Opera

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11/10/12

Join us this Saturday at noon for the Houston Grand Opera broadcast of Verdi’s “La Traviata,” featuring American tenor Bryan Hymel and soprano Albina Shagimuratova. KCSC’s Lane Whitesell will be your host.

11/03/12

Join us for our fund drive opera special, Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio, a broadcast of the Houston Grand Opera this Saturday at noon, hosted by KCSC’s Lane Whitesell. This performance was boosted by extraordinary international superstar soprano Karita Mattila as Leonore and a dream cast including the majestic tenor Simon O’Neill as Leonore’s husband, Florestan, and baritone Tomas Tomason as the evil Pizarro.

10/27/12

The Houston Grand Opera brings fresh fun to Rossini’s early 19th century best-known opera, “The Barber of Seville,” broadcast Saturday, October 27 at noon on KCSC, hosted by Lane Whitesell. The opera features baritone Nathan Gunn as Figaro, and tenor Lawrence Brownlee and soprano Ana Maria Martinez. (both pictured)

10/20/12

Join us Saturday, October 20 at noon for the San Francisco Opera broadcast of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Attila,” featuring a world-class cast including bass Ferruccio Furlanetto (pictured) as the intense, conflicted anti-hero Attila the Hun, Venezuelan soprano Lucretia Garcia, baritone Quinn Kelsey, and bass Samuel Ramney. KCSC’s Lane Whitesell hosts.

10/13/12

The San Francisco Opera broadcast this Saturday (Oct. 13) at noon is John Adams’ “Nixon in China,” the rich recreation of President Nixon’s trip to Beijing, a masterpiece that has established itself as a great American opera. Baritone Brian Mulligan stars in the title role. 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