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John McGuire's wonderfully unique 48 Variations for Two Pianos.
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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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Dorothy Fields came from a fantastic showbusiness family, and her career as a musical lyricist and book-writer lasted nearly five decades. We're going to celebrate her talents on this program with songs from fourteen of her shows, many of which feature standards from the over 400 songs she co-wrote,.
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Zinka Milanov and Jussi Bojerling team up for Act Two of Il Trovatore with Feadora Barberi and Leonard Warren. Milanov and Bjoerling will also sing the love duet from Tosca this Sunday July 28 at 8 PM.
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A Tempo this Saturday (7/20) features an interview with Jonathon Heyward, the new music director of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center.
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The third in a series of programs devoted to pianists deserving wider recognition, this Friday (7/19 at 3 pm, with a rebroadcast Saturday 7/20 at 6 pm)
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The Sunday Opera heads off to France for the Lille Opera production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" featuring Timothy Murray in the title role. After the opera, we'll sample three more treatments of the Don Juan legend.
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While we were working on a previous program, we got the idea for a playlist of songs from the musicals about "dreams," and we've mined fifteen musicals from stage and screen to fill that list.
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A tribute to the iconic American pianist this Friday (7/12 at 3 pm, with a rebroadcast Saturday 7/13 at 6 pm)
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This week's Sunday Opera begins with Purcell's setting of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as "The Fairy Queen" and is followed by three (and a bit) treatments of Shakespeare's "The Tempest finishing with Paul Moravec's Pulitzer Prize winning Tempest Fantasy.