SUNDAY, APRIL 26

The Opera Show with Mairi Nicolson: No details available (2 hrs.)

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Sunday Opera: No details available yet (3 hrs.)

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Opera: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz (Čarostřelec)
Romantická opera o 3 dějstvích, libreto Johann Friedrich Kind podle příběhu ze sbírky německých strašidelných a lidových příběhů Gespensterbuch od Johanna Augusta Apela a Friedricha Launa.
Osoby a obsazení:
Kníže Ottokar (baryton) | Bernd Weikl/mluví: Otto Melies; Kuno, dědičný polesný (bas); Siegfried Vogel/mluví: Gerd Biewer; Agáta, jeho dcera (soprán), Gundula Janowitz/mluví: Regina Jeske; Anička, její příbuzná (soprán), Edith Mathis/mluví: Ingrid Hille; Kašpar, myslivecký mládenec (bas), Theo Adam/Gerhard Paul; Max, myslivecký mládenec, snoubenec Agátin (tenor), Peter Schreier/mluví: Hans Jörn Weber; Samiel, černý myslivec, zlý duch (mluvená role); Gerhard Paul; Poustevník (bas), Franz Crass; Kilián, bohatý sedlák (tenor); Günther Leib/mluví: Peter Hölzel; Čtyři družičky, Renate Hoff, Brigitte Pfretzschner, Renate Krahmer, Ingeborg Springer; zpívá Rundfunkchor Leipzig, sbormistr Horst Neumann, hraje Staatskapelle Dresden, řídí Carlos Kleiber.

***** Carl Maria von Weber-Hector Berlioz: Vyzvání k tanci op. 65/J 260 - Hrají Berlínští filharmonikové, řídí Herbert von Karajan
Bedřich Diviš Weber: Sextet in F pro lesní rohy. Hrají členové orchestru České filharmonie.
Carl Maria von Weber: Variace pro klarinet a klavír na téma z opery Silvana J 128. Hrají Walter Boeykens a Robert Groslot
Joseph Miroslav Weber: Septet E dur pro klarinet, fagot, dva lesní rohy, housle, violu a violoncello "Z mého života." Hraje Consortium Classicum
Bedřich Diviš Weber: Variace pro trubku a orchestr F dur. Hrají Niklas Eklund a Švédský komorní orchestr, řídí Roy Goodman
Připravil a uvádí Libor Dřevikovský (4 hrs., 1 min.)

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Melodramma in einem Prolog und drei Akten (konzertante Aufführung)
Eleonora Buratto, Sopran
Fabio Sartori, Tenor
George Petean, Bariton
Ljubomir Puškarić, Bariton
Miklós Sebestyén, Bass
Alexander Vinogradov, Bass
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Leitung: Ivan Repušić (3 hrs.)

Opera, o lume: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - La clemenza di Tito
cu: Katleho Mokhoabane, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Florina Ilie, Emily D'Angelo, Alma Neuhaus, Matheus França
Corul (pregătit de Thomas Lang) și Orchestra Operei de Stat din Viena
dirijor Pablo Heras-Casado
Spectacol de premieră din Stagiunea Euroradio 2025-2026, înregistrat în martie 2026 la Opera de Stat din Viena (3 hrs.)

WWUH
Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera: Donizetti, La Fille du Regiment (1840)

I have never officially scheduled a recording of this French opera comique for broadcast before, although I have aired what I now understand was its historic first complete recording on Sunday, February 18, 2012, when I had to come up with an opera presentation on short notice and grabbed the Sony Classical CD's out of our station's extensive holdings of classical music on disc. Recorded live in performance in 1940 at the Met, it stars soprano Lily Pons as Marie, the"Daughter of the Regiment" and comic basso Salvatore Baccaloni as Sargeant Sulpice of the 21st Regiment of Napoleon's army.

La Fille du Regiment has a considerable discography. Another now historic recording of it has come into my hands, taped originally in 1968 and reissued in digital sonic upgrade on compact disc in 1986. This is a studio recording made in London's Kingsway Hall for the Decca/London label. That esteemed diva Joan Sutherland is Marie, singing opposite superstar tenor Luciano Pavarotti as her soldier boyfriend Tonio, who gets to sing nine (count 'em!) high C's. It was Sutherland who was largely responsible for the revival of the bel canto repertoire. She "had the chops," as they say, for this challenging vocal music. Sutherland's husband conductor Richard Bonynge directs the orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. (3 hrs., 30 min.)

Teatro de Ópera: Giuseppe Adami / Renato Simoni

"Turandot”

Soprano - Joan Sutherland
Tenor - Luciano Pavarotti
Baixo - Nicolai Ghiaurov
Soprano - Montserrat Caballé
Tenor - Peter Pears
John Alldis Choir e Orquestra Filarmônica de Londres
Regência de Zubin Mehta (3 hrs.)

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The WWFM Sunday Opera: Robert Schumann's "Genoveva"

Beethoven is probably the best known composer of one-and-done when it comes to operas. However, there were others, and on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/26 3:00 p.m.), we’re focusing on one of those: Robert Schumann’s 1850 work “Genoveva.”

He poured a great deal of himself into this opera that is loosely based on the life of Genevieve de Brabant, and when critics weren’t kind, he decided to “cut his losses” and never write another even though he had hoped to write other operas about some familiar figures like Lohengrin, Parsifal, the Nibelungen, and Til Eulenspiegel.

The opera libretto by Schumann and Robert Reineck is a prime example of German Romanticism. It follows Genoveva (Julia Faulkner) who becomes the focus of the revenge of a nurse named Margaretha (Renate Behle) who was dismissed by her Genoveva’s husband Count Siegfried (Alan Titus).

Siegfried’s head servant, Golo (Keith Lewis), is convinced to help Margaretha and tricks an old servant, Drago (Carl Schultz), to visit Genoveva’s bedchamber where Golo has stationed other servants. Genoveva is then accused of adultery, and the news is brought to Siegfried who orders Golo to put her to death. Margaretha is thrilled by this until the ghost of the murdered Drago, who was murdered in Genoveva’s bedchamber to ensure his silence, appears to Margaretha. He tells her that she will die a horrific death if she does not reveal the truth.

Genoveva is saved from the hands of the assassins, and Margaretha unveils the truth. Genoveva is forgiven (even though she didn’t do anything), and the opera ends happily.

Other members of the cast include Harald Stamm, Johann Tilli, and Carl Schultz. Gerd Albrecht conducts the Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera and The Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra.

We’ll continue with more music of Schumann after the opera with a piece that has been called an oratorio and a musical-theatre work, Scenes from Goethe’s Faust.

This three part work was written for soloists, boys’ choir, full choir, and orchestra and was completed between 1844 and 1853. There are three distinct sections centered on Goethe’s tale.

1. Gretchen’s Story
2. Faust’s Death & Redemption
3. Faust’s Transfiguration

This recording, made in Poland in 2009, features soloists Iwona Hossa, Christiane Libor, Anna Lubanska, Ewa Marciniec, Daniel Kirch, Jaakko Kortekangas, and Andrw Gangestad. They’re joined by the Warsaw Boys’ Choir and the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra. Antoni Wit conducts. (3 hrs., 30 min.)

RADIO BEETHOVEN
Santiago, CHILE

La Opera: Benjamin Britten

Billy Budd

Grabación realizada en diciembre de 1999.

Billy Budd : Simon Keenlyside, barítono
Captain Vere : Philip Langridge, tenor
John Claggart : John Tomlinson, bajo
Mr. Redburn : Alan Opie, barítono
Mr. Flint : Matthew Best, bajo-barítono
Mr.Ratcliffe : Alan Ewing, bajo
Red Whiskers : Francis Egerton, bajo barítono
Donald : Quentin Hayes, baritono
Otros solistas, Tiffin Boys'Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox, director. (3 hrs.)

In Concert: No opera this week (2 hrs.)

ARS - 3. PROGRAM RADIO SLOVENIA
Ljubjana, SLOVENIA

BBC RADIO 3
UNITED KINGDOM

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SPECIAL PROGRAM: Euroclassic Notturno
Bach's Secular Cantatas

The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and soloists perform two of Bach's secular cantatas, one telling of a contest between Phoebus and Pan and the second of a contented Aeolus, god of the wind. Jonathan Swain presents.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Christian Friedrich Henrici (librettist)
Geschwinde, geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde, BWV.201
Sophie Junker (soprano), Kacper Szelążek (counter tenor), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Andreas Wolf (bass), Sreten Manojlović (bass), Adrià Gràcia Gàlvez (organ), Quito Gato (lute), Rodney Prada (viola da gamba)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Leonardo García-Alarcón (conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Christian Friedrich Henrici (librettist)
Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft, BWV. 205
Sophie Junker (soprano), Kacper Szelążek (counter tenor), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Andreas Wolf (bass), Sreten Manojlović (bass), Adrià Gràcia Gàlvez (organ), Quito Gato (lute), Rodney Prada (viola da gamba)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Leonardo García-Alarcón (conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Unser trefflicher, from Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet, BWV. 212 (encore)
Sophie Junker (soprano), Kacper Szelążek (counter tenor), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Andreas Wolf (bass), Sreten Manojlović (bass), Quito Gato (guitar), Rodney Prada (viola da gamba), Adrià Gràcia Gàlvez (organ)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Leonardo García-Alarcón (conductor) (1 hr., 34 min.)