Opera
Opera at Classical KUCO
Grand Theatre, Leeds
This week!
Verdi's Un Ballo in maschera
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View the entire season lineup for the WFMT Radio Network Opera Series!
Oklahoma City's New Resident Opera Company
Verdi's Rigoletto - September 14, 16 and 21
Bel Canto Trio - November 29
Menoti's Amahl and the Night Visitors - December 14 and 15
Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti - January 27, 28 and 29
Bizet (Brook) La Tragedie de Carmen - May 17 and 19
Oklahoma City
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Houston Grand Opera
Lyric Opera Kansas City
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
San Antonio Opera
Santa Fe Opera
Tulsa Opera
Wichita Grand Opera
Saturday Opera with Lane Whitesell
Enjoy Lane's reviews of opera performances within driving distance here!
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte. March 31
See Oklahoma's Kelly O'Hara as Despina on the HD broadcast at your local movie theater with Christopher Maltman as Don Alfonso, Amanda Majewski and Serena Malfi as Fiordiligi and Dorabella, and Ben Bliss and Adam Platchetka as Ferrando and Guglielmo.
Puccini: Turandot. March 24
Hei-Kyung and Marcello Alvarez reprise their singing of Liu and Calaf with Maria Serafin as the title character and bass Alexander Tsymbalyuk as Timur in this broadcast of Puccini's last opera.
Richard Strauss: Elektra. March 17
Christine Goerke has become the premiere Elektra of our time. She appears with Elza van den Heever as her sister Chrystothemis, Michaela Schuster as her mother Klytaemnestra, and Mikhail Petrenko as her brother Orest, in this presentation of the greatest of all disfunctional families. The rest of the afternoon will be the Spring Fund Drive for opera and vocal music.
Rossini: Semiramide. March 10, also in HD.
Rossini's Semiramide, the last of his opera seria, is seldom performed because of the problems of finding a cast. It requires a soprano, mezzo, tenor, and bass with extreme agility of voice and good acting skills. Piecutred is Elizabeth Deshong, this year's Arsace. Angela Meade, Javier Camarena, and Ildur Abdrazakov are Semiramide, Idreno, and Assur. This radio performance can also be seen on the wide screen in HD.
Puccini: Madama Butterfly. March 3
Ermonela Jaho and Roberto Aronica are Cio-Cio-San and Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton in the Anthony Minghella production of Madame Butterfly. Maria Zifchak and Roberto Frontali round out the principals as Suzuki and the American consul Sharpless.
Puccini: La Boheme. Early: 11:30 a.m.
Michael Fabiano and Sonya Yoncheva are the broadcast Rodolfo and Mimi with Susanna Philips and Lucas Meacham as Musetta and Marcello.
Wagner: Parsifal. EARLY 10:30 a.m. February 17
Richard Wagner's Parsifal has its first outing under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin this season. Klaus Florian Vogt and Evelyn Herlitzius bring their European roles to the Met as Parsifal and Kundry.
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore. 11 a.m. start time
Donizetti's romantic comedy features Pretty Yende and Matthew Polenzani as Adina and Nemorino, with Ildebrando d'Arcangelo as Dr. Dulcamara. The performance begins one hour early, at 11 a.m. central time.
Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore. February 3
A truly convoluted tale of love and revenge has returned to the Met, with Yonghoon Lee as the title character Manrico, Jennifer Rowley as his true love Leonora, Quinn Kelsey as the Count di Luna, and Anita Rachvelishvili as the sometimes insane gypsy who has raised Manrico as her own child.
Giacomo Puccini: Tosca. January 27
Puccini's "shabby little shocker" has returned with Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo as the lovers and Zeljko Lucic as Baron Scarpia. This matinee is the last performance now; it returns to the Met in April and May with Anna Netrebko and Marcello Alvarez as Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi.
