Opera
This week!
The Metropolitan Opera returns to radio airwaves
Verdi's La Traviata
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Oklahoma City's New Resident Opera Company
Bel Canto Trio - November 29
Menoti's Amahl and the Night Visitors - December 14 and 15
Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti/Arias and Barcarolles - January 27, 28 and 29
Bizet (Brook) La Tragedie de Carmen - May 17 and 19
Oklahoma City
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Opera Companies within Driving Distance
2018-2019 Productions
Austin Lyric Opera
Dallas Opera
Houston Grand Opera
Lyric Opera Kansas City
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Painted Sky Opera of Oklahoma City
San Antonio Opera
Santa Fe Opera
Tulsa Opera
Wichita Grand Opera
and more!
Saturday Opera with Lane Whitesell
Enjoy Lane's reviews of opera performances within driving distance here!
2018-2019 Operas within Driving Distance
Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco. 7 January 2017
Placido Domingo stars as the biblical king who is struck mad by the God of the Hebrews while in the Temple of Baal. Verdi's most famous chorus, Va Pensiero, is also featured.
Richard Strauss: Salome. December 17
Patricia Racette has recently triumphed in the title role internationally.
G. Rossini: L'Italiana in Algieri, December 31
An Italian girl is captured by the Barbary pirates and hilarity ensues.
W. A. Mozart: The Magic Flute, December 24
The Julie Taymor production returns with Janai Brugger and Ben Bliss as Tamino and Pamina. Christopher Maltman is Papageno.
Kaija Saariaho, L'Amour de Loin. December 10
Eric Owens is the 13th-century troubador and Susanna Philips his Love from Afar (in Tripoli) with Tamara Mumford as the Pilgrim who travels back and forth with their messages to each other in the first Met in HD and radio performance.
Puccini: Manon Lescaut, December 3, 2016
Puccini's first major opera received this new production last season and has Anna Netrebko in the title role for this run.
Rossini: The Thieving Magpie
Rossini's opera semi-seria is a problem for production since it depends on a magpie. Glimmerglass allowed the magpie (danced by Meg Gillentine, also the choreographer) full range of the stage this year.
