Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast 2018-2019 Season
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The WFMT Opera Series 2019
Opera
This week!
2018-2019 Saturday afternoon broadcasts
Wagner's Götterdämmerung
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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
Lucia di Lammermoor, April 7. 11:30 a.m.
Coincidentally playing at OU this weekend, Lucia is a story of betrayal of a young woman by her brother, his retainers, and a Calvinist Presbyterian minister who is supposed to be her protector, all in the name of political power.
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.
