SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Lunchtime Concert: SSO: Simone Young Conducts Das Rheingold

Simone Young draws on her deep understanding of Wagner to begin her interpretation of his complete Ring Cycle, in this concert performance of Das Rheingold with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

For this performance, Young selected an international ensemble of distinguished Wagnerian soloists, featuring both esteemed artists with whom she has previously collaborated and emerging talents gaining recognition on the global stage.

Recorded on 18 November 2023 at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Producer and engineer Tony David Cray.

Program
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold

Artists
Samantha Clarke (Woglinde)
Catherine Carby (Wellgunde)
Margaret Plummer (Flosshilde)
Wolfgang Koch (Wotan)
Michaela Schuster (Fricka)
Falk Struckmann (Alberich)
Jud Arthur (Fafner)
Simon Meadows (Fasolt)
Eleanor Lyons (Freia)
Noa Beinart (Erda)
Steve Davislim (Loge)
Simon O’Neill (Froh)
Samuel Dundas (Donner)
Andrew Goodwin (Mime)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young draws on her deep understanding of Wagner to begin her interpretation of his complete Ring Cycle, in this concert performance of Das Rheingold with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

For this performance, Young selected an international ensemble of distinguished Wagnerian soloists, featuring both esteemed artists with whom she has previously collaborated and emerging talents gaining recognition on the global stage.

Recorded on 18 November 2023 at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Producer and engineer Tony David Cray.

Program
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold

Artists
Samantha Clarke (Woglinde)
Catherine Carby (Wellgunde)
Margaret Plummer (Flosshilde)
Wolfgang Koch (Wotan)
Michaela Schuster (Fricka)
Falk Struckmann (Alberich)
Jud Arthur (Fafner)
Simon Meadows (Fasolt)
Eleanor Lyons (Freia)
Noa Beinart (Erda)
Steve Davislim (Loge)
Simon O’Neill (Froh)
Samuel Dundas (Donner)
Andrew Goodwin (Mime)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young (conductor) (4 hrs.)

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

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Sunday Opera: No details available (3 hrs.)

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Opera: Josef Mysliveček: Il Medonte, re di Epiro (Medón, král epirský)
Opera (Dramma per musica) o třech dějstvích, libreto Giovanni de Gamerra

Osoby a obsazení:
Medón, král epirský (tenor), Thomas Michael Allen
Arsakés, princ z Dodóny a velitel epirských vojsk (soprán), Susane Bernhard
Zelinda princezna z Larissy a milenka Medontova (soprán), Lorinda Castellano
Seléna, princezna z Arga (soprán), Juanita Lescarro
Euandros, velitel královské stráže (soprán), Stephanie Elliott
Thalés, šlechtic z království Argos a vůdce lidu (alt), Ulrike Andersen
Zpívá a hraje sbor a orchestr L´Arte del Mondo, sbormistr Ulrich Zippelius, řídí Werner Ehrhardt
Připravil a uvádí Libor Dřevikovský (2 hrs., 30 min.)

Metropolitan Opera House: O Navio Fantasma, de Richard Wagner
Uma gravação realizada em 5 de março de 1960 No elenco, George London, Leonie Rysanek, Karl Liebl e Giorgio Tozzi
Coro e Orquestra do Metropolitan Opera House sob direção do maestro Thomas Schippers (3 hrs.)

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Opera în interpretări de referinţă: Transmisiune directă de la Roma
Comentează Irina Cristina Vasilescu
Gaetano Donizetti - Opera "Lucrezia Borgia"
cu basul Alex Esposito, soprana Lidia Fridman, tenorul Enea Scala, contralta Daniela Mack
Corul și Orchestra Operei din Roma. Dirijor Roberto Abbado (3 hrs.)

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Il Cartellone: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Gaetano Donizetti, Lucrezia Borgia

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
direttore, Roberto Abbado
regia, Valentina Carrasco

con Alex Esposito, Lidia Fridman, Enea Scala, Daniela Mack, Raffaele Feo, Arturo Espinosa

in diretta dal Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (3 hrs.)

WWUH
Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera: Rossini, Semiramide 

French grand opera of the Romantic period actually began with this work by the Italian Gioachhino Rossini, who left Italy after the successful Venice premiere of Semiramide in 1823 with his new wife. They resettled in Paris, where he would write the French language Guillaume Tell (1829), his final monumental work in the genre. Semiramide played all over Europe in short order. All the great singers of Rossini's time wanted roles in it. But as the nineteenth century progressed the age of bel canto singing came and went, and Semiramide gradually passed out  of the repertoire.

Written at the dawn of the bel canto style, its coloratura passages required prodigious vocal agility. There were no more singers who could handle the demands of the music. That is, until the bel canto revival of the mid twentieth century. One remarkable voice championed this music: the Australian soprano Joan Sutherland. She was at the height of her coloratura powers in 1965 when she recorded Semiramide for the Decca/London label. Sutherland is heard in the title role, opposite another remarkable singer who took part in the revival, the American mezzo Marilyn Horne. Sutherland's husband conductor Richard Bonynge again is in charge, directing the London Symphony Orchestra and Ambrosian Opera Chorus. This recording was last broadcast on Sunday, May 23, 2010. The opera had been abridged, no doubt so it could be accommodated onto three vinyl LP's. Hear it again this Sunday in digital transfer to three compact discs. (There is another, more complete recording of Semiramide on four Opera Rara CD's which I presented, due to its length, over two Sundays in January of 2019.)(3 hrs., 30 min.)

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The WWFM Sunday Opera: Re-Airing of Tchaikovsky's "The Enchantress"

Because of a technical glitch, last month’s presentation of Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed opera “The Enchantress” ended before the final act and supplementary pieces could air.  Because many of you let us know that you wanted to hear the end of the opera, we’re re-airing it on this week’s Sunday Opera.  Enjoy!

When it comes to operas by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, works like “Eugene Onegin,” “The Queen of Spades,” and even “Mazeppa” may come to mind first. However, on this week’s opera (2/16 3:00 p.m.), we’ll be re-airing an 1887 tragedy entitled “The Enchantress” where the heroine is one of those poor people who’s just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and because of the misplaced ire of another woman, is one of several people who dies.

Nastasya (Rimma Glushkova) is an inn keeper who is much loved and desired by many, especially by Prince Nikita (Oleg Klyonov), much to the consternation of the princess, his wife (Lyudmila Simonova) and his son Yuri (Lev Kuznetsov). Yuri originally seeks Natasaya out to avenge his seething mother who believes that Nastasya is to blame for her husband’s philandering. However, when Yuri sees Nastasya, he immediately falls in love with her (as she has done with him at the beginning of the opera).

Adding to the conflict is an old deacon named Mamyrov (Yevgeniy Vladimirov) who is now Nastasya’s sworn enemy because she rejected his advances. Mamyrov tries to wreak his revenge on Nastasya through the more-than-willing Princess with disastrous results resulting in the deaths of Nastasya, Yuri, and the Prince.

They are joined by The Great Academic Choir and Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Television with Gennedy Provatorov conducting.

If you’re like us and enjoy the music of Tchaikovsky, stay tuned after the opera for three more of his works: the Serenade for String in C major, the Sleeping Beauty Waltz, and his charming Mazurka in D major.

We hope you’ll join us for an afternoon of wonderful music with which you might not be that familiar. (3 hrs., 30 min.)

RADIO BEETHOVEN
Santiago, CHILE

La Opera: Benjamin Britten

La vuelta de tuerca [The Turn of the Screw]

La institutriz : Joan Rodgers
Mrs Grose : Jane Henschel
Miles : Julian Leang
Flora : Caroline Wise
Quint : Ian Bostridge
Miss Jessel : Vivian Tierney
Prólogo : Ian Bostridge

Orquesta de Cámara Mahler
Daniel Harding (3 hrs.)

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