This afternoon, enjoy a collection of host favorites! We’ll hear a tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland, who passed away this week at the age of 83, as well as excerpts from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Richard Strauss’ Capriccio, and Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande.
We hear Ariadne auf Naxos of Richard Strauss, followed by recitals by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Rita Streich — and Strauss’s Four Last Songs performed by Elly Ameling.
The landmark 1976 production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess by the Houston Grand Opera solidified that work’s reputation as the most successful American opera of the 20th century.
We hear an afternoon of music by Henry Purcell, including complete performances of A Fairy Queen (with Lorraine Hunt) and Dido and Aeneas (with Susan Graham).