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We're staying at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts this week for Puccini's "Wild West" opera, "La Fanciulla del West." After the opera, we'll fill the afternoon with more music inspired by "the west" from composers like Meredith Willson and Antonin Dvorak.
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We're back at the NCPA again this week for Gaetano Donizetti's wonderful romantic comedy "La Fille du Regiment." After the opera, we'll have more music of Donizetti including the first opera he wrote, "Il Pigmalione."
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This next installment from the NCPA is the first Chinese opera written in the style of a western opera. Based on the interactions of the lives of four people traveling on China's Grand Canal including a variety of styles like bel canto, singspiel, traditional Chinese opera performances, and more.
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Our final opera from the NCPA is Donizetti's wonderful comedy "The Elixer of Love" where Nemorino goes to what ever lengths he needs to in order to win the love of Adina, even using the last of his money to buy a love potion from the wily Dr. Dulcamara, who sells him nothing more than a bottle of Bordeaux, but it's enough for Nemorino to overcome his shortcomings and win the day!
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Verdi's last opera, "Falstaff," is on tap this week from Beijing's National Center for the Performing Arts
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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."
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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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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.