Opera

For more information on opera programming, e-mail Lane Whitesell.

12/22/12

The Metropolitan Opera broadcast for Sat., Dec. 22 is Bartlett Sher’s Tony Award winning production of Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” the rollicking comedy classic, starring Isabel Leonard as Rosina, Alek Shrader as the Count, and Rodion Pogossov (pictured) as the conspiring barber, Figaro.

12/15/12

Verdi’s vision of ancient Egypt is grandly realized with the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of “Aida,” starring soprano Violeta Urmana and tenor Marcello Giordani as the ill-fated lovers. Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe sings the part of Amneria for the first time for the Met. Broadcasting on Saturday, Dec. 15 at noon.

12/08/12

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, tenor Marcelo Alvarez, and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky lead an excellent cast in Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera,” (“A Masked Ball”), the first Metropolitan Opera broadcast of the season, this Saturday, December 8 at noon. Join KCSC opera host Lane Whitesell.

12/01/12

Join KCSC this Saturday at noon for the Houston Grand Opera broadcast of Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda,” the story of Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, featuring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato (Mary) and soprano Katie Van Kouten (pictured).

11/17/12

The Houston Grand Opera broadcast this Saturday at noon is one of Benjamin Britten’s most magnificent works, “The Rape of Lucretia,” featuring tenor Anthony Dean Griffey and soprano Leah Crocetto.

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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