1antimuzak
Saturday 27th March 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro.
Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff present a 2018 production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, as Harry Bicket conducts the Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, with a cast including ldar Abdrazakov, Nadine Sierra and Marisuz Kwiecien. The story tells how the crafty servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, despite the best efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to have a romantic assignation with Susanna before her marriage. But not before a series of comic misunderstandings are resolved. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro. Nadine Sierra (soprano: Susanna), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass:Figaro), Ailyn Perez (soprano:Countess Almaviva), Marisuz Kwiecien (baritone:Count Almaviva), Isabel Leonard (mezzo:Cherubino), Katarina Leoson (soprano: Marcellina), Maurizio Muraro (singer: Dr Bartolo), Greg Fedderly (tenor: Don Basilio), Paul Corona (bass: Antonio), Ashley Emerson (soprano: Barbarina), Linda Burman-Hall (harpsichord), David Heiss (cello), Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, Harry Bicket (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro.
Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff present a 2018 production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, as Harry Bicket conducts the Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, with a cast including ldar Abdrazakov, Nadine Sierra and Marisuz Kwiecien. The story tells how the crafty servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, despite the best efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to have a romantic assignation with Susanna before her marriage. But not before a series of comic misunderstandings are resolved. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro. Nadine Sierra (soprano: Susanna), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass:Figaro), Ailyn Perez (soprano:Countess Almaviva), Marisuz Kwiecien (baritone:Count Almaviva), Isabel Leonard (mezzo:Cherubino), Katarina Leoson (soprano: Marcellina), Maurizio Muraro (singer: Dr Bartolo), Greg Fedderly (tenor: Don Basilio), Paul Corona (bass: Antonio), Ashley Emerson (soprano: Barbarina), Linda Burman-Hall (harpsichord), David Heiss (cello), Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, Harry Bicket (conductor).
2antimuzak
Thursday 1st April 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)
Opera Matinee.
Penny Gore presents Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2011. The Tsar has been looking for a bride, and assembled some 2000 girls for inspection. The one he's taken with is Marfa, but she is already promised in marriage to her childhood sweetheart Ivan. The situation is already complicated enough, but Marfa is also loved by another powerful man, Grigory, who's one of the Tsar's secret police. It's a love-triangle which has all the makings of catastrophe. Marina Poplavskaya (soprano/Marfa Sobakina). Johan Reuter (baritone/Grigory Gryaznoy). Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo/Lyubasha). Dmitry Popov (tenor/Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov). Vasily Gorshkov (bass/Elisa Bomelius). Paata Burchuladze (bass/Vasily Sobakin). Jurgita Adamonyte (mezzo/Dunyasha Saburova). Elizabeth Woollett (soprano/Domna Saburova). Alexander Vinogradov (bass/Malyuta-Skuratov). Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo/Petrovna). Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, conductor, Mark Elder.
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)
Opera Matinee.
Penny Gore presents Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2011. The Tsar has been looking for a bride, and assembled some 2000 girls for inspection. The one he's taken with is Marfa, but she is already promised in marriage to her childhood sweetheart Ivan. The situation is already complicated enough, but Marfa is also loved by another powerful man, Grigory, who's one of the Tsar's secret police. It's a love-triangle which has all the makings of catastrophe. Marina Poplavskaya (soprano/Marfa Sobakina). Johan Reuter (baritone/Grigory Gryaznoy). Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo/Lyubasha). Dmitry Popov (tenor/Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov). Vasily Gorshkov (bass/Elisa Bomelius). Paata Burchuladze (bass/Vasily Sobakin). Jurgita Adamonyte (mezzo/Dunyasha Saburova). Elizabeth Woollett (soprano/Domna Saburova). Alexander Vinogradov (bass/Malyuta-Skuratov). Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo/Petrovna). Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, conductor, Mark Elder.
3antimuzak
MUSIC: Opera on 3 from the Met
On: BBC Radio 3 (703)
Date: Saturday 3rd April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Rossini's Le Comte Ory.
A February 2013 peformance of Rossini's comic opera Le Comte Ory, with Maurizio Benini conducting the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, with Pretty Yende as Countess Adèle, Juan Diego Flórez as Count Ory and Karine Deshayes in the trouser role of Isolier. Count Ory is determined to win Adèle, and will do anything to get access to the castle where the women are, including disguising himself and his men as nuns. Presented by Mary-Jo Heath with commentator Ira Siff. Rossini: Le Comte Ory. Pretty Yende (soprano: Countess Adèle), Karine Deshayes (mezzo: Isolier), Susanne Resmark (mezzo: Ragonde), Juan Diego Flórez (tenor: Count Ory), Nathan Gunn (baritone: Raimbaud), Nicola Ulivieri (bass: The tutor). Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Maurizio Benini (conductor).
On: BBC Radio 3 (703)
Date: Saturday 3rd April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Rossini's Le Comte Ory.
A February 2013 peformance of Rossini's comic opera Le Comte Ory, with Maurizio Benini conducting the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, with Pretty Yende as Countess Adèle, Juan Diego Flórez as Count Ory and Karine Deshayes in the trouser role of Isolier. Count Ory is determined to win Adèle, and will do anything to get access to the castle where the women are, including disguising himself and his men as nuns. Presented by Mary-Jo Heath with commentator Ira Siff. Rossini: Le Comte Ory. Pretty Yende (soprano: Countess Adèle), Karine Deshayes (mezzo: Isolier), Susanne Resmark (mezzo: Ragonde), Juan Diego Flórez (tenor: Count Ory), Nathan Gunn (baritone: Raimbaud), Nicola Ulivieri (bass: The tutor). Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Maurizio Benini (conductor).
4antimuzak
ARTS: Opera on 3
On: BBC Radio 3 (703)
Date: Saturday 10th April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Stravinsky 50 - The Rake's Progress.
Kate Molleson presents a 1997 performance of Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress at London's Royal Festival Hall, starring Joan Rodgers and Barry Banks. When Igor Stravinsky, inspired by the 18th-century paintings of William Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, approached poet WH Auden for a libretto, one of the greatest opera collaborations came into being. Joined by Auden's partner Chester Kallman, the two men of words created a quirky parable in rhyme that Stravinsky fired up into some of his most striking, theatrical, and often tender music. Tom Rakewell, egotistical and spendthrift, is lured away from the countryside and his faithful sweetheart Anne Truelove to London. He has been tricked by Nick Shadow, a Mephistophelean man, who introduces him to a new life of brothels, money-making scams, and debauchery. Where will it lead? Stravinsky's last neo-classical work weaves together classical pastoral, the Faust legend, fairy tale, circus and the Bible, with hints of Mozart, Handel and Monteverdi. The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky at the height of his powers and is the perfect introduction to his genius. Joan Rodgers (soprano: Anne Truelove), Barry Banks (tenor: Tom Rakewell), Philip Ens (bass: Father Trulove), William Shimell (baritone: Nick Shadow), Susan Bickley (mezzo: Mother Goose), Jane Henschel (contralto: Baba the Turk), Robin Leggate (tenor: Sellem the Auctioneer), Henry Waddington (bass: Keeper of the madhouse), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor).
On: BBC Radio 3 (703)
Date: Saturday 10th April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Stravinsky 50 - The Rake's Progress.
Kate Molleson presents a 1997 performance of Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress at London's Royal Festival Hall, starring Joan Rodgers and Barry Banks. When Igor Stravinsky, inspired by the 18th-century paintings of William Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, approached poet WH Auden for a libretto, one of the greatest opera collaborations came into being. Joined by Auden's partner Chester Kallman, the two men of words created a quirky parable in rhyme that Stravinsky fired up into some of his most striking, theatrical, and often tender music. Tom Rakewell, egotistical and spendthrift, is lured away from the countryside and his faithful sweetheart Anne Truelove to London. He has been tricked by Nick Shadow, a Mephistophelean man, who introduces him to a new life of brothels, money-making scams, and debauchery. Where will it lead? Stravinsky's last neo-classical work weaves together classical pastoral, the Faust legend, fairy tale, circus and the Bible, with hints of Mozart, Handel and Monteverdi. The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky at the height of his powers and is the perfect introduction to his genius. Joan Rodgers (soprano: Anne Truelove), Barry Banks (tenor: Tom Rakewell), Philip Ens (bass: Father Trulove), William Shimell (baritone: Nick Shadow), Susan Bickley (mezzo: Mother Goose), Jane Henschel (contralto: Baba the Turk), Robin Leggate (tenor: Sellem the Auctioneer), Henry Waddington (bass: Keeper of the madhouse), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor).
5antimuzak
Saturday 17th April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira Siff present a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, live from the New York Metropolitan Opera. Indiscriminate and sexually voracious, Don Giovanni is a man who doesn't take no for an answer, leaving a trail of outrage and wrecked lives in his wake. But in the end, even he comes up against something he can't dupe, evade or kill. Mozart: Don Giovanni. With Gerald Finley (baritone: Don Giovanni), Bryn Terfel (bass: Leporello), Marina Rebeka (soprano: Donna Anna), Ellie Dehn (soprano: Donna Elvira), Matthew Polenzani (tenor: Don Ottavio), Shenyang (bass: Masetto), Isabel Leonard (soprano: Zerlina), James Morris (bass: Il Commendatore), New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis.
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira Siff present a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, live from the New York Metropolitan Opera. Indiscriminate and sexually voracious, Don Giovanni is a man who doesn't take no for an answer, leaving a trail of outrage and wrecked lives in his wake. But in the end, even he comes up against something he can't dupe, evade or kill. Mozart: Don Giovanni. With Gerald Finley (baritone: Don Giovanni), Bryn Terfel (bass: Leporello), Marina Rebeka (soprano: Donna Anna), Ellie Dehn (soprano: Donna Elvira), Matthew Polenzani (tenor: Don Ottavio), Shenyang (bass: Masetto), Isabel Leonard (soprano: Zerlina), James Morris (bass: Il Commendatore), New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis.
6antimuzak
Saturday 24th April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 21:30 (3 hours long)
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress.
Kate Molleson presents a 1997 performance of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at London's Royal Festival Hall, starring Joan Rodgers and Barry Banks. When Igor Stravinsky, inspired by the 18th-century paintings of William Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, approached poet WH Auden for a libretto, one of the greatest opera collaborations came into being. Joined by Auden's partner Chester Kallman, the two men of words created a quirky parable in rhyme that Stravinsky fired up into some of his most striking, theatrical, and often tender music. Tom Rakewell, egotistical and spendthrift, is lured away from the countryside and his faithful sweetheart Anne Truelove to London. He has been tricked by Nick Shadow, a Mephistophelean man, who introduces him to a new life of brothels, money-making scams, and debauchery. Where will it lead? Stravinsky's last neo-classical work weaves together classical pastoral, the Faust legend, fairy tale, circus and the Bible, with hints of Mozart, Handel and Monteverdi. The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky at the height of his powers and is the perfect introduction to his genius. Joan Rodgers (soprano: Anne Truelove), Barry Banks (tenor: Tom Rakewell), Philip Ens (bass: Father Trulove), William Shimell (baritone: Nick Shadow), Susan Bickley (mezzo: Mother Goose), Jane Henschel (contralto: Baba the Turk), Robin Leggate (tenor: Sellem the Auctioneer), Henry Waddington (bass: Keeper of the madhouse), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 21:30 (3 hours long)
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress.
Kate Molleson presents a 1997 performance of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at London's Royal Festival Hall, starring Joan Rodgers and Barry Banks. When Igor Stravinsky, inspired by the 18th-century paintings of William Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, approached poet WH Auden for a libretto, one of the greatest opera collaborations came into being. Joined by Auden's partner Chester Kallman, the two men of words created a quirky parable in rhyme that Stravinsky fired up into some of his most striking, theatrical, and often tender music. Tom Rakewell, egotistical and spendthrift, is lured away from the countryside and his faithful sweetheart Anne Truelove to London. He has been tricked by Nick Shadow, a Mephistophelean man, who introduces him to a new life of brothels, money-making scams, and debauchery. Where will it lead? Stravinsky's last neo-classical work weaves together classical pastoral, the Faust legend, fairy tale, circus and the Bible, with hints of Mozart, Handel and Monteverdi. The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky at the height of his powers and is the perfect introduction to his genius. Joan Rodgers (soprano: Anne Truelove), Barry Banks (tenor: Tom Rakewell), Philip Ens (bass: Father Trulove), William Shimell (baritone: Nick Shadow), Susan Bickley (mezzo: Mother Goose), Jane Henschel (contralto: Baba the Turk), Robin Leggate (tenor: Sellem the Auctioneer), Henry Waddington (bass: Keeper of the madhouse), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor).
7antimuzak
Saturday 1st May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice from Opera North.
Hannah French presents a performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice by Opera North, starring Paula Murrihy and Paula Murrihy and recorded at Leeds Town Hall in March. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice. Paula Murrihy (soprano: Orfeo), Fflur Wyn (soprano: Euridice), Daisy Brown (soprano: Amore), Opera North Chorus, Opera North Orchestra, Laurence Cummings (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice from Opera North.
Hannah French presents a performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice by Opera North, starring Paula Murrihy and Paula Murrihy and recorded at Leeds Town Hall in March. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice. Paula Murrihy (soprano: Orfeo), Fflur Wyn (soprano: Euridice), Daisy Brown (soprano: Amore), Opera North Chorus, Opera North Orchestra, Laurence Cummings (conductor).
8antimuzak
Saturday 8th May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Dvorak: Rusalka.
Mary-Jo Heath and Ira Siff present a 2014 production of Dvorak's Rusalka, starring soprano Renée Fleming with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera. Water nymph Rusalka falls for a prince when he goes to swim in her lake. A witch named Jezibaba agrees to let her become human, but warns her that if she doesn't find romance she will be damned and the man she loves will die. Dvorak: Rusalka. Renée Fleming (soprano: Rusalka), Emily Magee (soprano: Foreign Princess), Dolora Zajick (mezzo: Jezibaba), Piotr Beczala (tenor: Prince), John Relyea (bass: Water Sprite), Julie Boulianne (mezzo: Kitchen-Boy), Vladimir Chmelo (baritone: Gamekeeper), Dísella Lárusdóttir (soprano: First Sprite), Renée Tatum (mezzo: Second Sprite), Maya Lahyani (mezzo: Third Sprite), Alexey Lavrov (baritone: Huntsman), Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Dvorak: Rusalka.
Mary-Jo Heath and Ira Siff present a 2014 production of Dvorak's Rusalka, starring soprano Renée Fleming with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera. Water nymph Rusalka falls for a prince when he goes to swim in her lake. A witch named Jezibaba agrees to let her become human, but warns her that if she doesn't find romance she will be damned and the man she loves will die. Dvorak: Rusalka. Renée Fleming (soprano: Rusalka), Emily Magee (soprano: Foreign Princess), Dolora Zajick (mezzo: Jezibaba), Piotr Beczala (tenor: Prince), John Relyea (bass: Water Sprite), Julie Boulianne (mezzo: Kitchen-Boy), Vladimir Chmelo (baritone: Gamekeeper), Dísella Lárusdóttir (soprano: First Sprite), Renée Tatum (mezzo: Second Sprite), Maya Lahyani (mezzo: Third Sprite), Alexey Lavrov (baritone: Huntsman), Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor).
9antimuzak
Saturday 15th May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:15 (3 hours and 45 minutes long)
Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten from the Met.
Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and starring Anne Schwanewilms, Christine Goerke, Ildiko Komlosi and Torsten Kerl. The Woman Without a Shadow is an opera that grapples with the essence of being human. Like Mozart's The Magic Flute it explores the nature of love and human psychology through a drama of two contrasting couples - and mesmerising music. This 2013 production from the New York Metropolitan Opera, never previously heard in the UK, established American soprano Christine Goerke as a leading dramatic soprano - alongside German soprano Anne Schwanewilms in the title role as the Empress who must decide whether to sacrifice someone else's happiness to achieve her own. Presented by Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff. Anne Schwanewilms (soprano: Empress), Torsten Kerl (tenor: Emperor), Ildikó Komlósi (mezzo: Empress's nurse), Johan Reuter (bass-baritone: Barak, a dyer), Christine Goerke (soprano: Barak's wife), Daniel Sutin (baritone: Barak's one-eyed brother), Allan Glassman (tenor: Barak's hunchback brother), Nathan Stark (bass: Barak's one-armed brother), Jennifer Check (soprano: Falcon), Anthony Kalil (tenor: Voice of a young man), Maria Zifchak (mezzo: Voice from above), Richard Paul Fink (baritone: Messenger of Keikobad), Andrey Nemzer (countertenor: Guardian of the Threshold), Haeran Hong, Dísella Làrusdóttir (sopranos), Edyta Kulczak (mezzo): Servants, Anne-Carolyn Bird, Ashley Emerson, Danielle Talamantes, Monica Yunus (sopranos), Megan Marino, Renée Tatum (mezzos): Voices of the unborn children, David Won (baritone), Jeongcheol Cha, Brandon Cedel (bass-baritones): Watchmen, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:15 (3 hours and 45 minutes long)
Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten from the Met.
Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and starring Anne Schwanewilms, Christine Goerke, Ildiko Komlosi and Torsten Kerl. The Woman Without a Shadow is an opera that grapples with the essence of being human. Like Mozart's The Magic Flute it explores the nature of love and human psychology through a drama of two contrasting couples - and mesmerising music. This 2013 production from the New York Metropolitan Opera, never previously heard in the UK, established American soprano Christine Goerke as a leading dramatic soprano - alongside German soprano Anne Schwanewilms in the title role as the Empress who must decide whether to sacrifice someone else's happiness to achieve her own. Presented by Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff. Anne Schwanewilms (soprano: Empress), Torsten Kerl (tenor: Emperor), Ildikó Komlósi (mezzo: Empress's nurse), Johan Reuter (bass-baritone: Barak, a dyer), Christine Goerke (soprano: Barak's wife), Daniel Sutin (baritone: Barak's one-eyed brother), Allan Glassman (tenor: Barak's hunchback brother), Nathan Stark (bass: Barak's one-armed brother), Jennifer Check (soprano: Falcon), Anthony Kalil (tenor: Voice of a young man), Maria Zifchak (mezzo: Voice from above), Richard Paul Fink (baritone: Messenger of Keikobad), Andrey Nemzer (countertenor: Guardian of the Threshold), Haeran Hong, Dísella Làrusdóttir (sopranos), Edyta Kulczak (mezzo): Servants, Anne-Carolyn Bird, Ashley Emerson, Danielle Talamantes, Monica Yunus (sopranos), Megan Marino, Renée Tatum (mezzos): Voices of the unborn children, David Won (baritone), Jeongcheol Cha, Brandon Cedel (bass-baritones): Watchmen, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).
10antimuzak
Saturday 22nd May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 20:30 (2 hours long)
Janacek: From the House of the Dead.
A 2009 production of Leos Janacek's final opera From the House of the Dead, based on the novel by Dostoyevsky. Set in a prison, it focuses on the daily lives and pasts of its inmates, including Shishkov, imprisoned for murdering his wife, and the wrongly incarcerated Tatar Alyeya. Despite their bleak existence, hope is given to the inmates by the defiance of an injured eagle, held captive alongside them. Presented by Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff. Janacek: From the House of the Dead. Willard White (bass-baritone: Gorianchikov), Kurt Streit (tenor: Skuratov), Peter Mattei (tenor: Shishkov), Stefan Margita (tenor: Filka Morozov), Peter Hoare (tenor: Shapkin), Eric Stoklossa (tenor: Alyeya), Peter Straka (tenor: Nikita), Vladimir Chmelo (baritone: Short Prisoner), Vladimir Ognovenko (bass: Prison Commandant), Jeffrey Wells (bass: Chekunov), Richard Bernstein (bass: The Cook), Adam Klein (tenor: Drunk Prisoner), John Cheek (bass: Priest), Chorus and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 20:30 (2 hours long)
Janacek: From the House of the Dead.
A 2009 production of Leos Janacek's final opera From the House of the Dead, based on the novel by Dostoyevsky. Set in a prison, it focuses on the daily lives and pasts of its inmates, including Shishkov, imprisoned for murdering his wife, and the wrongly incarcerated Tatar Alyeya. Despite their bleak existence, hope is given to the inmates by the defiance of an injured eagle, held captive alongside them. Presented by Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff. Janacek: From the House of the Dead. Willard White (bass-baritone: Gorianchikov), Kurt Streit (tenor: Skuratov), Peter Mattei (tenor: Shishkov), Stefan Margita (tenor: Filka Morozov), Peter Hoare (tenor: Shapkin), Eric Stoklossa (tenor: Alyeya), Peter Straka (tenor: Nikita), Vladimir Chmelo (baritone: Short Prisoner), Vladimir Ognovenko (bass: Prison Commandant), Jeffrey Wells (bass: Chekunov), Richard Bernstein (bass: The Cook), Adam Klein (tenor: Drunk Prisoner), John Cheek (bass: Priest), Chorus and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).
11antimuzak
Saturday 12th June 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
La clemenza di Tito.
A performance of Mozart's final opera La clemenza di Tito at the Royal Opera House, the company's first production after lockdown eased. Edgaras Montvidas stars as Roman emperor Titus, whose legendary clemency is sorely tested when his best friend Sextus falls for Vitellia - daughter of the deposed Emperor Vitellius - and conspires against him. Mozart: La clemenza di Tito. Edgaras Montvidas (tenor: Tito), Nicole Chevalier (soprano: Vitellia), Emily D'Angelo (mezzo: Sesto), Christina Gansch (soprano: Servilia), Angela Brower (mezzo: Annio), Joshua Bloom (bass: Publio), Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). 9.20 Julius Aglinskas: Blue Dusk (BBC Commission); Apartment House. Gordon MacKay, Mira Benjamin (violins), Bridget Carey (viola), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Kerry Yong (piano), Alan Thomas (e-guitar). Recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in October 2020.
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
La clemenza di Tito.
A performance of Mozart's final opera La clemenza di Tito at the Royal Opera House, the company's first production after lockdown eased. Edgaras Montvidas stars as Roman emperor Titus, whose legendary clemency is sorely tested when his best friend Sextus falls for Vitellia - daughter of the deposed Emperor Vitellius - and conspires against him. Mozart: La clemenza di Tito. Edgaras Montvidas (tenor: Tito), Nicole Chevalier (soprano: Vitellia), Emily D'Angelo (mezzo: Sesto), Christina Gansch (soprano: Servilia), Angela Brower (mezzo: Annio), Joshua Bloom (bass: Publio), Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). 9.20 Julius Aglinskas: Blue Dusk (BBC Commission); Apartment House. Gordon MacKay, Mira Benjamin (violins), Bridget Carey (viola), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Kerry Yong (piano), Alan Thomas (e-guitar). Recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in October 2020.
12antimuzak
Saturday 26th June 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Donizetti's Roberto Devereux.
Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff present a 2016 production of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, featuring the Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Donizetti specialist Maurizio Benini. Sondra Radvanovsky plays Elizabeth I in the last years of her life and reign, portraying the disastrous relationship with her favourite Devereux, the man she loves, and whose death warrant she is forced to sign. Tenor Matthew Polenzani sings the role of Devereux, with Elina Garanca and Mariusz Kwiecien completing the principal quartet. Donizetti: Roberto Devereux. Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano: Elisabetta), Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano: Sara), Matthew Polenzani (tenor: Roberto Devereux), Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone: The Duke of Nottingham), The Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Maurizio Benini (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Donizetti's Roberto Devereux.
Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff present a 2016 production of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, featuring the Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Donizetti specialist Maurizio Benini. Sondra Radvanovsky plays Elizabeth I in the last years of her life and reign, portraying the disastrous relationship with her favourite Devereux, the man she loves, and whose death warrant she is forced to sign. Tenor Matthew Polenzani sings the role of Devereux, with Elina Garanca and Mariusz Kwiecien completing the principal quartet. Donizetti: Roberto Devereux. Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano: Elisabetta), Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano: Sara), Matthew Polenzani (tenor: Roberto Devereux), Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone: The Duke of Nottingham), The Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Maurizio Benini (conductor).
13antimuzak
Saturday 3rd July 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Bellini's I Puritani.
Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff introduce a 2017 performance of Bellini's I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. In England during the Civil War, a Puritan stronghold is under threat from Royalist troops. Within the fortress, the daughter of the commander Elvira has been promised to Riccardo, but is in love with Arturo, a Royalist. When she mistakenly believes herself betrayed by Arturo, it's enough to drive her mad. Diana Damrau sings Elvira, with Javier Camarena and Alexey Markov as the two men in her life. Diana Damrau (soprano: Elvira Walton), Javier Camarena (tenor: Lord Arturo Talbot), Alexey Markov (baritone: Sir Riccardo Forth), Luca Pisaroni (bass: Sir Giorgio Walton), David Crawford (bass: Lord Gualtiero Walton), Eduardo Valdes (tenor: Sir Bruno Robertson), Virginie Verrez (mezzo: Enrichetta di Francia), New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus, New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Maurizio Benini (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Bellini's I Puritani.
Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff introduce a 2017 performance of Bellini's I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. In England during the Civil War, a Puritan stronghold is under threat from Royalist troops. Within the fortress, the daughter of the commander Elvira has been promised to Riccardo, but is in love with Arturo, a Royalist. When she mistakenly believes herself betrayed by Arturo, it's enough to drive her mad. Diana Damrau sings Elvira, with Javier Camarena and Alexey Markov as the two men in her life. Diana Damrau (soprano: Elvira Walton), Javier Camarena (tenor: Lord Arturo Talbot), Alexey Markov (baritone: Sir Riccardo Forth), Luca Pisaroni (bass: Sir Giorgio Walton), David Crawford (bass: Lord Gualtiero Walton), Eduardo Valdes (tenor: Sir Bruno Robertson), Virginie Verrez (mezzo: Enrichetta di Francia), New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus, New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Maurizio Benini (conductor).
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Saturday 25th September 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage.
Andrew McGregor presents live from London's Royal Festival Hall as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir and English National Opera Chorus perform Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage. The composer's answer to Mozart's The Magic Flute, it is an opera rich in symbolism and psychology, trials and transformations. Robert Murray and Rachel Nicholls are Mark and Jenifer, while Jennifer France and Toby Spence play Bella and Jack, two couples tested by a series of supernatural interventions on the shortest night of the year. With its modern myth of hope and renewal clad in deliriously beautiful music, it's an ideal way for Edward Gardner to make his debut as the LPO's principal conductor. Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage. Robert Murray (:Mark), Rachel Nicholls (:Jenifer), Ashley Riches (:King Fisher), Jennifer France (:Bella), Toby Spence (:Jack), Claire Barnett-Jones (:Sosostris), Susan Bickley (:She-Ancient), Joshua Bloom (:He-Ancient), London Philharmonic Choir, English National Opera Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage.
Andrew McGregor presents live from London's Royal Festival Hall as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir and English National Opera Chorus perform Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage. The composer's answer to Mozart's The Magic Flute, it is an opera rich in symbolism and psychology, trials and transformations. Robert Murray and Rachel Nicholls are Mark and Jenifer, while Jennifer France and Toby Spence play Bella and Jack, two couples tested by a series of supernatural interventions on the shortest night of the year. With its modern myth of hope and renewal clad in deliriously beautiful music, it's an ideal way for Edward Gardner to make his debut as the LPO's principal conductor. Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage. Robert Murray (:Mark), Rachel Nicholls (:Jenifer), Ashley Riches (:King Fisher), Jennifer France (:Bella), Toby Spence (:Jack), Claire Barnett-Jones (:Sosostris), Susan Bickley (:She-Ancient), Joshua Bloom (:He-Ancient), London Philharmonic Choir, English National Opera Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner (conductor).
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Saturday 9th October 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Verdi's Rigoletto.
Verdi's Rigoletto from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, introduced by Tom Service in conversation with Flora Willson. Rigoletto is the Duke of Mantua's hunchbacked jester who revels in mocking and humiliating the courtiers by encouraging the Duke to have his way with their wives and daughters. But in the end it is his own daughter Gilda who is raped by the Duke, and in his quest for vengeance it is Rigoletto himself who unwittingly commissions her murder. Carlos Álvarez (baritone: Rigoletto), Liparit Avetisyan (tenor: Duke of Mantua), Lisette Oropesa (soprano: Gilda), Brindley Sherratt (bass: Sparafucile), Ramona Zaharia (mezzo-soprano: Maddalena), Eric Greene (baritone: Count Monterone), Kseniia Nikolaieva (mezzo-soprano: Giovanna), Dominic Sedgwick (baritone: Marullo), Egor Zhuravskii (tenor: Matteo Borsa), Blaise Malaba (bass: Count Ceprano). Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Verdi's Rigoletto.
Verdi's Rigoletto from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, introduced by Tom Service in conversation with Flora Willson. Rigoletto is the Duke of Mantua's hunchbacked jester who revels in mocking and humiliating the courtiers by encouraging the Duke to have his way with their wives and daughters. But in the end it is his own daughter Gilda who is raped by the Duke, and in his quest for vengeance it is Rigoletto himself who unwittingly commissions her murder. Carlos Álvarez (baritone: Rigoletto), Liparit Avetisyan (tenor: Duke of Mantua), Lisette Oropesa (soprano: Gilda), Brindley Sherratt (bass: Sparafucile), Ramona Zaharia (mezzo-soprano: Maddalena), Eric Greene (baritone: Count Monterone), Kseniia Nikolaieva (mezzo-soprano: Giovanna), Dominic Sedgwick (baritone: Marullo), Egor Zhuravskii (tenor: Matteo Borsa), Blaise Malaba (bass: Count Ceprano). Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor).
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Saturday 23rd October 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Janacek's Jenufa.
Claus Guth's production of Janacek's Jenufa from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, starring Asmik Grigorian, Karita Mattila, Nicky Spence and Saimir Pirgu, and conducted by Henrik Nanasi. Set in a small-minded, claustrophobic rural community, Jenufa is a drama of love and sacrifice in which the mother-daughter relationship of Jenufa and the Kostelnicka takes centre stage. In a morally complex plot, the unbending, dogmatic Kostelnicka is in fact the one character ready to step outside the harsh rules of her society, committing one of the most horrific crimes in order to give her daughter a chance in life. Asmik Grigorian is Jenufa in her Royal Opera House debut and Karita Mattila is the Kostelnicka. Presented by Kate Molleson in conversation with Czech opera expert Nigel Simeone, and including interviews with Asmik Grigorian, Karita Mattila and Henrik Nanasi. Janacek: Jenufa - Act 1. 7.20 Interval - with artist interviews. 7.35 Act 2. 8.25 Interval - with more artist interviews. 8.40 Act 3. Asmik Grigorian (soprano: Jenufa), Karita Mattila (soprano: Kostelnicka Buryjovka), Nicky Spence (tenor: Laca Klemen), Saimir Pirgu (tenor: Steva Buryja), Elena Zilio (mezzo: Grandmother Buryjovka), David Stout (baritone: Foreman), Jeremy White (bass: Mayor), Helene Schneiderman (mezzo: Mayor's wife), Jacquelyn Stucker (soprano: Karolka), Angela Simkin (mezzo: Herdswoman), Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Henrik Nanasi (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Janacek's Jenufa.
Claus Guth's production of Janacek's Jenufa from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, starring Asmik Grigorian, Karita Mattila, Nicky Spence and Saimir Pirgu, and conducted by Henrik Nanasi. Set in a small-minded, claustrophobic rural community, Jenufa is a drama of love and sacrifice in which the mother-daughter relationship of Jenufa and the Kostelnicka takes centre stage. In a morally complex plot, the unbending, dogmatic Kostelnicka is in fact the one character ready to step outside the harsh rules of her society, committing one of the most horrific crimes in order to give her daughter a chance in life. Asmik Grigorian is Jenufa in her Royal Opera House debut and Karita Mattila is the Kostelnicka. Presented by Kate Molleson in conversation with Czech opera expert Nigel Simeone, and including interviews with Asmik Grigorian, Karita Mattila and Henrik Nanasi. Janacek: Jenufa - Act 1. 7.20 Interval - with artist interviews. 7.35 Act 2. 8.25 Interval - with more artist interviews. 8.40 Act 3. Asmik Grigorian (soprano: Jenufa), Karita Mattila (soprano: Kostelnicka Buryjovka), Nicky Spence (tenor: Laca Klemen), Saimir Pirgu (tenor: Steva Buryja), Elena Zilio (mezzo: Grandmother Buryjovka), David Stout (baritone: Foreman), Jeremy White (bass: Mayor), Helene Schneiderman (mezzo: Mayor's wife), Jacquelyn Stucker (soprano: Karolka), Angela Simkin (mezzo: Herdswoman), Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Henrik Nanasi (conductor).
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Saturday 30th October 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Wagner's Tannhäuser.
Kate Molleson presents a production of Wagner's Tannhäuser recorded at this year's Bayreuth Festival in July, with expert commentary by music historian Barbara Eichner. Stephen Gould plays Tannhäuser, a medieval musician torn between passion and true love, who returns from the domain of the goddess Venus to the earthly land of Wartburg to try to win the affections of the devoutly religious Elisabeth, sung by Lise Davidsen. Tannhäuser's skill at a singing contest, which gets out of hand, is not enough to win over her uncle, so he offers to seek forgiveness in Rome for his past transgressions - but his absolution is refused. Wagner: Tannhäuser. Stephen Gould (tenor: Tannhäuser), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo: Venus), Lise Davisden (soprano: Elisabeth), Günther Groissböck (bass: Count Hermann), Markus Eiche (baritone: Wolfram), Olafur Kjartan Sigurdarson (bass: Biterolf, minstrel), Jorge Rodríguez-Norton (tenor: Heinrich), Wilhelm Schwinghammer, (bass: Reinmar), Katharina Konradi (soprano: Young shepherd), Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Axel Kober (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Wagner's Tannhäuser.
Kate Molleson presents a production of Wagner's Tannhäuser recorded at this year's Bayreuth Festival in July, with expert commentary by music historian Barbara Eichner. Stephen Gould plays Tannhäuser, a medieval musician torn between passion and true love, who returns from the domain of the goddess Venus to the earthly land of Wartburg to try to win the affections of the devoutly religious Elisabeth, sung by Lise Davidsen. Tannhäuser's skill at a singing contest, which gets out of hand, is not enough to win over her uncle, so he offers to seek forgiveness in Rome for his past transgressions - but his absolution is refused. Wagner: Tannhäuser. Stephen Gould (tenor: Tannhäuser), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo: Venus), Lise Davisden (soprano: Elisabeth), Günther Groissböck (bass: Count Hermann), Markus Eiche (baritone: Wolfram), Olafur Kjartan Sigurdarson (bass: Biterolf, minstrel), Jorge Rodríguez-Norton (tenor: Heinrich), Wilhelm Schwinghammer, (bass: Reinmar), Katharina Konradi (soprano: Young shepherd), Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Axel Kober (conductor).
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Saturday 6th November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Alfredo Catalani: Edmea.
All over the world, year in, year out, opera houses put on a handful of operas from the standard repertory. For 70 years, however, Wexford Festival Opera has bucked that trend and the unlikely setting of a small town on Ireland's southeast coast has become the destination for opera lovers who want to see the operas no one else will stage and to be the first to hear singers on the threshold of international careers. Among this season's rarities is Alfredo Catalani's Edmea. Overshadowed by his greatest hit La Wally, Edmea was Catalani's penultimate opera, based on an Alexandre Dumas play and premiered at La Scala, Milan, in 1886. It has many of the customary elements of the genre: a vulnerable orphan (Edmea), a love triangle, mistaken identity, forced marriage, madness, a castle and suicide (one attempted; one successful). But it does have a happy ending, when Edmea is able to marry her true love Oberto after her unwanted husband Ulmo shoots himself. Recorded last month and presented by Sean Rafferty. Anne Sophie Duprels (soprano: Edmea), Ivan Shcherbatykh (baritone: Il Conte di Leitmeritz), Luciano Ganci (tenor: Oberto), John Molloy (bass: Il Barone di Waldek), Leon Kim (baritone: Ulmo), Conor Prendiville (tenor: Fritz). Orchestra of Wexford Opera, Francesco Cilluffo (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Alfredo Catalani: Edmea.
All over the world, year in, year out, opera houses put on a handful of operas from the standard repertory. For 70 years, however, Wexford Festival Opera has bucked that trend and the unlikely setting of a small town on Ireland's southeast coast has become the destination for opera lovers who want to see the operas no one else will stage and to be the first to hear singers on the threshold of international careers. Among this season's rarities is Alfredo Catalani's Edmea. Overshadowed by his greatest hit La Wally, Edmea was Catalani's penultimate opera, based on an Alexandre Dumas play and premiered at La Scala, Milan, in 1886. It has many of the customary elements of the genre: a vulnerable orphan (Edmea), a love triangle, mistaken identity, forced marriage, madness, a castle and suicide (one attempted; one successful). But it does have a happy ending, when Edmea is able to marry her true love Oberto after her unwanted husband Ulmo shoots himself. Recorded last month and presented by Sean Rafferty. Anne Sophie Duprels (soprano: Edmea), Ivan Shcherbatykh (baritone: Il Conte di Leitmeritz), Luciano Ganci (tenor: Oberto), John Molloy (bass: Il Barone di Waldek), Leon Kim (baritone: Ulmo), Conor Prendiville (tenor: Fritz). Orchestra of Wexford Opera, Francesco Cilluffo (conductor).
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Saturday 13th November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 21:45 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)
Faust.
Alain Altinoglu conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, recorded at the Grosses Festspielhaus in August as part of the Salzburg Festival. Berlioz's compelling take on the Faust legend, in which the hero exchanges his soul for unlimited knowledge, is an imaginative score - wild and grandiose, but also intimately beautiful. Tenor Charles Castronovo sings the doomed and besotted Faust, opposite the dazzling mezzo Elina Garanca as the forsaken Marguerite and bass Ildar Abdrazakov as the malevolent Méphistophélès. Elina Garanca (mezzo: Marguerite), Charles Castronovo (tenor: Faust), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass: Méphistophélès), Peter Kellner (bass-baritone: Brander), Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association, Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children's Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 21:45 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)
Faust.
Alain Altinoglu conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, recorded at the Grosses Festspielhaus in August as part of the Salzburg Festival. Berlioz's compelling take on the Faust legend, in which the hero exchanges his soul for unlimited knowledge, is an imaginative score - wild and grandiose, but also intimately beautiful. Tenor Charles Castronovo sings the doomed and besotted Faust, opposite the dazzling mezzo Elina Garanca as the forsaken Marguerite and bass Ildar Abdrazakov as the malevolent Méphistophélès. Elina Garanca (mezzo: Marguerite), Charles Castronovo (tenor: Faust), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass: Méphistophélès), Peter Kellner (bass-baritone: Brander), Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association, Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children's Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu (conductor).
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Saturday 20th November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 21:45 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)
Gounod: Faust.
A production of Gounod's Faust from the Opéra Bastille in Paris, starring tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role. Cursed by her brother, the previously virginal Marguerite is left pregnant, miserable, mad and seemingly beyond redemption by the ageing Faust, who's made a devilish pact to exchange his soul for youth. The second of Opera on 3's two French takes on the Faust legend is Charles Gounod's version based on the first part of Goethe's play. Gounod: Faust. Benjamin Bernheim (tenor: Faust), Christian Van Horn (bass-baritone: Méphistophélès), Valentin Christian Helmer (baritone: Wagner), Florian Sempey (baritone: Valentin), Michèle Losier (mezzo: Siébel), Ermonela Jaho (soprano: Marguerite), Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (mezzo: Marthe Schwertlein), Paris Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Lorenzo Viotti (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 21:45 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)
Gounod: Faust.
A production of Gounod's Faust from the Opéra Bastille in Paris, starring tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role. Cursed by her brother, the previously virginal Marguerite is left pregnant, miserable, mad and seemingly beyond redemption by the ageing Faust, who's made a devilish pact to exchange his soul for youth. The second of Opera on 3's two French takes on the Faust legend is Charles Gounod's version based on the first part of Goethe's play. Gounod: Faust. Benjamin Bernheim (tenor: Faust), Christian Van Horn (bass-baritone: Méphistophélès), Valentin Christian Helmer (baritone: Wagner), Florian Sempey (baritone: Valentin), Michèle Losier (mezzo: Siébel), Ermonela Jaho (soprano: Marguerite), Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (mezzo: Marthe Schwertlein), Paris Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Lorenzo Viotti (conductor).
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Saturday 11th December 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Puccini's Tosca.
Debra Lew Harder presents a New York Met production of Tosca, with Sondra Radvanovsky taking the title role in Puccini's tale of love and betrayal, with Brian Jagde as her lover Cavaradossi and Evgeny Nikitin as police chief Scarpia. Puccini: Tosca. Sondra Radvanovsky (Floria Tosca, a celebrated singer: soprano), Brian Jagde (Mario Cavaradossi, a painter: tenor), Evgeny Nikitin (Baron Scarpia: baritone), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan: baritone), Kevin Short (Cesare Angelotti: bass), Tony Stevenson (Spoletta: tenor), Christopher Job (Sciarrone: bass), Adam Lau (Jailer: bass), Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Puccini's Tosca.
Debra Lew Harder presents a New York Met production of Tosca, with Sondra Radvanovsky taking the title role in Puccini's tale of love and betrayal, with Brian Jagde as her lover Cavaradossi and Evgeny Nikitin as police chief Scarpia. Puccini: Tosca. Sondra Radvanovsky (Floria Tosca, a celebrated singer: soprano), Brian Jagde (Mario Cavaradossi, a painter: tenor), Evgeny Nikitin (Baron Scarpia: baritone), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan: baritone), Kevin Short (Cesare Angelotti: bass), Tony Stevenson (Spoletta: tenor), Christopher Job (Sciarrone: bass), Adam Lau (Jailer: bass), Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor).
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Saturday 25th December 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel.
Suzy Klein presents a 2008 Royal Opera House production of Humperdinck's Hänsel and Gretel, with Colin Davis conducting the Tiffin Boys' Choir and Children's Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. In this classic Brothers Grimm story, two children get lost in a forest, where they are charmed by a witch to enter her magical gingerbread house. Once inside they are ensnared, but manage to defeat the witch, and in a rousing happy ending are reunited with their parents. Suzy is joined by German music specialist John Deathridge before curtain-up and during the interval to analyse Humperdinck's music. Additional insights are provided by members of the cast. Humperdinck: Hänsel and Gretel. Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo: Hänsel), Diana Damrau (soprano: Gretel), Elizabeth Connel (soprano: Gertrud), Thomas Allen (baritone: Peter), Anja Silja (soprano: Witch), Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano: Sandman/Echo), Anita Watson (soprano: Dew Fairy/Echo), Simona Mihai, Eri Nakamura (sopranos: Echo), Tiffin Boys' Choir, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Colin Davis (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel.
Suzy Klein presents a 2008 Royal Opera House production of Humperdinck's Hänsel and Gretel, with Colin Davis conducting the Tiffin Boys' Choir and Children's Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. In this classic Brothers Grimm story, two children get lost in a forest, where they are charmed by a witch to enter her magical gingerbread house. Once inside they are ensnared, but manage to defeat the witch, and in a rousing happy ending are reunited with their parents. Suzy is joined by German music specialist John Deathridge before curtain-up and during the interval to analyse Humperdinck's music. Additional insights are provided by members of the cast. Humperdinck: Hänsel and Gretel. Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo: Hänsel), Diana Damrau (soprano: Gretel), Elizabeth Connel (soprano: Gertrud), Thomas Allen (baritone: Peter), Anja Silja (soprano: Witch), Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano: Sandman/Echo), Anita Watson (soprano: Dew Fairy/Echo), Simona Mihai, Eri Nakamura (sopranos: Echo), Tiffin Boys' Choir, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Colin Davis (conductor).
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Saturday 1st January 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:00 to 22:15 (4 hours and 15 minutes long)
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde.
Martin Handley presents a performance of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde from the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival, starring Stuart Skelton and Nina Stemme, with Simon Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. The story tells of how Irish princess Isolde nursed Cornish knight Tristan back to health after he killed her betrothed Morold. Now she's betrothed to the Cornish king Mark and is being escorted to Cornwall by none other than Tristan. Wagner: Tristan and Isolde. Stuart Skelton (Tristan: tenor), Nina Stemme (Isolde: soprano), Franz-Josef Selig (King Mark: bass), Josef Wagner (Kurwenal: baritone), Jamie Barton (Brangäne: mezzo), Dominic Sedgwick (Melot: tenor), Linard Vrielink (Young sailor/Shepherd: baritone), Ivan Thirion (Steersman: baritone), Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor).
Time: 18:00 to 22:15 (4 hours and 15 minutes long)
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde.
Martin Handley presents a performance of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde from the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival, starring Stuart Skelton and Nina Stemme, with Simon Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. The story tells of how Irish princess Isolde nursed Cornish knight Tristan back to health after he killed her betrothed Morold. Now she's betrothed to the Cornish king Mark and is being escorted to Cornwall by none other than Tristan. Wagner: Tristan and Isolde. Stuart Skelton (Tristan: tenor), Nina Stemme (Isolde: soprano), Franz-Josef Selig (King Mark: bass), Josef Wagner (Kurwenal: baritone), Jamie Barton (Brangäne: mezzo), Dominic Sedgwick (Melot: tenor), Linard Vrielink (Young sailor/Shepherd: baritone), Ivan Thirion (Steersman: baritone), Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor).
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Saturday 15th January 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:00 to 22:00 (5 hours long)
Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Bernard Haitink conducts Graham Vick's 1993 Royal Opera House production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, starring John Tomlinson as cobbler-poet Hans Sachs. Gosta Winbergh as young iconoclast Walther, Thomas Allen as prissy Nuremberg town clerk Beckmesser, and Nancy Gustafson as Eva Pogner, the young woman caught between them all. This production of Wagner's comic masterpiece was one of Haitink's greatest artistic triumphs as music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and is perfect for Opera on 3's contribution to Radio 3's exploration of his legacy. Vick's acclaimed production featured sunny designs inspired by the paintings of Breughel and Dürer, and a cast at the top of their game, as John Tomlinson's Sachs tries to save Eva from the threat of marriage to the dreaded Beckmesser - but will he give her up to the man she loves, or does he want her for himself? Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. John Tomlinson (Hans Sachs: bass), Nancy Gustafson (Eva: soprano), Gosta Winbergh (Walther von Stolzing: tenor), Thomas Allen (Sixtus Beckmesser: baritone), Anne Howells (Magdalene, Eva's nurse: mezzo), Deon van Der Walt (David, Sachs's apprentice: tenor), Mastersingers - Gwynne Howell (Veit Pogner, Eva's father: bass), Alasdair Elliot (Kunz Vogelgesang: tenor), David Ellis (Konrad Nachtigall: bass), Roderick Earle (Fritz Kothner: bass), Ian Thompson (Balthasar Zorn: tenor), Paul Crook (Ulrich Eisslinger: tenor), Christopher Gillett (Augustin Moser: tenor), Michael Pearce (Hermann Ortel: bass), Alan Ewing (Hans Schwarz: bass), Clive Bayley (Hans Schwarz: bass), Mark Beesley (Nightwatchman: bass), Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Bernard Haiti (conductor).
Time: 17:00 to 22:00 (5 hours long)
Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Bernard Haitink conducts Graham Vick's 1993 Royal Opera House production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, starring John Tomlinson as cobbler-poet Hans Sachs. Gosta Winbergh as young iconoclast Walther, Thomas Allen as prissy Nuremberg town clerk Beckmesser, and Nancy Gustafson as Eva Pogner, the young woman caught between them all. This production of Wagner's comic masterpiece was one of Haitink's greatest artistic triumphs as music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and is perfect for Opera on 3's contribution to Radio 3's exploration of his legacy. Vick's acclaimed production featured sunny designs inspired by the paintings of Breughel and Dürer, and a cast at the top of their game, as John Tomlinson's Sachs tries to save Eva from the threat of marriage to the dreaded Beckmesser - but will he give her up to the man she loves, or does he want her for himself? Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. John Tomlinson (Hans Sachs: bass), Nancy Gustafson (Eva: soprano), Gosta Winbergh (Walther von Stolzing: tenor), Thomas Allen (Sixtus Beckmesser: baritone), Anne Howells (Magdalene, Eva's nurse: mezzo), Deon van Der Walt (David, Sachs's apprentice: tenor), Mastersingers - Gwynne Howell (Veit Pogner, Eva's father: bass), Alasdair Elliot (Kunz Vogelgesang: tenor), David Ellis (Konrad Nachtigall: bass), Roderick Earle (Fritz Kothner: bass), Ian Thompson (Balthasar Zorn: tenor), Paul Crook (Ulrich Eisslinger: tenor), Christopher Gillett (Augustin Moser: tenor), Michael Pearce (Hermann Ortel: bass), Alan Ewing (Hans Schwarz: bass), Clive Bayley (Hans Schwarz: bass), Mark Beesley (Nightwatchman: bass), Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Bernard Haiti (conductor).
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Saturday 22nd January 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro.
A performance of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, in which a count takes an over-eager interest in his manservant's wife-to-be. The philandering Count Almaviva is determined to fulfil his droit de seigneur with Susanna, his valet Figaro's betrothed, on her wedding day. But his wife is equally determined to expose and embarrass the count, enlisting the help of Susanna and Figaro to do so. In one of the greatest operas of all time and under the guise of comedy, Mozart holds up the iniquities of society and the ambiguities of life to his unerring gaze. As ever, the Met has assembled a starry international cast, including Lucy Crowe and Ryan McKinny as the young couple and Adam Plachetka as Count Almaviva. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro. Lucy Crowe (Susanna: soprano), Ryan McKinny (Figaro: bass-baritone), Golda Schultz (Countess Almaviva: soprano), Adam Plachetka (Count Almaviva: baritone), Isabel Leonard (Cherubino: mezzo), Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina: mezzo), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Basilio: tenor), Maurizio Muraro (Dr Bartolo: bass), Metropolitan Opera House Chorus & Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro.
A performance of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, in which a count takes an over-eager interest in his manservant's wife-to-be. The philandering Count Almaviva is determined to fulfil his droit de seigneur with Susanna, his valet Figaro's betrothed, on her wedding day. But his wife is equally determined to expose and embarrass the count, enlisting the help of Susanna and Figaro to do so. In one of the greatest operas of all time and under the guise of comedy, Mozart holds up the iniquities of society and the ambiguities of life to his unerring gaze. As ever, the Met has assembled a starry international cast, including Lucy Crowe and Ryan McKinny as the young couple and Adam Plachetka as Count Almaviva. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro. Lucy Crowe (Susanna: soprano), Ryan McKinny (Figaro: bass-baritone), Golda Schultz (Countess Almaviva: soprano), Adam Plachetka (Count Almaviva: baritone), Isabel Leonard (Cherubino: mezzo), Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina: mezzo), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Basilio: tenor), Maurizio Muraro (Dr Bartolo: bass), Metropolitan Opera House Chorus & Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni (conductor).
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Saturday 5th February 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mozart: Don Giovanni.
Davide Luciano takes the title role in a Salzburg Festival production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Teodor Currentzis conducting the MusicAeterna Chorus and Orchestra. Through some of his greatest music and in a succession of memorable numbers, Mozart's opera tells the tale of a man who stops at nothing to get what he wants, leaving a trail of broken promises and wrecked lives throughout Europe, but at last comes up against something he can't evade, dupe or kill. Davide Lucian (bass-baritone: Don Giovanni). Vito Priante (bass: Leporello), Nadezhda Pavlova (soprano: Donna Anna), Michael Spyres (tenor: Don Ottavio), Federica Lombardi (soprano: Donna Elvira), Mika Kares (bass: Il Commendatore), David Steffens (bass: Masetto), Anna Lucia Richter (soprano: Zerlina), MusicAeterna Chorus & Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mozart: Don Giovanni.
Davide Luciano takes the title role in a Salzburg Festival production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Teodor Currentzis conducting the MusicAeterna Chorus and Orchestra. Through some of his greatest music and in a succession of memorable numbers, Mozart's opera tells the tale of a man who stops at nothing to get what he wants, leaving a trail of broken promises and wrecked lives throughout Europe, but at last comes up against something he can't evade, dupe or kill. Davide Lucian (bass-baritone: Don Giovanni). Vito Priante (bass: Leporello), Nadezhda Pavlova (soprano: Donna Anna), Michael Spyres (tenor: Don Ottavio), Federica Lombardi (soprano: Donna Elvira), Mika Kares (bass: Il Commendatore), David Steffens (bass: Masetto), Anna Lucia Richter (soprano: Zerlina), MusicAeterna Chorus & Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis (conductor).
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Saturday 19th February 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov.
René Pape stars as the tortured tsar in this New York Metropolitan Opera production of Boris Godunov, Mussorgsky's operatic masterpiece inspired by Pushkin's play. Boris Godunov has become tsar of Russia after the deaths of Ivan the Terrible and his sons, and proves himself a good ruler - but he is tormented by a terrible secret. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov. René Pape (bass: Boris Godunov), Erika Baikoff (soprano: Xenia, his daughter), Megan Marino (mezzo: Feodor, his son), David Butt Philip (tenor: Grigory, the pretender), Ain Anger (bass: Pimen, hermit), Maxim Paster (tenor: Prince Shuisky), Aleksey Bogdanov (baritone: Shchelkalov), Ryan Speedo Green (bass-baritone: Varlaam, tramp), Miles Mykkanen (tenor: Holy Fool), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Sebastian Weigle (conductor).
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov.
René Pape stars as the tortured tsar in this New York Metropolitan Opera production of Boris Godunov, Mussorgsky's operatic masterpiece inspired by Pushkin's play. Boris Godunov has become tsar of Russia after the deaths of Ivan the Terrible and his sons, and proves himself a good ruler - but he is tormented by a terrible secret. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov. René Pape (bass: Boris Godunov), Erika Baikoff (soprano: Xenia, his daughter), Megan Marino (mezzo: Feodor, his son), David Butt Philip (tenor: Grigory, the pretender), Ain Anger (bass: Pimen, hermit), Maxim Paster (tenor: Prince Shuisky), Aleksey Bogdanov (baritone: Shchelkalov), Ryan Speedo Green (bass-baritone: Varlaam, tramp), Miles Mykkanen (tenor: Holy Fool), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Sebastian Weigle (conductor).
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