this tie it will not tie

Happy Opera Pride! 🌈🌈🌈 Der Rosenkavalier (Robert Carsen, 2017) Don Carlo (Emilio Sagi, 2016) L'incoronazione di Poppea (Jan Lauwers, 2018) Adelaide di Borgogna (Arnaud Bernard, 2023) Platée (Jetske Mijnssen, 2023) Benamor (Christof Loy, 2026) Alcina (Robert Carsen, 2021) Champion (James Robinson, 2023) Ariodante (Robert Carsen, 2023) Les Pêcheurs de perles (Timothy Nelson, 2015) Der Rosenkavalier (Josef Ernst Köpplinger, 2021) Arabella (Tobias Kratzer, 2021)

+ bonus Les Brigands (Barrie Kosky, 2024):

When: sunday 31st may, 8:30pm CET / 7:30pm UK time (UTC+1)

Where: kosmi

Production: Kungliga Operan Stockholm

What's the story? -> It's about the real life ghanian swedish Black man Gustav Badin Couschi who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. He was given as a gift to the swedish royal family who raised him alongside the crownprince future Gustav III (guy who gets assassinated at the opera) and princess Sofia Albertina as part of the family. Like a really fucked up adoption.

I saw this ballet and cried my eyes out. It's a story about family, duty, racialised otherness, falling in love, and freedom.

Music is a potpurri of composers, including: Opeth/Mikael Åkerfeldt, Franz Schubert, Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Anders Högstedt

Duration: 1h 58mins

Everyone are welcome :)

I’m ready to suffer and I’m ready to hope It’s a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat

- spanish

- french

- mandarin

- other

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15th: Bell's Medusa from La Monnaie/De Munt. World premiere. Featuring Claudia Boyle, Paula Murrihy, and Josh Lovell. Free!

17th: Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier from the Baden-Baden Whitsun Festival. Concert presentation. Featuring Julia Kleiter, Emily D'Angelo, and Katharina Konradi. Free!

17th: Strauss's Arabella from the Metropolitan Opera. Geolocked to US IPs. Featuring Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Tomasz Konieczny, Louise Alder, and Pavol Breslik. Will also air on PBS member stations - dates vary. Free!

23rd: Mozart's Così fan tutte from the Hungarian State Opera. Featuring Ildikó Megyimórecz, Zsófia Kálnay, Botond Pál, and Attila Dobák. Free!

28th: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Asmik Grigorian, Boris Pinkhasovich, and Bogdan Volkov. Free!

29th: Ponchielli's I Lituani from Lithuanian National Opera & Ballet. Featuring Viktorija Miškūnaitė, Gaston Rivero, and Tadas Girininkas. Free!

29th: Verdi's Nabucco from Teatro alla Scala. Featuring Luca Salsi, Anna Netrebko, and Francesco Meli. Rental.

LATE ADDITION - 29th: Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Juan Diego Florez, Ludovic Tézier, and Kristina Mkhitaryan. Subscription.

In cinemas, the Met's premiere production of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego will be broadcast worldwide on the 30th, with encores in some locations. The composer is Gabriela Lena Frank, this year's Pulitzer Prize winner for music. Find your local theatre here.

Archive notes: Dallas Opera's summer archive streams are back. Elektra with Marjorie Owens and Angela Meade and La Traviata with Yaritza Véliz and Javier Camarena stream for free through the end of the month. Medici recently added the 2023 Rusalka from the Royal Opera, starring Asmik Grigorian, and on the 21st will add a 2023 Arabella from Deutsche Oper Berlin and a 2009 Aci, Galatea e Polifemo.