten on back: "Leontyne Price."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

hello everyone let’s watch the new dnob simon boccanegra, aka “yours truly basically apparently predicted this six whole years ago”

reactions to follow in some form or other

[operaqueen]

Maria Callas, as Lady Macbeth. La Scala, 1952.

[derring-do]

Opera Streams: Early-Mid March 2026

1st: [Previously postponed, not 100% confirmed but on the website] Verdi's Luisa Miller from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Nadine Sierra, Freddie De Tommaso, and Roberto Tagliavini. Free! Canceled alas

4th: Bizet's Carmen from Malmö Opera. Featuring Claudio Ribas, Matthew White, and Luthando Qave. Rental.

5th: Verdi's Nabucco from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Anna Netrebko, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, and Ivan Magrì. Free (with registration)! The live stream has been canceled and instead the 2021 production with Domingo and Pirozzi will be repeated.

6th: Dusapin's Antigone from the Paris Philharmonie. Featuring Christel Loetzsch, Anna Prohaska,and Tómas Tómasson. Free!

7th: Nicole Car Masterclass from Opera for Peace. Free!

8th: Ponchielli's La Gioconda from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring Saioa Hernández, Michael Fabiano, John Relyea, and Violeta Urmana. Rental or season subscription.

8th: The Victoria de los Ángeles Centennial Gala from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring a group of sopranos and mezzos, including Joyce DiDonato, Louise Alder, Marina Viotti, and Juliana Grigoryan, singing de los Ángeles's favorite arias and lieder. Free!

12th: Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Emily D'Angelo, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, and Katleho Mokhoabane. Free (with registration)!

[Technically, Midsummer at Teatro Real could show up during these two weeks but I guarantee it won't. Look for it in the next post - it's got a great cast]

Archive notes: Stage+ adds the 2022 Met Lucia di Lammermoor with Nadine Sierra on the 7th. Ooppera Baletti Finland recently added their 2021 La Traviata. Readers may also be interested in a concert-documentary from Bruno de Sá on the 8th.

[vera-dauriac]

Attention: Operablr!!!

The Met's listeners' choice opera has been announced. Look at the absolute fucking gem we will be getting.

I've heard this before, and yes, it's as good as you think it will be.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

David Tennant is an opera singer, and is portraying Iago in Verdi’s Otello.

[brambledeggss]

We cut right from Sophie crying to this and it caught me so off guard.