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
Bellini: Il Pirata. November 4
Angela Meade and Santiago Ballerini are the ill-fated lovers, the pirate and his would-be wife, in Bellini's early tragedy.
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia. October 28
This was a concert performance of Lucrezia Borgia this summer at the Caramoor Festival, recorded for our listening pleasure.
Verdi: Falstaff. Concert Performance
This is an archival concert performance of Falstaff by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Ambrogio Maestri as Falstaff.
Richard Strauss: Arabella. October 14
A Viennese family can only afford to have one daughter making a debut to society so the second daughter has been raised as a son. When the "boy" falls in love, will it spoil the older sister's chances at a marriage to a wealthy widower?
Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale. October 7
Norina (Heidi Stober), Ernesto (Lawrence Brownlee), and Dr. Malatesta (Lucas Meacham) stop 70-year-old Don Pasquale's plans to marry and disinherit his nephew Ernesto. Maurizio Muraro is the title character.
Bright Sheng: Dream of the Red Chamber. September 30
A Chinese warrior is torn between the love of his soulmate and his family's need for him to marry his cousin, a rich heiress.
Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chenier. Sept. 23
A poet and a noblewoman find love during the French Revolution
