Live Offerings - Saturday, February 20, 2009

Many European stations are carrying the Met broadcast of Ariadne auf Naxos this week, so there a re fewer offerings than usual this week....

• France Musique - From Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a January 30th performance of Rossini's La Cenerentola, with Antonino Siragusa, Stéphane Degout, Pietro Spagnoli,
• Carla Di Censo, Nidia Palacios, Vivica Genaux and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo.
• Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (on numerous stations) - Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, with Nina Stemme, Kathleen Kim, Sarah Connolly, Lance Ryan, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Anne-Carolyn Bird, (Tamara Mumford, Erin Morley, Tony Stevenson, Sean Panikkar, Mark Schowalter and Markus Werba, conducted by Kirill Petrenko.
• KBIA2 & WDAV - NPR World of Opera: From Houston Grand Opera, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Olga Guryakova, Marco Berti, Patrick Carfizzi, Raymond Aceto, Ryan McKinny, Maria Markina and Beau Gibson, conducted by Patrick Summers.
• Espace 2 - From the Vienna State Opera, a December 14, 2009 performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Robert Dean Smith, Violetta Urmana, Yvonne Naef, Bo Skovhus, Franz Josef Selig, Clemens Unterreiner, Peter Jelosits, Wolfgang Bankl and Gergely Nemethy, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
• Klara - From the Barbican Hall in London, a concert performance of Martinu's Julietta, with Magdalena Kozena, William Burden, Michel Andreas Jäggi, Rosalind Plowright, Zdenek Plech, Anna Stéphany, Jean Rigby, Frederic Goncalves and Roderick Williams, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek.
• And later on this evening:
• WFMT - Live from Chicago Lyric Opera, Opening Night of Berlioz' Damnation of Faust, with Paul Groves, Susan Graham, John Relyea and Christian Van Horn, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
• ABC Classic FM (Australia) & Concert FM (New Zealand) - From the Metropolitan Opera, Verdi's Stiffelio, with José Cura, Julianna Di Giacomo, Andrzej Dobber, Michael Fabiano, Phillip Ens, Jennifer Check and Diego Torre, conducted by Plácido Domingo.

Happy listening

Live Offerings - Saturday, February 13, 2009

The Met broadcast is now underway, but most other offerings are just about to start:

• Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (on numerous stations) - Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment, with Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Florez, Meredith Arwady, Maurizio Muraro, Donald Maxwell, Roger Andrews and Kiri te Kanawa, conducted by Marco Armiliato.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From La Monnaie in Brussels, a Gluck double bill: Iphigénie en Aulide, with Andrew Shore, Charlotte Hellekant, Véronique Gens, Avi Klembergand and Henk Neven; and Iphigénie en Tauride, with Nadja Michael, Stéphane Degout, Topi Lehtipuu, Werner van Mechelen and Violet Serena Noorduynconducted by Christophe Rousset.
• France Musique - From Opera Bastille in Paris, a February 12th performance of Massenet's Werther, with Jonas Kaufmann and Lodovic Tezier.
• KBIA 2 - NPR World of Opera: From the Chorégies Festival in Orange, France, Verdi's La Traviata, with Patrizia Ciofi, Vittorio Grigolo, Marzio Giossi, Laura Brioli, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Jean-Marie Delpas and Armando Noguera, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From La Monnaie in Brussels, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, with Nadja Michael, Stéphane Degout, Topi Lehtipuu, Werner van Mechelen and Violet Serena Noorduynconducted by Christophe Rousset.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, an August 2009 performance of Zeller's Der Obersteiger, with Bernhard Berchtold, Santiago Bürgi, Cornelia Zink, Wolfgang Müller-Lorenz, Donna Ellen and Anna Siminska, conducted by Herbert Mogg.
• Espace 2 - From the Ukrainian National Opera, an October 31st performance of Lysenko's Taras Bulba, with Taras Shtonda, Alla Pozniak, Petro Priymak, Pavlo Priymak, Yevghen Orlov, Svetlana Golevska, Vasyl Kolybabiuk, Serghiy Skochelias, Viktor Dudar, Oleksandr Gourets, Andriy Gonkulov and Dmytro Gryshyn, conducted by Volodymyr Kozhukhar.
• HR2 Kultur - From the Vienna State Opera, a June 20th performance of Strauss's Die Schweigsame Frau, with Jane Archibald, Kurt Rydl, Michael Schade, Janina Baechle, Adrian Eröd, conducted by Peter Schneider.
• Klara - Starting at GMT 1900/EST 2:00PM - the Met's La Fille du Régiment.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, a November 21st performance of Verdi's Don Carlos, with Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavska, Simon Keenlyside, Feruccio Furlanetto and Marianne Korneti, conducted by Semyons Bychkov.
• MDR Figaro - From Staatsoper Dresden, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, with Krassimira Stoyanova, Elina Garanca, Michael Schade and Franz-Josef Selig, conducted by Christian Thielemann.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatro San Carlo in Naples, a January 27th performance of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, with Gregory Kunde, Teresa Romano, Elena Monti,, Monica Bacelli, Francesca Russo Ermolli and Vito Priante, conducted by Jeffrey Tate.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera on a one-week delay: From Washington National Opera, Puccini's La boheme, with Adriana Damato, Vittorio Grigolo, Nicole Cabell, Paolo Pecchioli, Hyung Yun, Trevor Scheunemann, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume.
• ABC Classic FM (Australia) & Concert FM (New Zealand) - From the Metropolitan Opera, the historic broadcast (February 1, 1958) of Barber's Vanessa, with Eleanor Steber, Nicolai Gedda, Rosalind Elias, Regina Resnik, Giorgio Tozzi, George Cehanovsky and Robert Nagy, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
• And, last but not least, don't forget video feed of the the last (of 4) performance of the Indiana University production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, with Heather Youngquist, Joshua Lindsay, Andrew Kroes, Scott Hogsed, Nikhil Navkal, Samuel Green, Jane Rownd and Amanda Sesler, conducted by Arthur Fagen (Guest Stage Director: James Marvel, Set & Costume Designer: C. David Higgins).

Happy listening (and watching) . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, February 6, 2009

Somewhat slimmer pickings than usual. The biggest curiosity will probably bed Placido Domingo singing the title role in Simon Boccanegra (usually tackled by baritones). Also two different performances of Verdi's Macbeth, and from La Scala, a live performance of Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust. Here's the complete lineup:

• DR P2 - From Geneva, Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Pietro Spangnoli, José Fardilha, Diana Damrau, Serena Farnocchia and Christoph Strehl, conducted by Kenneth Montgomery.
• Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (on numerous stations)- Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, with Placido Domingo, Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordano, James Morris, Nicola Alaimo and Richard Bernstein, conducted by James Levine.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - Handel's Ariodante, with Ann Hallenberg, Karina Gauvin, Maarten Engeltjes, Jaël Azzaretti and Krystian Adam, conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From Ukrainian National Opera in Kiev, Lysenko's Taras Bulba, with T. Shtonda, A. Pozniak, P. Priymak, P. Priymak, Y. Orlov, S. Godlevska, T. Kuzminova, O. Gourets, V. Kolybabiuk, S. Skochelias, V. Dudar, A. Goniukov, D. Gryshyn, O. Boyko, M. Gubchuk and O. Vostriakov, conducted by V. Kozhukhar.
• KBIA2 - NPR World of Opera: From Washington National Opera, Puccini's La Boheme, with Adriana Damato, Vittorio Grigolo, Nicole Cabell, Paolo Pecchioli, Hyung Yun and Trevor Scheunemann, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From La Scala in MIlan, Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust, with Michael Volle, Dorothea Röschmann, Dimitri Ivashchenko, Steve Davislim, Irena Bespalovaite, Adina Aaron, Elena Zhidkova, Maria Radner and Jacheui Kwon, conducted by Pinchas Steinberg.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Glyndebourne, Dvorak's Rusalka, with Ana Maria Martinez, Brandon Jovanovich, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Mikhail Schelomianski, Larissa Diadkova, Natasha Jouhl, Barbara Senator, Elodie Méchain, Diana Axentii, Alasdair Elliott and John Mackenzie, conducted by Jirí Behlohlávek.
• Espace 2 - From the Vienna State Opera, a December 7, 2009 performance of Verdi's Macbeth, with Simon Keenlyside, Erika Sunnegardh, Stefan Kocan, Dimitri Pittas, Gergely Nemety, Donna Ellen and Alfred Sramek, conducted by Guillermo Garcia Calvo.
• Klara - From Vlaamse Opera, Bernstein's Candide, with Michael Spyres, Jane Archibald, Graham Valentine, Thomas Oliemans, Andrew Ashwin, Katarina Bradic, Karan Armstrong, Keith Lewis, Adrian Fischer, Gijs Van der Linden, Milcho Borovinov and Thorsten Buettner, conducted by Yannis Pouspourikas.
• HR2 Kultur - A November 1, 2009 performance of Act 2 of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Waltraud Meier, John Mac Master, Michelle Breedt, Franz Josef Selig and Kurwenal Michael Vier, conducted by Daniel Harding.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera (on a one week delay): From Bastille Opera in Paris, Verdi's Macbeth, with Dimitris Tiliakos, Violeta Urmana, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Stefano Secco, Alberto Nigro and Letitia Singleton, conducted by Teodor Currentzis.
• ABC Classic FM (Australia) & Concert FM (New Zealand) - Another chance to hear the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Bizet's Carmen, with Elina Garanca, Barbara Frittoli, Roberto Alagna, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Earle Patriarco, Keith Jameson, Keith Miller, Trevor Scheunemann, Elizabeth Caballero and Sandra Piques Eddy, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

. . . And don't forget the live videocast of the Indiana University Lucia di Lammermoor tonightat 8:00PM EST.

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, January 16, 2009

Getting a late start today. Two or three things stand out from the crowd of live offerings this afternoon: The Met's new production of Carmen (also being shown in HD in move theaters today), with Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna, from Radio Clasica de Espana a live 1960 Bartered Bride with Irmgard Seefried and a wonderful ensemble cast, and from Sveriges Radio P2 a 1954 Signor Bruschino (Rossini) with Elisabeth Söderströmand Hugo Hasslo. Here's the complete lineup:

• Sveriges Radio P2 - A live 1954 perfromance of Rossini's Signor Bruschino from Kungliga Opera, with Elisabeth Söderström, Eleonora Collin, Arne Hendriksen, Sture Ingebretzen, Sigvard Berg, Hugo Hasslo and Anders Näslund, conducted by Lamberto Gardelli.
• BR Klassik - An October 10, 2008 performance of Schubert's Winterreise, with Christoph Prégardien and Ensemble Berlin.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a November 22, 2009 performance of Verdi's Don Carlo, with Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside, Marianne Cornetti, Ferruccio Furlanetto, John Tomlinson, Robert Lloyd, Pumeza Matshikiza, Eri Nakamura and Robert Anthony Gardiner, conducted by Semyon Bychkov.
• DR P2 - From the Vienna State Opera, a January 8th performance of Massenet's Manon, with Diana Damrau, Ramón Vargas, Markus Eiche and Dan Paul Dumitrescu, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• Metropolitan Opera (on numerous stations) - Bizet's Carmen, with Elina Garanca,
• Roberto Alagna, Trevor Scheunemann, Barbara Frittoli, Mariusz Kwiecien, Earle Patriarco, Keith Jameson, Keith Miller, Elizabeth Caballero and Sandra Piques Eddy, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From the Vienna State Opera, a November 11, 1960 performance of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, with I. Seefried, W. Kmentt, H. Braun, H. Konetzni, M. Dickie, L. Weber, R. Anday, O. Czerwenka, L. Szemere, L. Maikl and H. Schweiger, conducted by B. Klobucar.
• KBIA2 & KOHM - NPR World of Opera: From the Vienna State Opera, Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, with Kurt Rydl, Marian Talaba, Angela Denoke, Mischa Didyk and Donna Ellen, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - Another chance to hear the Metropoltian Opera's December 19th broadcast of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, with Joseph Calleja, Kathleen Kim, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsay, Alan Held, Alan Oke and Rodell Rosel, conducted byJames Levine.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava & WDAV - From Teatro alla Scala, a December 19th performance of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, with Roberta Invernizzi, Georg Nigl, Sara Mingardo, Luigi De Donato, Raffaella Milanesi, Giovanni B. Parodi and Furio Zanasi, conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini.
• Espace 2 - From The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a December 1, 2009 performance of Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers, with Vsevolod Grivnov, Olga Guryakova, Larissa Diadkova, Maxim Mikhailov, Vladimir Matorin, Vyacheslav Voynarovsky, Alexander Vassiliev, John Upperton, Sergey Leiferkus, Jeremy White, Changhan Lim, conducted by Alexander Polyanicko.
• HR2 Kultur - From Deutsche Oper Berlin, an April 9, 2009 performance of Respighi's Marie Victoire, with Marie de Lanjallay, Takesha Meshé Kizart, Maurice de Lanjallay, Markus Brück, Clorivière German Villar, Simon Simon Pauly and Cloteau Stephen Bronk, conducted by Michail Jurowski.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatro Communale di Bologna, Strauss's Salome, with Robert Brubaker, Dalia Schächter, Nadja Michael, Mark S. Doss and Mark Milhofer and Nora Sourouzian, conducted by Nicola Luisotti.
• ABC Classic FM (Australia) & Concert FM (New Zealand) - Another chance to hear the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Strauss's Elektra, with Susan Bullock, Deborah Voigt, Felicity Palmer, Alan Held and Wolfgang Schmidt, conducted by Fabio Luisi.

Happy listening,

Live Offerings - Saturday, January 9, 2010

Not to be missed: The Met broadcast of Der Rosenkavalier (G and I attended the Wednesday evening performance, and the cast was close to perfection, one of the all-time best performances of this opera either of us had seen). All four principles were wonderful, but Susan Graham's Octavian outshown them all.

There are other things to listen to this aftenoon, including a live live Manon from Vienna with Damrau and Vargas, so let's get right to them:

• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Mannheim a December 9th performance of Johann Christian Bach's Amadis des Gaules, with Maximilian Schmitt, Cornelia Ptassek, Marie-Belle Sandis, Anne-Theresa Albrecht, Antje Bitterlich and Katrin Wagner, conducted by Reinhard Goebel.


• Metropolitan Opera (on numerous stations) - Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, with Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Christine Schäfer, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen and Kristinn Sigmundsson, conducted by Edo de Waart.


• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Palais Garnier in Paris, Gounod's Mireille, with Inva Mula, Charles Castronovo, Franck Ferrari, Alain Vernhes, Sylvie Brunet, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Sébastien Droy, Nicolas Cavallier and Amel Brahim-Djelloul, conducted by Marc Minkowski.


• KBIA2 & KOHM - NPR World of Opera: From La Sclal in Milan, Monteverdi's Orfeo, with Georg Nigi, Roberta Invernizzi, Sara Mindardo, Luigi De Donato, Raffaella Milanesi, Giovanni B. Parodi and Furio Zanasi, conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini.


• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) & Radio Tre (RAI) - From the Vienna State Opera, Massenet's Manon, with Diana Damrau, Ramón Vargas, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Markus Eiche, Alexander Kaimbacher, Clemens Unterreiner, Simina Ivan, Sophie Marilley and Zoryana Kushpler, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.


• Espace 2 - From Cologne, Mozart's Così fan tutte, with Iulia Isaev, Bernarda Fink, Marcel Reijans, Marcel Boone, Pietro Spagnoli, Graciela Oddone, conducted by René Jacobs.


• Klara - From La Scala, the December 7th opening night performance of Bizet's Carmen, with Anita Rachvelishvili, Jonas Kaufmann, Erwin Schrott, Adriana Damato, Gabor Bretz, Mathias Hausmann, Michèle Losier, Adriana Kucerová, Gabriel Da Costa, Francis Dudziac, Rodolphe Briand and Carmine Maringola, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.


• WDAV - From NPR World of Opera (on a one week delay), a Royal Opera House, Covent Garden performance of Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers, with Olga Guryakova, Vsevolod Grivnov, Larissa Diadkova, Vladimir Matorin, ergei Leiferkuss, Maxim Mikhailov, Vyacheslav Voynarovsky, Alexander Vassiliev and John Upperton, conducted by Alexander Polianichko.


• Concert FM (New Zealand) & ABC Classic FM (Australia) - Now that the Antipodes have begun their run of the Met broadcasts, another chance to hear Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, with Joseph Calleja, Kathleen Kim, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsay, Alan Held, Alan Oke, Rodell Rosel, Michael Todd Simpson, Dean Peterson, Mark Schowalter and David Asch, conducted by James Levine.

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings, Saturday, January 2, 2010

Happy New Year! The highlights for this afternoon include two different performances of Verdi's Macbeth from the same December run in Vienna, with Simon Keenlyside; a Meistersinger from the Liceu in Barcelona, with Robert Dean Smith and Véronique Gens; Hansel und Gretel from the Metropolitan Opera, with Miah Persson and Angelika Kirchschlager; from Opéra Bastille in Paris, Giordano's Andréa Chenier, with Marcelo Alvarez. Here's the lineup:

• Deutschlandradio Kultur & DR P2 - From the Vienna State Opera, a December 7th performance of Verdi's Macbeth, with Simon Keenlyside, Erika Sunnegardh, Stefan Kocán and Dimitri Pittas, conducted by Guillermo García Calvo.
  
• HR2 Kultur - From Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, a March 23, 2009 performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, with Albert Dohmen, Reinhard Hagen, Bo Skovhus, Robert Dean Smith, Norbert Ernst, Véronique Gens and Stella Grigorian, conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
• Metropolitan Opera (on numerous stations) - Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, with Miah Persson, Angelika Kirchschlager, Rosalind Plowright, Dwayne Croft, Philip Langridge, Jennifer Johnson and Erin Morley, conducted by Fabio Luis.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - Chabrier's L'Etoile, with Jean Paul Fouchecourt, conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce.
• Dwojka Polskie Radio - From the Vienna State Opera, a June 2009 performance of Gounod's Faust, with Soile Isokoski, Zoryana Kushpler, Roxana Constantinescu, Piotr Beczala, Kwangchul Youn, Boaz Daniel and Hans Peter Kammerer, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• France Musique - From Opéra Bastille in Paris, a December 18 performance of Giordano's Andréa Chenier, with Marcelo Alvarez, Sergei Murzaev, Micaela Carosi, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Stefania Toczyska, Maria José Montiel, André Heyboer, Igor Gnidii, Antoine Garcin, David Bizic, Carlo Bosi, Bruno Lazzaretti, Ugo Rabec and Guillaume Antoine, conducted by Daniel Oren.
• KBIA2 & KOHM - NPR World of Opera: From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers, with Olga Guryakova, Vsevolod Grivnov, Larissa Diadkova, Vladimir Matorin, Sergei Leiferkuss, Maxim Mikhailov, Vyacheslav Voynarovsky, Alexander Vassiliev and John Upperton, conducted by Alexander Polianichko.
• MDR Figaro - From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, an August 23, 2009 performance of Verdi's Don Carlo, with Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside, Sonia Ganassi, Ferruccio Furlanetto and John Tomlinson, conducted by Semyon Bychkov.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From Teatro Comunale in Bologna, an August 9, 2009 performance of Rossini's Zelmira, with Kate Aldrich, Juan Diego Florez, Marinna Pizzolato, Alex Esposito, Mirco Palazzi and Gregory Kunde, conducted by Roberto Abbado.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Czech radio archives, a 1964 performance of Dvorak's Jacobin, with Richard Novák, Jindr(ich Jindrák, Antonín Švorc, Milada Šubrtová, Karel Berman, Oldr(ich Spisar, Antonín Votava and Helena Tattermuschová, Marie Ovc(ac(íková, conducted by Jan Hus Tichý.
• Klara - From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, with Changhan Lim, Juan Diego Florez, Pietro Spagnoli, Joyce DiDonato, Alessandro Corbelli, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Jennifer Rhys-Davies, Bryan Secombe, Christopher Lackner and Andrew Macnair, conducted by Antonio Pappano.

Happy listening.....

Live Offerings - Saturday, December 19, 2009

The strongest, most interesting choice today is probably the Met Tales of Hoffmann broadcast, but there are other offerings worth a look as well. WWFM is re-airing the Bayreuth Meistersinger from this past summer; Deutschlandradio Kultur offers another chance to hear Klaus Florian Vogt in Korngold's Die Tode Stadt from Frankfurt; NPR World of Opera is airing Handel's Ariodante from this past summer's Beaune Baroque Opera Festival with Karina Gauvin; several stations are carrying a Geneva performance of Chabrier's L'Etoile with Jean-Paul Fouchécourt; Radio Tre and Radio Oesterreich International offer Tristan und Isolde from the Vienna State Opera with Robert Dean Smith and Violetta Urmana; and Czech Radio is airing Gounod's Faust with Piotr Beczala and Soile Isokoski (if one doesn't think of Kwangchul Youn as a liability...).

Now for the details:

• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Oper Frankfurt am Main, a November 22 performance of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, with Klaus Florian Vogt, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Michael Nagy, Hedwig Fassbender, Anna Ryberg, Jenny Carlstedt, Julian Prégardien and Hans-Jürgen Lazar, conducted by Leitung: Sebastian Weigle.
• Espace 2, Dwojke Polskie Radio, NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, a November 9 performance of Chabrier's L'Etoile, with Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, René Schirrer, Jean Doyen, Fabrice Farina, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Blandine Staskiewicz and Jérôme Savary, conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce.
• Metropolitan Opera (on numerous stations) - Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, with Kathleen Kim, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja and Alan Held, conducted by James Levine.
• NPR World of Opera - From the International Baroque Opera Festival in Beaune, France, Handel's Ariodante, with Ann Hallenberg, Karina Gauvin, Maarten Engeltjes, Jael Azzaretti,; Krystian Adam and; Sergio Foresti, conducted by Federco Maria Sardelli.
• WWFM - From this past summer's Bayreuth Festival, Wagner's Die Meistersinger, with Alan Titus, Artur Korn, Charles Reid, Rainer Zaun, Adrian Eröd, Markus Eiche, Edward Randall, Hans-Jürgen Lazar, Florian Hoffmann, Martin Snell, Hans Schwarz Mario Klein, Diógenes Randes, Klaus Florian Vogt, Norbert Ernst, Michaela Kaune, Carola Guber and Friedemann Röhlig, conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) & Radio Tre (RAI) - From the Vienna State Opera, a December 14 performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Robert Dean Smith, Violetta Urmana, Yvonne Naef, Bo Skovhus, Franz-Josef Selig, Clemens Unterreiner, Wolfgang Bankl, Gergely Nemeti and Peter Jelosits, conducted by Simon Rattle.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From the Vienna State Opera, Gounod's Faust, with Piotr Beczala, Kwangchul Youn, Boaz Daniel, Soile Isokoski, Zoryana Kushpler, Hans Peter Kammerer, Roxana Constantinescu, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.

Messiah Alert!
This being the week before Christmas, there are many opportunities to hear Handel's Messiah (by my count I have entered eight for this week!), including a gem of a performance I heard the other evening with the New York Philharmonic, Helmut Rilling conducting a the Philharmonic's chamber orchestra with the Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart. The soloists are all more than respectable, but the glory of this performance is the utter clarity and beauty of the choral singing. There will be more than one chance to hear it (unfortunately abridged to fit a two hour time slot - the performance included all three parts and ran about an hour and a half), as many stations in the U.S. will be carrying it as part of their NY Philharmonic series this week.

Happy listening - and Merry Christmas to all!

Live Offerings, Saturday, November 21, 2009 - Part II

Further live offerings for this afternoon:

• Dwojke Polskie Radio - Is also carrying the Szymanowski Król Roger from the Liceu; a correction: Josep Pons is the sonductoir (and not the singer Juan Pons, as I ahd eal;rier supposed).
• France Musique - From Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a November 9 performance of Donizetti's Don Pasquale, with Nicola Alaimo, Laura Giordano, Mario Cassi, Francisco Gatell and Gabriele Spina, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
• NPR World of Opera - From the Vienna State Opera, Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Rene Pape, Ricarda Merbeth, Soile Isokoski, Michael Schade, Michaele Selinger, Boaz Daniel and Eric Halfvarson, conducted by Constantinos Carydis.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Palais Garnier in Paris, Gounod's Mireille, with Inva Mula, Charles Castronovo, Franck Ferrari, Alain Vernhes, Sylvie Brunet, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Sébastien Droy, Nicolas Cavallier and Amel Brahim-Djelloul, conducted by Marc Minkowski.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From Theater an der Wien, an October 22 performance of Vivaldi's Armida al Campo d'Egitto, with Sara Mingardo, Furio Zanasi, Monica Bacelli, Raffaella Milanesi, Marina Comparato, Romina Basso and Martin Oro, conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini.
• Cesky Rozhlas-3 Vltava - From trhe Metropolitan Oper archives, a 1959 broadcast pf Verdi's Macbeth, with Leonie Rysanek, Leonard Warren, Carlo Bergonzi, Jerome Hines, William Olvis, Carlotta Ordassy, Gerhard Pechner, Harold Sternberg, Osie Hawkins, Calvin Marsh, Emilia Cundari and Mildred Allen, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.
• Klara - Is running a full day of Purcell programming, and in their opera slot listen to Glyndebourne performance of Purcell's The Fairy Queen, with Lucy Crowe, Claire Debono, Anna Devin, Carolyn Sampson, Robert Burt, Ed Lyon, Andrew Foster-Williams, Sean Clayton, Adrian Ward, and Lukas Kargl, conducted by William Christie.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From the Grand Theatre in Geneva, a February 28 performance of Strauss's Salome, with Alan Held, Nikola Bellere Karbone, Hedviga Fasbindere and Kim Begley, conducted by Gabriele Ferro.
• NDR Kultur - From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a September performance of Verdi's Don Carlo, with Jonas Kaufmann, Maria Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside, Sonia Ganassi, Ferruccio Furlanetto and John Tomlinson, conducted by Semyon Bychkov.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, a July 13 performance of Bellini's Zaira, with Ermonela Jaho, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Shalva Mukeria, Wenwei Zhang, Franck Bard, Marianne Crebassa and Carlo Kang, conducted by Enrique Mazzola.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - In their weekend late-night archival broadcast slot, tonight hear an October 25, 1963 broadcast of Leoncavallo's's La Boheme, with Angelo Loforese, Guido Mazzini, Fernando Lidonni, Giorgio Tadeo, Osvaldo Scrigna, Osvaldo Scrigna, Walter Brunelli, Antonio Petrini, Bianca Maria Casoni, Florida Assandri Norelli and Maja Sunara, Orchestra Sinfonica e coro di Milano della Raiconducted by Pietro Argento; tomorrow night hear Puccini's La Boheme, with Agostino Lazzari, Rolando Panerai, Enrico Ciampi, Franco Calabrese, Aristide Baracchi, Melchiorre Luise, Elena Rizzieri, Graziella Sciutti, Walter Artioli and Egidio Casolari, Orchestra Sinfonica e coro di Milano della Rai conducted by Nino Sanzogno.

Happy listening.....

Live Offerings, Saturday, November 21, 2009 - Part I

Getting a late start on this blog today (thanks to a late but great party last night). Some things are already underway:

• Sveriges Radio P2 - Stravinski's The Rakes Progress, from Malmö, with Nikola Matisic, Hulda Björk Gardarsdóttir, Bengt Krantz, Emma Lyrén, Ethel Schelin, Daniel Hellström, Sellem - Rickard Söderberg, Thomas Hildebrandt and Skådespelare - Keijo J. Salmela, conducted by Staffan Larsson.
• WUFT-FM HD2 - From Houston Grand Opera, a Choral Gala.
• Bartok Radio - Its Budapest Ring Cycle continues with a June 14 performance of Gotterdammerung, with Christian Franz, Oskar Hillebrandt, Eric F. Halfvarson, Hartmut Welker, Linda Watson, Markovics Erika, Cornelia Kallisch, Gál Erika, Németh Judit, Szabóki Tünde, Korondi Anna, Fodor Gabriella and Shöck Atala, conducted by Adan Fischer.
• BBC Radio 3 - From Opera North, Massenet's Werther, with Paul Nilon, Alice Coote, Fflur Wyn, Peter Savidge, Donald Maxwell, Richard Burkhard and Joshua Ellicott, conducted by Richard Farnes.

And about to start:

• CBC Two - From La Scala in Milan, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with David Daniels, Rosemary Joshua, Emil Wolk, Daniel Okulitch, Gordon Gietz, and Erin Wall, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Staatsoper Hannover, a November 14 perfromance of Wagner's Das Rheingold, with Tobias Schabel, Jin-Ho Yoo, Young-Hoon Heo, Robert Künzli, Stefan Adam, Jörn Eichler, Albert Pesendorfer, Young Myoung Kwon, Khatuna Mikaberidze, Arantxa Armentia, Okka von der Damerau, Nicole Chevalier, Julia Faylenbogen and Mareike Morr, conducted by Wolfgang Bozic.
• DR P2 - From the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, an August 29 performance of Haydn's Orlando Paladino, with Tom Randle, Sine Bundgaard, Pietro Spagnoli, Magnus Staveland, Alexandrina Pendatchanska and Sunhae Im, condiucted by René Jacobs.
• Espace Musique - From Vienna State Opera, Wagner's Lohengrin, with Robert Dean Smith, Morten Frank Larsen, Ain Anger, Falk Struckmann, Janina Baechle and Camilla Nylund, conducted by Leif Segerstram.
• KBYU - From Houston Grand Opera, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Iestyn Davies, Laura Claycomb, Jon Michael Hill, Norman Reinhardt, Liam Bonner, Marie Lenormand, Katie van Kooten, Matthew Rose, Steven Cole, Ryan McKinny, Robert Pomakov and Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, conducted by Patrick Summers.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From The Liceu in Barcelona, Szymanovsky's Krol Roger, with Juan Pons and Anne Schwanenwilms and Scott Hendricks.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From Wexford, an October 31 performance of a double bill: Chabrier's Une éducation manquée, with K. Jayasinghe, P. Murrihy; and Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio, with G. Bellavia, C. Pervin, G. Pelligra, V. Prato, L. Dall’Amico and A. Gill, both conducted by C. Franklin.
• RTP Antena 2 - From Thuríngia, a February 2 performance of Mendelssohn's Soldatenliebschaft, with Gerlinde Illich, Linlin Fan, Joan Ribalta, Bernardo Kim and Serge Noviqueconducted by Eric Solén.
• WETA - From Washington National Opera, one more airing of Handel's Tamerlano, with Placido Domingo, David Daniels, Sarah Coburn, Patricia Bardon, Claudio Huckle and Andrew Foster Williams, conducted by William Lacey.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From Houston Grand Opera, a Choral Gala.
• WQXR - from Los Angeles Opera, Verdi's Requiem, with Adrianne Pieczonka, Stephanie Blythe, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, and René Pape, conducted by Placido Domingo.
• XLNC1- From Houston Grand Opera, Verdi's Rigoletto, with Scott Hendricks, Albina Shagimuratova, Eric Cutler, Andrea Silvestrelli, Maria Markina, Bradley Garvin, Jamie Barton, Adam Cioffari, Shon Sims, Octavio Moreno, Faith Sherman and Tommy Ajai George, conducted by Patrick Summers.

More to come shortly. Happy listening.....

Live Offerings - Saturday, October 24, 2009

Reruns seem to be the order of the day. Most of the available "live" offerings have appeared elsewhere in previous weeks. Exceptions include a Budapest Rheingold from Bartok Radio, BBC 3's Carmen, yesterday's Lady Macbeth from Mtensk from the Vienna State Opera (being carried by three stations), the San Francisco Opera Don Giovanni, France Musique's Die Tote Stadt from Opera Bastille, and last, but certainly not least, the live La Traviata from Seattle Opera later on this evening (Charles Taylor's Germont pere will be worth a listen...).

Here's the complete lineup:

• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Stadshallen in Göttingen, a May 13, 2008 performance of Handel's Acis and Galatea, with Christoph Prégardien, Julia Kleiter, Wolf Matthias Friedrich and Michael Slattery, condcuted by Nicholas McGegan
• BBC Radio 3 - From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bizet's Carmen, with Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Liping Zhang, Changhan Lim, Henry Waddington, Eri Nakamura, Louise Innes, Adrian Clarke and Vincent Ordonneau, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• CBC Two - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, with Matthew Polenzani, Erin Wall, Aleksandra Kurzak, Steve Davislim and Andrea Silvestrelli, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From the Vienna State Opera, Gounod's Faust, with Piotr Beczala, Kwangchul Youn, Soile Isokoski, Boaz Daniel, Hans Peter Kammerer, Roxana Constantinescu and Zoryana Kushpler, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• DR P2, Radio Clasica de Espana & Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From the Vienna State Opera, an October 23 performance of Shastakovich's Lady Macbeth from Mtensk, with Kurt Rydl, Marian Talaba, Angela Denoke, Misha Didyk, Donna Ellen and Michael Roider, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio - From the 2009 Glyndebourne Festival, Dvorak's Rusalka, with Ana Maria Martinez, Brandon Jovanovich, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Misza Szelomian'ski, Larissa Diadkova, Diana Axentii and Alasdair Elliott, conducted by Jirí Belohlávek.
• Espace Musique - From the Vienna State Opera, Strauss's Die Schweigsame Frau, with Kurt Rydel, Janina Baechle, Adrian Eröd, Michael Schade, Jane Archibald, Caroline Weinborne, Michaela Selinger, Clemens Unterreiner, Janusz Monarcham and Walter Fink.
• RTP Antena 2 - From Teatro da Música in Amsterdam, a June 7, 2008 performance of Messiaen Saint Francois d'Assise, with Camilla Tilling, Hubert Delamboye, Rom Randle, Donald Kaascg, Rod Gilfry, Henk Neven, Arman Arapian, Jan Willen Baljet and André Morsch, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.
• WETA - From the Grand Theater in Geneva, Verdi's Il Trovatore, with Tatiana Serjan, Irina Mishura, Zoran Todorovich, George Petean and Burak Bilgili, conducted by Evelino Pido.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From San Francisco Opera, Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Mariusz Kwiecien, Oren Gradus, Elza van den Heever, Twyla Robinson, Charles Castronovo, Claudia Mahnke, Luca Pisaroni and Kristinn Sigmundsson, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• WQXR - From San Francisco Opera, Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, with Torsten Kerl,
• Marie/Marietta: Emily Magee, Lucas Meachem, Katharine Tier, Ji Young Yang,: Daniela Mack, Alek Shrader, Andrew Bidlack, Bryan Ketron and Ben Bongers, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• NPR World of Opera - From the 2009 Aix en Provence Festival, Mozart's The Magic Flute, with Marlis Petersen, Magnus Staveland, Anna-Kristiina Kaapola, Daniel Schmutzhard, Sunhae Im, Marcos Fink and Kurt Azesberger, conducted by Rene Jacobs.
• XLNC1 - From San Francisco Opera, Verdi's La Traviata, with Anna Netrebko, Charles Castronovo, Dwayne Croft, Leeann Sandel-Pantaleo, Renee Tatum, Andrew Bidlack, Dale Travis, Austin Kness and Kenneth Kellogg, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• Bartok Radio - From Budapest, a June 11 performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold, with Johan Reuter, Oskar Hillebrandt, Fekete Attila, Christian Franz, Hartmut Welker, Michael Roider, Thomas Jesatko, Ain Anger, Németh Judit, Herczenik Anna, Kovács Annamária, Korondi Anna, Fodor Gabriella and Schöck Atala, conducted by Stephen D´Agostino.
• France Musique - From Opéra Bastille in Paris, Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, with Robert Dean Smith, Ricarda Merbeth, Stéphane Degout, Doris Lamprecht and Elisa Cenni, conducted by Pinchas Steinberg.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Haydn's Orlando Paladino, with Henriette Bonde-Hansen, Joan Martin-Roya, Marcel Reijans, Kenneth Tarver, Peter Gijsbertsen, Sharon Rostorf-Zamir Jörg Schneider, Elena Monti, Martijn Cornet, conducted by Alessandro De Marchi.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila, with Torsten Kerl, Marianna Tarasova, Micho Borovinov, Nikola Mijailovic, Thorsten Büttner, Onno Pels, Gijs Van der Linden and Tijl Faveyts, conducted by Tomáš Netopil.
• Klara - From Vienna, a January 25 concert performance of Vivaldi's Ercole su'l Termodonte, with Vivica Genaux, Roberta Invernizzi, Emanuela Galli, Stefanie Iranyi, Carlo Allemano, Romina Basso, Philippe Jaroussky and Philippo Adami, conducted by Fabio Biondi.
• Radio Tre - From Teatro la Fenice (or possibly Teatro Malibran??) in Venice, an October 9 performance of Handel's Agrippina, with Lorenzo Regazzo, Ann Hallenberg, Florin Cezar Ouatu, Veronica Cangemi, Xavier Sabata, Ugo Guagliardo, Milena Storti and Roberto Abbondanza, conducted by Fabio Biondi.
• Lyric FM - Carlo Pedrotti's opera Tutti in maschera (Everyone in Masks) from last year's Wexford Festival Opera. Bass-baritone Enrico Marabelli heads the cast.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera (on a one-week delay): From Washington National Opera, Handel's Tamerlano, with Placido Domingo, David Daniels, Sarah Coburn, Patricia Bardon, Claudio Huckle and Andrew Foster Williams, conducted by William Lacey.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From Opéra Bastille in Paris, Szymanowsky's King Roger, with Mariusz Kwiecien, Eric Cutler, Olga Pasichnyk, Stefan Margita, Wojtek Smilek and Jadwiga Rappé, conducted by Kazushi Ono.
• KING - Live from Seattle Opera, Verdi's La Traviata, with Nuccia Focile, Dimitri Pittas and Charles Taylor, conducted by Brian Garman.
• ABC Classic FM - From the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov, with Alexei Tanovitski, Irina Mataeva, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Nikolay Gassiev, Yuri Vorobyev, Pavel Shmulevich, Mikhaol Vishnyak, Varvara Solovyeva, Ludmila Kanunnikova and Olga Legkova, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings, Saturday, October 17, 2009

Several interesting offerings this afternoon, in particular:

• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From San Francisco Opera, Verdi's La Traviata, with Anna Netrebko, Charles Castronovo and Dwayne Croft, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• BBC Radio 3 - From Covent Garden, Verdi's Don Carlo, with Jonas Kaufmann, Simon Keenlyside, Marina Poplavskaya, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marianne Cornetti and John Tomlinson, conducted by Semyon Bychkov.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur & DR P2: From the 2009 Glyndebourne Festival, Dvorak's Russalka, with Ana Maria Martinez, Brandon Jovanovich, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Mischa Schelomianski and Larissa Diadkova, conducted by Jirí Belohlávek.
• Klara - From the Vienna State Opera, a June performance of Gounod's Faust, with Piotr Beczala, Kwangchul Youn, Boaz Daniel and Soile Isokoski, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From Geneva's Grand Theatre, Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, with Elena Garancia and Paul Groves, conducted by John Nelson.
• Sveriges P2 - The historic 1947 Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with Jussi Björling, Bidú Sayão, Nicola Moscona, John Brownlee, Thomas Hayward and Mimi Benzell, conducted by Emil Cooper.
• NPR World of Opera - Yet another chance to hear the Washington National Opera performance of Handel's Tamerlano, with Placido Domingo, David Daniels, Sarah Coburn, Patricia Bardon, Claudio Huckle and Andrew Foster Williams, conducted by William Lacey.

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings, Saturday, October 10, 2009

The big news in radio in these parts has been the conversion of WQXR here in New York City - this week WQXR, which had previously been a commercial station owned by the New York Times, became a public radio station, owned and managed by WNYC. We were curious what would happen to their Saturday afternoon opera programming. In the coming weeks (before the start of the MEt season) they will be picking up the WFMT series, but first they will be inaugurating their new regime with this past summer's Bayreuth Festival Meistersinger.

Here's the rest of the live lineup:

• BBC Radio 3 - From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia, with Pietro Spagnoli, Juan Diego Florez, Joyce DiDonato, Alessandro Corbelli, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Jennifer Rhys-Davies, Changhn Lim, Bryan Secombe, Christopher Lachner, conducted by Antonio Pappano. On the opening night of this run, Di Donato fell and broke her leg but soldiered on to finish the performance. She performed the rest of the run in a wheelchair. Read her own account of the whole experience in her blog.
• CBC Two - From Chicago Lyric Opera, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, with Patricia Racette, Frank Lopardo, James Westman and Katherine Goeldner, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From the Festivalul George Enescu at Opera Nationala in Bukarest, an August 30 performance of Enescu's Oedipe, with Mihai Lazar, Oana Andra, Franck Ferrari, Crina Zancu, Ionut Pascu, Horia Sandu, Vicentiu Taranu, Adriana Alexandru, Pompeiu Harasteanu, Valentin Racoveanu and Ecaterina Tutu, conducted by Oleg Caetani.
• DR P2 & Klara - From the 2009 Rossini Festival in Pesaro, an August 9 performance of Rossini's Zelmira, with Kate Aldrich, Marianna Pizzolato, Alex Esposito, Juan Diego Flórez and Mirco Palazzi, conducted by Roberto Abbado.
• Espace Musique & Latvia Klasika Radio - From Chorégies d’Orange 2009, Verdi's La Traviata, with Patrizia Ciofi, Laura Brioli, Christine Labadens, Vittorio Grigolo, Marzio Giossi, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Jean-Marie Delpas, Armando Noguera and Nicolas Courjat, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.
• KBYU - From Utah Opera, a 2008 performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, with Barbara Shirvis, Scott Piper, Jon Kolbet, Andrew Oakden, Kirsten Gunlogson, Brent Turner, Dominick Chenes, Tyler Oliphant, Christopher Clayton and Rachel Willis-Sørensen, conducted by Joseph Mechavich.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From Teatro Real de Madrid, Berg's Lulu, with A. Eichenholz, J. Larmore, H. Shipp, G. Siegel, R. González, I. Mentxaka and M. J. Suárez, conducted by E. Inbal.
• WETA - From Washington National Opera, Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, with Renee Fleming, Vittorio Grigolo, Kate Aldrich, Ruggero Raimondi, Oleksandr Pushniak, Girgory Soloviov, Jose Ortega, Yingxi Zhang and David B. Morris, conducted by Placido Domingo.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From San Francisco Opera, Puccini's Tosca, with Adrianne Pieczonka, Carlo Ventre, Lado Ataneli, Jordan Bisch, Dale Travis, Matthew O’Neill, Austin Kness and Kenneth Kellogg, conducted by Marco Armiliato.
• NPR World of Opera - From Drottningholm Court Theatre, Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, with Ingelina Bohlin, Charlotte Hellekand, Matilda Paulsson, Christopher Ainslie, Lars Arvidson and Malin Christensson, conducted by Mark Tatlow.
• XLNC1 - From San Francisco Opera, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, with Joyce DiDonato, Soile Isokoski, Miah Persson, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Jochen Schmeckenbecher and Robert McPherson, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio - From Netherlands Opera, Cavalli's Ercole amante, with Veronica Cangemi, Anna Bonitatibus, Anna Maria Panzarella, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Johannette Zomer, Mark Tucker, Jeremy Ovenden, Luca Pisaroni and Umberto Chiummo, conducted by Ivor Bolton.
• Bartok Radio - From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, an historic broadcast of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, with Douglas Robinson, Nicolai Gedda, Jules Bastin, Robert Massard, Roger Soyer, Derek Blackwell, Robert Lloyd, Raimund Herincx, Hugues Cuénod, Christiane Eda-Pierre, Jane Berbié and Janine Reiss, conducted by Colin Davis.
• France Musique - From La Scala in Milan, a July 6 performance of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with David Daniels, Rosemary Joshua, Daniel Okulitch, Natasha Petrinsky, Gordon Gietz, David Adam Moore, Deanne Meek, Erin Wall, Matthew Rose, Andrew Shore, Christopher Gillett, Graeme Dandy, Adrian Thompson and Simon Butteriss, conducted by Andrew Davis.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - An historic Metropolitan Opera broadcast: from February 21, 1959, Verdi's Macbeth, with Leonie Rysanek, Leonard Warren, Carlo Bergonzi, Jerome Hines, William Olvis, Carlotta Ordassy, Harold Sternberg, Gerhard Pechner and Osie Hawkins, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, a May 23, 2008 performance of Rossini's Tancredi, with Bernarda Fink, Rosemary Joshua, Lawrence Brownlee, Anna Chierichetti, Federico Sacchi and Elena Belfiore, conducted by René Jacobs.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Kungliga Operan in Stockholm, Handel's Xerxes, with Katarina Karnéus, Matilda Paulsson, Katarina Leoson, Malin Byström, Ailish Tynan, Lars Arvidson and Mark Stone, conducted by Andreas Stoehr.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - Auber's Fra Diavolo, Sumi Jo, Doris Lamprecht, Kenneth Tarver, Marc Molomo, Antonio Figueroa, Vincent Pavesi, Thomas Dolié and Thomas Morris, conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire.
• Espace 2 & Radio Slovenia Tretji - From l'Opéra National de Paris, a February 21 performance of Gounod's Mireille, with Inva Mula, Charles Castronovo, Franck Ferrari, Sylvie Brunet, Alain Vernhes, Nicolas Cavallier, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Amel Brahim Djelloul, Sébastien Droy and Ugo Rabec, conducted by Marc Minkowski.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From the 2009 Glyndeboune Festival, Dvorák's Russalka, with Mischa Schelomianski, Ana Maria Martinez,, Larissa Diadkova, Brandon Jovanovich, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Natasha Jouhl, Barbara Senator, Elodie Mechain, Alasdair Elliott, Diana Axentii, Alasdair Elliott, conducted by Jirì Belohlàvek.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera, on a one week delay: from the Vienna State Opera, Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, with Simon Keenlyside, Tamar Iveri, Ramon Vargas, Ain Anger, Nadia Krasteva and Aura Twarowska, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Haydn's Orlando Paladino, with Pietro Spagnoli, Marcel Reijans, Kenneth Tarver, Peter Gijsbertsen, Laura Cherici, Nikolay Borchev, Elena Monti and Martijn Cornet, conducted by Alessandro De Marchi.
• KING - From San Francisco Opera, Korngold's Die Tode Stadt, with Torsten Kerl, Emily Magee, Lucas Meachem, Katharine Tier, Ji Young Yang, Daniela Mack, Alek Shrader Andrew Bidlack, Bryan Ketron and Ben Bongers, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• ABC Classic FM (Australaia) - From Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse, Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, with Philippe Talbot, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Allyson McHardy, Stéphane Degout, Françoise Masset, Jennifer Holloway, Bruno Calucci, Jaël Azzaretti, François Lis, Jérôme Varnier, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and Aurélia Legay, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm.

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, October 3, 2009 - Part III

And on we go with live listings for today:

• Espace 2 - From Bucharest, an August 9 performance of Enesco's Oedipe, with Franck Ferrari, Oana Andra, Mihai Lazar, Stefan Schuller, Horia Sandu, Valentin Racoveanu, Pompeiu Harasteanu, Adriana Alexandru, Crina Zancu, Ecaterina Tutu, Vicentiu Taranu, Ionut Pascu and Mihnea Lamatic, conducted by Oleg Caetani.
• Klara - From Vlaamse Opera, a September 25 performance of Berg's Wozzeck, with Gabriel Suovanen, Wozzeck Noëmi Nadelmann, Marie Ales Briscein, Tambourmajor Peter Bronder, Hauptmann Friedemann Röhlig, Doktor Thorsten Büttner, Andres Katarina Bradic and Margret Milcho Borovinov, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From Opera Royal de Wallonie, Auber's Fra Diavolo, with Sumi Jo and Kenneth Tarver, conducted by Jean Claude Malgoire.
• Radio Slovenia Klasika - Also airing the Rossini Zelmira from Pesaro.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From the Royal Albert Hall in London, a July 19 performance of Handel's Partenope, with Inger Dam-Jensen, Tuva Semmingsen, Andreas Scholl, Christophe Dumaux, Bo Kristian Jensen and Palle Knudsen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From the 2009 Maggio Musicale in Florence, Verdi's Rigoletto, with James Valenti, Alberto Gazale, Désirée Rancatore,, Konstantin Gorny, Chiara Fracasso,, Giorgia Bertagni Armando Caforio, Roberto Accurso, Luca Casalin, Andrea Cortese, Miriam Artiaco, Vito Luciano Roberti and Elisa Luppi, conducted by Stefano Ranzani.
• Lyric FM - From Teatro dell' Opera in Rome, Gluck's Iphegenie en Aulis, with Krassimira Stoyanova, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera (on a one week delay): From the Capitole Theatre in Toulouse, Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, with Bernard Richter, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Allyson McHardy, Stephane Degout, Fancoise Masset, Jennifer Holloway, Bruno Calucci, Jael Azzaretti and Francis Lis, conducted by Emmanuelle Haim.
• KING - Another chance to hear Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov from San Francisco Opera, with Samueal Ramey, Vsevolod Grivnov, John Uhlenhopp, Vladimir Ognovenko, Vitalij Kowaljow, Andrew Bidlack, Ji Young Yang, Jack Gorlin, Catherine Cook, Daveda Karanas, Matthew O’Neill, Nicolai Janitzky, Kenneth Kellogg and Valery Portnov, conducted by Ian Robertson.
• Classid FM (Australia) - From Vienna State Opera, Strauss's Die Schweigsame Frau, with Kurt Rydl, Janina Baechle, Adrian Eröd, Michael Schade, Jane Archibald, Caroline Wenborne, Michaela Selinger, Clemens Unterreiner, Janusz Monarcha and Walter Fink, conducted by Peter Schneider.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - Another chance to catch Beethoven's Fidelio from the BBC Proms, with Waltraud Meier, Simon O'Neill, Gerd Grochowski,, John Tomlinson Adriana Kucerova, Stephan Rügamer and Viktor Rud, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

Happy listening.....

Live Offerings - Saturday, October 3, 2009 - Part II

Starting at 1:30PM EDT:

• Bartok Radio - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, a November 7, 2008 performance of Berg's Lulu, with Marlis Petersen, Jill Grove, Buffy Baggott, Craig Irvin, Scott Ramsay, Wolfgang Schöne, William Burden, Jan Buchwald, Thomas Hammons, Rodell Rosel and Bradley Garden, conducted by Andrew Davis.
• France Musique - From the 2009 Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Rossini's Zelmira, with Alex Esposito, Kate Aldrich and Juan Diego Florez.
• NPR World of Opera - From Vienna State Opera, Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, with Simon Keenlyside, Tamar Iveri, Ramon Vargas, Ain Anger, Nadia Krasteva and Aura Twarowska, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
• MDR Figaro - From Semper Oper, the September 6 finals concert of their vocal competition, conducted by Markus Poschner.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Covent Garden in London, Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, with Elina Garaca, Anna Netrebko, Dario Schmunck, Eric Owens and Alastair Miles, conducted by Mark Elder.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From Flemish Opera in Antwerp, a February 13 performance of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, with Nikolai Putilin, Mikhail Kit, Leandra Overmann, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Viktor Lutsiuk, Milcho Borovinov, Vesselin Ivanov and Thorsten Büttner, conducted by Dmitri Jurowski.

Still more to come.....

Live Offerings, Saturday, October 3, 2009 -- Part I

Offerings for this afternoon:

• BBC 3 - From Glyndebourne, Dvorak's Rusalka, starring Ana Maria Martinez, with Jiri Belohlavek conducting.
• Espace Musique- We can catch another Rusalka with notables Richard Paul Fink and Irina Mishura included in the cast.
• RTP Antena 2- And we can catch another Jirí Belohlávek performance, as he conducts Smetana's Bartered Bride.
• WETA- And yet another Jirí Belohlávek performance, this time Janacek's Jenufa.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3 - Vltava- William Christie conducts Monteverdi's Orfeo.
• DR P2 - We hear Gounod's Mireille, with Inva Mula and Charles Castronovo, Marc Minkowski conducting.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - More Gounod, as we hear his Faust, starring Piotr Beczala and Soile Isokoski.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous staions) is carrying the San Francisco Opera Der Rosenkavalier, with Joyce DiDonato, Soile Isokoski, Miah Persson, Kristinn Sigmundsson and Jochen Schmeckenbecher, conducted by Donald Runnicles
• WUOT - Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, starring Simon Keenlyside, Tamar Iveri and Ramon Vargas.
• XLNC1 - Puccini's La Boheme, starring Angela Gheorghiu, Piotr Beczala and Quinn Kelsey.

More to come!

Live Offerings - Saturday, September 26, 2009 - Part II

Further offerings for this afternoon:

• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Brno, Blažek's Verchovina, with Vilém Pr(ibyl, Richard Novák, Anna Barová, Jarmila Palivcová, Jir(í Olejníc(ek, Jir(í Bar, Václav Halír, František Kunc, Stanislav Bechynský, Josef Škrobánek, Daniela Suryová, Jan Hlavík, Vladimír Krejc(ík, Jaroslav Souc(ek, Josef Klán, Jarmila Krátká, Pavel Polášek, conducted by František Jílek.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - Direct from Teatro Olimpico di Roma, IL FLAUTO MAGICO secondo l'ORCHESTRA DI PIAZZA VITTORIO, with Omar Lopez Valle, Papageno, El Hadij Yeri Samb, Petra Magoni, Sylvie Lewis, Awalys Ernesto Lopez Maturell, Carlos Paz Duque, Houcine Ataa, Raul Scebba, Ziad Trabelsi, John Maida, Gaia Orsoni, Zsuzsanna Krasznai, Pino Pecorelli, Evandro Dos Reis and Sanjay Kansa Banik, conducted by Mario Tronco.
• WFMT - This evening will air the Opening Night of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Season: Puccini's Tosca, with Tosca, with Deborah Voigt, Vladimir Galouzine, James Morris and Dale Travis, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

And a late correction: KAMU is not carrying the San Francisco La Boheme, as we has originally listed, but will air the San Francisco Opera Der Rosenkavalier, with Joyce DiDonato, Soile Isokoski, Miah Persson, Kristinn Sigmundsson and Jochen Schmeckenbecher, conducted by Donald Runnicles.

Happy listening,

Live Offerings - Saturday, September 26, 2009 - Part I

• Sveriges Radio P2 - already underway, from Göteborg Opera, Börtz's Goya, with Anders Larsson, Anders Lorentzon, Fredrik Zetterström, Michael Weinius, Mats Persson, Linus Börjesson, Iwar Bergkwist, Johan Schinkler, Henric Holmberg, Ann-Kristin Jones, Ann-Marie Backlund, Katarina Giotas and Natalie Hernborg, conducted by Joakim Unander.
• BBC Radio 3 - From the Grand Theatre in Leeds (Opera North), the British premiere of Gershwin's Let 'em Eat Cake, with William Dazeley, Rebecca Moon, Steven Beard, Nicholas Sharratt, Martin Hyder, Rob Edwards, Richard Morris and Graham Howes, conducted by Wyn Davies.
• CBC Two - From the Vienna State Opera, Strauss's Die Schweisame Frau, with Kurt Rydel, Michael Schade, and Diana Damrau, conducted by Peter Schneider.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From the Vienna State Opera, a February 13 performance of Verdi's Stiffelio, with José Cura, Hui He, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Gergely Németi, Alexandru Moisiuc, Benedikt Kobel and Elisabeta Marin, conducted by Michael Halász.
• DR P2 - From the Aix-en-Provence Festival, a July 30 performance of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, with Daniel Behle, Marlis Petersen, Anna-Kristiina Kaapola, Daniel Schmutzhard, Sunhae Im, Marcos Fink and Kurt Azesberger, conducted by René Jacobs.
• Espace Musique & Radio Oesterreich International (OE1)- From Festival de Radio-France et Montpellier 2009, Bellini's Zaira, with Ermonela Jaho, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Shalva Mukeria, Wenwei Zhang, Gezim Myshketa, Franck Bard and Marianne Crebassa, conducted by Enrique Mazzola.
• Radio 4 Netherlands & France Musique - From Paris Opera, Gounod's Mireille, with Inva Mula, Charles Castronovo and Franck Ferrari, conducted by Marc Minkowski.
• RTP Antena 2 - From the 2009 Bayreuth Festival, Wagner's Parsifal.
• WETA - From the NPR World of Opera archives, from Houston Grand Opera, Verdi's Aida, with Zvetelina Vassileva, Marco Berti, Dolora Zajick, Gordon Hawkins, Tigran Martirossian, Bradley Garvin and Tamara Wilson, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From San Francisco Opera, Puccini's La Boheme, with Angela Gheorghiu, Piotr Beczala, Quinn Kelsey, Norah Amsellem, Oren Gradus, Brian Leerhuber, Dale Travis, Chester Pidduck, Colby Roberts, Ryan Hedrick, David Kekuewa and Jere Torkelsen, conducted by Nicola Luisotti.
• NPR World of Opera - From Capitole Theatre in Toulouse, Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, with Bernard Richter, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Allyson McHardy, Stephane Degout, Fancoise Masset, Jennifer Holloway, Bruno Calucci, Jael Azzaretti and Francis Lis, conducted by Emmanuelle Haim.
• XLNC1 - From San Francisco Opera, Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore, with Inva Mula, Ramon Vargas, Giorgio Caoduro, Alessandro Corbelli and Ji Young Yang, conducted by Bruno Campanella.
• NRK P2 & NRK Klassisk - From The Metropolitan Opera, the February 1, 1947 broadcast of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with Bidú Sayão, Jussi Björling, Mimi Benzell, Claramae Turner, John Brownlee, Nicola Moscona, Anthony Marlowe, Kenneth Schon, Thomas Hayward, George Cehanovsky, Philip Kinsman and William Hargrave, conducted by Emil Cooper.

More to come shortly . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, September 19, 2009

Lots of interesting performances from all over on offer today and this evening. Highlights include - Verdi's Macbeth from Edinburgh with the Lady Macbeth of Susan Neves; from Pesar, Rossini's Zelmira with Juan Diego Florez and Kate Aldrich; from Rome, Glück's Iphigénie en Aulide, with Krassimira Stoyanova; from Vienna, Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau with Diana Damrau. Here's the menu:

• BBC Radio 3 - From this summer's Edinburgh Festival, Verdi's Macbeth, with Lado Ataneli, Susan Neves, John Relyea, Vsevolod Grivnov, Katherine Broderick, Nicholas Phan, Vuyani Mlinde, Wade Kernot, Michael Yeoman and Niall Docherty, conducted by David Robertson.
• CBC Two & (much later) Concert FM - From the Vienna State Opera, a May 25 performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, René Pape, Ricarda Merbeth, Michael Schade and Soile Isokoski, conducted by Constantinos Carydis.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Studio Lukaskirche Dresden, an August performance of Offenbach's La Pericole, with Sabine Brohm, Ralf Simon, Gerd Wiemer, Bernd Könnes, Marcus Günzel, Jessica Glatte, Elke Kottmair, Tanja Höft, Annegret Reißmann, Frank Ernst, Christian Grygas, Mirko Poick and Dietrich Seydlitz, conducted by Ernst Theis.
• Espace Musique & RTP Antena 2 - From the 2009 Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Italy, Rossini's Zelmira, with Kate Aldrich, Marianna Pizzolato, Alex Esposito, Juan Diego Flórez, Gregory Kunde, Mirco Palazzi, Francisco Ruben Brito and Savio Sperandio, conducted by Roberto Abbado.
• France Musique & Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, a March 17 performance of Glück's Iphigénie en Aulide, with Beatriz Diaz, Alexey Tikhomirov, Ekaterina Gubanova, Krassimira Stoyanova, Avi Klemberg, Mario Cassi, Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev, Carlos Garcia-Ruiz, Alessandra Ruffini, Sara Allegretta, Miljana Nikolich, Monica Tarone, Francesco Marsiglia and Marta Moretto, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
• KBYU - From San Francisco Opera, Korngold's Die Tode Stadt, with Torsten Kerl, Emily Magee, Lucas Meachem, Katharine Tier, Ji Young Yang, Daniela Mack, Alek Shrader, Andrew Bidlack, Bryan Ketron and Ben Bongers, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From La Scala in Milan, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with David Daniels, Rosemary Joshua and Gordon Gietz, conducted by Andrew Davis.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From Theater an der Wien, Britten's Death in Venice, with Kurt Streit, Russell Braun, Christophe Dumaux, Erik Arman and Klemens Sander, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• WETA - From the NPR World of Opera archives: From the 2009 Schwetzingen Festival Handel's Ezio, with Yosemeh Adjei, Netta Or, Rosa Bove, Hilke Andersen, Donat Havar and Marcell Bakonyi, conducted by Attilio Cremonesi.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From San Francisco Opera, Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore, with Inva Mula, Ramon Vargas, Giorgio Caoduro, Alessandro Corbelli and Ji Young Yang, conducted by Bruno Campanella.
• NPR World of Opera - From Grand Theatre of Geneva, Verdi's Il Trovatore, with Tatiana Serjan, Irina Mishura, Zoran Todorovich, George Petean and Burak Bilgili, conducted by Evelino Pido.
• XLNC1 - From San Francisco Opera, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, with Samuel Ramey, Vsevolod Grivnov, John Uhlenhopp, Vladimir Ognovenko, Vitalij Kowaljow, Andrew Bidlack, Ji Young Yang, Jack Gorlin, Catherine Cook, Daveda Karanas, Matthew O’Neill, Nicolai Janitzky, Kenneth Kellogg and Mityukha Valery Portnov, conducted by Vassily Sinaisky.
• MDR Figaro - From the Vienna State Opera, a June 18 performance of Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau, with Diana Damrau, Kurt Rydl, Janina Baechle and Michael Schadeconducted by Peter Schneider.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From La Scala, an April performance of Rossini's Il Viaggio a Rheims, with Carmela Remigio, Patrizia Ciofi, Nicola Ulivieri, Alastair Miles, Annick Massis, Juan F. Gatell Abre, Daniela Barcellona, Dmitry Korchak, Fabio Capitanucci, Bruno Praticò, Alessandro Guerzoni and Enrico Iviglia, conducted by Ottavio Dantone.
• Espace 2 - From l'Opéra National de Paris, a July 24 performance of Szymanowski's Le Roi Roger, with Mariusz Kwiecien, Olga Pasychnik, Eric Cuttler, Stefan Margita, Wojtek Smilek and Jadwiga Rappé, conducted by Kazushi Ono.
• Klara - From the 2009 Drottningholm Festival, an August performance of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, with Ingelina Bohlin, Charlotte Hellekant, Matilda Paulsson, Christopher Ainslie, Lars Arvidson, Malin Christensson, Rickard Söderberg, Lars Johansson Brissman, Johan Christensson, Daniel Carlsson and Thomas Walker, conducted by Mark Tatlow.
• Latvia Klasika Radio - From Vienna, Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, with Simon Keenlyside, Tamara Iveri, Ramon Vargas, and Nadia Kresteve, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
• Radio Tre - Direct from La Scala, Montiverdi's Orfeo, with Roberta Invernizzi, Sara Mingardo, Luca Dordolo, Leonardo Cortellazzi, Martin Oro, Luigi De Donato, Raffaella Milanesi and Giovanni Battista Parodi, conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera (on a one week delay) - From Washington National Opera, Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, with Renee Fleming, Vittorio Grigolo, Kate Aldrich, Ruggero Raimondi, Oleksandr Pushniak, Girgory Soloviov, Jose Ortega, Yingxi Zhang and David B. Morris, conducted by Placido Domingo.

And later on this evening:

• WCLV - From Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, a September 19, 2002 performance of Haydn's Creation, with Malin Hartelius, James Taylor, and Thomas Quasthoff, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.
• KING - Yet another chance to hear the Los Angeles Opera performance of Shore's The Fly, with Daniel Okulitch, conducted by Placido Domingo.
• ABC Classic FM (Australia) - From the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Haydn's Orlando Paladino, with Marcel Reijans, Henriette Bonde-Hansen, Pietro Spagnoli, Kenneth Tarver, Peter Gijsbertsen, Laura Cherici, Nikolay Borchev, Elena Monti and Martijn Cornet, conducted by Alessandro de Marchi.

Happy listening,

Live Offerings - Saturday, September 12, 2009

The summer festival season comes to an official end with the Last Night of the Proms - and half of all the radio stations we list seem to be carrying it. But there are a few other items of interest to hear this afternoon: From Pesaro, Rossini's La Scala di Seta with Ann Malavasi, a repeat of this summer's Bayreuth Festival Tristan und Isolde with Robert Dean Smith, and from Dortmund Verdi's I Due Foscari with Francisco Casanova. Here's the complete lineup:

• Dr P2 - From the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, an August 10 performance of Rossini's La Scala di Seta, with Anna Malavasi, Olga Peretyatko, Paolo Bordogna, Carlo Lepore and José Manuel Zapata, conducted by Claudio Scimone.
• CBC Two - From the Canadian Opera Company, a February performance of Dvorak's Russalka, with Julie Makerov, Michael Schade, Richard Paul Fink, Irina Mishura and Joni Henson, conducted by John Keenan.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Schloss Weikersheim, and August 1 performance of Nicolai's Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, with Sebastian Pilgrim, Viktoria Varga, Patrick Ruyters, Dorothee Schlemm, Artur Grywatzik, Camille Butcher, Martin Platz, Gae¨l Mercier and Glenn Desmedt, conducted by Peter Kuhn.
• Espace Musique - From Festival international d'opéra baroque de Beaune 2009, Handel's Ariodante, with Ann Hallenberg, Karina Gauvin, Maarten Engeltjes, Jaël Azzaretti, Kristian Adam and Sergio Foresti, conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From the 2009 Bayreuth Festival, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
• Radio 4 Nertherlands - From Netherlands Opera, Halévy's La Juive, with Angeles Blancas Gulin, Dennis O'Neill, John Osborn and Annick Massis, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
• WETA - From the Grand Theatre in Geneva, Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, with Marc Laho, Nicolas Cavallier, Stella Doufexis, Patricia Petibon, Rachel Harnisch, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Francisco Vas, Bernard Deletre, Gilles Cachemaille and Eric Huchet, conducted by Patrick Davin.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From San Francisco Opera, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, with Samuel Ramey, Dimitry Vsevolod Grivnov, John Uhlenhopp, Vladimir Ognovenko, Vitalij Kowaljow, Andrew Bidlack, Ji Young Yang, Jack Gorlin, Catherine Cook, Daveda Karanas, Matthew O’Neill, Nicolai Janitzky, Kenneth Kellogg and Valery Portnov, conducted by Vassily Sinaisky.
• NPR World of Opera - From Washington National Opera, Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, with Renee Fleming, Vittorio Grigolo, Kate Aldrich, Ruggero Raimondi, Oleksandr Pushniak, Girgory Soloviov, Jose Ortega, Yingxi Zhang and David B. Morris, conducted by Placido Domingo.
• XLNC1 - From San Francisco Opera, Mozart's Idomeneo, with Kurt Streit, Alice Coote, Genia Kühmeier, Iano Tamar, Alek Shrader, Robert MacNeil, Kenneth Kellogg, Mary Finch, Natasha Ramirez Leland, Chester Pidduck and David Kekuewa, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - Handel's Partenope, with Christine Schäfer, Kurt Streit, David Daniels, Patricia Bardonová, Florian Boesch and Matthias Rexroth, conducted by Christophe Rousset.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Dortmund, a performance from earlier this summer of Verdi's I Due Foscari, with Renato Bruson, Francisco Casanova, Monan Feubel, Alexander Teliga, Viktor Sawaley and Francisca Devos, conducted by Carlo Montanaro.
• Bayern 4 Klassik, BBC Radio 3, Catalunya Musica, DR P2, Dwojke Polskie Radio, France Musique, KBYU, Klassikaraadio, KUSC, MDR Figaro, Musiq3, NDR Kultur, Radio Clasica de Espana, Radio Oesterreich International (RAI), Radio Tre (RAI), RBB Kulturradio, RTP Antena 2, Sveriges Radio P2, WCLV, WDR3, WFMT and YLE Klassinen - Last Night of the Proms from the Royal Albert Hall in London, with Sarah Connolly conducted by David Robertson, featuring works by Knussen, Purcell, Haydn, Mahler, Villa-Lobos, Arnold, Ketelby, Gershwin, Piazzola, Handel, Arne, Parry and Elgar.
• Klara - From the Aix en Provence Festival, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, with Magnus Staveland, Marlis Petersen, Anna-Kristiina Kaapola, Daniel Schmutzhard, Sunhae Im, Marcos Fink, Kurt Azesberger, Inga Kalna, Anna Grevelius, Isabelle Druet, Konstantin Wolff, Joachim Buhrmann, conducted by René Jacobs.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera (on a one-week delay) - From Washington National Opera, Janacek's Jenufa, with Patricia Racette, Catherine Malfitano, Kim Begley, Judith Christin, Raymond Very, Charles Robert Austin, Janice Meyerson, Leslie Mutchler, Elizabeth Andrews Roberts, Jeffrey Wells, Christina Martos and Madgalena Wor.

And later on this evening:

• WQXR - From the Conceretgebouw, Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From La Scala, Milan, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with David Daniels, Rosemary Joshua, Emil Wolk, Daniel Okulitch, Natasha Petrinsky, Gordon Gietz, David Adam Moore, Deanne Meek, Erin Wall, Matthew Rose, Andrew Shore, Christopher Gillett, Graeme Danby, Adrian Thompson and Simon Butteriss, conducted by Andrew Davis.

Happy listening,

Live Offerings - Saturday, August 29, 2009

On a dark and dreary Saturday (at least here in the Northeast, courtesy of tropical storm Danny), there are some very worthwhile live offerings to while away the afternoon. Here's a short list of the best items:

• WFMT Opera Series (on . Here's a short list of the best items) - From San Francixco Opera, Korngold's Die Todt Stadt, with Torsten Kerl, Emily Magee, Lucas Meachem, Katharine Tier. Ji Young Yang, Daniela Mack, Alek Shrader, Andrew Bidlack, Bryan Ketron and Ben Bongers, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• Bayern 4 Klassik, MDR Figaro, NDR Kultur, Radio Oesterreich International, RBB Kulturradio & WDR3 - From Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Haydn's Orlando Paladino, with Tom Randle, Sine Bundgaard, Pietro Spagnoli, Magnus Staveland, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Sunhae Im and Victor Torres, conducted by René Jacobs.
• CBC Two - From Switzerland, a November 8, 2008 performance of von Weber's Der Freischutz, with Nikolai Schukoff, Ellie Dehn, Jaco Huijpen and Feodor Kuznetsov, conducted by John Nelson.
• NPR World of Opera - From Houston Grand Opera, Verdi's Aida, with Zvetelina Vassileva, Marco Berti, Dolora Zajick, Gordon Hawkins, Tigran Martirossian, Bradley Garvin, Tamara Wilson, Beau Gibson, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
• XLNC1 - From San Francisco Opera, Wallace's The Bonesetter's Daughter, with Zheng Cao, Ning Liang, Qian Yi, Hao Jiang Tian, Wu Tong, James Maddalena, Valery Portnov, Madelaine Matej, Rose Frazier, Catherine Cook, Mary Finch, Natasha Ramirez Leland and Erin Neff, conducted by Steven Sloane.

There's more, but I'm composing this on a bus en route to Boston, so I will quit while I'm ahead.

Happy listening

Live Offerings - Saturday, August 16, 2009

The 2009 Bayreuth Ring Cycle continues this weekend on five German stations - Siegfried on Saturday and Gotterdammerung on Sunday . . . Another Ring Cycle, from Seattle Opera gets underway this afternoon . . . Simon Boccanegra from San Francisco Opera . . . from Prague, Janacek's Makropoulos Affair . . . from Potsdam Sanssouci, Haydn's L'Infidelta Delusa . . . Rossini's Zelmira from Pesaro . . . Gilbert and Sullivsan's Patience, Purcell's The Fairy Queen and a Beethoven Ninth Symphony from the Proms in London . . . and more.

Here's the complete lineup:

• Bayern 4 Klassik, MDR Figaro, NDR Kultur, RBB Kulturradio & WDR3 - From the 2009 Bayreuth Festival, Wagner's Siegfried; and on Sunday catch Gotterdammerung.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From San Francisco Opera, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, with Dimitri Hvorostovsky, Barbara Frittoli, Marcus Haddock, Vitalij Kowalojow and Patrick Carfizzi, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• CBC Two - From the National Theatre in Prague, Janacek's Makropoulos Affair, with Gun-Brit Barkmin, Gustáv Belácek, Gianluca Zampieri and Alzbeta Polácková, conducted by Tomás Hanus.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, a June performance of Haydn's L'Infidelta Delusa, with Gemma Bertagnolli, Raffaella Milanesi, Andreas Karasiak, Daniel Auchincloss and Christian Senn, conducted by Andreas Spering.
• DR P2 - From Pesaro, and August 9 performance of Rossini's Zelmira, with Kate Aldrich, Marianna Pizzolato, Alex Esposito, Juan Diego Flórez and Mirco Palazzi, conducted by Roberto Abbado. Correction: from London, Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, with Anna Netrebko, Dario Schmunck, Eric Owens, Giovanni Battista Parodi and Elina Garanca, conducted by Mark Elder.
  
• Espace 2 - From the International Baroque Opera Festival in Beaune, a July 11 performance of Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, with Lawrence Zazzo, Juliette Gastian and Maria Riccarda Wesseling, conducted by Lopez Banzo.
• KBYU - From Los Angeles Opera, Braunfels' The Birds, with Désirée Rancatore, Brandon Javanovich, James Johnson, Stacey Tappan, Martin Gantner, Valerie Vinzant, Courtney Taylor, Brian Mulligan, Matthew Moore, John Kimberling and Daniel Armstrong, conducted by James Conlon.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From the Proms in London, Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, with Rebecca Bottone, Felicity Palmer, Pamela Helen Stephen, Elena Xanthoudakis and Sophie-Louise Dann, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
• RTP Antena 2 - From Vienna State Opera, an October 11, 2008 performance of Gounod's Faust, with Angela Gheorghiu, Michaela Selinger, Janina Baechle, Roberto Alagna, Adrian Eröd, Alexandru Moisiuc and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• WETA - From La Scala, Rossini's Il Viaggio a Rheims, with Patricia Ciofi, Annick Massis, Carmela Remigio, Juan F. Gatell Abre, Dmitry Korchak, Alastair Miles, Nicola Ulivieri and Fabio Capitanucci, conducted by Ottavio Dantone.
• XLNC1 - From Los Angeles Opera, Verdi's Requiem, with Adrianne Pieczonka, Stephanie Blythe, Arturo Chacón-Cruz and René Pape, conducted by Placiso Domingo.
• Bartok Radio - From Amsterdam, a June 7 performance of Messiaen's Saint-François d'Assise, with Camilla Tilling, Rod Gilfry (bariton), Hubert Delamboye, Henk Neven, Rom Randle, Donald Kaasch, Armand Arapian, Jan Willem Baljet and André Morsch\, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.
• BBC Radio 3 & France Musique - From the Royal Albert Hall, Prom 40, a Stravinsky and Beethoven program, including Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with Rebecca Evans, Caitlin Hulcup, Anthony Dean Griffey and James Rutherford, conducted by Ilan Volkov.
• NPR World of Opera - From Grand Theatre of Geneva, Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, with Marc Laho, Nicolas Cavallier, Stella Dufexis, Patricia Petitbon, Rachel Harnisch, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Eric Huchet, Francisco Vas, Bernard Deletre, Rene Schirrer and Gilles Cachemaille, conducted by Patrick Davin.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From the Metropolitan Opera, an historic broadcast from Feberuary 1, 1947 of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, with Bidu Sayao, Jussi Björling, Nicola Moscona, John Brownlee, Anthony Marlowe and Mimi Benzell, conducted by Emil Cooper.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Läckö slott, a July 29 performance og Rossini's L'Italiana in algeri, with Markus Schwartz, Åsa Danielsson, Astrid Robillard, Andreas Lundmark, Fredrik Strid, Ulrika Skarby and Anders Kjellstrand, conducted by Simon Phipps.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera on a one-week delay: From Royal Albert Hall, the London Proms performance of Purcell's The Fairy Queen, with Lucy Crowe, Claire Debono, Anna Devin, Carolyn Sampson, Robert Burt, Ed Lyon, Sean Clayton, Adrian Ward and Andrew Foster-Williams.
• KING - From Seattle Opera, recorded live earlier this month, Wagner's Das Rheingold (first installment of a complete Ring cycle to be heard over the next four weeks), with Greer Grimsley, Richard Paul Fink, Stephanie Blythe, Kobie van Rensburg and contralto Maria Streijffert, conducted by Robert Spano.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From Teatro Real in Madrid, Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, with Terry Way, Luigi Da Donato, Hanna Bayodi-Hirt, Claire Debono, Christine Rice, Marina Rodríguez-Cusí, Ed Lyon, Kobie van Rensburg, Joseph Cornwell, Robert Burt, Cyril Auvity, Humberto Chiummo, Xavier Sabata, Juan Sancho and Sonya Yoncheva, conducted by William Christie.

Happy listening . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, July 18, 2009 - Part II

More live offerings today:

• Espace Musique & Latvia Radio Klasika - From Paris, a rebroadcast of a March 12 performance of Massenet's Werther, with Rolando Villazon, Susan Graham, Adriana Kucerova, Ludovic Tézier, Christian Jean, Christian Tréguier, Vincent Delhourne and Letitia Singleton, conducted by Kent Nagano.
• KBYU - From Los Angeles Opera, Wagner's Die Walkure, with Plácido Domingo, Anja Kampe, Eric Halfvarson, Vitalij Kowaljow, Linda Watson, Michelle DeYoung, Ellie Dehn, Susan Foster, Erica Brookhyser, Ronnita Miller, Melissa Citro, Buffy Baggott, Jane Gilbert and Margaret Thompson, conducted by James Conlon.
• Klassikaraadio - From Tallinna XXIII Rahvusvahelise Orelifestivali, Handel's Theodora, with Kädy Plaas, Charles Humphries, Teele Jõks, Mati Turi and Uku Joller, conducted by Toomas Siitan.
• KUHF - From the Metropolitan Opera on February 22, 2009, the Met Opera National Council Finals Concert 2009.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From Théâtre Municipal in Lausanne, a December 3, 2008 performance of Verdi's La Traviata, with V. Tola, S. Pirgu, S. Catana, B. Hool, C. Cornu, B. Bernheim, M. Mazuir, M. Signorini, B. Capt, Y. François, J. Etchepareborda and N. Woldi, conducted by P. Arrivabeni.
• RTP Antena 2 - From Teatro Régio in Turin, an October 18, 2008 performance of Cherubini's Medea, with Anna Caterina Antonaci, Cinzia Forte, Erika Grimaldi, Luísa Francesconi, Sara Mingardo, Giuseppe Filianoti, Giovanni Battista Parodi and Diego Matamoros, conducted by Evelino Pidò.
• WETA - From the Metropolitan Theatre of Lausanne, Handel's Faramondo, with Max Emanuel Cencic, Sophie Karthäuser, Marina de Liso, Insung Sinn, Philippe Jaroussky, Xavier Sabata Corominas, Fulvio Bettini and Johann Ebert, conducted by Diego Fasolis.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From Los Angeles Opera, the Verdi Requiem, with Adrianne Pieczonka, Stephanie Blythe, Arturo Chacón-Cruz and René Pape, conducted by Placido Domingo.
• XLNC1 - from Los Angeles Opera, Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, with Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Anthony Dean Griffey, Robert Wörle, Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Mel Ulrich, Joe Stevn Humes, Catherine Ireland, Karen Vuong, Rena Harms, Natasha Flores, Sharmay Musacchio, Priti Gandhi, Derek Taylor and Mark Kelley, conducted by James Conlon.
• Bartok Radio - From Magyar Állami Operaház, a June 28 performance of Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani, with Fekete Attila, Sümegi Eszter, Rácz István, Fokanov Anatolij, Vadász Dániel, Ulbrich Andrea, Tóth János, Daróczi Tamás, Horváth Ádám, Cserhalmi Ferenc and Derecskei Zsolt, conducted by Matthias Stegmann.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From La Scala in Milan, Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims, with Carmela Remigio, Patrizia Ciofi, Nicola Ulivieri, Alastair Miles, Annick Massis, Juan F. Gatell, Daniela Barcellona, Dmitrij Korc(ak, Fabio Capitanucci, Bruno Praticó, Alessandro Guerzoni, Enrico Iviglia, Paola Gardina, Aurora Tirotta, Annamaria Popescu, Filippo Polinelli, Patrizio Saudelli and Fabrizio Mercurio, conducted by Ottavio Dantone.
• NPR World of Opera - From Royal Albert Hall in London, Purcell's Fairy Queen, with Lucy Crowe, Claire Debono, Anna Devin, Carolyn Sampson, Robert Burt, Ed Lyon, Sean Clayton, Adrian Ward, and Andrew Foster-Williams.
• Lyric FM - Opera Ireland's production of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa with Valeri Alexeev and Sinead Mulhern.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Drottningholm, Monteverdi's L'Incorinazione de Poppea, with Ingela Bohlin, Charlotte Hellekant, Matilda Paulsson, Christopher Ainslie, Lars Arvidson, Malin Christensson, Rickard Söderberg, Thomas Walker, Lars Johansson Brissman, Johan Christensson and Daniel Carlsson, conducted by Mark Tatlow.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio - From Aix-en-Provence, a July 20 performance of Offenbach's Orpheus aux Enfers, with Pauline Courtin, Julien Behr, Mathias Vidal, Vincent Deliau, Marie Gautrot, Jérôme Billy, Paul Cremazy, Emmanuelle de Negri, Soula Parassidis, Marie Kalinine, Estelle Kaique and Sabine Revault d'Allonnes, conducted by Alain Altinoglu.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatro San Carlo in Naples, an April 23 performance of Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, with Peter Simonischek, Jane Archibald, Valentina Farcas, Yi Jie Shi, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke Kristinn Sigmundsson and Giulio Barbato, conducted by Jeffrey Tate.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera on a one week delay: From Houston Grand Opera, Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen, with Lisa Saffer, Hector Vasquez, Jennifer Root, Ekaterina Gorlova, Fiona Murphy, Meredith F. Flores, Alina Slavik, Jon Kolbet, Allan Lawrence, Maria Markina, Laurie Lester, Rebeka Camm, Albina Shagimuratova, Alicia Gianni, Ryan McKinny, Bradley Garvin, Beau Gibson, Liam Bonner and Tamara Wilson, conducted by Patrick Summers.
• ABC Classic FM (Australia) - A double bill: From Göttingen Handel Festival, Handel's Acis and Galatea (arr Mendelssohn), with Julia Kleiter, Christoph Prégardien, Michael Slattery and Wolf Friedrich, conducted by Nicholas McGegan; and from the Baltic Sea Festival, Janacek's From the House of the Dead, with Esa Ruuttunen, Robert Künzli, Tuomas Katajala, Gabriel Suovanen, Dan Karlström, Jussi Myllys, Petri Bäckström, Anna Danik and Hannu Niemelä, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From Göttingen Handel Festival, Handel's Acis and Galatea (arr Mendelssohn), with Julia Kleiter, Christoph Prégardien, Michael Slattery and Wolf Friedrich, conducted by Nicholas McGegan.
  

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, August 9, 2009 - Part I

• Bayern 4 Klassik, MDR Figaro, NDR Kultur, RBB Kulturradio & WDR 3 - Continue with their traversal of this summer's Bayreuth Festival Ring Cycle, with Die Walküre.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From the Salzburg Festival, Rossini's Moise et Pharaon ou le Passage de la Mer Rouge, with Ildar Abdrazakov, Juan Francisco Gatell, Nicola Alaimo, Nino Surguladze, Eric Cutler, Marina Rebeka, Barbara Di Castri, Alexey Tikhomirov and Ante Jerkunica, conducted Riccardo Muti.
• CBC Two - From Teatro Real, an October 4, 2008 performance of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, with Marcelo Alvarez, Violeta Urmana, Ludovic Tézier and Elena Zaremba, conducted by Jesús López-Cobos.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Verdi's Aida, with Kristin Lewis, Salvatore Licitra, Ekaterina Gubanova, Marco Vratogna, Giacomo Prestia, Christian Van Horn, Lana Kos and Kenneth Roberson, conducted by Daniele Gatti.
• DR P2 - From Montpellier, a July 13th performance of Bellini's Zaira, with Ermonela Jaho, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Shalva Mukeria, Wenwei Zhang and Gezim Myshketa, conducted by Enrique Mazzola.

More to follow. . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, August 2,, 2009

We are in Geneva, New York, this weekend visting a dear friend and attending two performances of a double bill of Mozart's The Impresario and Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury at the Smith Opera House, a lovely gem of a house in Geneva built in the 1890's and lovingly restored a decade or so ago. It's been lot's of fun so far. We went to the opening night last night. The production is being directed and conducted by Al Bergeret (of NY Gilbert and Sullivan Players fame). Some lovely singing and acting all around.

And now..... Bayreuth beckons. The broadcast of Götterdämmerung has begun and other nice, juicy live offerings are in the offing for later on today: more Wagner, including rebroadcasts of Meistersinger and Rheingold,

• Dwojke Polski Radio, Radio 4 Netherlands, Radio Clasica de Espana, Bartok RadioCesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Bayreuth, the final installment of Wagner's Ring, Götterdämmerung is just underway, with Christian Franz, Ralf Lukas, Hans-Peter König, Andrew Shore, Linda Watson, Edith Haller, Christa Mayer, Simone Schröder, Martina Dike, Edith Haller, Christiane Kohl, Ulrike Helzel and Simone Schröder, conducted by Christian Thielemann.
• MDR Figaro - From Stuttgart, a concert performance of Handel's pastorale, Acis and Galatea, with Christoph Prégardien, Julia Kleiter, Michael Slattery and Wolf Matthias Friedrich, conducted by Nicol Matt.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - Let the rebroadcasts of the Bayreuth Festival begin! Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, with Alan Titus, Artur Korn, Charles Reid, Rainer Zaun, Adrian Eröd, Markus Eiche, Edward Randall, Hans-Jürgen Lazar, Florian Hoffmann,l Martin Snell, Mario Klein, Diógenes Randes, Klaus Florian Vogt, Norbert Ernst, Michaela Kaune, Carola Guber and Friedemann Röhlig, conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
• CBC TWO - A rebroadcast from Vienna State Opera, of Gounod's Faust, with Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu and Kwangchoul Youn, condcuted by Bertrand de Billy.
• DR P2 - From Den Jyske Opera in Aarhus, an August 2008 performance of Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander, with John Lundgren, Majken Bjerno, Sten Byriel, Jens Krogsgaard, Mette Ejsing and David Danholt, conducted by Giordano Bellincampi.
• Espace Musique & WETA - A rebroadcast from Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, of Berlioz' Béatrice et Bénédict, with Joyce Di Donato, Charles Workman, Jean-François Lapointe, Elodie Méchain, Jean-Philippe Laffont and Nathalie Manfrino, conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
• KBYU - From Los Angeles Opera, Wagner's Das Rheingold, with Stacey Tappan, Lauren McNeese, Beth Clayton, Gordon Hawkins, Michelle DeYoung, Vitalij Kowaljow, Ellie Dehn, Morris Robinson,; Eric Halfvarson, Beau Gibson, Wayne Tigges, Arnold Bezuyen, Graham Clark and Jill Grove, conducted by James Conlon.
• RTP Antena 2 - From Budapest, an October 10, 2008 performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, with Tünde Szabócki, Zita Váradi, Thomas Moser, Friedmann Kunder, Attila Fekete, Béla Perencz and Gábor Bretzconducted by Adam Fischer.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - Fron Los Angeles Opera, Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, with Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Anthony Dean Griffey, Robert Wörle, Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Mel Ulrich, Joe Stevn Humes, Catherine Ireland, Karen Vuong, Rena Harms, Natasha Flores, Sharmay Musacchio, Priti Gandhi, Derek Taylor and Mark Kelley, conducted by James Conlon.
• XLNC1 - From Los Angeles Opera, Braunfels' The Birds, with Désirée Rancatore, Brandon Javanovich, James Johnson, Stacey Tappan, Martin Gantner, Thrush Valerie Vinzant, Courtney Taylor, Brian Mulligan, Matthew Moore, John Kimberling, Daniel Armstrong, Renee Sousa, Rebecca Tomlinson, Ayana Haviv, Nicole Fernandes, Tara Victoria Smith, Adriana Manfredi, Helene Quintana, Amber Erwin and Jennifer Wallace, conducted by James Conlon.
• Bayern 4 Klassik, MDR FIgaro, NDR Kultur, RBB Kulturradio & WDR 3 - These German stations are beginning a four week traversal of this year's Bayreuth Ring, starting today with Das Rheingold, and continuing for the next three Saturdays.
• NPR World of Opera - From Houston Grand Opera, Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen, with Lisa Saffer, Hector Vasquez, Jennifer Root, Ekaterina Gorlova, Fiona Murphy, Meredith F. Flores, Alina Slavik, Jon Kolbet, Allan Lawrence, Maria Markina, Laurie Lester, Rebeka Camm, Albina Shagimuratova, Alicia Gianni, Ryan McKinny, Bradley Garvin, Beau Gibson, Liam Bonner and Tamara Wilson, conducted by Patrick Summers.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) & Concert FM (New Zealand)- A rebroadcast of an April 9th performance from Deutsche Oper Berlin of Respighi's Marie Victoire, with Takesha Meshé Kizart, Markus Brück, German Villar, Stephen Bronk, Jörn Schümann and Simon Pauly, conducted by Michail Jurowski.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - A rebroadcast of a December 3, 2008 performance from opera Bastille in Paris of Werther's Werther, with Rolando Villazon, Susan Graham and Ludovic Tézier, conducted by Kent Nagano.
• Latvia Klasika Radio - A rebroadcast from Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London of Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander, with Bryn Terfel,Hand Peter Keonig, Anja Kampe and Torsten Kerls, conducted by Mark Albrecht.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From the Festival della Valle d'Itria, Richard Strauss's revision of Gl;uck's Iphigenie en Tauride (Iphigenie auf Tauris), with Olga Kotlyarova, Liu Song-Hu, Marcello Nardis, Giorgi Turabelidze, Alessandra Gioia, Pietro Lisi and Anna Schiavulli, conducted by Ramon Tebar.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera on a one week delay: From Washington National Opera, Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment, with JiYoung Lee, Jose Bros, Victoria Livengood, Simone Alberghini, Obed Urena, Matthew J. Minor and Madeleine Gray, conducted by Riccardo Frizzi.
• ABC Classic FM (Australia) - From Muziektheater in Amsterdam, Cavalli's Ercole amante (Hercules in Love), with Luca Pisaroni, Veronica Cangemi, Anna Bonitatibus, Jeremy Ovenden, Anna Maria Panzarella, Marlin Miller, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Umberto Chiummo, Johanette Zomer, Mark Tucker and Tim Mead, conducted by Ivor Bolton.
• So far it looks like Bayern 4 Klassik, Bartok Radio and Catalunya Musica will be the only stations carrying tomorrow's Bayreuth Parsifal live, but keep checking our Bayreuth Page, as we will update it if and as we learn more (also the rebroadcast season has begun).

Happy listening,

Live Offerings - Saturday, July 18, 2009 - Part II

More listings of Live stuff on for this Saturday:

• NPR World of Opera - From Amsterdam, Haydn's Orlando Paladino, with Henriette Bonde-Hansen, Marcel Reijans, Pietro Spagnoli, Elena Monti, Kenneth Tarver, Nikolay Borchev, Martijn Cornet, Peter Gijsbertsen and Laura Cherici, conducted by Alessandro De Marchi.
• KAMU, KBAQ & KUAT - later in the afternoon, the Los Angeles Opera Die Walkure.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Wagner's Die Meistersingers von Nurnberg, with Albert Dohmen, Reinhard Hagen, Yves Saelens, Kurt Gysen, Bo Skovhus, Robert Bork, Roger Padullés, Ángel Rodriguez, José Ferrero, Josep Ribot, Tobias Schabel, Dario Russo, Robert Dean Smith, Norbert Ernst, Magnus Baldvinsson, Véronique Gens and Stella Grigorian, conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From the Vienna State Opera, a June performance of Gounod's Faust, with Piotr Beczala, Soile Isokoski, Kwangchul Youn, Boaz Daniel, Roxana Constantinescu, Hans Peter Kammerer and Zoryana Kushpler, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Montreal, Bizet's Pearlfishers, with Karina Gauvin, Antonio Figueroa, Phillip Adis and Alexandre Sylvestre, conducted by Fréderic Chaslin.
• BBC Radio 3 & Dwojke Polskie Radio - The Proms 2 - Haydn'e Creation.

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Happy listening....

Live Offerings - Saturday, July 18, 2009 - Part I

Just getting under way or about to start:

• Bayern 4, MDR Figaro, NDR Kultur & RBB Kulturradio - From the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, a May 26th performance of Handel's Admeto, with Tim Mead, Marie Arnet, Kirsten Blaise, Andrew Radley, David Bates, William Berger and Wolf Matthias Friedrich, conducted by Nicholas McGegan.
• CBC Two - From Vlaamse Opera, a February 13th performance of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, with Nikolai Putilin, Mikhail Kit, Tatiana Pavlovska, Leandra Overmann, Viktor Lutsiuk, and Milcho Borovinov, conducted by Dmitri Jurowski.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - Live from Kurhaus Bad Wildbad, Vaccaj's La sposa di Messina, with Jessica Pratt, Filippo Adami, Armando Ariostini, Jessica Pratt, Filippo Adami, Pietro Terranova, Wakako Ono and Maurizio Lo Piccolo, conducted by Antonio Fogliani.
• DR P2 - From Beaune, a july 4th performance of Handel's Ariodante, with Karina Gauvin, Daniel Taaylor, Yaël Azzaretti, Andrew Kennedy and Sergio Foresti, conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli.
• Espace 2 - From London, Proms 2, Haydn's Creation, with Sophie Bevan, Mark Padmore, Neal Davies and Peter Harvey, conducted by Paul McCreesh.
• Espace Musique - From Montpellier, Betin's La Esmeralda, with Maya Boog, Manuel Nunez Camelino, Francesco Ellero d'Artegna, Frédéric Antoun, Yves Saelens, Eugénie Danglade, Éric Huchet, Evgeny Alexeiev, Marc Mazuir, Marie-France Gascard, Sherri Sassoon-Deshler, Alexandra Dauphin-Heiser and Gundars Dzilums, conducted by Lawrence Foster.
• KBYU - From Utah Opera, a 2008 performance of Puccini's Manon Lescaut, with Irina Rindzuner, Marcos Aguiar, Alvaro Rodriguez and Bojan Knezevic, conducted by Barbara Day Turner.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From Opéra Royal de Wallonie, an April 30th performance of Auber's Fra Diavolo, with K. Tarver, S. Jo, D. Lamprecht, M. Molomo, A. Figueroa, V. Pavesi, T. Dolié and T. Morris, conducted by J. C. Malgoire.
• RTP Antena 2 - From Teatro Rococó de Schwetzingen, an April 25, 2008 performance of Steffani's Niobe, with Maria Bengtsson, Ana Maria Labin, Delphine Galou, Peter Kennel, Pascal Bertin, Jacek Laszckowski, Lothar Odinius, Tobias Scharfenberger and Matjaz Robavs, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock.
• WETA - From Washington National Opera, Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, with Samuel Ramey and Denyce Grasves, conducted by Giovanni Reggioli.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From Los Angeles Opera, Wagner's Die Walkure, with Plácido Domingo, Anja Kampe, Eric Halfvarson, Vitalij Kowaljow, Linda Watson, Michelle DeYoung, Ellie Dehn, Susan Foster, Erica Brookhyser, Ronnita Miller, Melissa Citro, Buffy Baggott, Jane Gilbert and Margaret Thompson, conducted by James Conlon.
• XLNC1 - From Los Angeles Opera, another chance to hear Wagner's Das Rheingold, with Stacey Tappan, Lauren McNeese, Beth Clayton, Gordon Hawkins, Michelle DeYoung, Vitalij Kowaljow, Ellie Dehn, Morris Robinson, Eric Halfvarson, Beau Gibson, Wayne Tigges, Arnold Bezuyen, Graham Clark and Jill Grove, conducted by James Conlon.

More to come...stay tuned.

Live Offerings - Saturday, June 20, 2009

Here's today's live lineup:

• BBC Radio 3 - From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a double bill: Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, with Sarah Connolly, Lucy Crowe, Lucas Meacham, Anita Watson, Sara Fulgoni, Eri Nakamura, Pumeza Matshikiza, Iestyn Davies and Ji-Min Park; and Handel's Acis and Galatea, with Charles Workman, Danielle de Niese, Paul Agnew, Ji-Min Park, Matthew Rose, Juliet Schiemann and Philip Bell, both conducted by Christopher Hogwood.
• CBC Two - From Vancouver Opera, a May 2009 performance of Strauss's Salome, with Mlada Khudoley, Greer Grimsley, John Mac Master and Judith Forst, conducted by Jonathan Darlington, followed by an interview with Dame Gwyneth Jones.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, a live performance from the Schlosstheater Neues Palais of Haydn's Philemon und Baucis, with Lothar Odinius, Ruth Sandhoff, Ruby Hughes, and Magnus Staveland, conducted by Gary Cooper.
• DR P2 - From Deutsche Oper and April 9th performance of Respighi's Marie Victoire, with Takesha Meshé, Markus Brück, German Villar and Jaco Huijpen, conducted by Michail Jurowski.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio & WETA- From Flemish Opera in Antwerp a February 13 performance of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, with Nikolai Putilin, Mikhail Kit, Leandra Overmann, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Viktor Lutsiuk, Milcho Borovinov and Thorsten Büttner, conducted by Dimitri Jurowski.
• Espace Musique - From La Scla in Milan, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with David Daniels, Rosemary Joshua, Emil Wolk, Daniel Okulitch, Natacha Petrinsky, Gordon Gietz, David Adam Moore, Deanne Meek, Erin Wall and Matthew Rose, conducted by Andrew Davis.
• France Musique - From Opéra de Lyon a January 27 performance of Prokofiev's The Gambler, with Misha Didyk, Kristine Opolais, Alexander Teliga, Marianna Tarasova, Maria Gortsevskaja, Francesco Lorenz and Andrew Schroeder, conducted by Kazushi Ono.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From Nationale Reisopera, Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, with Sophie Daneman, Paul Agnew, Eugénie Warnier, Maarten Koningsberger and Frans Fiselier, conducted by Jed Wentz.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From la Salle Métropole in Lausanne, a March 8 performance of Handel's Faramondo, with M. Emanuel Cencic, S. Karthäuser, M. de Liso, I. S. Sim, P. Jaroussky, X. Sábata, F. Bettini and J. Ebert, conducted by D. Fasolis.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Deborah Voigt, Tristan - Clifton Forbis, Brangäne - Petra Lang, Kurwenal - Jason Stearns and Stephen Milling, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
• XLNC1 & KING - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, with Nicole Cabell, Nathan Gunn, Eric Cutler and Christian Van Horn, conducted by John Mauceri.
• KUSC - From Los Angeles Opera, Wagner's Die Walküre, with Placido Domingo, Michelle DeYoung, Linda Watson, Vitalij Kowaljow, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Eric Halfvarson, Ellie Dehn, Susan Foster, Melissa Citro, Erica Brookhyser, Margaret Thompson, Buffy Baggott, Jane Gilbert and Ronnita Miller, conducted by James Conlon.
• Bartok Radio - Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, with Marc Laho, Patricia Petibon, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Rachel Harnisch, Stella Doufexis, Nicolas Cavallier, Eric Huchet, Francisco Vas, Gilles Cachemaille, Bernard Deletré, René Schirrer and Nadine Denize, conducted by Patrick Davin.
• NPR World of Opera - From Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Berlioz' Beatrice et Benedict, with Joyce di Donato, Charles Workman, Nicolas Cavallier, Nathalie Manfrino, Jean-Francois Lapointe, Jean-Philippe Laffont and Elodie Mechain, conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From Vienna, a February 8 performance of Bizet's Carmen, with Veselina Kasarova, Jose Cura, Ildebrand d'Archangelo, Geniia Kumeier, conducted by A. Fisher.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From the Vienna State Opera, Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Alexandru Moisiuc, Ricarda Merbeth, Michael Schade, Roxana Briban, Rene Pape, Boaz Daniel and Michaela Seliger, conducted by Constantinos Carydis.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From the Vienna State Opera, a June 18 performance of Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau, with Kurt Rydl, Adrian Eröd, Michael Schade and Jane Archibald, conducted by Peter Schneider.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Stockholm, Berwald's Drottningen av Golconda, with Carrie Nilsson, Marianne Öhrn, Ingvar Wixell, Erik Sundquist, Uno Ebrelius and Sven-Erik Jacobsson, conducted by Tor Mann.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer, with Bryn Terfel, Hans Peter König, Anja Kampe, Torsten Kerl, Clare Shearer and John Tessier, conducted by Marc Albrecht.
• Espace 2 - From l'Opéra de Lausanne, Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, with Fabio Capitanucci, John Osborn, Sabina Puertolas, Luciano Di Pasquale, Deyan Vatchkov, Isabelle Henriquez, Alexandre Diakoff, Manrico Signorini and Sacha Michon, conducted by Günter
• Klara - From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Rossini's Matilde di Shabran, with Aleksandra Kurzak, Vesselina Karasova, Enkelejda Shkosa, Juan Diego Flores, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Mark Beesley, Marco Vinco, Carlo Lepore, and Bryan Secombe, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatro San Carlo in Naples, a March 23 performance of Berlioz' La Damnation de Faust, with José Bros, Sonia Ganassi, Erwin Schrott, Maurizio Lo Piccolo, Bernadette Siano, Loredana Conte and Antonello Cossia, conducted by George Pehlivanian.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera on a one week delay - From Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulis, with Krassimira Stoyanova, Alexey Tikhomirov, Avi Klemberg, Ekaterina Gubanova and Beatriz Diaz, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From Parco della Musica in Rome, Vivaldi's Orlando furioso, with Romina Basso, Manuela Custer,. Sylva Pozzer, Anna Rita Gemmabella, Jordi Domenech, Xavier Sabata and Lorenzo Regazzo, conducted by Andrea Marcon.
• ABC Classic FM (Australia) - From Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Handel's Partenope, with Christine Schäfer, Kurt Streit, David Daniels, Patrica Bardon, Florian Boesch and Matthias Rexroth, conducted by Christophe Rousset.

Happy listening,

Live Offerings - Saturday, June 13, 2009 - Part II

More live offerings for this afternoon:

• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Opera Bastille in Paris, Massenet's Werther, with Rolando Villazón, Alain Vernhes, Susan Graham, Adriana Kuc(erová, Ludovic Tézier, Christian Jean, Christian Tréguier, Vincent Delhoume and Letitia Singleton, conducted by Kent Nagano.
• Klara - From Vienna State Opera, Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Eric Halfvarson, Ricarda Merbeth, Michael Schade, Soile Isokoski, René Pape, Boaz Daniel and Michaela Selinger, conducted by Constantinos Carydis.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - another chance to hear the Met broadcast of March 21, Bellini's La Sonnambula, with Nathalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez, JAne Bunnell and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Evelino Pido.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Rococo Theatre, Schwetzingen, a May 29 performance of Handel's Ezio, with Yosemeh Adjei, Mariselle Martinez, Hilke Andersen, Donát Havár and Marcell Bakonyi, conducted by Attilio Cremonesi.
• BBC Radio 3 - Listen to the Song Prize finale of the Cardiff Singer of the World contest.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera (one week delayed) - From Washington National Opera, a double bill: Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, with Samuel Ramey and Denyce Graves; and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, with Samuel Ramey, Amanda Squitieri, Elizabeth Bishop, Antonio Gandia, Robert Baker, Christina Martos, Tony Teleky, Stefano de Peppo, Valeriano Lanchas, Trevor Scheunemann, Leslie Mutchler, Obed Urena, James Shaffran, David Morris and Matthew Osifchin, both conducted by Giovanni Reggioli.

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, June 13, 2009 - Part I

I'm getting a late start to the blog today, so this will be a quick and dirty survey of what's on offer for this afternoon:

• BBC Radio 3 - From the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Strauss's Elektra, with Susan Bullock, Anne Schwanewilms, Jane Henschel, Johan Reuter, Miriam Murphy and Frank van Aken, conducted by MArk Elder.
• CBC Two - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, Massenet's Manon, with Natalie Dessay, Jonas Kaufmann, and Christopher Feigum, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Gilbert and Sullican"s Pirates of Penzance, with Robert Sellier, Thérèse Wincent, Rita Kapfhammer, Frances Lucey, Sonja Leitwyler, Holger Ohlmann, Gunter Sonneson, Florian Soyka and Martin Hausberg, conducted by Anthony Bramall.
• Espace Musique - From Netherlands Opera, Haydn's Orlando Paladino, with Henriette Bonde-Hansen, Joan Martin-Royo, Marcel Reijans, Kenneth Tarver, Peter Gijsbertsen, Sharon Rostorf-Zamir, Jörg Schneider, Elena Monti, and Martijn Cornet, conducted by Alessandro De Marchi.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From Vienna State Opera, a February 28 performance of Bizet's Carmen, with V. Kasarova, J. Cura, I. d’Arcangelo, G. Kühmeier, J. Monarcha, M. Pelz, I. Tonca, S. Marilley, C. Unterreiner and B. Kobel, conducted by A. Fisch.
• RTP Antena 2 - From Vienna State Opera, an October 18, 2004 performance of Verdi's Don Carlo, with Iano Tamar, Cornelia Salje, Inna Los, Nadja Michael, Ramón Vargas, Benedikt Kobel, Cosmin Ifrim, Bo Skovhus, Alastair Miles, Simon Yang, Dan Paul Dumitrescu and Johannes Gisser, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• WETA - From Theater an der Wien, Vienna, a performance of Handel's Partenope, with Christine Schaefer, Kurt Streit, David Daniels, Patricia Bardon, Florian Boesch and Matthias Rexroth, conducted by Christophe Rousset.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, with Nicole Cabell, Nathan Gunn, Eric Cutler and Christian Van Horn, conducted by John Mauceri.
• XLNC1 - WFMT Opera Series on a one week delay - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, with Gordon Hawkins, Morenike Fadayomi, Lester Lynch, Jonita Lattimore, Laquita Mitchell, Marietta Simpson, Jermaine Smith and Eric Green, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
• France Musique - From l'Opera de Lyon, a May 26 performance of Britten's Death in Venice, with Alan Oke, Peter Sidhom, Christopher Ainsli and, Damian Thantrey, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
• NPR World of Opera - From Teatro dell'Opera, Rome, Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide, with Krassimira Stoyanova, Alexey Tikhomirov, Avi Klemberg, Ekaterina Gubanova and Beatriz Diaz, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Lyric Oper of Chicago, Berg's Lulu, with Marlis Petersen, Jill Grove, Wolfgang Schöne, and William Burden, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - Haydn's L'isola disabitata, with Christiane Karg, Elisabeth von Magnus, Rainer Trost and Luca Pisaroni, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a March 11, 2008 performance of Rossini's Matilde di Shabran, with Aleksandra Kurzak, Juan Diego Flórez, Vesselina Kasarova, Enklejda Shkosa, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Mark Beesley, Marco Vinco, Carlo Lepore and Bryan Secombe, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.

More to come....

Live Offerings - Sat.urday, June 6 - PART II

More live offerings:

Radio Tre (RAI) - FRom La Scala, Milan, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Live Offerings - Saturday, June 6, 2009

A load of live performances today. Here's today's lineup:

• KUSC - From Los Angeles opera, Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, with Patti Lupone, Anthony Dean Griffey and Audra McDonald, conducted by James Conlon.
• CBC Two & ABC Classic FM (Australia)- From Vienna State Opera, Bizet's Carmen, with Vesselina Kasarova, José Cura, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Genia Kühmeier, Janusz Monarcha, Marcus Pelz, Ileana Tonca, Sophie Marilley, Hacik Bayvertian, Clemens Unterreiner and Benedikt Kobel, conducted by Asher Fisch.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur & Klara - From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a May 1 performance of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, with Dario Schmunck, Eric Owens, Alastair Miles, Elina Garanca and Anna Netrebko, conducted by Mark Elder.
• DR P2 & Radio Tre (RAI)- From La Scala in Milan, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with David Daniels, Rosemary Joshua, Emil Woilk and Daniel Okultich, conducted by Andrew Davis.
• Espace Musique - From Gradz, Austria, Haydn's Die Jahrzeiten (The Sseasons), with Genia Kühmeier, Werner Güra and Christian Gerhaher, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
• NRK Klassisk , NRK P2 & Espace 2 - From Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Respighi's Marie Victoire, with Takesha Meshé, Markus Brück, German Villar, Jaco Huijpen, Jörn Schümann, Simon Pauly, Julia Benzinger, Gregory Warren, Nicole Piccolomini and Yosep Kang, conducted by Mikhail Jurowski.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From the Stadthalle de Göttingen, An April 14 performance of Handel's Acis e Galatea (the Mendelssohn version), with J. Kleiter, C. Prégardien, W. M. Friedrich and M. Slattery), conducted by N. McGegan.
• RTP Antena 2 - From The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a September 2005 performance of Donizetti's Dom Sebastian, with Vesselina Kasarova, Giuseppe Filianoti, John Upperton, Lee Hickenbotton, Martyn Hill, Alastair Miles, Simon Keenlyside, Andrew Slater, Nigel Cliffe, John Bernays, Carmelo Corrado Caruso and Robert Gleadow, conducted by Mark Elder.
• WETA - From Washington National Opera, Maw's Sophie's Choice, with Angelika Kirchschlager, Rod Gilfry, Gordon Gietz, Corey Evan Rotz, Clayton Brainerd, Erin Elizabeth Smith and Trevor Scheunemann, conducted by Marin Alsop.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, with Morenike Fadayomi, Lester Lynch, Jonita Lattimore, Laquita Mitchell, Marietta Simpson, Jermaine Smith, Eric Green, David Darlow, Danny Goldring and Chuck Coyl, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
• Bartok Radio - From the Budapest Festival, a November 30, 2008 performance of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, with Julianne Banse, Anke Vondung, Tassis Christoyannis, Topi Lehtipuu, Claire Ormshaw and William Shimell, conducted by Iván Fischer.
• BBC Radio 3 - From Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bellini's Romeo e Julietta, with Elina Garanca, Anna Netrebko, Dario Schmunck, Eric Owens and Giovanni Battista Parodi, conducted by Mark Elder.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Vienna State opera, a September 27, 2008 performance of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, with Leo Nucci, Roxana Briban, Giacomo Prestia, Mario Malagnini, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Florin Ormenisan and Donna Ellen, conducted by Yves Abel.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio - From Vienna, a May 5 performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Alexandru Moisiuc, Ricarda Merbeth, Michael Schade, Soile Isokoski, René Pape, Boaz Daniel and Michaela Seliger, conducted by Constantinos Carydis.
• France Musique - From Opéra de Lyon, a December 19, 2008 performance of Strauss's Die Fledermaus, with Nicola Beller Carbone, Olga Peretyatko, Stéphanie Houtzeel, Bernhard Berchtold, Otto Katzameier, Eberhard Francesco Lorenz, Andreas Macco and Timo Dierkes, conducted by Emmanuel Krivine.
• NPR World of Opera - From Washington National Opera, a double bill: Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, with Samuel Ramey and Denyce Graves; and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, with Samuel Ramey, Amanda Squitieri, Elizabeth Bishop, Antonio Gandia, Robert Baker, Christina Martos, Tony Teleky, Stefano de Peppo, Valeriano Lanchas, Trevor Scheunemann, Leslie Mutchler, Obed Urena, James Shaffran, David Morris and Matthew Osifchin, conducted by Giovanni Reggioli.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From Vlaams Opera in Antwerp, a February 13 performance of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, with Nikolajs Putilin, Mikail Kit, Leandra Overmane, Tatjana Pavlovskaya, Milko Borovinov, conducted by Dmitri Jurowski.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - From Opéra Bastille Paris, a performance of Massenet's Werther recorded on March 6 and 12, with Rolando Villazon, Susan Graham, Ludovic Tézier, Alain Vernhes, Adriana Kucerova, Christian Jean, Christian Tréguier, Vincent Delhoume and Letitia Singleton, conducted by Kent Nagano.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera (one week delayed) - From Houston Grand Opera, Puccini's Manon Lescaut, with Karita Mattila, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Vladimir Galouzine, Dale Travis, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Fiona Murphy and Jon Kolbet, conducted by Patrick Summers.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From Washington National Opera, Handel's Tamerlano, with David Daniels, Plácido Domingo, Sarah Coburn, Patricia Bardon, Claudia Huckle and Andrew Foster-Lawrence, conducted by William Lacey.
  
  

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, May 16, 2009

Several interesting offerings for this afternoon and evening: Chief among them the Tales of Hoffmann from Covent Garden with Rolando Villazon . . . several repeats of Met broadcasts from this past season, including (from Down Under) two installments of the Met's Matinee Ring Cycle . . . Here's the complete live lineup:

• LRT Klasika - A repeat broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore, with Angela Gheorghiu, Marcello Giordani, Franco Vassallo and Simone Alaimo, conducted by Maurizio Bernini.

• BBC Radio 3 - From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, with Rolando Villazon, Kristine Jepson, Gidon Saks, Ekaterina Lekhina, Christine Rice, Katie Van Kooten, Gaynor Keeble, Matthew Rose, Graham Clark, Lynton Black, Robin Leggate, Kostas Smoriginas, Olga Sabadoch, Changhan Lim and Ji-Min Park, conducted by Antonio Pappano.

• CBC Two & Espace 2 - From the Gottingen Festival, a May 2008 performance of Mendelssohn's arrangement of Handel's Acis and Galatea, with Julia Kleitner, Christoph Prégardien, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, and Michael Slattery, conducted by Nicholas McGegan.

• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Amsterdam, Cavalli's Ercole amante, with Luca Pisaroni, Anna Bonitatibus, Jeremy Ovenden, Anna Maria Panzarella, Marlin Miller, Umberto Chiummo, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Johanette Zomer, Mark Tucker and Tim Meadconducted by Ivor Bolton.

• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Opera Kiel, a may 2 performance of Dupont's Antar, with Daniel Magdal, Tomohiro Takada, Kemal Yasar, Fred Hoffmann, Hans Georg Ahrens, Susan Gouthro, Merja Mäkelä, Svenja Liebrecht and Sen Acar, conducted by Georg Fritzsch.

• France Musique - From Teatro Real de Madrid,an April 25 concert performance of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, with Kobie van Rensburg, Christine Rice,

• Cyril Auvity, Joseph Cornwell, Umberto Chiummo, Ed Lyon, Robert Burt, Luigi de Donato, Claire Debono, Marina Rodriguez-Cusi, Carlo Vincenzo Allemano, Sonya Yoncheva and Terry Way, conducted by William Christie.

• Radio 4 Netherlands - From Deutsche Oper Berlin, Respighi's Marie Victoire, with Takesha Meshé Kizart, Markus Brück, German Villar and Jaco Huijpen, conducted by Michael Jurowski.

• Radio Clasica de Espana - From Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, a March 17, 2009 performance of Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide, with K. Stoyanova, E. Gubanova, A. Tikhomirov, A. Klemberg, M. Cassi, M. Kuzmin-Karavaev, C. García-Ruiz, B. Díaz, A. Ruffini, S. Allegretta, M. Nikolich, M. Tarone, F. Marsiglia and M. Moretto, conducted by Riccardo Muti.

• WETA & Radio Oesterreich International - From the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersberg, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov, with Alexei Taovitski, Irina Mataeva, Nikolai Gassiev, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Yuri Vorobyev, Mikhail Vishnyak and Varvara Solovyeva, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, Berg's Lulu, with Marlis Petersen, Wolfgang Schöne, Jill Grove, William Burden and Thomas Hammons, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

• Bartok Radio - From Montreal, Canafa, a November 13, 2008 performance of Bizet's Pearl Fishers, with Karina Gauvin, Antonio Figueroa, Alexandre Sylvestre and Phillip Addis, conducted by Frédéric Chaslin.

• NPR World of Opera - From Teatro Carlo Felici in Genoa, a performance of Rossini's Il Torco in Italia, with Antonella Nappa, Vincenzo Taormina, Myrto Papatanasiu, Bruno De Simone, Antonino Siragusa, Simone Alaimo and Federico Lebre, conducted by Jonathan Webb.

• NPR Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Theater an der Wien, Handel's Partenope, with Christine Schäfer, Kurt Streit, David Daniels, Patricia Bardon, Florian Boesch, and Matthias Rexroth, conducted by Christophe Rousset.

• Latvia Radio Klasika - From the Latvian National Opera, Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Inga Kalna, Asmika Grigorjana, Pa-vels C(ernohs, condcuted by Julian Reynolds.

• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Kungliga Operan, Stockholm,a performance of Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, with Stefan Dahlberg, Marcus Jupither, Jesper Taube, Ulrik Qvale, Lennart Forsén, Magnus Kyhle, Michael Schmidberger, Ingrid Tobiasson, Hillevi Martinpelto, Karolina Blixt, Marianne Eklöf, Hedvig Jalhed and Magnus Kyhle, conducted by Christian Badea.

• WDAV - NPR Worlf of Opera (on a one week delay): From Flemish Opera, Antwerp, Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, with Nikolai Putilin, Leandra Overmann, Sergei Aleksashkin, Alexia Voulgaridou, Viktor Lutsiuk and Milcho Borovinov, conducted by Dmitri Jurowski.

• KING - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, a double bill: Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, with Carlo Ventre, Dolora Zajick and Mark Delavan; and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, with Vladimir Galouzine, Ana María Martínez, Christopher Feigum and Mark Delavan.

• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From the Metropolitan Opera, Wagner's Die Walküre, with Iréne Theorin, Waltraud Meier, Yvonne Naef, Johan Botha, James Morris and John Tomlinson, conducted by James Levin.

• ABC Classic FM (Australia) - From the Metropolitan opera, Wagner's Götterdämmerung, with Christian Franz, Iain Paterson, Richard Paul Fink, John Tomlinson, Katarina Dalayman, Margaret Jane Wray, Yvonne Naef, Wendy White, Elizabeth Bishop, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Lisette Oropesa, Kate Lindsey and Tamara Mumford, conducted by James Levine.

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, May 9, 2009

Most offerings are now underway, as of 1:00PM EDT:

• RTP Antena 2 - From Teatro Régio in Turin, a Jube 1987 performance of Rossini's Il Barbiere de Siviglia, with Luciana Serra, Nicoletta Curiel, Rockwell Blake, Bruno Pola, Alberto Carusi, Enzo Dara, Paolo Montarsolo and Aurelio Faedda, conducted by Bruno Campanella.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio - From Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a February 2nd pergormance of Berlioz' Béatrice et Bénédict, with Christophe Fel, Nicolas Cavallier, Nathalie Manfrino, Jean–François Lapointe, Joyce Di Donato, Charles Workman, Jean-Philippe Laffont and Elodie Méchain, conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
• CBC Two - From Theatre an der Wien, a February performance of Handel's Partenope, with Christine Schäfer, Kurt Streit, and David Daniels, conducted by Christophe Rousset.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Stuttgart, a May 5th performance of Handel's Teseo, with Franco Fagioli, Jutta Böhnert, Helene Schneidermann, Kai Wessel, Olga Polyakova and Matthias Rexroth, conducted by Konrad Junghänel.
• Espace Musique - From the Wexfor Festival, Rimsky-Korsakov's Snegurochka, with Darren Abrahams, Natela Nicoli, Krzystof Szumanski, Irina Samoylova, Thomas Goerz, Viktor Sawaley, Elena Gabouri, Katerina Jalovcova, Lina Tetruashvili and Igor Tarasov, conducted by Dmitri Jurowski.
• France Musique - From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, a November 3, 2008 performance of Rossini's Matilde di Shabran, with Alexandra Kurzak, Vesselina Karasova, Enkelejda Shkosa, Juan Diego Flores, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Mark Beesley, Marco Vinco, Carlo Lepore, Bryan Secombe, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
• Radio 4 Netherlands, Klara & Sveriges Radio P2 - From Waalse Opera, Auber's Fra Diavolo, with Sumi Jo, Doris Lamprecht, Kenneth Tarver and Marc Molo Mot, conducted by Giovanni Antonini.
• WETA - From the Vienna State Opera, Verdi's Stiffelio, with Jose Cura, Hui He, Anthony Michels-Moore, Gergely Nemeti, Goran Simic, Peter Jelosits and Elisabeth Marin, conducted by Nicola Luisotti.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, a double bill: Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, with Dolora Zajick, Vincenzo La Scola, Mark Delavan, Katherine Lerner and Judith Christin; and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, with Vladimir Galouzine, Ana Maria Martinez, Mark Delavan, Christopher Feigum and Keith Jameson, conducted by Renato Palumbo.
• Bartok Radio - Gluck's Alceste, with Paul Groves, Anne Sofie von Otter, Dietrich Henschel, Yann Beuron, Joanne Lunn, Ludovic Tézier and Nicolas Testé, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.
• NPR World of Opera - From Flemish Opera in Antwerp, Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, with Nikolai Putilin, Leandra Overmann, Sergei Aleksashkin, Alexia Voulgaridou, Viktor Lutsiuk and Milcho Borovinov, conducted by Dmitri Jurowski.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander, with Bryn Terfel, Hans Peter König, Anja Kampe, Torsten Kerl, Clare Shearer, and John Tessier, conducted by Marc Albrecht.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, a January 20th performance of Rossini's Il Turco in Italia, with Simone Alaimo, Bruno de Simone, Myrtò Papatanasiu, Antonio Siragusa, Vincenzo Taormina, Antonella Nappa and Federico Lepre, conducted by Jonathan Webb.

Starting about now:

• Radio Clasica de Espana - From Deutsche oper Berlin, Respighi's Marie Victoire, with T. Meshé Kizart, M. Brück, G. Villar, J. Huijpen, J. Schümann, S. Pauly, J. Benzinger, G. Warren, N. Piccolomini, Y. Kang, M. Welschenbach, A. Jerkunica, P. Maus, A. Ashwin and H. W. Lee, conducted by M. Jurowski.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From the Vienna State Opera, a June 7, 2008 performance of Strauss's Capriccio, with Renee Fleming, Bo Skhovus, Adrians Erods, Franz Hawlata, Angelika Kirschlager, conducted by Philippe Jordan.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatro Regio di Parma, Verdi's Rigoletto, with Leo Nucci, Nino Machaidze, Francesco Demuro, Marco Spotti, Stefanie Iranyi, Katarina Nikolic, Mario Buffoli, Roberto Tagliavini, Orazio Mori, Ezio Maria Tisi, Scilla Cristiano and Alessandro Bianchini, Massimo Zanetti.

Enjoy!!!

Saturday, May 2, 2009 - Part 3

Yet more offerings, now at GMT 1800/EDT 2:00PM:

• Bartok Radio - A second opportunity today to catch Violeta Urmana, again in Verdi, this time in Ballo in Maschera, where she is joined by Marcelo Alvarez and Ludovic Tezier; at the podium is Jesús López-Cobos.
• Klara - Wagner's Lohengrin, with Robert Dean Smith, Janina Baechle and Camilla Nylund; Leif Segerstam conducts.
• Radio Tre - Another Lohengrin, this one starring Zoran Todorovich, Marianne Cornetti, Martina Serafin and Sergei Leiferkus; under Günther Neuhold's baton.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, starring Olga Borodina and Jose Cura, with Colin Davis conducting.

Happy listening . . . .

Saturday, May 2, 2009 - Part 2

Here are some more highlights from this crowded day, starting at GMT 1730/EDT 1:30PM:

• France Musique - From Opéra Bastille, Verdi's Macbeth, starring Dimitris Tiliakos, Violeta Urmana and Ferruccio Furlanetto.
• NPR World of Opera (on numerous stations) - From Vienna, Handel's Partenope, starring Christine Schaefer in a cast that also includes Kurt Streit and David Daniels; Christophe Rousset conducts.

Still more offerings coming up . . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, April 25, 2009 - Part I

Today is the last of the Met's Matinee Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung, and also the final broadcast of the season from the Met. James Levine was ill on Thursday evening and did not conduct Rheingold, so we hope he is feeling well enough for today's marathon performance (the Met website still lists him).

Many stations in the Met network will start next Saturday with an eight-week series of operas from Lyric Opera of Chicago and other will segue to NPR World of Opera - stay tuned as our Saturday page for next week fills in as we figure out who's airing what...

Here's the rest of today's live lineup:

• Metropolitan Opera (on numerous stations) - Wagner's Götterdämmerung, with Christian Franz, Iain Paterson, Richard Paul Fink, John Tomlinson, Katarina Dalayman, Margaret Jane Wray, Yvonne Naef, Wendy White, Elizabeth Bishop, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Lisette Oropesa, Kate Lindsey and Tamara Mumford, conducted by James Levine.
• Dwojkie Polsjie Radio, DR P2, Radio 4 Netherlands, Radio Clasica de Espana & Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatro Real in Madrid, a performance of Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, with Christine Rice, Kobie van Rensburg, Cyril Auvity, Sonya Yoncheva, Ed Lyon, Luigi De Donato, Xavier Sabata and Terry Wey, conducted by William Christie.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Aachen, a March 29th performance of Mozart's Lucio Silla, with Juan Tralla, Antonia Bourvé, Iva Danova, Eva Berard, Michaela Maria Mayer and Louis Kim, conducted by Marcus Bosch.
• France Musique - From Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, with Bernard Richter, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Allyson McHardy, Stéphane Degout, Françoise Masset, Jennifer Holloway, Bruno Calucci, Jaël Azzaretti, Francis Lis, Jérôme Varnier, Emiliano Gonzales Toro, Aurélia Legay, Nicholas Mulroy and Nicolas Letilleux, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm.
• KBIA2 - NPR World of Opera: From Washington National Opera, the American Premier of Maw's Sophie's Choice, with Angelika Kirchschlager, Rod Gilfry, Gordon Gietz, Corey Evan Rotz, Clayton Brainerd, Erin Elizabeth Smith and Trevor Scheunemann, conducted by Marin Alsop.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From the Vienna State Opera, a February 13th performance of Verdi's Stiffelio, with José Cura, Hui He, Anthony Michels-Moore, Gergely Nemeti, Alexandru Moisiuc, Benedikt Kobel and Elisabeth Marin, conducted by Michael Halász.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Berwald Hall in Stockholm, an April 18th concert performance of Torstensson's Expeditionen, with Charlotte Riedijk, Göran Eliasson, Mats Persson and Olle Persson, Niklas Willén.

More to follow in few minutes.....

Live Offerings - Saturday, April 18, 2009 - Part II

If you missed the start of the Met's Matinee Ring Cycle, you can catch it late this evening on Australian Radio (ABC Classic FM) .... Stephen Gould in Peter Grimes looks like a definite listening possibility .... From Radio Oesterreich International, an interesting-looking cast for Damnation of Faust .... Another chance to hear Rolando Villazon in magnificent form in a late March performance of Werther from Opera Bastille .... Here's the the lineup:

• Espace 2 - From the Grand-Théâtre in Geneva, an April 9th performance of Britten's Peter Grimes, with Stephen Gould, Gabriele Fontana, Peter Sidhom, Carole Wilson, Julianne Gearhart & Laurence Misonne, Elizabeth Sikora, Michael Howard, Clive Bayley, Adrian Thompson, Daniel Belcher, Simon Kirkbride, Luke Clare-Wrigley and Dominique Dupraz, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• KBIA2 - NPR World of Opera: from Houston Grand Opera, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, with John Del Carlo, Heidi Stober, Norman Reinhardt and Brian Leerhuber, conducted by Patrick Summers.
• MDR Figaro - A historic April 9, 1959 broadcast of Handels Poros, with Pietro Metastasio, Günther Leib, Philine Fischer, Margarethe Herzberg, Hellmuth Kaphahn, Werner Enders and Franz Stumpf, conducted by Horst Tanu-Margraf.
• NRK Klassisk - a rebroadcast of Massenet's Werther from Opera Bastille in Paris, with Rolando Villazon, Susan Graham, Adriana Kucerova, Ludovic Tezier, Christian Jean, and Christian Treguier, conducted by Kent Nagano.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From Wiener Konzerthaus, an April 2nd concert performance of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, with Olga Borodina, Ramón Vargas, Ildar Abdrazakov, Ante Jerkunica and Nina Bernsteiner, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Göteborg Opera, a February 27th performance of Carl Unander-Scharin's Sömnkliniken, with Ann-Christine Larsson, Mats Persson, Karl Rombo, Peter Loguin, Linus Flogell, Susanne Sundberg and Erika Andersson, conducted by Martin Andersson.
• Klara - From the Vienna State Opera, a performance of Bizet's Carmen, with Vesselina Kasarova, José Cura, Ilderbrando d'Arcangelo, Genia Kühmeier, Janusz Monarcha, Ileana Tonca, Sophie Marilley, Hacik Bayvertian, Clemens Unterreiner and Benedikt Kobel, conducted by Asher Fisch.
• Latvia Klasika Radio - From Vienna, a September 8, 2008 performance of Verdi's Stiffelio, with José Kura, Hui He and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Mihaels Halašs.
• RBB Kulturradio - From Dresden, Handel's oratorio, Jeptha, with Markus Schäfer, Miriam Meyer, Britta Schwarz, Patrick Von Goethem, Gotthold Schwarz, Birte Kulawik, conducted by Matthias Grünert.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera (one week delayed): From Bavarian State Opera, Verdi's Macbeth, with Zeljko Lucic, Nadja Michael, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Dimitri Pittas and Fabrizio Mercurio, conducted by Nicola Luisotti.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a rebroadcast of Dvorak's Rusalka, with Renée Fleming, Christine Goerke, Stephanie Blythe, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Kristinn Sigmundsson, conducted by Jirí Belohlávek.
• ABC CLassic FM (Australia) - From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the start of the Matinee Ring Cycle, Wagner's Das Rheingold, with James Morris, Charles Taylor, Garrett Sorenson, Kim Begley, Yvonne Naef, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Jill Grove, Richard Paul Fink, Gerhard Siegel, Franz-Josef Selig, John Tomlinson, Lisette Oropesa, Kate Lindsey and Tamara Mumford, conducted by James Levine.

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, April 18, 2009 - Part I

Siegfried, the third installment in the Met's Matinee Ring Cycle gets under way at Noon Eastern Time today. More Handel (two different Partenopes to catch). Other offerings of note:

• France Musique - From Opéra Garnier in Paris,a January 24th performance of Boesmans' Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne, with Dörte Lyssewski, Paul Gay, Mireille Delunsch, Yann Beuron, Victor von Halem, Hannah Esther Minutillo, Jason Bridges and Jean-Luc Ballestra, conducted by Sylvain Cambreling.
• Metropolitan Opera (on numerous stations) - Wagner's Siegfried, with Iréne Theorin, Wendy White, Christian Franz, Robert Brubaker, James Morris, Richard Paul Fink, John Tomlinson and Lisette Oropesa, conducted by James Levine.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - An historic live March 20, 1940 Stockholm Opera performance of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, with Hjördis Schymberg, Helga Görlin, Isa Quensel, Einar Andersson, Hugo Hasslo and Sigurd Björling, conducted by Fritz Busch.
• Dwojkie Polskie Radio - From the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersberg, a December 20, 2008 performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Maid of Pskov, with Alexei Tanovitski, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Nikolai Gassiev, Yuri Vorobyev, Pavel Shmulevich, Mikhail Vishnyak, Edem Umerom, Rina Mataeva, Varvara Solovyeva, Ludmila Kanunnikova, Olga Legkova and Andrei Karabanov, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater in Schwerin, an April 9th performance of Flotow's Martha, with Ulrike Maria Maier, Frauke Willimczik, Andreas Lettowsky, Stefan Heibach, Olaf Plassa and Dietmar Unger, conducted by Matthias Foremny.
• DR P2 - From Copenhagen, an October 11, 2008 performance of Handel's Partenope, with Inger Dam-Jensen, Andreas Scholl, Christophe Dumaux, Tuva Semmingsen, Bo Kristian Jensen and Palle Knudsen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From Nationale Reisopera, a March 28th performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, with Patrick Davin. Roland Wood, Peter Wedd, Lisa Livingstone, Machteld Baumans, Almas Svilpa.
• Radio Clasica fe Espane - From the Vienna State Opera, a February 22nd performance of Handel's Partenope, with Christine Schäfer, Kurt Streit, David Daniels and Patricia Bardon, conducted by Christophe Rousset.

More to come shortly......

Live Offerings - Saturday, April 11, 2009 - Part III

Still more offerings, starting later on this afternoon:

• Radio Tre (RAI) - From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, a March 4th performance of Wagner's Der Fliegende Höllander, with Bryn Terfel, Anja Kampe, Hans-Peter König, Torsten Kerl, Clare Shearer and John Tessier, conducted by Marc Albrecht.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera (one week delayed): From the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov, with Alexei Taovitski, Irina Mataeva, Nikolai Gassiev, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Yuri Vorobyev, Mikhail Vishnyak and Varvara Solovyeva, conducted by Valery Gergiev
• WOMR - On their program after the Met Broadcast is over, catch Anna Russell's Ring Analysis.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - Another chance to hear the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, with Patricia Racette, Maria Zifchak, Marcello Giordani and Dwayne Croft, conducted by Patrick Summers.
• KWAX - From the 2008 Oregon Bach Festival, a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, with Sibylla Rubens, Ingeborg Danz, Lothar Odinius, Nathan Berg and Michael Nagy, conducted by Helmut Rilling.
• ABC CLassic FM (Australia) - Another chance to catch the Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of Bellini's La Sonnambula, with Jennifer Black, Jeremy Galyon, Natalie Dessay, Jane Bunnell, Bernard Fitch, Juan Diego Flórez and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Evelino Pidò.

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, April 11, 2009 - Part II

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.

Part III to come....

Live offerings for Saturday April 11, 2009 - Part 1

The first couple of offerings start at or shortly after Noon Eastern Time:

• France Musique - From Opéra Bastille in Paris, Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth From Mtsensk, with Vladimir Vaneev, Ludovit Ludha, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michaël König, Carole Wilson, Alexander Kravets, Lani Poulson, Valentin Jar, Alexander Vassiliev, and Nikita Storojev, conducted by Hartmut Haenchen.
• Metropolitan Opera (on numerous stations) - Wagner's Die Walküre, with Gary Lehman, John Tomlinson, James Morris, Waltraud Meier, Irene Theorin, Yvonne Naef, Kelly Cae Hogan, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Laura Vlasak Nolen, Jane Bunnell, Claudia Waite, Lann Sandel-Pantaleo, Mary Ann McCormick and Teresa S Herold, conducted by James Levine.

More listing in a few minutes. Stay tuned....

Live Offerings - Saturday, April 4, 2009

Four main items of interest for this afternoon: the Met's L'Elisir d'Amore with Gheorghiu and Giordani; La Monnaie's La Grande Macabre, by Ligeti, with Chris Merritt; from NPR World of Opera comes a Mariinsky Theatre performanc of The Maid of Pskov, with an all-Russian cast, conducted by Gergiev; and from Dwojke Polskie Radio, a recent performance of Werther with Rolando Villazon (who will be returning to the Met's L'Elisir cast this coming week) and Susan Graham. Also, three Met broadcasts from earlier this season are airing again: Il Trovatore with Radvanovsky, Doctor Atomic with Gerald Finley, and Dvorak's Rusalka with Renée Fleming.

• Radio 4 Netherlands, Musiq3 & Radio Tre (RAI) - From La Monnaie in Brussels, Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, with Chris Merritt, Frances Bourne, Ilse Eerens and Werner van Mechelen, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.
• Metropolitan Opera - Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, with Massimo Giordano, Angela Gheorghiu, Franco Vassallo, Ying Huang and Simone Alaimo, conducted by Maurizio Benini.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio - From the Opera Bastille in Paris, a March 28th performance of Massenet's Werther, with Rolando Villazon, Alain Vernhes, Susan Graham, Adriana Kucerová, Ludovic Tézier, Christian Jean, Christian Tréguier, Vincent Delhoume and Letitia Singleton, conducted by Kent Nagano.
• KBIA2 - NPR World of Opera: From Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov, with Alexei Taovitski, Irina Mataeva, Nikolai Gassiev, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Yuri Vorobyev, Mikhail Vishnyak and Varvara Solovyeva, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
• MDR Figaro - From Thomaskirche in Leipzig, a March 21st performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, with Sally Matthews, Anna Zander, Martin Petzold, Stephan Genz and Egbert Junghanns, Georg Christoph Biller conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Thomanerchor Leipzig.
• Klara - From Grand Théâtre in Geneva, a performance of von Weber's Der Freischütz, with Nikolai Schukoff, Alexander Puhrer, Peter Wimberger, Jaco Huijpen, Olga Pasichnyk, Ellie Dehn, Jean Lorrain, Rudolf Rosen, and Feodor Kuznetsov, conducted by John Nelson.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - Another chance to hear the Metropolitan Opera's November 8, 2008 broadcast of Adams's Doctor Atomic, with Penny Woolcock, Gerald Finley, Sacha Cooke, Meredith Arwady, Richard Paul Fink, Eric Owens, Earle Patriarco, Roger Honeywell and Thomas Glenn, conducted by Alan Gilbert.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera (one week delayed): From Vienna State Opera, Verdi's Stiffelio, with Jose Cura, Hui He, Anthony Micheals-Moore, Gergely Nemeti, Goran Simic, Peter Jelosits and Elisabeth Marin, conducted by Nicola Luisotti.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - Another chance to hear the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Verdi's Il Trovatore, with Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
• ABC Classic FM (Australia) - Another chance to hear the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Dvorak's Rusalka, with Renée Fleming, Aleksander Antonenko, Christine Goerke, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Stephanie Blythe, David Won, James Courtney and Kate Lindsey, conducted by Jirí Belohlávek.

Happy listening . . . .

Live Offerings - Saturday, March 7, 2009

A reminder for everyone: Don't forget that tonight -- Saturday night/Sunday morning -- we put our clocks ahead one hour and Daylight Savings Time begins; you'll note our listings start using EDT after 2:00AM tonight.

It's not any old average Saturday afternoon when you can find two different performances of Handel's Partenope to listen to .... Everybody seemed to be talking about Giuseppe Filianoti's difficulties in the Met's run of Rigoletto, but why weren't they talking about Aleksandra Kurzak's delectable Gilda??? So hear it again this afternoon on Bayern 4 Klassisk .... Two stations are giving us all another chance to hear Joyce DiDonato in Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict.

Here are the live offerings for this afternoon:

• Bayern 4 Klassisk - Another chance to hear the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Verdi's Rigoletto, featuring Aleksandra Kurzak's Gilda, with colleagues George Gagnidze, Giuseppe Filianoti, George Gagnidze, Victoria Vizin and Mikhail Petrenko, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur & MDR Figaro - From Theater Gera, a March 6th performance of Haas's Scharlatan, with Andreas Scheibner, Franziska Rauch, Katrin Strocka, Kai Wefer, Peter-Paul Haller, Günter Markwarth, Johannes Weinhuber, Serge Novique, Bernhard Hänsch, David Ameln, Winfried Roscher, Roman Koshmanov, Andreas Veit and Konrad Zorn, conducted by Jens Troester.
• DR P2 - From the Vienna State Opera, a February 28 performance of Bizet's Carmen, with Vesselina Kasarova, José Cura, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo and Genia Kühmeier, conducted by Asher Fisch.
• Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (on numerous stations) - Puccini's Madama Butterfly, with Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani, Duane Croft and Maria Zifchak, conducted by Patrick Summers.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From Theater an der Wien in Vienna, a March 1st performance of Handel's Partenope, with Christine Schäfer, Kurt Streit, David Daniels, Patrica Bardon and Florian Boesch, conducted by Christophe Rousset.
• Radio Clasica de Espana & Klara - Another opportunity to hear a February 7th performance of Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict from Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, with Joyce Di Donato and Charles Workman, conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From the Vienna State Opera, a performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, with Tamar Iveri, Nadia Krasteva, Simon Keenlyside, Ramón Vargas and Ain Anger, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
• KBIA2 - NPR World of Opera: From the Hungarian State Opera, a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, with Tunde Szaboki, Thomas Moser, Friedemann Kunder, Zita Varadi, Attila Fekete, Bela Perencz and Gabor Brentz, conducted by Adam Fischer.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From the Vienna State Opera, a performance of Richard Strauss's Capriccio, with Renée Fleming, Bo Skovhus, Michael Schade, Edian Eröd, Franz Hawlata, Angelika Kirchslager, Peter Jelosits, Jane Archibald, Cosmin Ifrim and Clemens Unterriener, conducted by Philippe Jordan.
• Espace 2 - From Netherlands Opera, a performance of Cavalli's Ercole amante, with Luca Pisaroni, Veronica Cangemi, Anna Bonitatibus, Jeremy Ovenden, Anna Maria Panzarella, Marlin Miller, Umberto Chiummo, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Johannette Zomer, Mark Tucker and Tim Mead, conducted by Ivor Bolton.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatro Comunale de Ferrara, a January 14th performance of Handel's Partenope, with Elena Monti, Ambra Mancuso, Sonia Prina, Valentina Varriale, Cyril Auvity, Gianpiero Ruggeri and Accademia Bizantina, conducted by Ottavio Dantone.

Happy listening....

Live Offerings - Saturday, February 21, 2009 - Part I

A number of interesting offerings for this afternoon: Cavalli's Ercole amante from Amsterdam; The Metropolitan Opera's Adriana Lacouvreur with Placido Domingo and Maria Guleghina; from Paris Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict with Joyce di Donato and Chalres Workman; from Madrid Un Ballo in Maschera with Marcelo Alvarez, Violeta Urmana, Ludovic Tézier and Elena Zaremba; repeats of the Met broadcasts of Rigoletto (don't miss Aleksandra Kurzak as Gilda!), Doctor Atomic and La Rondine. Here's the complete live lineup:

• Deautschlandkulter Radio & Klara - From Muziektheater Amsterdam, a January 24th performance of Cavalli's Ercole amante, with Luca Pisaroni, Veronica Cangemi, Anna Bonitatibus, Jeremy Ovenden, Anna Maria Panzarella, Marlin Miller, Umberto Chiummo, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Johannette Zomer, Mark Tucker and Tim Mead, conducted by Ivor Bolton.
• Metropolitan Opera (on numerous stations) - Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, with Maria Guleghina, Olga Borodina, Placido Domingo, Roberto Frontali, John del Carlo, Philip Cokorinos, Brian Frutiger, Jennifer Black, Reveka E Macrovitis and Bernard Fitch, conducted by Marco Armiliato.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From Vienna State Opera, a November 29, 2008 performance of Wagner's Lohengrin, with R. D. (Lohengrin), C. Nylund (Elsa de Brabante), J. Bachle (Ortrud), F. Struckmann (Friedrich von Telramund), A. Anger (Rey Enrique el Pajarero), M. F. Larsen (El Heraldo real). Coro y Orq. de la Staatsoper de Viena. Dir.: L. Segerstam.
• KBIA2 - NPR World of Opera offers a performance of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito from Washington National Opera, with Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Michael Schade, Marina Domashenko, Jossie Pérez, Hoo-Ryoung Hwang and Nikolai Didenko, conducted by Heinz Fricke.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict, with Christophe Fel, Nicolas Cavallier, Nathalie Manfrino, Jean-Francois Lapointe, Joyce di Donato, Charles Workman, Jean-Philippe Laffont and Elodie Mechain, conducted by Colin Davis.
• Espace 2 - From Teatro Real in Madrid, an October 4th performance of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, with Marcelo Alvarez, Violeta Urmana, Ludovic Tézier, Elena Zaremba, Alessandra Marianelli, Borja Quiza, Miguel Sola and Scott Wilde, conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - Another chance to hear the Metropolitan Opera's January 10th broadcast of Puccini's La Rondine, with Angela Georgiu, Roberto Alanja, Lizette Oropesa and Samuel Ramey, conducted by Marko Armiliato.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - On Saturday and Sunday evening, hear a collection of live lieder recitals from RAI's broadcast vaults: On Saturday, catch a 1960 recital with Hermann Prey singing Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte, a 1966 recital with Martti Talvela in Schubert's Winterreise and a 1952 recital with Kirsten Flagstad singing Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder; on Sunday, a 1955 recital with Anton Dermota singing Schumann's Dichterliebe, a 1964 recital with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Brahms's Die schöne Magelone, and a 1974 recital with Janet Baker singing Mahler's Kindertotenlieder.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera - on a one-week delay - From Houston Grand Opera, a performance of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, with Samuel Ramey, Stefan Margita, Raymond Aceto, Joseph Evans, Robert Pomakov, Jon Kolbet, Taylor Rawley, Heidi Stober, Jennifer Root and Norman Reinhardt, conducted by Tugan Sokhiev.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From the Metropolitan oper, Adam's Doctor Atomic, with Sasha Cooke, Meredith Arwady, Gerald Finley, Richard Paul Fink and Eric Owens, conducted by Alan Gilbert.
• ABC CLassic FM (Australia) - From the Metropoltian Opera, Verdi's Rigoletto, with Giuseppe Filianoti, George Gaznidze(Met debut), Aleksandra Kurzak, Mikhail Petrenko, Victoria Vizin, Kathryn Day, Keith Miller, and Sebastian Catana, recorded by Riccardo Frizza.

Saturday, December 20, 2009 - Live Offerings --PART II

Further offerings for this afternoon:

• Radio 4 Netherlands - From English National Opera, a November 22nd performance of Bernstein's Candide, with Toby Spence, Alex Jenkins, Beverley Klein and Marnie Breckenridge, conducted by Rumon Gamba.
• NPR Worlf of Opera - From La Scala in Milan, the December 7 Opening Night performanc of Verdi's Don Carlos, with Ferruccio Furlanetto, Stuart Neill, Dalibor Jenis, Anatoly Kotscherga, Fiorenza Cedolins, Dolora Zajick and Diogenes Randes, conducted by Danielle Gatti.
• Lyric FM & Latvia Radio Klasika - a time delayed broadcast of Massenet's Thais, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From Musiktheater Amsterdam, a June 7th performance of Massiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise, with Camilla Tilling, Rod Gilfry, Hubert Delamboye, Henk Neven, Rom Randle, Donald Kaasch, Armand Arapian, Jan Willem Baljet and André Morsch, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Grand Théatre in Geneva, a performance of Janacek's The Excursions of Mr. Broucek, with Kim Begley, Gordon Gietz, Alexander Vassiliev, Eva Jenisová, Joanathan Veira, Tereza Merklová, Brigitta Svenden and Konrad Jarnot, conducted by Kirill Karabits.
• Klara - A Decmebr 11th performance of Dvorak's Rusalka, with Olga Guryakova, Burkhard Fritz, Stephanie Friede, Willard White, Doris Soffel, Julian Hubbard, Olesya Golovneva, YoungHee Kim, Nona Javakhidze and André Grégoire, conducted by Adam Fischer.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, a September 24th performance of Rimskij-Korsakov's Pskovitijanka, with Gennady Bezzubenkov, Nikolai Gassiev, Mikhail Vishniak and Irina Mataeva, conducted by Valeri Gergiev.
• NDR Kultur - From the Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival in Lübeck, an August 19th Opera Gala celebrating the 150th birthday of Puccini, featuring Nicole Cabell, Miroslav Dvorsky and Christopher Robinson singing arias and duets from Puccini operas.
• WCLV - From Severence Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, Part 1 of Handel's Messiah, with Twylas Robinson, Kelley O'Connor, Alek Shrader and Timothy Jones, conducted by Robert Porco.

Happy listening,

Saturday, December 20, 2009 - Live Offerings --PART I

The Met (on numerous stations) offers Massenet's Thais this afternoon, featuring Renee Fleming, Thomas Hampson and Michael Schade. It starts in just a few minutes. I'll be back in a few minute4s with offerings starting later this afternoon....

Happy listening,

Live Offerings - Sat., October 11, 2008 - PART I

Already under way:

• LRT Klasika - Janacek's Katia Kabanova, with Dalyvauja B. Deletre., P. Straka, N. Deniz, C(. Barker, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek.
• Espace Musique - Puccini's Tosca, with Adrianne Pieczonka, Neil Shicoff, Juan Pons, Dale Travis, Robert Pomakov, Joel Sorensen and Levi Hernandez, conducted by Richard Armstrong.
• YLE Klassinen - Handel's Acis and Galatea, with Septima Nebulae, Aapo Häkkinen, Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, Kajsa Dahlbäck, Tuomas Katajala and Robert McLoud, conducted by Vilppu Kiljusta.
• Bartok Radio - Continues the June Budapest Ring Cycle, with Siegfried, featuring Christian Franz, Michael Roider, Alan Titus, Hartmut Welker, Walter Fink, Cornelia Kallisch, Evelyn Herlitzius and Gál Gabriella, conducted by Adam Fischer.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio, Radio Oesterreich International & Radio Slovenia Tretji - Gounod's Faust, with Roberto Alagna, Kwangchul Youn, Boaz Daniel and Angela Gheorghiu, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• DR P2 - From Copenhagen, Handel's Partenope, with Inger Dam-Jensen, Andreas Scholl, Christophe Dumaux, Tuva Semmingsen, Bo Kristian Jensen and Palle Knudsen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
• BBC Radio 3 - From Glyndebourne, Eotvos's Love and Other Demons, with Allison Bell, Robert Brubaker, Nathan Gunn, John Graham Hall, Marietta Simpson, Felicity Palmer, and Jean Rigby, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
• CBC Two - From the Bavariab State Opera, Verdi's Nabucco, with Paolo Gavanelli, Alexander Antonenko, Giacomo Prestia, Maria Guleghina, Daniela Sindram, Andreas Kohn, Kevin Conners, Lana Kos, conducted by Paolo Carignani.
• France Musique - From l'Opéra de Marseille, a September 27th concert performance of Reyer's Salammbô, with Kate Aldrich, Murielle Oger-Tomao, Gilles Ragon, Sébastien Guèze, Jean-Philippe, Lafont Wojtek Smilek, André Heyboer, Antoine Garcin and Eric Martin-Bonnet, conducted by Lawrence Foster.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - Mozart's Idomeneo, with John Mark Ainsley, Juliane Banse and Pavol Breslik, conducted by Kent Nagano.
• RTP Antena 2 - From Coiseu do Porto, a November 10th performance of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, with Ângela Alves, Ana Barros, Mário João Alves, Kevin Greenlaw and Jorge Vaz de Carvalho, conducted by Nicholas Kok.
• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From San Francisco Opera, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, with Natalie Dessay, Giuseppe Filianoti, Gabriele Viviani and Oren Gradus, conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce.
• WQXR - Part of the WFMT Opera Series, from San Franciso Opera, Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, with Susan Graham, Virginia Pluth, Sally Mouzon, Mark S. Doss, Torlef Borsting, Paul Groves, Bo Skovhus, Jeremy Galyon, Melody Moore and Heidi Melton, conducted by Patrick Summers.
• XLNC1 - Part of the WFMT Opera Series, from San Francisco Opera, Handel's Ariodante, with Susan Graham, Ruth Ann Swenson, Sonia Prina, Veronica Cangemi, Richard Croft and Eric Owens, conducted by Patrick Summers.

More to come....

Back to Live Saturdays ... September 21

First a word about a program that we never list on OperaCast - this weekend, NPR's From the Top (which runs one hour) is featuring an hour with the young artists at the Houston Grand Opera's Wortham Theater. Some stations air the program after their opera program on Saturday afternoons, while others carry it on Sunday afternoon (and a few, I believe, carry it on other days throughout the week). Sounds to us like a program worth looking out for.

And now for the live offerings this afternoon:

Netherlands Opera's Die Frau ohne Schatten seems worth a listen if only for the wondrous voices of Klaus Florian Vogt (will he ever appear again at the Met, we wonder?) and Terje Stensvold (who we will almost certainly never hear live on these shores) . . . From Radio Clasica de Espana, catch Handel's Ariodante with Joyce di Donato . . . How times have changed -- The Met now seems to be pushing its historic broadcasts as never before - catch the January 7, 1956 Tosca with Tebaldi, Tucker and Warren on Polish Radio, the March 13, 1976 I Puritani with Sutherland, Pavarotti and Milnes on Austrian Radio, or the February 9, 1974 Otello with Te Kanawa and Vickers. Any one of these three are sure to make your Saturday a little sweeter . . . .

• BBC Radio 3 - From this summer's Edinburgh festival,a concert performance of Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, with Susan Bickley, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Alan Opie, Giselle Allen, Anthony Dean Griffey, Peter Hoare, Stephan Loges, Brindley Sherratt and Hannah Gordon, HK Gruber conducting.
• CBC Two - Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, with Russell Braun, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Pavlo Hunka, Barbara Dever, Richard Wiegold, Erin Fisher and Alain Coulombe, conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig.
• Dr P2 - A May 23rd performance from Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa of Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, with Tiziana Tramonti, Svetla Vassileva, Marina Pardo, Fabio Maria Capitanucci, Dmitrij Korchak and Askar Abdrazakov, conducted by Juanjo Mena.
• Espace Musique - From Washington National Opera, a performance of Handel's Tamerlano, with David Daniels, Placido Domingo, Sarah Coburn, Patricia Bardon and Andrew Foster-Williams, conducted by William Lacey.
• France Musique - From théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a May 5th performance of Vivaldi's La Fida Ninfa, with Veronica Cangemi, Sandrine Piau, Philippe Jaroussky, Sara Mingardo, Stefano Ferrari and Lorenzo Regazzo, conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, a performance of Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, with Gabriele Fontana, Klaus Florian Vogt, Terje Stensvold and Evelyn Herlitzius, conducted by Marc Albrecht.
• Radio Clasica de Espana - From Gran Teatro de Ginebra, Handels Ariodante with the sublime Joyce di Donato, Patricia Petibon, Charles Workman, A. Abete and Sandrine Piau, conducted by K. Montgomery.
• WFMT Opera series (on numerous stations) - From San Francisco Opera, Glass' Appomattox, with Dwayne Croft. Andrew Shore, Rhoslyn Jones, Eliza van den Heever, Heidi Melton, Kendall Gladen, Noah Stewart, Jeremy Galyon, Chad Shelton, Lee Ji Young Yang and Philip Skinner, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
• XLNC1 - The WFMT Opera Series on a one week delay - if you missed it last week, catch San Francisco Opera's performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, with Patricia Racette, Brandon Jovanovich, Zheng Cao and Stephen Powell, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio - An historic Metropolitan Opera broadcast from January 7, 1956, of Puccini's Tosca, with Renata Tebaldi, Richard Tucker, Leonard Warren, Fernando Correna, Alessio de Paolis, Clifford Harvout, George Cehanovsky and Peter Mark, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
• Radio Oesterreich International - Yet another historic Met broadcast, this one the March 13, 1976 performance of Bellini's I Puritani, with Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti and Sherrill Milnes, conducted by Richard Bonynge.
• Bartok Radio - A June 20th performance of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, with Alekszej Tyihomirov, Ilja Ilin, Marina Kalinyina, Vagyim Zaplecsnij, Petro Morozov, Sztanyiszlav Svetsz, Vaszilij Jefimov, Kszénia Vjaznyikova, Andrej Vilegzanyin, Dmitrij Ovscsinnyikov and Vlagyimir Bolotin, conducted by Vlagyimir Ponkin.
• NPR World of Opera - From Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, a performance of Massenet's Werther, with Giuseppe Filianoti, Sonia Ganassi, Adriana Kucerova, Giorgio Caoduro, Gianfranco Montrosor, Enzo Peroni and Vittorio Prato, conducted by Alain Guingal.
• NRK Klassisk & NRK P2 - a third historic Met broadcast - From February 9, 1974, Verdi's Otello with Kiri Te Kanawa, Jon Vickers, Jean Kraft, Thomas Stewart, William Lewis, Paul Plishka, Robert Goodloe, Andrea Velis and David Holloway, conducted by James Levine.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Osada's Four Nights of Dream, with Sara Sandström, Joa Helgeson, Astrid Robillard, Johan Kinell, Akeo Hasegawa and Anton Ljungqvist, conducted by David Björkman.

And more to come in second posting.....

Happy listening

Live offerings - Saturday, August 30, 2008

Late summer on the opera scene offers several live offerings on interest, including an historic 1976 Puritani from the Met with Sutherland, Pavarotti and Milnes, all at or near the peak of their powers; Paolo Gavanelli in Verdi's Nabucco; from Glimmerglass Opera, another chance to hear Britten's Death in Venice; and a concert featuring vocal works by Messiaen, Liszt and Mendelssohn, with Ruth Ziesak.

Just underway as I post this:

• Espace Musique - From the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Italy, Rossini's Maometto II, with Francesco Meli, Marina Rebeka, Daniela Barcellona, Enrico Iviglia, Michelle Pertusi and Cosimo Panozzo, conducted by Sylvia L'Écuyer.

And starting shortly:

• CBC Two - From Vienna State Opera, a rebroadcast of Mozart's Così fan tutte, with Barbara Frittoli, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Francesco Meli, Laura Tatulescu, Natale de Carolis, conducted by Riccardo Muti.


• KUHF & XLNC1 - Another chance to hear Olga Borodina star in Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalilah from San Francisco Opera; her colleagues are Clifton Forbis, Juha Uusitalo (High Priest of Dagon), Oren Gradus (Old Hebrew), Eric Jordan (Abimélech), Noah Stewart (Philistines' messenger), Richard Walker (First Philistine) and Jere Torkelsen (Second Philistine), with Patrick Summers conducting.


• RTP Antena 2 - From Ópera Estatal da Baviera, today's leading Verdi baritone, Paolo Gavanelli, stars in Verdi's Nabucco, with Maria Guleghina, Daniela Sindram, Lana Kos, Alexander Antonenko, Kevin Conners, Giacomo Prestia and Andreas Kohn, conducted by Paolo Carignani.


• WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From San Francisco Opera, Wagner's Tannhäuser, with Peter Seiffert, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Petra Lang, James Rutherford, Eric Halfvarson, Stefan Margita ,Gregory Reinhart, Ricardo Lugo, Matthew O'Neill and Ji Young Yang, conducted by Donald Runnicles.


• NPR World of Opera - From Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York, Britten's Death in Venice, with William Burden, David Pittsinger, Bruce Reed, Craig Phillips, John Gaston and Nicola Bowie, conducted by Stewart Robinson.


• Radio Clasica de Espana - A live broadcast from Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, of Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, with F. Maria Capitanucci, S. Vassileva, D. Korchak, A. Abdrazakov, T. Tramonti, M. Pardo, A. Vespasiano and M. Bolognesi, conducted by J. Mena.


• Radio Oesterreich International - A September 22, 2007 performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens, from the Grand Théatre in Geneva, with Anna Caterina Antonacci, Kurt Streit, Anne Sofie von Otter, Isabell Cals, Marie-Claude Chappius and Jean-François Lapointe, conducted by John Nelson.


• France Musique, MDR Figaro & RBB KulturRadio - From the Frauenkirche in Dresden, a concert featuring among other works, two by Messiaen: O sacrum convivium with Ruth Ziesak, Mojca Erdmann, Christian Elsner, Alexander Marco-Buhrmester; and Apparition de l'église éternelle, with Johannes Unger playing the organ; Liszt 's San Francesco, Preludio per II cantico del Sol di San Francesco, with Johannes Unger playing the organ; Mendelssohn's Symphonie-cantate n°2 en si bémol Majeur op.52 "Lobgesang", with Ruth Ziesak, Mojca Erdmann, Christian Elsner, and Alexander Marco-Buhrmester, all works conducted by Jun Märkl.


• Latvia Radio Klasika - From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, an historic broadcast of Bellini's I Puritani, from March 13, 1976, with Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti and Sherrill Milnes, conducted by Richard Bonynge.


• WDAV - A rebroadcast from NPR World of Opera of Donizetti's Lucie de Lammermoor (French version) from Glimmerglass Opera, with Sarah Coburn, Chad A. Johnson, Earle Patriarco, Raúl Hernández, Craig Phillips and Bryon Grohman, conducted by Beatrice Jona Afron.

Happy listening....

Hghlights for Saturday, August 16, 2008

Already underway:

Deutschlandradio Kultur - a rebroadcast of this summer's Tristan und Isolde from Bayreuth, with Robert Dean Smith, Irene theorin, Michelle Breedt, Robert Holl and Jukka Rasilainen, conducted by Peter Schneifer.
Espace Musique (French Radio Canada) - From Pesaro, Rossini's Ermione, with Sonia Ganassi, Maria Pizzolato, Gregory Kunde, Antonino Siragusa, Ferdinand von Bothmer, Nicola Ulivieri, Irina Samoylova, Cristina Faus and Riccardo Botta, conducted by Roberto Abbado.
CBC Two - From the Vienna State Opera, a June 7th performance of Strauss' Capriccio, with Renée Fleming, Bo Skovhus, Michael Schade, Angela Kirschlager, Adrian Eröd and Franz Hawlata, conducted by Philippe Jordan.
Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - from the Liceu in Barcelona, a performance of Wagner's Die Walküre, with Plácido Domingo, René Pape, Alan Held, Waltraud Meier, Evelyn Herlitzius and Jane Henschel, conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
DR P2 - From the Teatro real in Madrid, Martin y Soler's Il Burbero di buon cuore, with Elena de la Merced, Véronique Gens, Juan francisco Gatell and Carlos Chausson, conducted by Christophe Rousset.
KWAX & XLNC1 - from LA Opera (as part of the WFMT Opera Series), a double bill of music by composers suppressed by the Nazis: Ullmann's The Broken Jug (Der zerbrochene Krug) and Zemlinsky based The Dwarf (Der Zwerg). James Conlon conducts a cast that includes James Johnson, Rodrick Dixon, Mary Dunleavy, Steven Humes, Bonaventura Bottone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Bishop, Melody Moore, Jason Stearns and Richard Cox.
Radio Clasica de Espana & Sveriges Radio P2 - From Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, an April 24, 2008, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitesch, with V. Kazakov, V. Panfilov, T. Monogarova, M. Gubsky, G. Hakobyan, M. Gulordava, G. Floris, M. Kalbus, R. Ferrari, S. Consolini, A. Senes, V. Gilmanov, A. Naumenko, R. Savoia and E. Manistina, conducted by A. Vedernikov.
RTP Antena 2 - From Brussels, a February 2nd performance of Weber's Euryanthe, with Gabriele Fontana, Hendrickje Van Kerckhoven, Jolana Fogasova, Kurt Streit, Robin Tritsschler, Detlef Roth and Jan-Hendrik Rootering, conducted by Kazushi Ono.
WFMT Opera Series (on numerous stations) - From LA Opera, a performance of Puccini's La Rondine, with Patricia Racette, Marcus Haddock, Amanda Squitieri, Greg Fedderly, David Pittsinger, Dale Travis, Levi Hernandez, Paul Floyd, Karen Vuong, Silvia Vasquez and Angel Blue, conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson.
Latvia Radio Klasika - From the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, an August 8th performance of Rossini's Maometto II, with Marina Rebeka, Francisco Meli, Daniel Barcelona and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Gustav Kunz.
Bartok Radio - Donizetti's Anna Bolena, with Edita Gruberova, Delores Ziegler, Stefano Palacci and Jose Bros.
BBC Radio 3 - From the Royal Albert Hall, a Proms concert performance of Handels' Belshazzar, with Paul Groves, Rosemary Joshua and Bejun Mehta, conducted by Charles Mackerras.
NPR World of Opera - From Glimmerglass Opera, Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, with Aaron St. Clair, Katharine Goeldner, John Tessier, Eduardo Chama, Daniel Sumegi and Judith Christin, conducted by David Angus.
KBYU - From LA Opera, Verdi's Otello, with Ian Storey, Katherine Goeldner, Elena Evseeva, Mark Delevan, Derek taylor, Ning Liang and Eric Halfvarson, conducted by JAmes Conlon.
Radio Oesterreich International - An historic Met broadcast of Puccini's Tosca from January 7, 1956, with Renata Tebalsdi, Richard Tucker and Leolnard Warren, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Donizetti's Anna Bolena, with Mariella Devia, Laura Polverelli, Ugo Guagliardo, Fernando Portari, Manuela Custer and Amedeo Moretti, conducted by Marco Guidarini.
WDAV - NPR World of Opera - From Glimmerglass Opera, a double bill of Massenet's Portrait of Manon, with Kristine Winkler, Theodore Baerg, Colin Ainsworth and Bruce Reed, conducted by Andrew Bisantz; and Poulenc's Le Voix Humaine, with Amy Burton, conducted by Stewart Robinson.

Happy listening,

Saturday,. July 5, Part 2

And now a look at tht live stuff starting at 1:30PM EDT and beyond:

• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Opéra-comique in Paris, a march 15th performance of Ferdinand Hérold's Zampa, with Richard Troxell, Bernard Richter, Patricia Petitbon, Doris Lamprecht and Vincent Ordonneau, conducted by William Christie.
• BBC Radio 3 - From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, with Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Aleksandra Kurzak, Peter Mattei, Barbara Frittoli, Anna Bonitatibus, Ann Murray, Robert Lloyd, Robin Leggate, Harry Nicoll, Kishani Jayasinghe and Donald Maxwell, conducted by Charles Mackerras.
• NPR World of Opera - From Washington National Opera, a rebroadcast of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, with Gordon Hawkins, Indira Mahajan, Terry Cook, Angela Simpson, Laquita Mitchell, Marietta Simpson, Eric Greene and Jermaine Smith, conducted by Wayne Marshall.
• KBYU - From Utah Festival Opera, a 2006 performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, with Darrell Babidge, Kara Shay Thomson, Kristopher Irmiter, Suzanne Woods, Sarah Austin, Vanessa Schukis, David Barron, Isai Jess Munoz, Venetia-Maria Stelliou, Nathan Anthony and David Bailey, conducted by Barbara Day Turner.
• KSUI, WFIU, WOI-FM & WRTI - per their schedule listings, these stations will be starting the WFMT Opera Series Fidelio at 1:30 EDT.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From Teatro Lirico, Cagliari, an April 24th performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitesh, with Mikhail Kazakov, Vitaly Panfilov, Tatiana Monogarova and Mikhail Gubsky, conducted by Alexander Vedernikov.
• WCNY - also broadcasting the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions finals concert.
• France Musique - Live, direct from the International Festival of Baroque Opera in Beaune, a performance of Scarlatti's Ottavia ou le trône retrouvé (Création en première française), with Yolanda Auyanet, Filippo Minaccia, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Maria Ercolano, Valentina Varriale, Giuseppe de Vittorio and Paolo Lopez, conducted by Antonio Florio.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, a May 25th performance of Vivaldi's Motezuma, with Vito Priante, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Laura Chierici, Franziska Gottwald, Theodora Baka and Gemma Bertagnolli, conducted by Alan Curtis.
• KUAT - per their schedule page, they start their broadcast of the WFMT Opera Series Fidelio at 3:00Pm EDT
• Lyric FM - Bellini's Norma, with Edita Gruberova and Jose Cura.
• WDAV - NPR World of Opera: Verdi's La Traviata from Vienna State Opera, with Krassamira Stoyanova, Piotr Beczala, Zeljko Lucic, Sophie Marilley, Gergely Nemeti, In-Sung Sim, Eijiro Kai and Alfred Sramek, conducted by Renato Palumbo.

Happy listening.

Saturday,. July 5

I hope all our American friends had a glorious Fourth of July. We sloughed off a bit, but are working hard to get everything posted in time for all this weekend's broadcasts. Here's a "quick and dirty" look at the live offerings starting at 1:00PM EDT this afternoon:

• CBC Two - From Rome, Rossini's Guillaume Tell, with John Osborn, Michele Pertusi, Alex Esposito, Norah Amsellem, Frédéric Caton, Darren Jeffrey, Vincent Ordonneau, Jérôme Varnier, Laura Polverelli and Ellie Dehn, soprano, Antonio Pappano conducting.
• Cesky Rozlhas 3-Vltava - From Prague, Dvorak's Dimitri, with Leo Marian Vodicka, Drahomíra Drobková, Magdaléna Hajóssyová, Lívia Ághová, Peter Mikuláš, Ivan Kusnjer, Ludek Vele, dene(k Harvánek and Pavel Haderer, conducted by Gerd Albrecht.
• DR P2 - A May, 2005 performance of Wagner's Siegfried, with Stig Fogh Andersen, James Johnson, Susanne Resmark and Sten Byriel, conducted by Michael Schønwandt.
• KBPS - The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions final concert.
• RTP Antena 2 - From Teatro da Zarzuela, Madrid in October 2006, a gala concert celebrating 150 Years of Teatro da Zarzuela, with Milagros Martín, Verónica Villarroel, Ana Maria Sánchez, Maria José Montiel, Isabel Rey, Maria Bayo, Lola Casariego, Luis Dámaso, António Gandia, Guillermo Orozco, José Bros, Luis Alvarez, Marco Moncloa, Juan Pons, José Julián Frontal, Manuel Lanza and Carlos Chausson, conducted by Miguel Roa.
• WETA - From Washington National Opera, Saint-Saens' Samson and Delilah, with Olga Borodina, Karl Tanner, Alan Held and Kyle Ketelson, conducted by Giovanni Reggioli.
• WFMT Opera Series (numerous stations) - From Los Angeles opera, Beethoven's Fidelio, with Anja Kampe, Klaus Florian Vogt, Eike Wilm Schulte, Matti Salminen, Oleg Bryjak, Rebekah Camm, Greg Fedderly, Robert MacNeil and James Creswell, conducted by James Conlon.
• WQXR - a rebroadcast of Janet Baker's historic farewell appearance at Catnegie Hall in Gluck's Orfeo et Eurydice,
• XLNC1 - A rebroadcast of the WFMT Opera Series performance of Verdi's Falstaff, from Chicago Lyric Opera, with Andrew Shore, Veronica Villarroel, Boaz Daniel, Meredith Arwady, Elizabeth De Shong, Stacey Tappan, Bryan Griffin, David Cangelosi, Rodell Rosel and Andrew Funk, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

More to come....

Happy listening

Live offerings - Saturday, June 14, 2008 - Part III

And now for those live items starting at GMT 1800/EDT 2:00PM and later....

Espace 2 - From Opéra Royal de Wallonie, a May 3rd performance of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, with Patricia Ciofi, Marianna Pizzolato, Danilo Formaggia, Diana Axentii, Federico Sacchi and Mario Sacchi, Conducted by Luciano Acoccella.
Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava -

Live offerings - Saturday, June 14, 2008 - Part II

To continue with programs brginning at GMT 1730/EDT 1:30PM and later .... still more live offerings, several of surpassing interest:

• BBC Radio 3 - From English National Opera, Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, with Janice Watson, Sarah Connolly, John Tomlinson, Sarah Tynan, Andrew Shore, adeleine Shaw, Stuart Kale, Janice Cairns, Barry Banks, Nicholas Folwell and James Gower, conducted by Edward Gardner (it's not clear whether this will be sing in German or English).
• Espace Musique - Roussel's Padmâvati, with Sylvie Brunet, Finnur Bjarnasson, Alain Fondary, Yann Beuron, Laurent Alvaro, François Piolino, Blandine Folio Peres and Alain Gabriel, conducted by Lawrence Foster.
• France Musique - From the théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a March 19th concert performance of Hande;'s Orlando, with Christophe Dumaux, Elena de la Merced, Jean-Michel Fumas, Rachel Nicholls, Alain Buet, conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire.
• NPR World of Opera - From Houston Grand Opera, the World premiere production of Daniel Catan's Salsipuedes, a Tale of Love, War and Anchovies, with Ana Maria Martinez, Zheng Cao, Chad Shelton, Scott Hendricks, James Maddalena, Oren Gradus, Nicholas Phan, Laquita Mitchell, Heidi Stober, Joseph Evans and Pablo Bracho, conducted by Guido Maria Guida.
• MDR Figaro - From Weimar, a July 9, 2007 performance of Liszt's Die Legende von der Heiligen Elisabeth, with Renatus Mészár, Dagmar Pecková, Mario Hoff, Melanie Diener, Alexander Günther, Dennis Palsa, and Klara Fröhlich, conducted by Carl St. Clair.
• NRK Klassik & NRK P2 - Yet another chance to hear the performance of Verdi's La Traviata from Vienna State Opera, with Krassimira Stoyanova, Sophie Marilley, Waltraud Winsauer, Piotr Beczala, Zeljko Lucic, Gergely Nemeti, Marcus Pelz, Eijiro Kai, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, and Wolfram Igor Derntl, conducted by Renato Palumbo.
• Radio Osterreich International - A February 23rd performance of Rossini's La Cenerentola, with Vivica Genaux, Maxim Mironov , Fabio Maria Capitanucci, Bruno de Simone, Raffaella Milanesi, Giorgia Milanesi and Giovanni Furlanetto, conducted by Giuliano Carella.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Leipzig, a February 24th performance of Wagner's Rienzi, with Stefan Winke, Marika Schönberg, Pavel Kudinov, Elena Zhidkova, Jürgen Kurth and Christopher Robertson, conducted by Axel Kober.
• Espace 2 - From Opéra Royal de Wallonie, a performance from early June of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, with Patrizia Ciofi, Marianna Pizzolato, Danilo Formaggia, Diana Axentii, Federico Sacchi and Mario Sacchi, conducted by Luciano Acoccella.

And that's the remaining live offerings for this afternoon...

Happy listening,

Saturday, June 7, 2008 - Live offerings

Some interesting live offerings today: from the Holland Festival comes Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise with Camilla Tilling and Rodney Gilfry; from LA Opera a Don Giovanni with Erewin Schrott, Alexandra Deshorties, Charles Castronovo and Maria Kanyova; From Budapest, Siegfried (Act 2 now underway) with Christian Franz and Alan Titus; France Vivace is airing the 1955 Bayreuth Siegfried with Windgassen, Varnay, Hotter and Neidlinger, conducted by Keilberth; BBC 3 is carrying an Opera North performance of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with Leonardo Capalbo as Romeo; From Vienna Staatsoper, a number of stations are presenting Richard Strauss' Capriccio with Renée Fleming, Bo Skovhus, Michael Schade and Angelika Kirschlager, Philippe Jordan conducting; from l'Opéra de Lyon comes Porgy and Bess; from Genoa, Radio Tre is airing the Italian premiere of a Tan Dun opera, Tea: A Mirror of Soul . . . . details follow:

• Bartok Radio - From Budapest, a performance of Wagner's Siegfried, with Christian Franz, Michael Roider, Alan Titus, Hartmut Welker, Walter Fink, Cornelia Kallisch and Susan Bullock, Gál Gabi conducting.
• LRT Klasika and CBC Two - for those who missed it, another chance to hear La Traviata from Vienna with Krassimira Stoyanova.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - Live from Amsterdam's Holland Festival, Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise, with Camilla Tilling, Rodney Gilfry, Hubert Delamboye, Henk Neven and Tom Randle, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.
• KUSC - From LA Opera, a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Erwin Schrott, Kyle Ketelson, Charles Castronovo, Alexandra Deshorties and Maria Kanyova, conducted by Hartmut Haenchen.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, a March 29th performance of Roussel's Padmâvatî, with Sylvie Brunet, Finnur Bjarnasson, Alain Fondary, Yann Beuron, Laurent Alvaro, François Piolino and Blandine Folio Peres, conducted by Lawrence Foster.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio, DR P2, Radio Oesterreich International & Sveriges Radio P2 - From the Vienna State Opera, a performance of Strauss' Capriccio with Renée Fleming, Bo Skovhus, Michael Schade, Adrian Eröd, Angelika Kirchschlager and Franz Hawlata, conducted by Philippe Jordan.
• France Vivace - From Testament's reissue of the 1955 Bayreuth Ring Cycle, Wagner's Siegfried, with Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter, Astrid varnay and Gustav Neidlinger, conducted by Joseph Keilberth.
• RTP Antena 2 - From Paris, a February 2007 performance of Handel's Ricardo Primo, with Geraldine McGreevy, Nuria Rial, Lawrence Zazzo, Tim Mead, Curtis Streetman and David Wilson-Johnson, conducted by Paul Goodwin.
• WFMT Opera Series (numerous stations) - From Lyric Opera of Chicago, Handel's Julius Caesar, with David Daniels, Danielle de Niese, Patricia Bardon, Maite Beaumont, Chistophe Dumaux, Wayne Tiggs, Gerald Thomson and Darren Stokes, conducted by Emmanuelle Haim.
• BBC Radio 3 - From Opera North, a performance of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with Leonardo Capalbo, Bernarda Bobro, Grant Doyle, Peter Wedd, Frances Bourne, Geoffrey Dolton, Peter Savidge, Nicholas Sharratt, Yvonne Howard and Henry Waddington, conducted by Martin Andre.
• Espace Musique & WDAV - From Paris, a performance of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, with René Schirrer, Laura Claycomb, Toby Spence, Laurent Naouri, Hilary Summers, Jane Henschel, Ales Briscein and Ugo Rabec, conducted by Edward Gardner.
• France Musique - From l'Opéra de Lyon, a May 17th concert performance of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, with Derrick Lawrence, Janice Chandler-Eteme, Timothy Robert Blevins, Ronald Samm, LaVerne Williams, Magali Léger, Rodney Clarke, Kristin Lewis, Bernard Abervandana, Keel Watson, Odile Dovin, Larry Hylton and Phumzile Sojola, conducted by William Eddins.
• NPR World of Opera - From Washington National opera, Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani, with Maria Guleghina, Franco Farina, Lado Ataneli, Vitalij Kowaljow, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Robert Baker, Corey Evan Rotz, J. Austin Bitner and James Shaffran, conducted by Placido Domingo.
• NRK KLASSISK & NRK P2 - From Opéra Bastille in Paris, Berg's Wozzeck, with Simon Keenlyside, Jon Villars, David Kuebler, Gerhard Siegel, Roland Bracht, Angela Denoke, and Ursula Hesse v.d. Steinen, conducted by Sylvain Cambreling.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From La Monnaie in Brussels, a performance of von Weber's Euryanthe, with Gabriele Fontana, Kurt Streite, Jolana Fogašová, Detlef Roth, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Robin Tritschler and Hendrickje van Kerckhoven, conducted by Kazushi Ono.
• Espace 2 - From Teatro Lirico de Cagliari, an April 24th performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's La Légende de la Ville invisible de Kitège et de la Vierge Fevronia, with Tatiana Monogarova, Vitaly Panfilov, Mikhail Gubsky, Vsevolodovic Kazakov, Gevorg Hakobyan, Marika Gulordava, Riccardo Ferrari, Stefano Consolini, Alessandro Senes, Valery Gilmanov, Alexander Naumenko, Rosanna Savoia, Elena Manistina, Gianluca Floris and Marek Kalbus, conducted byAlexander Vedernikov.
• Klara - From Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, with Patrizia Ciofi, Marianna Pizzolato, Diana Axentii, Danilo Formaggia, Federico Sacchi and Mario Cassi, conducted by Luciano Acocella.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From Munich, a December 11th performance of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, with Ramon Vargas and Violeta Urmana, conducted by Marko Armiliato.
• WQED - The Metropolitan Opera National Council Grand Finals Concert, held February 24th, with the Metropolitan opera Orchestra conduted by Stephen Lord.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - LIVE, from Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Italian premiere of Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of Soul, with Seiko Haijing, Fu Lan, Nancy Allen Lundy and Lu Ning Liang, conducted by Lawrence Renes.
• Lyric FM - From the Vienna State Opera, Verdi's La forza del destino, with Nina Stemme and Salvatore Licitra, conducted by Zubin Mehta.
• KING - From Lyric Opera of Chicago,a reairing of last week's offering, Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Dina Kuznetsova and Frank Lopardo, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
• Concert FM (New Zealand) - From Opera Australia, Puccini's Il Trittico, with Nicole Yuol, Carlo Barricelli, Jonathan Summers, Graeme Macfarlane, Stephen Bennett, Elizabeth Campbell, Michael Martin, Hye Seoung Kwon, Milijana Nikolic, Henry Choo and Teresa La Rocca, conducted by Andrea Licata.

Happy listening.....

Saturday Highlights - Part 1 -- 4/5/2008

Starting off the afternoon at 1:00PM:

• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - Wagner's Rienzi, with Stefan Vinke, Marika Schönbergová, Pavel Kudinov, Elena Zhidkova, Jürgen Kurth, Christopher Robertson, Martin Petzold, Thomas Oerte-Gormans and Gabriela Scherer, conducted by Axel Kober.
• DR P2 - A rebroadcast of La Scala's opening night performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Ian Storey, Waltraute Meier, Michelle De Young, Matti Salminen, Gerd Grokowski and Will Hartmann, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio - Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Herbert von Karajan, a 5 hour program: From 1956, Verdi's Falstaff, with Tito Gobbi, Luigi Alva, Rolando Panerai, Tomaso Spataro, Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, Nicola Zaccharia, Anna Moffo, Nan Merriman and Fedora Barbieri; from 1977-78, Strauss's Salome, with Karl-Walter Bohm, Heinz Zednik, David Knutson, Martin Vantin, Gerhard Unger, Erich Kunz, Dieter Ellenbeck, Jules Bastin, Gerd Nienstedt, Kurt Rydl, Horst Nitsche and Helge von Bomches.

More to come, but these are starting now....

Happy listening,

Saturday operas - March 22, 2008

After all the travails the Met has been through in the past week or two (Heppner bows out of the first four Tristans, Mac Master fills in for the first T &I but disappoints in Act III, Swenson cancels Traviata, Lehman sings admirably in the second perf. of T & I, but Voigt walks off in Act 2 with a stomach bug, Lehman again sings in the third perf. - although Robert Dean Smith was rumored to appear, but didn't - but almost gets decapitated early in Act 3, and on Friday Radvonowsky cancels Ernani to be replaced by Angela Meade -- who then gets a sensational reception on the night), can it put on a flawless Tristan today? Robert Dean Smith is scheduled to appear in today's Hi-Def broadcast. He is certainly a more experienced Tristan than Gary Lehman, having sung the role at Bayreuth and elsewhere over the past couple of years. I still hope that Heppner returns for the remaining performances - no word on that as yet. IF the broadcast goes "normally", it should be one of the special ones. The rest of the cast are all wonderful.

By coincidence, listeners have a choice between two different operas with Robert Dean Smith and Eike Wilm Schulte this afternoon. Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava is offering them both in a star-studded 2006 Parsifal from Monte Carlo a bit later in the afternoon.

For the Easter week, we not only have Parsifal; there are also quite an assortment of oratorios and various settings of the Passions by a number of composers on offer during the next 48 hours.

So here's what's on this afternoon:

LRT Klasika - a rebroadcast of Rameau's Castor et Pollux from Amsterdam,
Metropolitan Opera (numerous stations) - Starting at 12:30 EDT, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Deborah Voigt, Robert Dean Smith, Michelle De Young, Matti Salminen, Eike Wilm Schulte, Tony Stevenson, Mark Schowalter, Stephen Gaertner and James Courtney, conducted by James Levine.
Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Monte Carlo, a 2006 performance of Parsifal with the mouth-watering lineup of Robert Dean Smith, Konrad Jarnot, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Eike Wilm Schulte, Petra Lang, Ferdinand Seiler,Hans Griepentrog, Martina Rüping, Cécile van de Sant, Christian Elsner, Keith Ikaia-Purdy, Sabina Cvilka, Claudia Galli, Kristen Grotius and Caroline Stein, conducted by Marek Janowski.
Deutschlandradio Kultur / Radio Tre - From Brussels, a February 2nd concert performance of Weber's Euryanthe, with Gabriele Fontana, Jolana Fogasova, Kurt Streite, Detlef Roth, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Hendrickje van Kerckhoven and Robin Tritschler, conducted by Kazushi Ono.
DR P2 - From Paris, a performance of Herold's Zampa, with Richard Troxell, Bernard Richter, Patricia Petibon and Doris Lamprecht, conducted by William Christie.
France Musique - From Palais Garnier in Paris, Stravinsky's The rake's Progress, with René Schirrer, Laura Claycomb, Toby Spence, Laurent Naouri, Hilary Summers, Jane Henschel, Ales Briscein and Ugo Rabec, conducted by Edward Gardner.
Latvia Radio Klasika - From Rome, yet another Parsifal from January 23rd, with Simon O'Neill, Lucio Gallo, Evelin Herlizius and George Zepenfeld, conducted by Danielle Gatti.
Radio 4 Netherlands - A March 21st performance of Janacek's Katia Kabanova from Amsterdam, with Amanda Roocroft, Kathryn Harries and Kurt Streit.
NDR Kultur - A four-hour special on the heritage of the celebrated Maria Malibran with some rarely heard material sung by Cecilia Bartoli.
WDAV - A new opera, Adamo's Lysistrata, is heard in the NPR World of Opera series, featuring Emily Pulley and Arturo Chacón-Cruz, among others.

Happy listening!

March 15, 2008 Highlights

This will be a somewhat abbreviated highlights post. I got home very late from a historic Tristan at the Met last night (more on that later...), so here's the quick and dirty on today's live lineup:

• Metropolitan Opera (numerous stations, and also being simulcast to movie theaters in HD) - Britten's Peter Grimes, with Anthony Dean Griffey, Patricia Racette, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Felicity Palmer, Jill Grove, Leah Partridge, Erin Morley, Greg Fedderly, Bernard Fitch, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, John del Carlo and Dean Peterson, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• DR P2 - From Vienna State opera, Verdi's La Forza del Destino, with Nina Stemme, Salvatore Licitra, Carlos Alvarez, Alastair Miles and Nadia Krasteva, conducte by Zubin Mehta.
• France Musique & Radio Tre (RAI) - From the Opera Comique in Paris, a concert performance of Hérold's Zampa (ou La fiancée de marbre), with Richard Troxell, Bernard Richter, Patricia Petitbon, Doris Lamprecht and Vincent Ordonneau, conducted by William Christie.
• Radio Oesterreich International (OE1) - Rebroadcasting the Met's historic broadcast from April 1975, of Rossini's L'Assedio di Corinto, with Beverly Sills, Shirley Verrett, Justiono Diaz, Harry Theyard and Betsey Norden.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - a rebroadcast of the Met's performance of Prokoviev's War and Peace, with Marina Poplovskaja, Kims Begley, Aleksexis Markovs, Larisa Sevcchenko and Vasilijs Gerello, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
• Radio Stephansdom - An historic live performance of Verdi's Don Carlo (recorded at the Vienna State Opera in 1970), with Franco Corelli, Eberhard Waechter, Martti Talvela, Tugomir Franc, Gundula Janowitz, Shirley Verrett, Edita Gruberova, Ewald Aichberger and Judith Blegen, conducted by Horst Stein.
• WDAV - From NPR World of Opera, a performance from Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam of Monteverdi's Orfeo, with Jeremy Ovenden, Judith van Wanroij, David Cordier, Pascal Bertin, Tania Kross, Alan Ewing, Panajotis Iconomou, Wilke Te Brummelstroete, Ilse Eerens, conducted by Stephen Stubbs.

Happy listening . . . .

A good looking Carment and some BEl Canto

On paper, today's Carmen from the Metropolitan Opera looks like one of the most promising broadcasts of the current Met Season. It stars Olga Borodina and Marcelo Alvarez as Carmen and Don Jose. I saw Borodina's Carmen a few years back, and I still remember it as one of the most musical Carmens I've ever heard in person. I'm hoping, since it was only a few years ago, that Borodina can still do the music as much justice today. As for Alvarez, the last time I heard him I liked him too, and he gets regular raves abroad for all his work in French repertoire. So I'm hoping for the best from him too in a French-tenor role like Jose.

As for the two supporting roles, Micaela and the Toreador Escamillo are being sung by Krassimira Stoyanova and Lucio Gallo. I've always enjoyed Gallo's recordings, but I've never heard him live. Stoyanova, however, I've heard in person twice, and I've been thrilled by her each time. I heard her sing Donizetti's longest role for a prima donna, Anne Boleyn, and she sounded as fresh at the end as at the beginning! And her Nedda in Paggliacci at the Met was riveting, both musically and dramatically. She's now one of my favorites: She combines expert dramatic projection with a resilient technique and a lovely and pingy voice.

So on paper, this could be a superb performance of Carmen, well worth hearing.

Besides the Met's Carmen, there are several live bel canto offerings, including a Norma with Gruberova and Cura and two Rossini operas - Guillaume Tell from Rome and La Cenerentola on Espace 2.

Here's the lineup for tomorrow, with some additional items of interest on Sunday:

• France Musique - From Théâtre des Champs-Elysées à Paris, a January 12th performance of Rossini's Cyrus à Babylone, with Nora Gubisch, Cyril Auvity, Daniel Auchincloss, Sophie Daneman, Till Fechner and Pierre-Yves Pruvot, conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire.
• Metropolitan Opera (numerous stations) - Bizet's Carmen with Olga Borodina, Marcelo Alvarez, Krassimira Stoyanova, Lucio Gallo, Rachelle Durkin, Edyta Kulczak, Juan-Paul Fouchecourt, John Hancock and Jeffrey Wells, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From Rome, a November 28th performance of Rossini's Guillaume Tell, with Michele Pertusi, John Osborn, Alex Esposito, Norah Ansellem, Frédéric Caton and Darren Jeffrey, conducted by Antonio Pappano.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Vienna, a performance of Bellini's Norma, with José Cura, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Edita Gruberová, Elina Garanca, Caroline Wenborne and Marian Talaba, conducted by Friedrich Haider.
• Espace 2 - Rossini's La Cenerentola, with Maxim Mironov, Fabio Maria Capitanucci, Bruno De Simone, Raffaella Milanesi, Giorgio Milanesi, Vivica Genaux, Giovanni Furlanetto and Todd Camburn, conducted by Giuliano Carella.
• Klara & Radio Tre (RAI) - From Vienna State opera, a February 5th performance of Mozart's Così fan tutte, with Barbara Frittoli, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ildebrando d’Arcangelo and Francesco Meli, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From the 2007 Salzburg Festival, Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, with Peter Mattei, Anna Samuila, Jozefs Kaizer, Ekaterina Gubanova and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Daniel barenboim.

On Sunday:
If you have missed any Met broadcasts so far this season, there is still opportunity to catch some of them again, as the stations in New Zealand and Australia are now carrying the Met broadcasts on a three- and four-week delayed basis:

• Concert FM (New Zealand) - The Met broadcast of Rossini's Barber of Seville, with Elina Garanca, José Manuel Zapata, Franco Vassallo, Bruno Praticò and Peter Rose, conducted by Frédéric Chaslin.
• ABC Classic FM (Australia) - The Met's broadcast of Wagner's Die Walküre, with Clifton Forbis, Mikhail Petrenko, James Morris, Deborah Voigt, Lisa Gasteen, Michelle DeYoung, Kellie Cae Hogan, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Laura Vlasak Nolen, Jane Bunnell, Claudia Waite, Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, Edyta Kilczak and Mary Phillips, conducted by Lorin Maazel.

Today's offerings - 2/16/08

From Covent Garden, Paolo Gavanelli as Dr. Dulcamara . . . From the Met, Karita Mattila as Manon Lescaut . . . From Amsterdam, Lawrence Zazzo in Giulio Cesare . . . From Barcelona, a new opera, Amargós's El saló d'Anubis, conducted by the composer . . . some confusion from RAI (tune in to find out whether they are airing La Rondine or Carmen) . . . and more:

• Dwojke Polskie Radio - From Leipzig, a November 24th performance of Wagner's Rienzi, with Stefan Vinke, Marika Schönberg, Pavel Kudinov, Elena Zhidkova, Jürgen Kurth – bas, Christopher Robertson, Martin Petzold, Thomas Oertel-Gormanns and Gabriela Scherer, conducted by Axel Kober.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, a December 1st performance of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, with Stefano Secco, Alexandra Kurzak, Ludovic Tézier, Paolo Gavanelli and Kishani Jayasinghe, conducted by Mikko Franck.
• Metropolitan Opera (numerous stations) - Puccini's Manon Lescaut, with Karita Mattila, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft and Dale Travis, conducted by James Levine.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From Amsterdam, Handel's Giulio Cesare, with Lawrence Zazzo, Christianne Stotijn and Sandrine Piau, conducted by René Jacobs.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Stockholm, Verdi's Falstaff, with Carl-Johan Falkman, Hillevi Martinpelto, Anders Larsson, Ofelia Sala, Klas Hedlund, Ingrid Tobiasso Susann Végh, Magnus Kyhle, Ulrik Qvale and Lennart Forssén, conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi.
• Catalunya Musica - From Barcelona, a October 27th performance of Amargós's El saló d'Anubis, with Mónica Luezas, Marc Canturri, Toni Comas, Marta Valero and Toni Rumbau, conducted by Joan Albert Amargós.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From La Scala, a rebroadcast of Verdi's La Traviata, with Angela Gheorghiu, Ramón Vargas, Roberto Frontali, Natascha Petrinsky, Tiziana Tramonti, Enrico Cossutta, Alessandro Paliaga, Luigi Roni and Nicola Pamio, conducted by Lorin Maazel.
• Klara - From Vlaamse opera, the world premiere of Van Hove's La Strada recorded on February 9th, with Jeanette Fischer, Richard Salter, Yves Saelens and Mireille Capelle, conducted by Koen Kessels.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - EITHER, From Rome, a March 7, 2005 performance of Bizet's Carmen, with Julia Gertseva, Marcus Haddock, Norah Amsellem, Gregg Baker, Nicolas Testè,Camille Reno,Georges Gautier,Kevin Greenlaw, Carla Di Censo, Eliseda Dumitru, conducted by Georges Prêtre OR, from Venice, Puccini's La Rondine, with Fiorenza Cedolins, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Sandra Pastrana, Mark Milhofer and Stefano Antonucci, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.

Happy listening,

Saturday offerings - 2/9/08

The Met is rebroadcasting a 1975 performance of Rossini's Siege of Corinth with Beverly Sills and Shirley Verrett. Two Wagner operas hold the boards: from France Musique, Tannhäuser, and from Radio Oesterreich International, Rienzi. From Covent Garden, La Traviata with Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann. From NRK P2, another chance to hear this past summer's Salzburg performance of Haydn's Armida. And more . . . .

• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Opéra de Lyon, a December 7th performance of Offenbach's La Vie parisienne, with Marc Callahan, - Raoul de Gardefeu, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Laurent Naouri, -Marie Devellereau, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Christophe Mortagne, Brigitte Hool and Claire Delgado-Boge, conducted by Sébastien Rouland.
• DR P2 & MDR Figaro - From Amsterdam, a January 19th performance of Rameau's Castor et Pollux, with Véronique Gens, Anna Maria Panzarella and Henk Neven, conducted by Christophe Rousset.
• France Musique - From Opéra Nationale de Paris-Bastille, a December 6th performance of Wagner's Tannhäuser, with Franz-Josef Selig, Stephen Gould, Matthias Goerne, Michael König, Ralf Lukas, Andreas Conrad, Wojtek Smilek, Eva Maria Westbroek and Béatrice Uria-Monzon, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From the Nationale Reisopera, a January 19th performance of Hamel's Snow White, with Rebecca von Lipinski, Michael Kraus and Frances Bourne, conducted by Ed Spanjaard.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio - From Vienna, a February 6th performance of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, with Barbara Frittoli, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Francesco Meli, Laura Tatulescu and Natale De Carolis, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
• BBC Radio 3 - From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, a performance of Verdi's La Traviata, with Anna Netrebko, Monika-Evelin Liiv, Kostas Smoriginas, Eddie Wade Mark Beesley, Ji-Min Park, Jonas Kaufmann, Neil Gillespie, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Charbel Mattar and Jonathan Coad , conducted by Maurizio Benini.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Lisbon an April 4th performance of Vivaldi's Montezuma, with Vito Priante, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Laura Cherici, Maite Beaumont, Theodora Baka and Gemma Bertagnolli, conducted by Alan Curtis.
• Metropolitan Opera (numerous stations) - From April 19, 1975, an archival broadcast of Rossini's L'Assedio de Corinthe, with Beverly Sills, Justino Diaz, Shirley Verrett, Harry Theyard, Richard Gill, Betsy Norden, Arthur Thompson and Richard Best, conducted by Thomas Schippers.
• NRK P2 - From this past summer's Salzburg Festival, Haydn's Armida, with Annette Dasch, Michael Schade, Mojca Erdmann, Vito Priante, Richard Croft and Bernard Richter, . conducted by Ivor Bolton.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From Leipzig, a November 24th performance of Wagner's Rienzi, with Stefan Vinke, Marika Schönberg, Pavel Kudinov, Elena Zhidkova, Jürgen Kurth, Christopher Robertson and Gabriela Scherer, conducted by Axel Kober.
• Klara - From Copenhagen, Verdi's Don Carlos, with Stephen Milling, Irene Theorin, Nikolai Shukoff, Randi Stene, John Lundgren, Ernst Dalsgaard, Sten Byriel, Ellen Kristiansen, Mariann Amdisen, conducted by Michael Schønwandt.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - Verdi's Nabucco, with Maria Guleghina and Paolo Gavanelli, conducted by Paolo Karinjani.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, a performance of Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, with Solveig Kringelborn , Günther Missenhardt, Kristine Jepson, Enrico Marrucci, Patrizia Ciofi, Ornella Vecchierelli, Oliver Ringelhan, Annette Jahns, Ricardo Bernal, conducted by Fabio Luisi.

Happy listening....

Saturday's Live Offerings

The Met has already started its broadcast of Die Walkure - and so far I am not much impressed. Clifton Forbis, as Siegmund, sounds older than Domingo! But, enough about that. Also now underway from other places one can hear:

• Catalunya Musica - a live recital with Felicity Lott: Fallen Women and Virtuous Wives, featuring the music of Kurt Weill, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, Herbert Hughes, William Walton, Arthur Bliss, Benjamin Britten, Gabriel Fauré, Henri Duparc and others. Grahame Johnson accompanies.
• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Leipzig, a November 2007 performance of Wagner's Rienzi, with Vinke, Marika Schönberg, Pavel Kudinov, Elena Zhidkova, Jürgen Kurth, Christopher Robertson, Martin Petzold, Thomas Oertel-Gormanns, and Gabriela Scherer, conducted by Axel Kober.

I will post shortly on items starting at 1:30 or later EST.

Happy listening...

Seven and a half hours of the Pav?!*&%+!... and lots more ...

Before I get to this afternoon's offerings, I would like to call your attention to a new station, Connoisseur Classics, recently started by WHRO in Norfolk, Virginia. The service broadcasts locally as HD Radio and also over the internet and provides round-the-clock classical music seven days a week. This station should be of interest to our listeners because every Tuesday they broadcast opera all day, featuring several complete operas along the way. They are not yet able to post any schedule information before things actually air, so we have not included them in our schedule pages, but the station does appear on our Opera Stations page.

And now for some highlights of todays offerings. The Metropolitan Opera is featuring an historic broadcast from 1976 of La Boheme, with Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Scotto. WHRB (Harvard's radio station) is wrapping a tribute to Pavarotti around its broadcast of the Boheme - seven and one half hours of the Pav! Terje Stensvold's Wanderer in Siegfried from this past fall's Oslo Ring Cycle should prove worthwhile. More Wagner comes from Covent Garden - a Parsifal with John Tomlinson as Gurnemanz and Petra Lang as Kundry. Czech Radio offers Janacek's From the House of the Dead. From Vienna comes Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. I'm still not quite sure what Radio Tre (RAI) will be broadcasting this afternoon - it's either going to be Tosca from Rome or Attila from Bari (personally the cast of unknowns from Rome sounds more appealing than the better known singers in the Bari Attila). And if you missed the Met's War and Peace the first time around, this weekend you get a second chance to hear it on the antipodes stations.

Here are the best of the live offerings for today:

• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From the Aix-en-Provence Festival, a performance of Janacek's From the House of the Dead, with Olaf Bär, Eric Stoklossa, Štefan Margita, Peter Strak, Vladimír Chmelo, Jirí Sulženko, Heinz Zednik, John Mark Ainsley, Jan Galla, Tomáš Krejcirík, Martin Bárta, Vratislav Kríž, Olivier Dumait, Susannah Haberfeld, Aleš Jenis, Marian Pavlovic, Peter Hoare, Gerd Grochowski and Andreas Conrad, conducted by Pierre Boulez.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio, Espace 2 & France Musique - From Vienna, a November 16th concert performance of Bellini's Norma, with Edita Gruberova, Caroline Wenborne, José Cura, Paul Dan Dumitrescu, Marian Talaba and Elina Garanca, conducted by Friedrich Haider.
• NRK Alltid Klassisk & NRK P2 - Danish radio continues its traversal of this past September's Oslo Ring Cycle, with Siegfried, with Stig Fogh Andersen, Svein Erik Sagbråten, Terje Stensvold, Marcus Jupither, Carsten Stabell, Anne Gjevang, Tine Kiberg and Eli Kristin Hagen, conducted by Paul Daniel.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From Amsterdam, Rameau's Caster et Pollux, with Finnur Bjarnasson, Henk Neven and Anna Maria Panzarella, conducted by Christophe Rousset.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From Theater an der Wien, Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, with Jean Philippe Lafont, Sally Matthews, Yann Beuron, Marjana Lipovsek, Heidi Brunner, Michelle Breedt and Patricia Petibon, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
• BBC Radio 3 - From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a performance of Wagner's Parsifal, with John Tomlinson, Petra Lang, Falk Struckmann, Christopher Ventris, Gwynne Howell, Willard White and Elizabeth Cragg, conducted by Bernard Haitink.
• Metropolitan Opera (Numerous stations) - The archival broadcast of La Boheme mentioned above.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - A rebroadcast of a November 28th Rome performance of Rossini's Guillaume Tell, with John Osborne, Michele Pertusi and Nora Ansellem, conducted by Antonio Pappano.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - EITHER Tosca from Rome, with Myrto Papatanasiu, Giuseppe Gipali and Giorgio Surian, conducted by Josè Maria Sciutto; OR From Bari, a performance of Verdi's Attila, with Michele Pertusi, Giovanni Meoni, Andrea Gruber, Gustavo Ariel Porta, Gianluca Floris and Pietro Naviglio, conducted by Renato Palumbo.
• ABC Classic FM (Australian Radio) & Concert FM (New Zealand radio) - are still on the same page - their Sunday opera this week will be the Met's performance of Prokofiev's War and Peace, with Marina Poplovskaya, Ekaterina Semenchuck, Mikhail Kit, Larisa Shevchenko, Kim Begley, Alexei Markov, Vassily Gerello and Samuel Ramey, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

Happy listening,

This week: More choice ... Less Met

With fewer stations joining the Met's bandwagon this week (for Verdi's Macbeth), there are more listening choices for us all. A couple of interesting looking Wagner offerings (including Pavlo Hunka's Alberich in Siegfried from Lyon - it's nice to see him back) . . . catch the wonderful Sophie Koch in Le Roi D'Ys from Toulouse . . . and here are the live offerings for today:

• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Potsdam's Schlosstheater Neues Palais von Sanssouci, a live concert performance of Rossini's La scala di seta, with Christian Dietz, Raffaella Milanesi, Giorgia Milanesi, Daniele Zanfardino, Maurizio Leoni and Enrico Marabelli, conducted by Felice Venanzoni.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From Vienna Staatsoper, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, with Johan Botha, Ricarda Merbeth and Falk Struckmann, conducted by Christian Thielemann.
• Dwojke polskie Radio - From this past summer's Salzburg Festival, Cellini's Benvenuto Cellini, with Laurent Naouri, Brindley Sheratt, Michail Petrenko, Maija Kovalevska, Kate Aldrich, Xavier Mas, Roberto Tagliavini, Adam Plachetka, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
• France Musique - From Opéra de Lyon, an October perfromance of Wagner's Siegfried, with Stig Andersen, Robert Künzli, Matthew Best, Pavlo Hunka, Kurt Gysen, Mette Ejsing, Susan Bullock, Louise Fribo and George Molnar, conducted by Gérard Korsten.
• MDR Figaro - From Toulouse, an October performance of Lalo's Le Roi d’Ys, with Inva Mula, Sophie Koch, Charles Castronovo, Franck Ferrari, Eric Martin-Bonnet, André Heyboer and Paul Gay, conducted by Yves Abel.
• Metropolitan Opera (numerous stations) - Verdi's Macbeth, with Maria Guleghina,Zeljko Lucic (sunstituting for the originally scheduled Lado Ataneli), Dmitri Pittas, John Relyea, Russell Thomas, Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs, Keith Miller and James Courtney, conducted by James Levine. On Sunday (late Saturday night, very early Sunday morning here on the East Coast) ABC Classic FM (Australian Radio) and Concert FM (New Zealand) are now offering the complete Met season on a four week delay - this Sunday they are offering Gounod's Romeo at Juliette with Netrebko and Alagna.
• NRK Alltid Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Vienna Staatsoper, a rebroadcast of the April 1st performance of Donizetti's La Fille du régiment, with Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Carlos Alvarez, Montserrat Caballé, Janina Baechle, Clemens Unterreiner, Marcus Pelz, Carlo Chies, Wolfram Igor Derntl, conducted by Yves Abel.
• Sveriges Radio P2 - From the Fäviken operafestival, a July 2007 performance of Cimarosa's Den gifte stackaren (L'infedeltà fedele), with Sami Yousri, Patrik Landgren, Hillevi Berg Niska, Andrea Hagman, Miriam Ryen, Jakob Högström and Jon Nilsson, conducted by Per-Erik Öhrn.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - Legrenzi's Giustino, with Georg Nigl, Cornelia Ptassek, Elisabeth Kulman, Delphine Galou, Peter Kennel, Terry Wey, Hermann Oswald, Manfred Bittner), Thomas Stache and Marina Bartoli, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Turin, a live performance of Carter's What Next?, with Christine Buffle, Dean Elzinga, Sarah Leonard William Joyner and Hilary Summers, conducted by Peter Rundel.

Happy listening,

Saturday Highlights

Greetings from the snowy wastes of Brunswick, Maine!

This week we received a couple of emails complaining of problems connecting to Sveriges Radio P2 (Swedish Radio), so we have investigated and have now replaced all three stream links for the station. If you notice problems with any of the links we list on our pages, please do let us know.

Here's the lineup of live offerings for this Saturday:

• Radio 4 Netherlands - From Rome, a November 18th performance of Rossini's Guillaume Tell, with Michele Pertusi, Alex Esposito and Norah Amsellem, conducted by Antonio Pappano.
• France Musique - From Nantes, France, a performance of Rossini's Comte Ory, with Luciano Botelho, Pascale Beaudin, Anna Destraël, Isabelle Henriquez, Franck Leguérinel, Nicolas Courjal and Stéphanie Loris, conducted by Giuseppe Grazioli.
• Metropolitan Opera, New York (numerous stations) - Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, with Michele Crider, Ofelia Sala, Stephanie Blythe, Salvatore Licitra, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Jeff Mattsey and Hao Jiang Tian, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From Teatro Real in Madrid, a November 10, 2007 performance of Martin y Soler's Il burbero di buon cuore, with Elena de la Merced, Véronique Gens, Saimir Pirgu, Luca Pisaroni and Carlos Chausson, conducted by Christophe Rousset.
• Espace 2 - A rebroadcast of this season's La Scala Opening Night performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Ian Storey, Matti Salminen, Waltraud Meier, Gerd Grokowski, Will Hartmann, Michelle De Young, Ryland Davies, Ernesto Panariello and Alfredo Nigro, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
• Catalunya Musica - From the foyer of Gran Teatre del Liceu a May 5, 2007 performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's An Acquired Taste, with Janis Kelly and Richard Suart, Wyn Davies on piano.
• RBB Kulturradio - From Friedenskirche Potsdam as part of the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, Handel's Messiah, with Helen Williams, Daniel Taylor, Mark Dobel, Neal Davies and The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - On their late-night program, ESERCIZI DI MEMORIA - SUONI DALL'ARCHIVIO DELLA RADIO, features Boris Christoff. Saturday night he appears in an archival broadcast from Milan in 1954 of Glinka's A Life for the Czar with Virginia Zeani, Giuseppe Campora and Anna Maria Rota, conducted by Alfredo Simonetto. On Sunday night Christoff appears in a 1964 Rome broadcast of Borodin's Prince Igor, with Giussepe Taddei. Margherita Kalmus. Luigi Infantino. Oralia Dominguez, Ennio Buoso, Nelly Pucci and Vito Susca, conducted by Armando La Rosa Parodi.

Happy listening,

Saturday Highlights - Part 2

More highlights for this aftrnoon -

• Radio Tre (RAI) - From Teatrro Comunale in Florence, a November 28th performance of Verdi's La Forza del Destino, with Violeta Urmana, Carlo Guelfi, Marcello Giordani, Julia Gertseva, Bruno De Simone, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Duccio Dal Monte, Antonella Trevisan, Filippo Polinelli, Carlo Bosi and Alessandro Luongo, conducted by Zubin Mehta.
• NPR World of Opera (WDAV) - From Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Verdi's Luisa Miller, with Ramon Vargas, Krassimira Stoyanova, Elena Maximova, Carlo Colombara, Georg Zeppenfeld, Paolo Gavanelli and Anaik Morel, conducted by Andres Maspero.

Happy listening...

Saturday highlights - Part 1

The dust has more or less settled from all our feverish activity in preparation for the Metropolitan Opera broadcast season. We have added a couple of new stations this week. So we are now back on the Blog...

This week the Met broadcast, starting at 1:00PM EST (note the early start time), is Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna. Other highlights for this Saturday include

• Deutschlandradio Kultur - Weill's Silbersee with Christiane Oelze, Thorsten Kerl, Hanna Schwarz, Burkard Ulrich and Stefan Rügamer; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.


• Metropolitan Opera broadcast (on numerous stations) - Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna, Mark Heller, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, Jane Bunnell, Louis Otey, Tony Stevenson, David Won, Robert Lloyd, Charles Taylor and Dean Peterson, conducted by Placido Domingo.


• NDR Kultur - From Staatsoper Hannover, Verdi's Don Carlo, with Robert Chafin, Tobias Schabel, Brigitte Hahn, Khatuna Mikaberidze, Brian Davis, and Stefan Kocan, conducted by Wolfgang Bozic.


• NRK Allid Klassisk & NRK P2 - From last summer's Salzburg Festival, Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, with Neil Shicoff, Laurent Naouri, Brindley Sheratt, Mikhail Petrenko, Maija Kovalevska, Vesselina Kasarova, Xavier Mas, Roberto Tagliavini, and Adam Plachetka, conducted by Valerij Gergijev.


• Radio Oesterreich International - From Prague, an October 6th perfrromance of Smetana's Das Geheimnis ("The Kiss"), with Miloslav Podskalsky, Katerina Jalovcová, Maria Haan, Roman Janal, Tomas Cerny, Jiri Sulzenko, Jaroslav Brezina and Ivan Kusnjer, conducted by Zbynek Müller.

More to come in a few moments...

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - D

For the balance of the afternoon:

• The exciting Sophie Koch dominates a rarely heard opera, Lalo's Roi d'Ys, heard over LYRIC FM.


• BBC RADIO 3 presents Thomas Quasthoff in a special all-jazz evening with pianist Gabriel Kahane.


• Finally, RADIO TRE gives us more opera history: a "live" historic performance of Verdi's Otello, starring Mario Del Monaco, Onelia Fineschi and Renato Capecchi, under the inspired baton of Tullio Serafin.

Happy listening!

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - C

Starting now, other offerings of interest are:

• ESPACE 2 gives us a slice of history: a "live" historic Vespri Siciliani, with Renata Scotto, Veriano Luchetti, Renato Bruson and Ruggiero Raimondi.


• LATVIA RADIO KLASIKA offers another notable Rigoletto of today in baritone Alan Opie; unusual chance to catch this splendid artist in a role for which he's not generally available on the commercial market.

Happy listening!

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - B

Starting now, other offerings of interest are:

• Laura Aiken and Karina Gauvin light up the stage in a newly restored opera from Vivaldi's pen, Montezuma, heard over FRANCE MUSIQUE. Alan Curtis conducts.


• WETA presents the San Francisco Opera's Rigoletto, starring the great Rigoletto of today, Paolo Gavanelli, and the Gilda of Mary Dunleavy (Kristinn Sigmundson sings Sparafucile).


• The balance of the San Francisco Opera radio network starts its presentation of Deborah Voigt in Verdi's Ballo in Maschera.

For further offerings, stay tuned!

Happy listening!

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - A

Starting now, three offerings of special interest:

• Simon Keenlyside in recital with Julius Drake at the piano over BAYERN 4 KLASSIK.


• DR P2 presents Sondra Radvanovsky and Francisco Casanova in Verdi's Vespri Siciliani -- a performance also featuring the exciting Montfort of Franco Vasallo!


• KBPS / WMUK present, as part of the San Francisco Opera series, Deborah Voigt starring in Verdi's Ballo in Maschera.

Other unusual offerings today still to come. Stay tuned!

Happy listening!

Live offerings today ....

A rebroadscast of this past summer's Bayreuth Meistersinger with Klaus Florian Vogt ... two different performances of Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame ... A rebroadcast of a really wonderful performance of Rossini's Matilde de Shabran from the 2004 Rossini Festival in Pesaro ... Tchaikovsky's Maid of Orleans from San Francisco with Dolora Zakick .. a rebroadcast of a Vienna I Vespri Siciliani with Radvonofsky and Casanova ... in a word, several interesting and exciting choices this afternoon:

• CBC Two - Has already started a performance of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, from Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, with Hugh Smith, Eva-Marie Westbroek, Norbert Ernst, Peter Gijsbertsen and Stephen Kechulius, conducted be Edo de Waart. (Remember that if you have missed the start of this opera, you can catch it later on by using the stream from one of CBC's later time zones.)
  
• WFMT Opera Network (on numerous stations) - now running the San Francisco Opera series of broadcasts. This week: Rossini's Barber of Seville with Nathan Gunn, Allysoin Hardy, John Osborn, Bruno de Simone and Philip Ens, conducted by Maurizio Barbacini.
  
• KBYU - From the 2007 Bayreuth Festival, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, with Franz Hawlata, Artur Korn, Charles Reid, Rainer Zaun, Michael Volle, Markus Eiche, Edward Randall, Hans-Jürgen Lazar, Stefan Heibach, Martin Snell, Andreas Macco, Diógenes Randes, Klaus Florian Vogt, Norbert Ernst, Amanda Mace, Carola Guber and Friedemann Röhlig, conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
  
• NPR World of Opera (on numerous stations) - A Houston Grand Opera performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Mariusz Kwiecien, Oren Gradus, Ana Maria Martinez, Alexandra Deshorties, Garrett Sorenson, Fiona Murphy, Ryan McKinny and Raymond Aceto, conducted by Patrick Summers.
  
• WETA - A San Francisco Opera perfromance of Puccini's Manon Lescaut, with Karita Mattila, Misha Dyck, John Hancock and Eric Halfvarson, conducted by Donald Runniclkes.
  
• Deutschlandradio Kultur & Radio 4 Netherlands - From Vienna State Opera, an October 28th performance of Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, with Neil Shicoff, Albert Dohman, Anja Silja, Martina Serafin, Boaz Daniel and Nadia Krasteva, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
  
• DR P2 - From Toulouse, Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys, with Sophie Koch, Inva Mula,: Charles Castronovo, Paul Gay, Fanck Ferrari, Eric Martin-Bonnet and André Heyboer, conducted by Yves Abel.
  
• DR P2 Klassisk - Verdi's Requiem with Barbara Frittoli, Joseph Calleja, Daniela Barcellona and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
  
• Dwojke Polskie Radio, Espace 2, MDR Figaro, NRK Alltid Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Prague, an October 6th performance of Smetana's Tajemství (The Secret), with Miloslav Podskalsku, Katerina Jalovcová, Maria Haan, Roman Janál, Tomás Cerný, Jirí Sulzenko, Jaroslav Brezina, Ivan Kusnjer, Jitka Sobehartová, Václav Lemberk and Zdenek Harvánek,conducted by Zbynek Müller.
• France Musique - The September 4, 2007 World premiere of Marius et Fanny, based on the works of Marcel Pagnol, with Roberto Alagana, Angela Gheorghiu and Jean-Philippe Lafont.
  
• RTP Antena 2 - From the 2004 Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Italy, Rossini's Matilde de Shabran, with Annick Massis, Hadar Halevy, Chiara CHialli, Lubomir Moravec, Juan Diego Florez, Gregory Bonfatti, Bruno de Simone, Marco Vinco and Carlo Lepore, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.
  
• KCME - As part of the WFMT Opera Network, airing a San Franciso Opera performance of Tchaikovsky's Maid of Orleans, with Dolora Zajik, Misha Dyck and Rod Gilfry, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
  
• BBC Radio 3 - From EnglishNational Opera, a live performance of Bizet's Carmen (sung in a new English translation by Christopher Cowell), with Alice Coote, Julian Gavin, David Kempster, Katie van Kooten, Ronan Collett, Graeme Danby, Fiona Murphy, Elena Xanthoudakis, Andrew Rees and Scott Davies, conducted by Edward Gardner.
  
• Radio Oesterreich International - An October 26,1986 performance from the Vienna State Opera of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, with Luciano Pavarotti, Piero Cappuccilli, Gabriele Lechner, Ludmilla Schemtschuk and Magda Nador, conducted by Claudio Abbado.
  
• Bartok Radio & Latvia Radio Klasika - Another performance of Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, from Moscow, with Badri Majsuradze, Pavel Csernyik, Vaszilij Lagyuk, Vjacseszlav Vojnarovszkij, Vjacseszlav Pocsapszkij, Jurij Markelov, Nyikolaj Kazanszkij, Nyikolaj Majboroda, Jelena Obrazcova, Tatjana Monogarova, Anna Viktorova, Jevgenyija Szegenyuk, Jekatyerina Golojljova, and Anna Aglatova, conducted by Mihail Pletnyov.
  
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Vienna State opera, Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment, with Nathalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Carlos Alvarez, Monserrat Caballé, Janina Baechle, conducted by Yves Abel.
  
• Klara - Mozart's Mitridate, Re di Ponte, with Bruce Ford, Mary Dunleavy, Myrtò Papatanasiu, Bejun Mehta, Veronica Cangemi, Maxim Mironov and Jeffrey Francis, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.
  
• Radio Tre (RAI) - A December 2006 performance of Donizett's Don Pasquale from Teatro Dante in Ravenna, with Claudio Desderi, Mario Cassi, Francisco Gatell, Laura Giordano and Gabriele Spina, conducted by Riccardo Muti. On their late night archival broadcast series, hear a November 20, 1957 Rome broadcast of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, with Jon Vickers, Constance Shacklock and Marian Nowakowski, conducted by John Barbirolli.
• Lyric FM - From the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani, with Sondra Radvonofsky and Francisco Casanova.
  
• WDAV - Last week's NPR World of Opera broadcast: from Houston Grand Opera, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Olga Guryakova, Marco Berti, Patrick Carfizzi, Raymond Aceto and Ryan McKinney, conducted by Patrick Summers.
  

Happy listening . . . .

Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007

Today, there are a number of offerings that can satisfy many different tastes. You're invited to peruse the Saturday page for yourselves to appreciate the full variety on offer. Meanwhile, a handful of these offerings seem especially unusual, and we highlight them here:

• Christine Brewer stars in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde from the San Francisco Opera, heard today over many different stations (check the Saturday page for airings most convenient for you).
• BBC Radio 3 - Massenet's Thais, with Renee Fleming, Joseph Calleja and Robert Lloyd in the cast.
• On various stations - Lalo's Roi d'Ys, starring Sophie Koch, Inva Mula and Charles Castronovo.
• Also on many different stations - The NPR World of Opera presents Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, starring Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Patrick Carfizzi sings Paolo!).
• More Verdi as NRK ALLTID KLASSISK / NRK P2 present Vespri Siciliani from Genoa, starring Francisco Casanova, Sondra Radvanovsky and Franco Vassallo.
• KLARA - From Barcelona, you can catch Deborah Voigt in Giordano's Andrea Chenier.
• Radio Tre - Catch a rising star, Kate Aldrich, in the pivotal role of Ascanio in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini.

These and many other performances being heard today!

Happy listening!

Lots of Variety Today - Saturday, October 6, 2007

Two versions of Iphigenie en Tauride (Gluck's from Covent Garden with Graham, Keenlyside and Groves; and Gouvy's on Deutschlandradio Kultur) ...The WFMT Opera Network moves on to the San Francisco Opera with a performance of Puccini's Manon Lescaut with the incandescent Karita Mattila (the less said about the tenor in this performance, the better) ... Norwegian radio continues its Ring Cycle with Siegfried (we are curious about Terje Stensvold's Wanderer and the Erde of Anne Gjevang) ... From RTP Antena 2 in Portugal comes a rebroadcast of last year's Salzburg Festival Le Nozze di Figaro with Netrebko, Röschmann and Schäffer ... Espace 2 remembers Beverly Sills by airing the April 1975 Met broadcast of Rossini's Siege of Corinth with Sills, Diaz, Verrett and Theyard, conducted by Thomas Schippers ... WOMR will be carrying a Verdi Requiem that's new to us - with Leontyne Price, Giulietta Simionato, Giuseppe Zampieri and Nikolai Ghiaurov, von Karajan conducting ... Radio Slovenia will repeat the 2007 Bayreuth Götterdämmerung ...and on Sunday evening, Radio Tre (RAI) will be carrying a 1955 Vespri Siciliani form its archives, featuring Carlo Tagliabue and Anita Cerquetti.

An now for the live listings for today --

• Deutschlandradio Kultur - From Evangelische Kirche Saarlouis, a December 2006 performance of Gouvy's Iphigénie en Tauride with Christine Maschler, Ekkehard Abele, Benjamin Hulett and Vinzenz Haab, conducted by Joachim Fontaine.
• DR P2 - From the Liceu in Barcelona, a performance of Giordano's Andrea Chénier, with José Cura, Deborah Voigt, Carlos Álvarez, Marina Rodríguez Cusí, Irina Mishura and Miguel Ángel Zapater, conducted by Pinchas Steinberg.
• Espace Musique - From Pacific Opera Victoria, Strauss' Daphné , with Sookyung Park, Kurt Lehmann, Anthony Pulgram, Brian McIntosh and Rebecca Hass, conducted by Timothy Vernon.
• Radio 4 Netherlands - From the Muziektheater in Amsterdam, an October 1st performance of Monteverdi's l Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, with Paul Nilon, Patricia Bardon and Ed Lyon, conducted by Glen Wilson.
• RTP Antena 2 - From the 2006 Salzburg Festival, a performance of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, with Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Bo Skovhus, Dorothea Röschmann, Christine Schäffer, Marie McLaughlin, Franz-Josef Selig, Patrick Henckens, Oliver Ringelhahn, Florian Boesch and Eva Liebau conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
• San Francisco Opera (WFMT Opera Network on numerous stations) - Puccini's Manon Lescaut, with Karita Mattila, Misha Didyk, John Hancock and Eric Halfvarson, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• WQXR - Also from San Francisco Opera, Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Mariusz Kwiecien, Hope Briggs, Twyla Robinson, Claudia Mahnke, Charles Castronovo, Luca Pisaroni and Oren Gradus, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• Bartok Radio, Radio Tre (RAI) & Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From the National Theater in Prague, a performance of Smetana's Il Segreto (Tajemství), with Miloslav Podskalský, Katerina Jalovcová, Maria Haan, Roman Janál, Tomás Cerný, Jirí Sulzenko,cantore di ballate, Jaroslav Brezina, Ivan Kusnjer, Jitka Sobehartová, Václav Lemberk and Zdenek Harvánek, conducted by Zbynek Müller.
• BBC Radio 3 - From Covent Garden, Gluck's Iphegenie en Tauride, with Susan Graham, Simon Keenlyside, Paul Groves, Clive Bayley, Gail Pearson, Claire Wild, Cécile van de Sant, conducted by Ivor Bolton.
• CBC Two - From this summer's Salzburg Festival, Weber's Der Freischutz, with Peter Seiffert, Roland Bracht, Markus Butter, Gunther Groissbock, Alexander Kaimbacher, Ignaz Kirchner, Aleksandra Kurzak, John Relyea and Petra maria Schnitzer, conducted by Markus Stenz.
• France Musique & Sveriges Radio P2 - From l'Opéra Bastille in Paris, a performance of Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, with Willard White, Deborah Polaski, Julia Juon, Diana Axentii, Iwona Sobotka, Hélène Guilmette and Jaël Azzaretti, conducted by Sylvain Cambreling.
• NPR World of Opera (on numerous stations) - From Washington National Opera, Janacek's Jenufa, with Patricia Racette, Catherine Malfitano, Kim Begley, Judith Christin and Raymond Very, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek.
• KCME - From Houston Grand opera, Verdi's Aida, with Zvetelina Vassileva, Dolora Zajick, Marco Berti, Gordon Hawkins, and Tigran Martirossian, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
• KCSC - From San Francisco Opera, Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, with Deborah Voigt, Marcus Haddock, Ambrogio Maestri, Anna Christy and Tichina Vaughn, conducted by Marco Armiliato.
• NRK Alltid Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Oslo, a September 15th performance of Wagner's Siegfried, with Stig Fogh Andersen, Svein Erik Sagbråten, Terje Stensvold, Marcus Jupither, Carsten Stabell, Anne Gjevang, Tina Kiberg and Eli Kristin Hagen, conducted by Paul Daniels.
• WETA & WDAV - From Washington National Opera, Donizetti's La fille du régiment, with JiYoung Lee, José Bros, Victoria Livengood, Simone Alberghini, Obed Urena, Matthew J. Minor and Madeleine Gray, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.
• Espace 2 - An homage to Beverly Sills - the April 15, 1975 Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Rossini's Le Siège de Corinthe, with Beverly Sills, Justino Diaz, Shirley Verrett, Harry Theyard, Richard T. Gill, Betsey Norden and Richard Best, conducted by Thomas Schippers.
• Radio Slovenia Tretji - a rebroadcast of this summer's Bayreuth Götterdämmerung, with Stephen Gould, Ralf Lukas, Hans-Peter König, Andrew Shore, Linda Watson, Edith Haller, Mihoko Fujimura, Simone Schröder, Martina Dike, Edith Haller, Fionnuala McCarthy, Ulrike Helzel and Marina Prudenskaja, conducted by Christian Thielemann.
• WOMR - After the San Francisco Manon Lescaut, a live Verdi Requiem with Leontyne Price, Giulietta Simionato, Giuseppe Zampieri and Nicolai Ghiaurov, conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
• Lyric FM - From Teatro Communale in Bologna, Verdi's Falstaff, with Ruggero Raimondi and Patricia Racette, conducted by James Conlon.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - on its late-night Esercizi de Memoria series this weekend, on Saturday a 1952 Rome performance of Donizetti's Il Duca D'Alba, with Gian Giacomo Guelfi, Dario Caselli, Aldo Bertocci, Caterina Mancini, Amedeo Berdini, Nestore Catalani, Manfredi Ponz De Leon, conducted by Fernando Previtali; and on Sunday an October 1955 Turin performance of Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani, with Carlo Tagliabue, Mario Zorgniotti, Giuliano Ferrein, Mario Ortica, Boris Christoff, Anita Cerquetti, Miti Truccato Pace, Tommaso Soley, Walter Artioli, Cristiano Dalamangas and Sante Andreoli, conducted by Mario Rossi.

Happy listening

Saturday HIghlight - September 27, 2007

Several European stations are carrying a performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens from Geneva with Anna Caterina Antonacci, Anne Sofie von Otter and Kurt Streit. Radio Slovenia Tretji is rebroadcasting this summer's Die Walküre from Bayreuth. A couple of new opera are on board for this afternoon - From RAI the world premiere of Fabio Vacchi's Teneke; and from Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava a 2006 performance of Tomáš Hanzlík's Endymio conducted by the composer. Tributes to Luciano Pavarotti continue - of particular interest is WOMR's broadcast of highlights from a 1972 Lucia with Sills and Pavarotti.

Here's the rundown of live offerings this afternoon:

• Radio 4 Netherlands, Dwojke Polskie Radio, Espace 2 and Sveriges Radio P2 - From the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, a live performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens, with Anna Caterina Antonacci, Anne Sofie von Otter and Kurt Streit, conducted by John Nelson.
• DR P2 - From London, Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, with Yvonne Naef, Marcello Giordani, José van Dam and Patrick Carfizzi, conducted by James Levine.
• KBPS - From Portland (Oregon) Opera, a performance of Verdi's Aida, with Lisa Daltirus,Luretta Bybee, Philip Webb and Greer Grimsley, conducted by Vjekoslav Sutej.
• RDP Antena 2 & Radio Oesterreich International - From Covent Garden, a December 2006 performance of Bizet's Carmen, with Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Nora Amsellem, Matthew Rose, Jacques Imbrailo, Elena Xanthoudakis, Viktoria Vizin, Jean Sébastien Bou and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, conducted by Antonio Pappano.
• Houston Grand Opera (numerous stations) - Verdi's Aida, with Zvetelina Vassileva,
• Amneris – Dolora Zajick, Marco Berti, Gordon Hawkins and Tigran Martirossian, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
• WQXR - From San Francisco Opera, Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, with Deborah Voigt, Anna Christy, Marcus Haddock, Ambrogio Maestri and Tichina Vaughn, conducted by Marco Armiliato.
• BBC Radio 3 - From the 2007 Edinburgh International Festival, a performance of Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso, with Sonia Prina, Jennifer Larmore, Veronica Cangemi, Philippe Jaroussky, Christian Senn, Barbara Di Castri and Daniela Pini, conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
• CBC Two - From this past summer's Salzburg Festival, Haydn's Armida, with Annette Dasch, Michael Schade, Richard Croft, Patrica Petibon/Mojca Erdmann, Vito Priante, and Bernard Richter, conducted by Ivor Bolton.
• Espace 2 - From Rome, Alfano's La leggenda di Sakuntala, with Francesca Patanè, David Rendall, Elena Cassian, Anna Rita Taliento and Orlin Anastassov, conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti.
• NPR World of Opera (numerous stations) - Most stations will carry a double bill from Washington National Opera: Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle, with Samuel Ramey and Denyce Graves; and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, with Samuel Ramey, Amanda Squitieri, Elizabeth Bishop, Antonio Gandia, Robert Baker, Christina Martos, Tony Teleky, Stefano de Peppo, Valeriano Lanchas, Trevor Scheunemann, Leslie Mutchler, Obed Urena, James Shaffran, David Morris and Matthew Osifchin, conducted by Giovanni Reggioli.
• MDR Figaro - From Semperoper in Dresden, the Finals Concert of Competizione dell’opera 2007, recorded on September 9th, conducted by Michail Jurowsky.
• NRK Alltid Klassisk & NRK P2 - From the Internationasl Baroque Festival in Beaune, a July performance of Monteverdi's Orfeo, with Furio Zanasi, Anna Simboli, Sara Mingardo, Monica Piccinini, Sergio Foresti, Antonio Abete and Luca Dordolo, conducted Rinaldo Alessandrini.
• Vermont Public Radio (VPR) - A tribute to Luciano Pavarotti.
• WETA & WDAV- From Washington National Opera, a performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, with Xiu Wei Sun, Arturo Chacon-Cruz, Elizabeth Batton, Luca Salsi, Anthony Laciura , Oben Urena and Robert Cantrell, conducted by Placido Domingo.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - A 2006 performance of Hanzlík's Endymio with Jan Mikušek, Lenka Schallenbergová, Markéta Vec(er(ová, Jan Ondrejka and Pavel Maškaconducted by the composer, Tomáš Hanzlík; after the opera (which runs about an hour), a Prague Proms 2007 concert by Eva Urbanova featuring scenes and arias from Verdi's Nabucco, Il Trovatore, La Traviata and Aida, conducted by Marcello Rota.
• Klara - From the Aix-en-Provence, a July performance of Janacek's From the House of the Dead, with Olaf Baer, Eric Stoklossa, Stefan Margita, Peter Straka, Vladimir Chmelo, Jiri Sulzenko and John Mark Ainsley, conducted by Pierre Boulez.
• Latvia Radio Klasika - From La Scala in Milan, Verdi's La Traviata, with Angela Gheorghiu, Ramon Vargas, and Roberto Frontali, conducted by Lorin Maazel.
• Radio Slovenia Tretji - A rebroadcast of this past summer's Bayreuth performance of Wagner's Die Walküre.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - From La Scala, the world premier of Vacchi's Teneke, with Steve Davislim, Rachel Harnisch, Andrea Concetti, Alessandra Paliaga, Anna Smirnova, Nicola Ulivieri and Angelo Veccia, conducted by Roberto Abbado.
• WOMR - For its Apres Opera, hear highlights of of a 1972 Lucia di Lammermoor with Beverly Sills and Luciano Pavartotti.

Happy listening

Commemorations of the thirtieth anniversary of Callas' death (for today, see Espace 2, KBYU and MDR Figaro) continue through the week, as do tributes to Pavarotti (WOMR, after its opera broadcast). Some intriguing things on the boards for today: France Musique's La Traviata with Christine Schafer, Jonas Kaufmann and Jose van Dam; BBC 3's Candide from the Edinburgh Festival with Matthew Polenzani, Laura Aiken and Thomas Allen; CBC Two's Boris Gudonov with Ferruccio Furlanetto; San Francisco Opera's Maid of Orleans with Dolora Zajick; Houston Grand Opera's Cenerentola with Joyce DiDonato and Lawrence Brownlee; and NRK Alltid Klassisk and NRK P2's Die Walkure from Oslo with Jane Eaglen and Trond Halstein Moe.

And now for the live lineup for this afternoon:

• Sveriges Radio P2 - From Kungliga Operan in Stockholm, a live performance of Wagner's Götterdämmerung, with Katarina Dalayman, Per Lindskog Hans-Peter König, Ketil Haugaas, Gabriel Suovanen, Lena Nordin, Helene Ranada, Helene Ranada, Marianne Eklöf, Annalena Persson, Karin Ingebäck, Susann Végh and Karin Lovelius, conducted by Gregor Bühl.
• DR P2 - From Kongelige Teater, a performance of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, with Nikolai Shukoff, Anne Margrethe Dah, Louise Fribo, Gitta-Maria Sjöberg, Hanne Fischer, Kjeld Christoffersen, Bengt-Ola Morgny, Johanne Bock, Jens Bruno Hansen and Michael Kristensen, conducted by Marc Soustrot.
• France Musique - A July 3rd concert performance of Verdi's La Traviata, with Christine Schäfer, Hélène Schneiderman, Michèle Lagrange, Jonas Kaufmann, José Van Dam, Ales Briscein, Michael Druiett, Igor Gnidii and Nicolas Testé, conducted by Sylvain Cambreling.
• France Vivace - A 2002 performance from l'Opéra National de Lyon of Donizetti's Lucie de Lammermoor (1839 version in French), with Nathalie Dessay, Roberto Alagna, Ludovic Tézier, Marc Laho, Nicolas Cavallier and Yves Saelens, conducted by Evelino Pido.
• RDP Antena 2 - A 1992 performance from Ópera Nacional de Gales of Gounod's Faust, with Jerry Hadley, Samuel Ramey, Cecilia Gasdia, Alexandru Agache, Brigitte Fassbaender, Susanne Mentzer and Philippe Fourcade, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
• WQXR - From San Fransisco Opera, a performance of Tchaikovsky's Maid Of Orleans, with Dolora Zajick, Misha Didyk and Rod Gilfry, conducted by Donald Runnicles.
• Bartok Radio - From Florence's Maggio Musicale, Verdi's Aroldo, with Neil Shicoff, Carol Vaness, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Julian Gavin, Sergio Spina, Marina Comparato, conducted by Fabio Luisi.
• BBC Radio 3 - From this year's Edinburgh Festival, a performance of Bernstein's Candide, with Matthew Polenzani, Laura Aikin, Thomas Allen, Keith Lewis, Kathryn Harries, Jennifer Johnston, Tim Mirfin and Roland Wood, conducted by Robert Spano.
• CBC Two - From Vienna State Opera, a performance of Mussorgsky's Boris Gudonov, with Ferruccio Furlanetto, Robert Holl, Clifton Forbis, Olga Borodina, Jorma Silvasti and Falk Struckmann, conducted by Daniele Gatti.
• Cesky Rozhlas 3-Vltava - From Vienna State Opera, Strauss' Arabella, with Adrianne Pieczonka, Genia Kühmeier, Thomas Hampson, Michael Schade, Wolfgang Bankl, Daniela Denschlang, John Dickie, Adrian Eröd, Johannes Wiedecke, Daniela Fally and Janina Baechle, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.
• Espace Musique - From l'Opéra de Montréal, Delibes' Lakme, with Aline Kutan, Mireille Lebel, Frédéric Antoun, Randall Jakobsh, Anne Saint-Denis, James Westman, Allison Angelo, Leticia Brewer and Thomas Macleay, conducted by Jean-François Rivest.
• NPR World of Opera (numerous stations) - From Washington National Opera, a performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, with Xiu Wei Sun, Arturo Chacon-Cruz, Elizabeth Batton, Luca Salsi, Anthony Laciura, Oben Urena, Robert Cantrell, Elizabeth Roberts and James Shaffran, conducted by Placido Domingo.
• KCME - From Houston Grand Opera, a performance of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, with Patrick Carfizzi, Ryan McKinny, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Raymond Aceto, Olga Guryakova, Marco Berti, Maria Markina and Beau Gibson, conducted Patrick Summers.
• Houston Grand Opera (numerous stations) - Rossini's La Cenerentola, with Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee, Earle Patriarco, Patrick Carfizzi, Nikolay Didenko, Tamara Wilson and Catherine Cook, conducted by Edoardo Müller.
• NRK Alltid Klassisk & NRK P2 - From Oslo, a March 2007 concert performance of Wagner's, with Ivar Gilhuus, Carsten Stabell, Trond Halstein Moe, Michaela Schuster, Jane Eaglen, Hege Høisæter, Toril Carlsen, Ingjerd Oda Mantor, Itziar Martinez Galdos, Trine Øien, Ingrid Dominique, Anna Einarsson, Marianne E. Andersen and Tone Kruse, conducted by Olaf Henzold.
• Radio Oesterreich International - From the 2007 Innsbruck Festival, Telemann's Der geduldige Sokrates, with Marcos Fink, Sunhae Im, Birgitte Christensen, Inga Kalna, Kristina Hansson, Donat Havar, Matthias Rexroth, Maarten Koningsberger, Daniel Jenz, Alexey Kudrya, Michael Kranebitter, Sun-Hwan Ahn and Richard Klein, conducted by René Jacobs.
• WETA - From Washington National Opera, Maw's Sophie's Choice, with Angelika Kirchschlager, Rod Gilfry, Gordon Gietz, Corey Evan Rotz, Clayton Brainerd, Erin Elizabeth Smith and Trevor Scheunemann, conducted by Marin Alsop.
• Dwojke Polskie Radio - An September 10, 2007 performance of Szymanowski's King Roger, with Mikolaj Zalasin'ski, Iwona Hossa, Krzysztof Szmyt, Ryszard Minkiewicz, Romuald Tesarowicz and Stefania Toczyska, conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk.
• Deutschlandlandradio Kultur - From Musikfest Berlin 2007, a performance of Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien and Stravinsky's Le Roi des Étoiles, with Susan Gritton, Monica Bacelli, Nathalie Stutzmann and Sophie Marceau, conducted by Simon Rattle.
• Klara - From this year's Salzburg Festival, Haydn's Armida, with Annette Dasch, Michael Schade, Mojca Erdmann, Vito Priante, Richard Croft and Bernard Richter, conducted by Ivor Bolton.
• Latvia Klasika Radio - A rebroadcast of this past Season's Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Janacek's Jenufa, with Karita Mattila, Anja Silja, Kim Begley, and Jay hunter Morris, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek.
• Radio Slovenia Tretji - From this past summer's Bayreuth Festival, Wagner's Die Walküre.
• Lyric FM - From Opera Royal de Wallonie, a performance of Boito's Mefistofele, with Paate Burchaladze and Antonello Palombi.
• Radio Tre (RAI) - A 1958 broadcast from Naples of Cimarosa's La Baronessa Stramba, with Elena Rizzieri, Paolo Montarsolo, Leonardo Monreale, Bastiano Malerba, Gino Sinimberghi, Rosanna Giancola and Angelica Tuccari, conducted by Franco Caracciolo; a 1965 broadcast from Milan of Cimarosa's La Vanità Delusa or Il Mercato de Malmantile, with Dora Gatta, Giuliana Raimondi, Maria Grazia Ciferri, Gino Sinimberghi, Carlo Franzini, Renzo Gonzales and Gian Ciavola, conducted by Ferruccio Scaglia; anda a 1963 broadcast from Naples of Cimarosa's L'Impresario in Angustie, with Laura Londi, Gianna Galli, Dora Gatta, Pietro Bottazzo, Sesto Bruscantini, Italo Tajo and Renzo Gonzales, conducted by Luigi Colonna.

Happy listening....