Opera

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12/03/2011

Programming Note: The broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of George Frideric Handel’s “Rodelinda” begins a half hour earlier at 11:30 a.m. this Saturday, December 3. Celebrated soprano Renee Fleming reprises the lead role in this story set in seventh century Lombardy. (photo: Renee Fleming).

11/26/11

Renowned soprano Patricia Racette makes her role debut as the passionate Floria Tosca in Puccini’s timeless drama. Join KCSC host Lane Whitesell at noon, Saturday, November 26, for the Houston Grand Opera broadcast.

11/19/11

The mysterious death of an apprentice ignites a town’s suspicions against a fisherman in the Houston Grand Opera broadcast of Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” at noon, Saturday, November 19, hosted by KCSC’s Lane Whitesell. Photo: tenor Anthony Dean Griffey as Peter Grimes.

11/12/2011

The volatile religious and political conflicts of two ancient Scottish clans fuel the drama of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor,” a broadcast of the Houston Grand Opera. Lane Whitesell hosts the opera at noon Saturday, November 12. Photo: Russian soprano Albina Shagimuratova.

11/05/2011

This Saturday, at noon, KCSC brings you the Houston Grand Opera’s “Dead Man Walking,” a story of passion and redemption. The opera airs during KCSC’s fall fund drive and we hope many of you opera fans will call in and underwrite an opera or make a pledge. Brad and Lane and Kimberly will be standing by to take your call at 974-3333. Pictured: mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.

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Opera Within Driving Distance Spring 2013

January
            Austin Lyric Opera. Mozart: Marriage of Figaro.   31
            Wichita Grand Opera. Verdi: Otello. 19, 7:30, Century II
            Houston Grand Opera (Brown Theatre).
                Kern: Showboat. 18, 20 (matinee 2 p.m.), 26, 30, 7:30
                Mozart: Don Giovanni. 25, 7:30, 27, 2.
            Opera in the Heights. Verdi: MacBeth. 31 at 7:30

February
            Austin Lyric Opera. Mozart: Marriage of Figaro. 2&3
            Houston Grand Opera.
                 Kern: Showboat. 1, 3 (matinee, 2 p.m.), 6, 9, 7:30
                 Mozart: Don Giovanni. 2,5,7 at 7:30, 10 @2
            Opera in the Heights (Houston).
                 Verdi: MacBeth. 1,2,7,8,9 at 7:30. 10 at 2 p.m.
            Wichita Grand Opera. Donizetti: Don Pasquale. 9, 7:30

March
            Lyric Opera of Kansas City:
                 Wagner: Flying Dutchman, 2,6,8,10
            Wichita Grand Opera. Mozart: Marriage of Figaro. 16, 7:30
            Houston Grand Opera:
                  Martinez: Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (“Flamenco Opera”)
                        21, 23, at 7:30 and 23, 24 at 2 p.m.

April
            Austin Lyric Opera. Gounod: Faust. 25, 27, 28
            Dallas Opera. Puccini: Turandot. 5, 7, 10, 13, 19, 21
                   Argento: The Aspern Papers. 12, 14, 17, 20, 28.
            Fort Worth Opera Festival. Puccini: La Boheme. 20, 28
                   Donizetti: Daughter of the Regiment. 27
                   Cipullo: Glory Denied. 21, 23, 24, 27, 30
            Opera in the Heights (Houston):
                   Verdi: Falstaff. 25, 26, 27 at 7:30
            Houston Grand Opera:
                   Wagner: Tristan und Isolde. 18, 24, 27 at 6:30; 21 @ 2
                   Verdi: Il Trovatore. 26 at 7:30, 28 at 2 p.m.
            Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Mikado (G&S): 20, 22, 24, 26, 28

May
            Ft. Worth Opera Festival (4 works each night)
             9, 6 p.m., 10, 3 p.m.
                   Puccini: La Boheme. 3
                   Donizetti: Daughter of the Regiment. 5,10.
                   Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos. 4, 12
                   Cipullo: Glory Denied. 1, 4, 8, 7, 11
            Opera in the Heights (Houston):
                   Verdi: Falstaff. 2, 3, 4 at 7:30, 5 at 2 p.m.
            Houston Grand Opera:
                   Wagner: Tristan und Isolde. 2 at 6:30, 5 at 2 p.m.
                   Verdi: Il Trovatore. 1, 4, 8, 11 at 7:30.

Links:

Austin Lyric Opera www.austinlyricopera.com

Dallas Opera www.dallasopera.org

Houston Grand Opera www.houstongrandopera.org/

San Antonio Opera www.saopera.com

Santa Fe Opera www.santafeopera.org

Tulsa Opera www.tulsaopera.com

     Wichita Grand Opera www.wichitagrandopera.org