Saturday Afternoon at the Opera
Saturday Afternoon at the Opera
Pavarotti in Mascagni & Donizetti
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Luciano Pavarotti is heard in L’amico Fritz by Mascagni and L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti.Saturday Afternoon at the Opera
Opera North
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Peter’s special guests – Kara Shay Thomson, soprano; Beau Gibson, tenor; and Pamela Pantos, Executive Director of Opera North – discuss Opera North’s August productions of La bohème and Don Giovanni.Saturday Afternoon at the Opera
“Operatic” Musicals
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We hear two of the rare Broadway musicals that qualify as "operatic": Leonard Bernstein’s Candide and Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella.Saturday Afternoon at the Opera
American Musical Sampler
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We present a program of vintage American musicals, including Oklahoma!, Guys & Dolls, and Annie Get Your Gun.Saturday Afternoon at the Opera
Orpheus
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We explore the Orpheus legend in music – and feature an historic performance of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Hilde Gueden and Fedora Barbieri.Saturday Afternoon at the Opera
Die Meistersinger
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In celebration of the beginning of summer, we present Wagner’s Die Meistersinger in a recording that includes Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Placido Domingo.Saturday Afternoon at the Opera
Arabella & Elektra
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Sir Georg Solti conducts historic recordings of two Strauss operas: Arabella and Elektra.Saturday Afternoon at the Opera
Tannhäuser
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Hans Hopf plays the title role in this vintage recording of Wagner’s Tannhäuser.Saturday Afternoon at the Opera
