January 7, 2006

The most striking items on offer today:

RDP ANTENA 2 - rebroadcasts last year's star-studded revival of Verdi's Ballo in Maschera at Covent Garden, with Marcelo Alvarez, Karita Mattila and Thomas Hampson.

Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast - Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore, with Ramon Vargas, Ruth Ann Swenson and Andrew Shore.

MDR FIGARO - rebroadcasts Berg's Wozzeck from the Metropolitan Opera, with Alan Held and Katarina Dalayman.

RADIO OESTERREICH INTERNATIONAL- a performance from Geneva, of Wagner's Tannhäuser, starring Stephen Gould, Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet and Nina Stemme.

CBC TWO- an all-Mozart Gala, featuring soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, tenor Michael Schade and baritone Russell Braun.

Happy listening!