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We’re off to the Bayreuth Festival on this week’s Sunday Opera for Richard Wagner’s strange tale of love, “Tristan und Isolde.” Why is it strange? Five deaths and immeasurable heartache result from the wrong two people being given a love potion.
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This week's opera comes from London's Royal Opera House and features the first opera in Wagner's "Ring Cycle," "Das Rheingold" featuring Christopher Purves as Alberich and Christopher Maltman as Wotan. The opera, performed in one 150 minute act, will be followed by more music featuring "northern" heroes (and an anti-hero) from Uumo Kalmi, Jean Sibelius, and Edvard Grieg,.
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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 in Beijing for this week's Sunday Opera and Richard Wagner's fabled battle of sacred and profane love, "Tannhauser." After the opera, we'll have music by Siegfried Wagner to fill out the afternoon.
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This program features Richard Wagner's second opera (first to be staged) "Das Liebesverbot" which he based on Shakespeare's "Measure of Measure."
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This week's program is Wagner's third opera (all of which he disowned because of their Italianate nature), "Rienzi."
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BECAUSE OF THE LENGTH OF THIS WEEK’S OPERA, ALL SUBSEQUENT PROGRAMMING WILL BEGIN ONE HOUR LATER THIS EVENING.The Sunday Opera takes us to France once…
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We’re off to medieval Wartburg with a side trip to Venusberg on this week’s Sunday Opera (7/25 3:00 p.m.) with Wagner’s “Tannhauser” from London’s Royal…
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Germanic paganism mixed with some Early Middle Age Christianity and a splash of Greek tragedy is the recipe for this week’s Sunday Opera (10/4 3:00 p.m.)…
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This week’s Sunday Opera (7/19 3:00 p.m.) will be five-hours long with the Lyric Opera production of Richard Wagner’s “Die Walkure.” The second opera of…