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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Today's opera is a contemporary work by Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen based on a 19th century epic poem. -
This week, we'll hear two operas by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: "Le donne curiose" and "Il segreto di Susanna"
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For 278 years, Antonio Vivaldi's opera laid dormant in the National Library in Turin. It was found and brought back to life in 2005, and it is to that recording we'll be listening on this week's program.
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This week's opera looks at Berg's work, "Lulu," that was one of the first operas to be attempted in the new twelve-tone theory of composition.
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This week's opera looks Puccini's triptych using a different recording for each segment featuring some legendary voices like Renata Tebaldi, Leontyne Price, and Sheril Milnes.
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This week's Sunday Opera looks at two operas by Umberto Giordano: the well known "Fedora", and the lesser-known "Madame Sans-Gene"
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This week's opera is "Merlin" by Karl Goldmark who is better known for his first opera, "The Queen of Sheba."
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Today's opera features a lesser-known comedy by Richard Strauss: “Die schweigsame Frau” (The Silent Woman)
