Opera
This week!
2018-2019 Saturday afternoon broadcasts
Verdi's Rigoletto
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Oklahoma City's New Resident Opera Company
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
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
This is the audio version of the HD broadcast from earlier this season on October 27, 2018. Eva-Maria Westbroek is the heroine Minnie.
Verdi: La Traviata, December 15
Set in the 1850's, contemporary with the world premiere, the production is another version of Violetta remembering her life on her deathbed.
Puccini: Il Trittico, December 8
All three one-act operas in new productions to celebrate the world premiere at the met in December, 1918.
Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele, December 1
After 18 years, Mefistofele returns with Angela Meade and Michael Fabiano as Margherita and Faust and Christian van Horn in the title role as the Devil himself. Jennifer Check signs Helen of Troy.
Giordano: Andrea Chenier. 13 October
The great verismo opera about the French Revolution has never caught on in Paris, but remains Giordano's masterpiece. Chenier was a historical figure, a poet who was killed during the Reign of Terror, and is sung by Yonghoon Lee. Anna Pirozzi is Maddalena di Coigny, a young noblewoman who falls for Chenier and George Gagnidze is the member of the Tribunal whose desire for Maddalena brings about the deaths of both Chenier and Maddalena.
Carmen, September 8
Ana Maria Martinez and Riccardo Massi are the ill-fated lovers in the Carmen which opened the LA Opera 2017-18 season. Amanda Woodbury sings Micaela with Alexander Vinogradov as Escamillo.
Gounod: Faust. August 18
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents a colorful and dynamic co-production with Portland Opera of a new version of the compelling opera Faust of Charles Gounod!.
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