Archive for the ‘Operafest’ Category
2021-2022 Metropolitan Opera Schedule
All broadcasts at 1 PM Eastern Time except as noted December 4, 2021 Aucoin’s Eurydice – Network Broadcast- Premiere Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Erin Morley (Eurydice), Joshua Hopkins (Orpheus), Jakub Józef Orliński (Orpheus’s Double), Nathan Berg (Father), Barry Banks (Hades) December 11 Puccini’s Tosca Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Sondra Radvanovsky (Tosca), Brian Jagde (Cavaradossi), Evgeny Nikitin (Scarpia), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan) December 18 Mozart’s The […]
WBJC Operafest 9/11/21-11/27/21
September 11, 2021 OPERA: Tancredi (in Italian) COMPOSER: Gioachino Rossini LIBRETTO: Gaetano Rossi VENUE: National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM PRESENTING COMPANY: Opera Southwest CAST: Tancredi Heather Johnson Amenaide Lindsay Ohse Argirio Heath Huberg Orbazzano Matthew Curran Isaura Madelyn Wanner Roggiero Chelsea Duval-Major ENSEMBLE: Opera Southwest Orchestra CHORUS: Opera Southwest Chorus STAGE DIRECTOR: David Bartholemew […]
WBJC Operafest Schedule 6/12/21-9/4/21
All operas air at 1pm on Saturdays, unless otherwise noted on the listing. Haymarket Opera Company JUNE 12 Acis and Galatea & Apollo e Dafne / Handel (Double-Bill) Operas from the European Broadcasting Union: Royal Opera (UK) JUNE 19 Tosca / Puccini JUNE 26 Les vêpres siciliennes / Verdi JULY 3 Don Giovanni / Mozart […]
Metropolitan Opera 2020-2021 Broadcast Schedule
TOLL BROTHERS–METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK 2020-21 SATURDAY MATINEE BROADCAST SEASON All broadcasts at 1 PM Eastern Time December 5, 2020 @1 PM Prokofiev’s War and Peace Performance from March 2, 2002 Valery Gergiev; Anna Netrebko (Natasha Rostova), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya), Elena Obraztsova (Mme. Akhrosimova), Gegam Grigorian (Count Pierre Bezukhov), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Prince Andrei), Vassily Gerello […]
The Met Returns!
Dear Radio Network Partners, I am very pleased to present the line-up for the 2020-21 Saturday Matinee Radio broadcast season of special encore broadcasts – our 90th consecutive broadcast season on the radio. […] These encore broadcasts will feature new commentary and intermission content from host Mary Jo Heath and commentator Ira Siff, including new artist […]
WBJC Operafest schedule 11/7/20-11/28/20
November 7, 2020 @1pm OPERA: Double-Bill: Scalia/Ginsburg & Trial by Jury VENUE: The Grand (Wilmington, DE) PRESENTING COMPANY: OperaDelaware FIRST BILL: Scalia/Ginsburg (in English) COMPOSER: Derrick Wang LIBRETTO: Derrick Wang DIRECTOR: Fenlon Lamb CAST: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg Jennifer Zetlan, soprano Justice Antonin Scalia Brian Cheney, tenor Commentator Ben Wager, bass-baritone SECOND BILL: Trial by […]
WBJC Operafest schedule 9/12/20-10/31/20
September 12 @ 1pm OPERA: Cosi fan tutte (in Italian) COMPOSER: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartLIBRETTO: Lorenzo Da PonteVENUE: Lyric Opera HouseOPERA COMPANY Lyric Opera of Chicago CAST:Fiordiligi: Ana María MartínezDorabella: Marianne CrebassaFerrando: Andrew StensonGuglielmo: Joshua HopkinsDon Alfonso: Alessandro CorbelliDespina: Elena Tsallagova CONDUCTOR: James GaffiganDIRECTOR: John CoxENSEMBLE: Chorus and Orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago Approx. Length: […]
WBJC OPERAFEST presents: Metropolitan Opera Radio Encore Series 2020
Metropolitan Opera Radio UPCOMING ENCORE BROADCASTS – 1PM SATURDAYS Timings are approximate. May 23, 2020 – Verdi: Rigoletto (performance from 12/7/13) Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sonya Yoncheva, Matthew Polenzani, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado app. 2 hrs. 30 min. May 30, 2020 – Verdi: Requiem (performance from 3/28/64) – in memory of Rosalind Elias Leontyne Price, Rosalind Elias, […]
WBJC Operafest schedule 10/5/19-11/30/19
(subject to change) Music of the Baroque October 5 – Judas Maccabaeus / Handel October 12 – Israel in Egypt / Handel October 19 – Fund Drive OperaDelaware October 26 – Il Tabarro; Suor Angelica / Puccini November 2 – Gianni Schicchi; Buoso’s Ghost / Puccini; Ching November 9 – Amleto / Faccio Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra November 16 – Marriage of Figaro […]
09/28/19 – The Clemency of Titus – 1pm (LA Opera On Air)
The Clemency of TitusMozart Revenge and romance set Rome on fire! The most powerful civilization in the world falls vulnerable to the machinations of power players seeking glory. Russell Thomas stars as the imperiled leader whose generosity and compassion point the way to a brighter future. A gorgeous new production, directed and designed by Thaddeus […]
