SUNDAY, MAY 10

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

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Sunday Opera: WAGNER: Das Rheingold 華格納: 萊茵河的黄金
No further details available (3 hrs.)

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SPECIAL PROGRAM: Fila 0

Transmisión en directo del concierto sinfónico 19 de la Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España desde el Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid.
TAN DUN: Buddha Passion.
C. Chung (sop.), S. Chong (mezzosop.), H. Ngan (ten.), A. Wong (baj.), Lau Chun Ho, Hakgwai (canto trad. Chino), S. Yan (bailarina/pipa). Orq. y Coro Nal. de España. Dir.: T. Dun. (2 hrs.)

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Opera: Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Opera o 4. dějstvích
Libreto Tobia Gorrio (ArrigoBoito) podle románu Viktora Huga: Angelo, tyran paduánský.; Archivní záznam představení 2.března 1968 v Metropolitníé opeře
Zpívají:
Renata Tebaldi (La Gioconda)
Carlo Bergonzi (Enzo)
Fiorenza Cossotto (Laura)
Cornell MacNeil (Barnaba)
Bonaldo Giaiotti (Alvise)
Mignon Dunn (La Cieca)
Russell Christopher (Zuane)
Robert Schmorr (Isepo)
Paul Plishka (mnich)
Nicola Barbusci (Lodivod)
Paul de Paola (Zpěvák)
William Maliow (Zpěvák)
Sbor a orchestr Metropolitní opery řídí Fausto Cleva
Uvádí Dagmar Henžlíková (2 hrs., 52 min.)

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Oper in zwei Akten (Uraufführung)
In englischer Sprache

Elizabeth I, Queen of England - Johanni van Oostrum
Mary, Queen of Scots - Vera-Lotte Boecker
Female Consort I - Seonwoo Lee
Female Consort II - Mirjam Mesak
Female Consort III - Lotte Betts-Dean
Female Consort IV - Natalie Lewis
Female Consort V / Jane Kennedy - Freya Apffelstaedt
Male Consort I / Lord Darnley - Liam Bonthrone
Male Consort II - Joel Williams
Male Consort III / Rizzio - Andrew Hamilton
Male Consort IV - Armand Rabot
Male Consort V / Excecutioner - Paweł Horodyski
Solo-Cembalo - Mahan Esfahani
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Leitung: Vladimir Jurowski

PausenZeichen
Sylvai Schreiber im Gespräch mit Mitwirkenden (3 hrs.)

Opera, o lume: Invitată – soprana Ioana Bentoiu. Pascal Bentoiu. 

*Amorul doctor 
cu: Gheorghe Roșu, Sanda Șandru, Florin Diaconescu, Agnes Contraș, Nicolae Lucian Cristiniuc, Constantin Axinte, Mihai Axinte
Orchestra Filarmonicii "Moldova" din Iași, dirijor Ion Baciu

*Hamlet 
cu: Florin Diaconescu, George Emil Crăsnaru, Marcel Angelescu, Emilia Petrescu, Iulia Buciuceanu, Maria Slătinaru-Nistor, Antonius Niculescu, Eduard Tumageanian, Dionisie Konya
Corul (pregătit de Vasile Pântea) și Orchestra Filarmonicii "George Enescu"
Corul Național de Cameră Madrigal (pregătit de Marin Constantin), dirijor Erich Bergel. (3 hrs.)

WWUH
Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera: Schubert, Die Verschworenen | Auber, Le Cheval de Bronze 

It's the best kept secret in the history of Western classical music: Franz Schubert wrote opera. A lot of opera, actually. In addition to his song cycles and hundreds of assorted lieder, and the well known incidental music for Rosamunde (1823), he wrote sixteen operatic works in all: nine complete operas, the others in various stages of completion. The last of them was Der Graf von Gleichen, much of it written in 1827, left incomplete at his death in 1828. The reconstructed Der Graf von Gleichen in its world premiere recording for the American Centaur label went over the air on this program on Sunday, December 7, 2025. The domestic comedy Die Verschworenen ("The Conspirators," D. 787) was composed in 1823 and never performed in Schubert's short lifetime. It received a successful concert performance in Frankfurt in 1861 and thereafter scored a series of little successes in both professional and amateur productions, including one in New York City in 1875. As a lyric stagework it's a German language adaptation of the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes dealing with the war between the sexes. In Schubert's one act version there's a gender-bending trouser role. Die Verschworenen finally got the recording it deserved in 1996, including its intended overture in reconstruction, as derived from an unstaged broadcast production by German Radio Cologne, in co-production with the French record label Opus 111. This is the first true world premiere complete recording of this delightful little melodic gem of an opera presented on one Opus 111 compact disc. It eclipses a previous 1953 Vox LP release in mono sound.

What follows this short Schubert opera recording will sound like a similar German romantic opera, but is actually a French opera comique in three acts by Daniel Francoise Esprit Auber (1782-1871). Le Cheval de Bronze ("The Bronze Horse," 1835) was one of Auber's most popular lyric stageworks, here sung in German language translation as Das eherne Pferd. It's a French fairy tale opera derived from the tales of The Arabian Nights. The story concerns the lifesize statue of a horse with magic properties. It can transport a rider to fantastical far-off lands. Auber's "Bronze Horse" opera was broadcast from the studios of ORF Austrian Radio Vienna in 1953. Tenor Kurt Equiluz is heard as Yanko, the young Chinese peasant who is the hero of the piece. He gets to ride the magical metallic beast. The Austrian label Orfeo released Le Cheval de Bronze in 2020 in digitally upgraded monaural sound. (3 hrs., 30 min.)

Metropolitan Opera: Tchaikovsky / Konstantin Shilovsky

“Eugene Onegin”

Asmik Grigorian (Tatiana)
Iurii Samoilov (Onegin)
Maria Barakova (Olga)
Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Lenski)
Larissa Diadkova (Filippyevna)
Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Príncipe Gremin)
Coro e Orquestra do Metropolitan
Regência de Timur Zangiev (3 hrs.)

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The WWFM Sunday Opera: "Daphne" and "Feuersnot" - Two One-act Operas by Richard Strauss

We’re turning to two of Richard Strauss’ lesser-known one-act operas on this week’s Sunday Opera: “Daphne” and “Feuersnot” (“The Need for Fire” or “Lack of Fire”) instead of his more often performed “Salome” or “Elektra.”

“Daphne” was first performed in 1938 and is loosely based on the myth of Ovid’s “Metamorphosis” about the chaste maid of the title (June Anderson) who is pursued by a childhood friend, Leukippos (Roberto Sacca), and the god Apollo (Scott MacAllister).

Apollo accidentally kills Leukippos and, in regret, arranges for Daphne to become a part of the nature she loves by changing into a tree to protect her from other men.

The cast also includes Birgit Remmert as Gaea and Daniel Lewis Williams as Peneios with the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Stefan Anton Reck.

“Feuersnot” or “The Lack of Fire” from 1901 is said to be a parody of Richard Wagner’s concept of “redemption through love.” Here, the alchemist Kunrad (Bernd Weikl) falls in love with Diemut (Julia Varady), the daughter of the mayor (Helmut Berger-Tuna) of the city to which he has just come.

However, Diemut does not reciprocate his affections and leaves him dangling, literally, when he tries to call on her. In retaliation, Kunrad extinguishes the bonfires (and all other flames) that are an integral part of the solstice celebrations and says they will only be rekindled by the “body of a virgin in heat” which shocks the townspeople (as it did the audiences and censors of the time). As shocking as it is, it does bring the opera to a happy ending for everyone involved.

This cast also includes Ruthild Engert-Ely, Kaja Borris, Elisabeth Wachutka, Hans Dieter Bader, Manfred Schenk, Raimund Grumbach, Waldemar Wild, Kieth Engen, Fridrich Lenz, Marga Schiml, Willi Brokmeier, and Andrea Trauboth with the Bavarian Radio Chorus and the Munich Radio Orchestra with Heinze Fricke, conducting.

We’ll finish the afternoon with more music of Strauss that follows the idea of change with his Metamorphosen (performed by the English String Orchestra conducted by William Boughton) which some have come to believe was his response to the change and destruction of Germany seen at the end of the war although Strauss never admitted to it. (3 hrs., 30 min.)

Erin Morley (Marie)
Lawrence Brownlee (Tonio)
Susan Graham (Marquise of Berkenfield)
Peter Kálmán (Sulpice) (4 hrs.)

Erin Morley (Marie)
Lawrence Brownlee (Tonio)
Susan Graham (Marquise of Berkenfield)
Peter Kálmán (Sulpice) (3 hrs., 30 min.)

RADIO BEETHOVEN
Santiago, CHILE

La Opera: Jean-Philippe Rameau

Castor et pollux

Versión grabada en julio de 2014 con la participación de los siguientes artistas:

Castor : Colin Ainsworth, tenor
Pollux : Florian Sempey, baryton
Télaïre : Emmanuelle de Negri, soprano
Phébé : Clémentine Margaine, mezzo-soprano
Jupiter : Christian Immler, baritono
Cléone, Una sombra feliz y Un seguidor de Hébé : Sabine Devieilhe, soprano
Un atleta, Mercurio y Un espartano: Philippe Talbot, tenor
El Gran Sacerdote de Jupiter : Virgile Ancely, bajo
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon, director (3 hrs.)

In Concert: No opera today