WWFM Sunday Opera with Michael Kownacky
Sundays at 3 pm
Enjoy world-class productions from the world of opera featuring the great singers past and present performing in the world's great opera houses.
Paul Moravec & Mark Campbell's "Light Shall Lift Us"
Here is the link to the video presentation of "Light Shall Lift Us: Opera Singers Unite in Song"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8A8fIGbYyY.
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This week's Sunday Opera features a couple of "Dons" by Gaetano Donizetti: "Don Pasquale" from the NCPA and the world premier recording of a "lost" work, "Don Gregorio." -
Gounod's much-loved opera based on Shakespeare's romantic tragedy comes to us from the NCPA. This will be followed by music of Andre Messenger adapted and conducted by John Lanchberry, Messenger's two-act ballet "The Two Pigeons."
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A 1780 comic opera about a romantic triangle containing only two people by Joseph Bologne Cavalier de Saint George
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Today's Sunday Opera is from LA Opera and features Latonia Moore in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida." Following the opera will be Mikis Theodorakis' Sinfonie No. 3 based on verse by 18th century Greek poet Dionysius Solomos.
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This is one of the five opera buffa written by Rossini for the Teatro San Moise in Venice in a production from the Opera Festival of Chicago.
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Verdi's 13th opera based on a poem of Lord Byron's about the tragic life of a Greek pirate comes to us from The Opera Festival of Chicago.
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This week's opera is the last from the NCPA and features a contemporary Chinese opera about the life and death of the teacher in a mountain village in China.
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This week's Sunday Opera features an afternoon of the lovely music of Franz Lehar. The first piece is "The Merry Widow" from the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Following that, is a recording of Lehar's "The Land of Smiles" featuring Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Nicolai Gedda.
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China's National Center for the Performing Arts is bringing Western operatic tradition to China, and this is a production of Dvorak's beloved opera "Rusalka" featuring an almost entirely Chinese company.
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Bizet's opera looking at lasting friendship, betrayal, and sacrifice, "les pecheurs de pereles" ("The Pearl Fishers") is this week's Sunday Opera from China's National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing.
