Saturday, 07/31/10 1pm
Maria Callas
We present an afternoon of Maria Callas, including a complete performance of La sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini.
Saturday, 07/24/10 1pm
Pavarotti in Mascagni & Donizetti
Luciano Pavarotti is heard in L'amico Fritz by Mascagni and L'elisir d'amore by Donizetti.
Saturday, 07/17/10 1pm
Opera North
Peter's special guests - Kara Shay Thomson, soprano; Beau Gibson, tenor;
and Pamela Pantos, Executive Director of Opera North - discuss Opera
North's August productions of
La bohème
and Don Giovanni.
Saturday, 07/10/10 1pm
"Operatic" Musicals
We hear two of the rare Broadway musicals that qualify as "operatic": Leonard Bernstein's Candide and Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella.
Saturday, 07/03/10 1pm
American Musical Sampler
We present a program of vintage American musicals, including Oklahoma!, Guys & Dolls, and Annie Get Your Gun.
Saturday, 06/26/10 1pm
Orpheus
We explore the Orpheus legend in music - and feature an historic performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice with Hilde Gueden and Fedora Barbieri.
Saturday, 06/19/10 Noon
Die Meistersinger
In celebration of the beginning of summer, we present Wagner's Die Meistersinger in a recording that includes Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Placido Domingo.
Saturday, 06/12/10 12:25pm
Arabella & Elektra
Sir Georg Solti conducts historic recordings of two Strauss operas: Arabella and Elektra.
Saturday, 06/05/10 1pm
Tannhäuser
Hans Hopf plays the title role in this vintage recording of Wagner's Tannhäuser.
Saturday, 05/29/10 1:03pm
Dialogues of the Carmelites
This classic 1958 recording of Poulenc's chilling Dialogues of the Carmelites features Denise Duval, Régine Crespin
and Rita Gorr.
Saturday, 05/22/10 1:27pm
Idomeneo
Mozart's Idomeneo is performed by the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, with a cast that includes Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Anne Sofie von Otter, and Sylvia McNair.
Saturday, 05/15/10 1:02pm
Giulietta Simionato
We celebrate the career of Italian mezzo-soprano Giulietta Simionato with a complete recording of Verdi's La forza del destino, as well as excerpts from Aida and Cenerentola.
Saturday, 05/08/10 1pm
Lulu
Alban Berg's Lulu is performed live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
Saturday, 05/01/10 Noon
Armida
Renée Fleming sings the title
role in this live Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Rossini’s rarely
performed opera, Armida.
Saturday, 04/24/10 Noon
Tosca
Patricia Racette is Tosca and Bryn Terfel is Scarpia in the live Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Puccini's Tosca.
Saturday, 04/17/10 12:58pm
La Traviata
Angela Gheorghiu is Violetta in the live Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Verdi's La traviata.
Saturday, 04/10/10 12:58pm
Die Zauberflöte
Mozart's
Die Zauberflöte is performed live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
Saturday, 04/03/10 12:58pm
Aïda
Verdi's
Aïda is performed live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
Saturday, 03/27/10 12:55pm
Hamlet
Simon Keenlyside and Maris Petersen are heard in the live Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas.
Saturday, 03/20/10 12:58pm
From the House of the Dead
From the archive of the Metropolitan Opera, a performance of
Janáček’s From the House of the Dead.