OperaBlog: Live Offerings - Saturday, April 11, 2009

Lots of Handel today - Orlando, Partenope, Acis and Galatea, and Tamerlano....Klara is probably not alone in running a Handel marathon over the next two of three days.

Here's this afternoon's lineup:

Bayern 4 Klassik - a 2008 performance of Handel's Acis and Galatea, with Julia Kleiter, Christoph Prégardien, Michael Slattery and Wolf Matthias Friedrich, conducted by Nicholas McGegan.
Deutschlanadradio Kultur - From Deutsche Oper in Berlin, an April 9th performance of Respighi's Marie Victoire, with Takesha Meshe Kizart, Markus Brück, German Villar, Stephen Bronk, Jörn Schümann, Simon Pauly, Martina Welschenbach, Gregory Warren, Nicole Piccolomini, Yosep Kang, Anna Fleischer, Stephen Bronk, Krzysztof Szumanski, Nathan Myers, Tomislav Lucic, Thomas Blondelle, Andrew Ashwin and Hyung-Wook Lee, conducted by Michail Jurowski.
DR P2 - From the Vienna State Opera, a February 13th performance of Verdi's Stiffelio, with osé Cura, Hui He, Anthony Michaels-Moore and Gergely Németi, conducted by Michael Halász.
RAdio 4 Netherlands - From the Royal Opera Covent Garden, Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, with Hans Peter König, Anja Kampe, Thorsten Kerl and Bryn Terfel, conducted by Marc Albrecht.
Sveriges Radio P2 - From last season's Bayreuth's Festival, Wagner's Parsifal, with Detlef Roth, Fujimura, Arnold Bezuyen, Friedemann Röhlig, Julia Borchert, Ulrike Helzel, Clemens Bieber, Timothy Oliver, Julia Borchert, Martina Rüping, Carola Guber, Anna Korondi, Jutta Böhnert, Ulrike Helzel and Altsolo Simone Schröder, conducted by Danielle Gatti.
KBIA2 - NPR World of Opera: From Bavarian State Opera, Verdi's Macbeth, with Zeljko Lucic, Nadja Michael, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Dimitri Pittas and Fabrizio Mercurio, conducted by Nicola Luisotti.
Klara & Espace 2 - From Theater an der Wien, Handel's Partenope, with Christine Schäfer, Kurt Streit, David Daniels, Patricia Bardon, Florian Boesch and Mattias Rexroth, conducted by Christophe Rousset.
Latvia Radio Klasika - A February 5th performance of Handel's Orlando, with Viljams Tovers, Dominika Labelle, Daiana Mu-ra, Suzanna Ri-dena, Volfs Matiass Fridrihs, conducted by Nikolass Makgegans.
NRK Klassisk - From Berwald Hall in Stocjholm, a September 28th performance of Haydn's Creation, with Dorothea Röschmann, Mark Padmore, Thomas Quasthoff, conducted Daniel Harding.
Radio Oesterreich International - From Washington National Opera, an April 2008 performance of Handel's Tamerlano, with Placido Domingo, David Daniels, Sarah Coburn, Patricia Bardon, Claudia Huckle and Andrew Foster-Williams, conducted by William Lacey.