Opera

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09/01/12

Hear the San Francisco Opera broadcast of Bizet’s “Carmen,” this Saturday at noon. Soprano Anita Rachvelishvili (pictured) portrays the captivating but capricious Carmen in one of the most vivid characters in opera history. KCSC’s Lane Whitesell hosts.

08/25/12

This Saturday’s San Francisco Opera broadcast is Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” a mingling of comedy, melodrama, and the supernatural, performed by baritone Lucas Meachem and soprano Serena Farnocchia (pictured). The opera begins at noon and is hosted by KCSC’s Lane Whitesell.

08/18/12

The San Francisco Opera is back this Saturday at noon with the broadcast of Puccini’s final masterpiece, “Turandot,” starring Swedish soprano Irene Theorin and tenor Marco Berti. Also featured is Pucchini’s stirring anthem “Nessun dorma.” KCSC’s Lane Whitesell hosts.

08/11/12

Join KCSC opera host Lane Whitesell Saturday, August 11 at noon for the LA Opera broadcast of Puccini’s “La Boheme,” starring soprano Ailyn Perez and tenor Stephen Costello (pictured). The four-act opera follows the life of a poet who discovers true romance with a lovely, fragile seamstress among the rooftops, cafes and garrets of Paris.

08/04/12

Benjamin Britten’s comic chamber opera “Albert Herring” will be broadcast by LA Opera this Saturday, August 4 at noon, hosted by KCSC’s Lane Whitesell. Tenor Alek Shrader (pictured) and mezzo-soprano Ronnita Nicole Miller star.

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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