SUMMER - FALL  2016

The 2016 American Opera Series is here via The WFMT Radio Network. The American Opera Series is designed to complement the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, filling in the schedule to complete the year. This year the American Opera Series features great performances by the Lyric Opera of Chicago, LA Opera,San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Symphony presenting a concert version of Beethoven’s Fidelio. 

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San Francisco Opera

The WFMT Radio Network is pleased to continue the American Opera Series with eleven productions from San Francisco Opera's 2015-16 season!

San Francisco has had a love affair with opera for more than 150 years. In fact, citizens during the Gold Rush were mad for it. Between 1851 and the earthquake of 1906, nearly 5,000 opera performances were given in San Francisco in 26 different theaters. San Francisco Opera, one of the world’s leading opera companies for more than 90 years, is synonymous with entrepreneurship, innovation and community involvement. 

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SUMMER 2016 AMERICAN OPERA RADIO SCHEDULE

Lyric Opera of Chicago 

May 14 Marriage of Figaro / Mozart 

May 21 Bel Canto / J. López 

May 28 Cinderella / Rossini         Underwritten 

June 4 Wozzeck / Berg 

June 11 Merry Widow / Lehár 

June 18 Nabucco / Verdi 

June 25 Der Rosenkavalier / Strauss 

July 2 Romeo & Juliet / Gounod 

July 9 Rusalka / Dvořák

LA Opera 

July 16 Gianni Schicchi/Pagliacci / Puccini/Leoncavallo 

July 23 Norma / Bellini 

July 30 The Two Foscari / Verdi 

August 6 Moby-Dick / J. Heggie 

August 13 Falstaff / Verdi

San Francisco Opera

August 20 Luisa Miller / Verdi

August 27 Lucia di Lammermoor / Donizetti

September 3 Die Meistersinger / Wagner

September 10 Magic Flute / Mozart

September 17 Barber of Seville / Rossini

September 24 Fall of the House of Usher / Debussy, Getty, et al. (reconstruction)

October 1 Dialogues of the Carmelites / Poulenc

October 8 Carmen / Bizet

October 15 Don Carlos / Verdi

October 22 Jenůfa / Janáček

Additional Operas

October 29 TBA – More Information Coming Soon!

November 5 TBA  

November 12 TBA  

November 19 TBA  

November 26 TBA

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The Metropolitan Opera

Radio Broadcasts

From its opening in 1883, the Metropolitan Opera has been one of the world's leading opera companies. Today, the Met's preeminent position rests on the elements that established its reputation: high quality performances with many of the world's most renowned artists, a superior company of choral and orchestral musicians, a large repertory of works, and the resources to make performances available to the public.

Each season, the Met stages more than two hundred performances of opera in New York City. More than 800,000 people attend the performances in the opera house during the season. Millions more, throughout the world, experience the Met on television, on tours, and through cinemacasts, radio, and recordings. 

If you are interested in underwriting an upcoming opera, click here to see what is available and contact Lane Whitesell.

Metropolitan Opera Summer

Encore Series

7:00-9:23 Cinemark Tinseltown

Call 974.2111, leave a message

First name, Last name and email address

Ask for one or two tickets!  

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Opera companies within driving distance!

Opera within Driving Distance Summer 2016

Aspen Music Festival (selected events) (aspenmusicfestival.com)
                Intimate Artist Dinner with Rene Fleming, July 5
                Opera Scenes Master Classes, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, August 6
                Puccini:  La Boheme.  July 14, 16, 18
                Shakespeare Songs:  Of Love and Madness.  July 20
                William Bolcom:  A Wedding.  July 28, 30
                Voice Studio Class.  July 10, 17, 24, 31

Central City Opera (centralcityopera.org)
                Moore:  Ballad of Baby Doe.  July 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 27, 29, 31, August 2, 4, 6
                Puccini:  Tosca.  July 16, 22, 24, 26, 30, August 3, 5, 7
                Mozart:  Impresario.  July 27, August 3, and July 28 in Boulder (2 performances)
                Musto:  Later the Same Evening.  July 28, Colorado Springs; July 30, Denver Art Museum,
                                and Central City, August 5

Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point
                Mozart:  Don Giovanni.  June 17, 22, 25, 29, July 7, 13
                Britten:  Albert Herring.  June 18, 23, 30, July 5, 9, 14
                Puccini:  Il Tabarro / Leoncavallo:  I Pagliacci (Double Bill).  June 21, 24, 28, July 1, 6, 8, 15
                Opera Sampler.  July 2
                Opera Scenes.  July 12

Santa Fe Opera (santafeopera.org)
                Puccini:  Fanciulla de West.  July 1, 6,  9, 15, August 2, 8, 13, 17, 23, 27
                Mozart:  Don Giovanni.  July 2, 8, 13, 22, August 1, 10, 15, 20, 26
                Gounod:  Romeo et Juliette.  July 16, 20, 29, August 4, 9, 16, 25
                R. Strauss:   Capriccio.  July 23, 27, August 5, 11, 19
                Barber:  Vanessa.  July 30, August 3, 12, 18, 24
                Apprentice Showcase.  August 14, 21 
                Summer Gala with Joyce di Donato.  August 6, Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe

Tulsa Youth Opera (tulsaopera.com)  
               The Hobbit, by Dean Burry.  Williams Theater, Tulsa PAC
                June 18, 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and June 19, 2:30 p.m.

Austin Lyric Opera www.austinlyricopera.com

Dallas Opera www.dallasopera.or

Houston Grand Opera www.houstongrandopera.org/

San Antonio Opera www.saopera.com

Santa Fe Opera www.santafeopera.org

Tulsa Opera  www.tulsaopera.com

Wichita Grand Opera  www.wichitagrandopera.org