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This week's program features a "dream" cast for Ponchielli's "Gioconda" in a live recording from 1967. Renata Tebaldi is the street singer Giaconda, Carlo Bergonzi is the man she loves, Enzo, Marilyn Horne is the woman who is loved by Enzo, Laura, and Robert Merrill is the treacherous spy for the Inquisition, Barnaba.
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This week's wonderful comedy from Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is based on a play by Italian genius Carlo Goldoni and comes to us from a live 2007 recording made at La Fenice in Venice.
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This week's program is about two tricksters. The first is from Haydn's forgotten 1777 comedy "The World on the Moon," and the second is the ballet by Sibelius about Scaramouche which has a tragic ending.
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As a part of our Fall Membership Campaign, David Osenberg will be joining host Michael Kownacky this week for a live program sampling operas and performances in various languages.
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The Sunday Opera is off to Opera Southwest for Rossini's setting of the comic machinations of "Le Comte Ory" as he goes to great lengths, and fails, to seduce the wife of another.
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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 off to Germany this week and Verdi's epic centering on the Crusades followed by music of a Verdi contemporary, Emelie Mayer.
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This week's Sunday opera and following pieces are all my way of celebrating my annual day because they're pieces that I love and are dear to me beginning with Puccini's Incredibly moving and romantic "La Rondine" or "The Swallow."
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This week's Sunday Opera feature's Rossini's 1815 opera which is most widely known for its overture and little else. With its happy ending, it's a perfect antidote for the winter doldrums.
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