Opera

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04/13/2013

Of special note, the Metropolitan Opera broadcast begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 13. Tune in and hear the second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walkure, starring a stellar cast led by Bryn Terfel as Wotan and Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde.

04/06/2013

Robert Lepage’s landmark production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen is back for three complete cycles this spring. Tune in at noon, Saturday, April 6 for the first installment of the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, starring Stephanie Blythe, Stefan Margita, and Mark Delavan as Wotan.

03/30/2013

Saturday, at 11:30 a.m., tune in to the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Verdi’s “La Traviata,” and hear soprano Diana Damrau tackle Verdi’s eternal heroine for the first time in Willy Decker’s inspiring production. Placido Domingo sings the baritone role of Germont, Violetta’s tormentor. KCSC’s Lane Whitesell hosts.

03/23/2013

Join us at noon, Saturday, March 23 for a 1977 archive broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino,” the dark, magnificent opera starring the legendary Leontyne Price (pictured) as Leonora who is desperately in love with Alvara (Placido Domingo) even as fate wrenches them apart. KCSC’s Lane Whitesell hosts.

03/16/2013

Join us at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 16th for the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Riccardo Zandonai’s rarely performed opera, “Francesca Da Rimini,” starring soprano Eva-Maria Westbrook as the title heroine and Marcello Giordani, Robert Brubaker, and Mark Delavan. KCSC’s Lane Whitesell hosts.

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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