Couldn't possibly imagine a better thing to ring the new year in with than a Lucrezia Borgia stream www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlc...

Robert Massard, *15.8.1925, RIP Avant de quitter ces lieux youtu.be/0VVusBT-fKs?...

What a performance from Welser-Möst and the orchestra!

Guy in front of me is trying to process both the dramatic core of Fidelio and this production's particular dealing with it in real time and so far not great results

It's never the Umbesetzung you want!!!

nothing says Christmas like Grigorian in leopard print singing La Vergine degli angeli youtu.be/KcF7uOHaEj4

how your email found me

a subscription to McMansion Hell is literally a dollar a month and in exchange you get some of my best and most thorough essays (the regional car dealership rococo one, the one about gray floors, this one)

Not in spitting distance and thrilled for L'enfance du Christ!

😢😢😢 www.staatsoper.de/ueber-uns/na...

I truly and wholeheartedly support Bartoli's right of doing just about whatever but holy hell was this Orfeo bad

If I see Petit cancelling Euridice tonight I'll be inconsolable for the rest of the week

Whom do I have to bribe for Car and Dupuis to do an Arabella together

Well, the Mäkelä/Kosky/Spyres/Miknevičiūtė FroSch at Aix is finally official, I guess

My year of Ambroise Thomas obsession 💘

What are everyone's favorite Dido and Aeneas recordings? (Will definitely put on the recent JDD one but would love to sample the offerings.)

ok this certifiably rocks

NO WAY

love to look at a Bartoli programme and just go "of course"

it's the most wonderful time of the year! (every cultural journal/site I write for begging for coin after being bled dry by the Orbán regime that wants to smother every single voice of potential dissent in the public sphere)

Every day I wake up to annoy one of my editors

have you had your daily dose of Traetta yet? youtu.be/qn1qzGF1qIs?...

My review of Nabucco with Battistini and the Hungarian National Philharmonic, headlined by Enkhbat's absolute beast of a performance is up! www.prae.hu/article/1446...

oh Luisa Miller is actually good?

wie dieser Stab in meiner Hand.........

glad to see Carrasco was inspired by the Berkhatov Norma (photos by Les Arts Valencia)

the Met's future Tristan! youtu.be/cnExdoShVpY

Terrific Nabucco from Battistoni and the NPO with a truly towering Enkhbat!

haven't been this up close and personal with Vashegyi & co since Le roi d'Ys

you cannot tell me that we're still stuck with Meli as the Adorno of choice in 2026

Is this the first time in a good couple of years that the Fenice season opener hasn't gotten a TV broadcast and is it only to spite me personally

Unfortunately not visiting, but man, she's a BEAUT

Il mare... Il mare!

opening the Müpa subscriber news email, seeing the euphoric declaration of Netrebko debuting in the Verdi Requiem, closing and deleting the Müpa subscriber email

you cannot tell me that the BEMF Octavia was streamed and I missed it..................

Belatedly: this was a fun one! Pierre Dumoussaud continues to ROCK, Heloise Mas was a delight, and that doll's gonna haunt my dreams revizoronline.com/offenbach-ho...

Of course, the French have had many superb lyric baritones. One of my favourites is Robert Massard (who could sing dramatic if necessary but always retained a lyric core): youtu.be/0VVusBT-fKs?...

Traetta's Ifigenia in Tauride has a soprano Pilade and an aria with English horn/natural horn double obbligato. instant classic (Innsbrucker Festspiele broadcast but ORF lists Aparté as the recording's label, so I assume a CD will be forthcoming) oe1.orf.at/player/20251...

I log into FB. I see insanely devastating news about a colleague. I log out of FB and am meant to go about my day

The Donizetti Festival's programming will make me learn about a whole brand of 19th century orientalist operas that I didn't even know existed

boxed in today

tuned in for the Traetta Ifigenia just in time to catch the tenor singing the line "il sangue estinguerà". everything right as it should be

had considerable fun at the Haydn/Salieri Requiem double bill, despite Howard Williams' best efforts www.prae.hu/article/1443...

this is Aparté's redemption arc after that extremly mid Mozart album from Viotti youtu.be/Az02iDWJ5Lg?...

gave the Met Arabella broadcast from last night a listen.......... Marc Albrecht save me

RBO Zauberflöte offering a really strong argument for performing opera in the vernacular

low-hanging fruit

the Scala Così broadcast is on and so is my three-hour-long sing-along

so that new Lucia's just not good huh