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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 Sunday Opera features two lesser-known works by Sergei Prokofiev. The first is a comic opera entitled "Betrothal in a Monastery," and the second is the short "Maddalena."
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This week's Sunday Opera is the 1813 Rossini work that looks at the "love triangle" surrounding Roman Emperor Aurelian, Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, and Persian Prince Arasce, Zenobia's love interest and protector. Rossini, the king of recycling, used quite a bit of the music found in this opera for later works like "The Barber of Seville."
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We've scheduled a classic recording of Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" for our annual New Year's production. If features a stellar cast lead by Hilde Guden, Regina Resnik, and Waldemar Kmentt with special guests at Count Orlafsky's ball included Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Theresa Berganza, Joan Sutherland, and many more,.
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This delightful Christmas fantasy takes place through Christmas Eve to Christmas morning and finds the young smith named Vakula traveling to St. Petersburg on the back of the devil in order to get the Tsarina's slippers as a gift for his love.
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This week's opera is by Rhianna Giddens and Michael Abels and is based on the memoir of Omar Ibn Said, a slave who was abducted from Africa when he was 37 and taken to the slave market in Charleston, SC.
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Sondra Radvonovsky, Brian Jagde, and Etienne Dupuis head the cast in this look at how the fate of four people is determined because of an accidental shooting.
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We're heading back to the NCPA for a visiting production by the Bayreuth Opera and Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman." We'll continue our trip to the sea after the opera with a one-act opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on Synge's "Riders to the Sea" as well as a few other works including a brilliantly irreverent adaption of the "Dutchman" overture by Paul Hindemith entitled "Overture to the Flying Dutchman as Played at Sight by a Second-Rate Spa Orchestra at the Village Well at 7 o'Clock in the Morning."
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We're combining two operas from the Opera Festival of Chicago featuring Andrea Silvestrelli in widely varying roles. The first is as Thomas Becket in Ildebrando Pizzeretti's setting of Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." The second is as Verdi's doomed leader, Attila the Hun, in Attila.
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This weeks' Sunday Opera is actually two one-act operas by George Benjamin followed by a grand ballet, We'll begin with "Picture a Day Like This" followed by a retelling of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" entitled "Into the Little Hill." After the opera, we turn to Prokofiev and his delightful ballet "Cinderella."