Pre-Show Lecture: Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss
Arizona Opera, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Was to be presented as part of Arizona Opera’s community programming at the Kerr Cultural Center (March 25th, 2020 – Cancelled due to COVID-19)
- Was to be presented as part of Arizona Opera’s community programming at Sagewood Senior Living Community (March 25th, 2020 – Cancelled due to COVID-19)
- Was to be presented as part of Arizona Opera’s pre-performance programming (April 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th, and 11th, 2020 – Cancelled due to COVID-19)
Pre-Show Lecture: Silent Night by Kevin Puts
Arizona Opera, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Presented as part of Arizona Opera’s programming for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Arizona State University (February 18th, 2019)
- Presented as part of Arizona Opera’s community programming at the Kerr Cultural Center (February 20th, 2019)
- Presented as part of Arizona Opera’s community programming at Sagewood Senior Living Community (February 21st, 2019)
Opera Outlooks: Pre-Performance Talks
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY, USA
- Forgiveness in Rome: La clemenza di Tito (April 3, 2019)
- ll trittico: Opera’s Triple Bill (December 6, 2018)
- Love and Longing in Rusalka (February 6, 2017)
- Of Troubadours, Knights, and Courtly Love: L’Amour de Loin (December 6, 2016)
- Mozart and Die Entführung aus dem Serail (April 27, 2016)
- The Voices of Ernani (March 26, 2015)
- Unlucky in Love: Les Contes d’Hoffmann (February 5, 2015)
- Dream Girl: La Sonnambula (March 18, 2014)
- An Effervescent Baroque Blend: The Enchanted Island (February 26, 2014)
The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Festival:
Pre-Performance Lecture Series
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY, USA
- Donizetti’s La fille du régiment (August 21st, 2019)
- Puccini’s La fanciulla del West (August 30, 2019)
- A Gershwin Classic: Funny Face (August 23rd, 2019)
- Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (August 28th, 2018)
- Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette (August 25th, 2018)
- The Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera (August 24th, 2018)
- Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (August 29th, 2017)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Film Adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute (August 25th, 2017)
- Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore (August 2016)
- Separating Fact from Fiction: Amadeus (August 2016)
- W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni (September 6th, 2015)
- Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle (September 1st, 2015)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (September 1st, 2014)
- Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka (August 28th, 2014)
- Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida (September 3rd, 2013)
- Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello (August 27, 2013)
- Thomas Adès’s The Tempest (August 26, 2013)
- Richard Strauss’s Salome (August 29, 2012)
- Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula (August 27, 2012)
- Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (August 4, 2011)
- Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (August 3, 2011)
Pre-Performance Podcast Episodes
The Metropolitan Opera Guild Podcast
- Episode 139: Massenet’s Manon
- Episode 127: Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito
- Episode 117: Puccini’s Il trittico
- Episode 98: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
- Episode 93: Puccini’s La bohème
- Episode 88: Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel
- Episode 84: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
- Episode 69: Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 & Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- Episode 63: Mozart’s Idomeneo
- Episode 59: Love and Longing in Rusalka
- Episode 55: Salome by Richard Strauss
- Episode 54: Of Troubadours, Knights, and Courtly Love: L’Amour de Loin
- Episode 9: Mozart’s The Magic Flute
- Episode 1: Verdi’s Otello