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Opera

Opera at Classical KUCO

May - November 2018

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Lyric Opera of Chicago Part II

This week!

Berlioz' Les Troyens

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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/Arias and Barcarolles - January 27, 28 and 29

Bizet (Brook) La Tragedie de Carmen - May 17 and 19

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Opera Companies within Driving Distance

Painted Sky Opera of Oklahoma City

Saturday Opera with Lane Whitesell

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2018-2019 Operas within Driving Distance

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Charles Gounod: Romeo et Juliette. January 21

Shakespeare's tale of ill-fated lovers is on the radio and at your local movie theaters in HD.

Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme. 14 January 2017

Michael Fabiano and Ailyn Perez will be the featured young lovers for the January 14 radio broadcast.

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.