Archive for the ‘Operafest’ Category
08/29/15 – Thais – 1PM
LA Opera on air Thais by Jules Massenet Libretto by Louis Gallet Sung in French. Three hours, including two intermissions. The most beautiful courtesan in Alexandria, Thaïs holds an entire city in her thrall as she embraces life’s most sensual delights. One man alone, the monk Athanaël, weeps for her sins, but his pilgrimage to save […]
08/22/15 – The Ghosts of Versailles – 1PM
LA Opera on air The Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigliano Libretto by William M. Hoffman Sung in English. Three hours and 15 minutes, including one intermission. Trapped in the spirit world, the ghost of Marie Antoinette bitterly reflects on her final suffering. Her favorite playwright tries to entertain the melancholy queen with the continuing adventures […]
08/15/15 – Marriage of Figaro – 1PM
LA Opera on air The Marriage of Figaro by by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte Sung in Italian. Three hours and 15 minutes, including one intermission. The wily barber and part-time matchmaker has finally fallen in love, but–like everything else in Figaro’s life–it’s complicated. On the eve of Figaro’s marriage to Susanna, […]
08/08/15 – Barber of Seville – 1PM
LA Opera on air The Barber of Seville by by Gioachino Rossini Libretto by Cesare Sterbini Sung in Italian. Three hours and 10 minutes, including one intermission. Dashing Count Almaviva has lost his heart to the spunky Rosina, whose doddering guardian is determined to marry her himself. It’s Figaro to the rescue, as the resourceful barber conjures […]
08/01/15 – Dido & Aeneas/Bluebeard’s Castle – 1PM
LA Opera on air Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell Libretto by Nahum Tate Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók Libretto by Béla Balázs Performed in English and Hungarian respectively. The running time is approximately two hours and 35 minutes, including one intermission. A riveting pairing of one-act masterpieces, written more than two centuries apart, explores the fine line […]
07/25/15 – LA Opera begins with La Traviata @1PM!
LA Opera on air La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Sung in Italian. Two hours and 55 minutes, including two intermissions. In the giddy, glitzy world of the Roaring Twenties, a naive young man falls head over heels for a glamorous party girl. Together they trade the fast life for an idyllic love […]
07/18/15 – Tosca – 1pm
Lyric Opera of Chicago by Giacomo Puccini In Italian with projected English texts Approximate running time: 2hrs, 42 min Living for art…dying for love. A fiery diva, the rebel artist who claims her heart, and the sadistic police chief before whom all Rome trembles — for more than a hundred years, audiences have watched […]
07/11/15 – The Passenger – 1pm
Lyric Opera of Chicago by Mieczyslaw Weinberg In Russian, German, Polish, French, Yiddish, Czech, and English with projected English texts Approximate running time: 2hrs, 55 min There’s no escaping your past. Aboard an ocean liner in the early 1960s, a West German diplomat, Walter, and his wife Liese are bound for a new posting in […]
07/04/15 – Porgy and Bess – 1pm
Lyric Opera of Chicago by The Gershwins Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin In English with projected English texts Approximate running time: 3hrs, 10 min Redemption is hard to find. Porgy and Bess is the great American opera — bursting with iconic songs that have moved easily […]
06/27/15 – Tannhäuser – 1PM
Lyric Opera of Chicago by Richard Wagner In German with projected English texts Approximate running time: 4hrs, 11 min Only gods can live in endless bliss. Tannhäuser, minstrel and renegade, is lured into the erotic realm of the love goddess Venus. There he luxuriates in lust and a host of sinful pleasures. But finally […]
