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
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, December 23
Adam Plachetka is the wily Figaro and Luca Pisaroni Count Almaviva on December 23rd, with Rachel Willis-Sorenson as the Countess, Christiane Karg as Susanna, and Serena Malfi as Cherubino.
Bellini: Norma. December 16
A typical Druid love triangle, with a philandering Roman tenor caught by the mother of his children.
Verdi: Requiem. December 2
The broadcast of the Saturday matinee performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem opens the 2017-2018 season of the Metropolitan Opera radio series and is dedicated to the memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
Craig Bohlmer: Riders of the Purple Sage. November 25
Based on the Zane Grey novel, this is the first world premiere in the history of Arizona Opera.
Franco FAccio: Amleto. November 18
Thirty years before Arrigo Boito wrote the Shakespearean librettos for Verdi's Falstaff and Otello he wrote this libretto for Franco Faccio. The opera had not been produced since 1865 when Opera Southwest performed it.
Rossini: Tancredi. November 11
Recorded a year ago in Albuquerque, this is Rossini's 1813 Heroic opera.
