Archive for May 13th, 2017
Vocalise – 5/13/17
8:00 PM Gilbert & Sullivan The Mikado: “The sun, whose rays Telarc 80284 COND Sir Charles Mackerras ORCH Welsh National Opera Orchestra SOLO Marie McLaughlin, soprano ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:04 PM Sir Arthur Sullivan Te Deum (1872) BBC 203 COND Sir Charles Mackerras ORCH BBC Concert Orchestra SOLO London Choral Society SOLO Teresa Cahill, soprano SOLO Margaret […]
5-13-17 Music in Maryland Peabody Symphony Plays Mahler 9!
Music in Maryland is a re-broadcast of a concert from 6-4-16. Why not enjoy Mahler 9 once again. This week Music in Maryland features the Peabody Symphony playing Mahler’s 9th with conductor Hajime Teri Murai. The concert was recorded at Peabody’s Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall on January 30, 2016. After the concert we […]
06/24/17 – The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) – 1pm
NEW PRODUCTION THE MAGIC FLUTE (DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Performed in German with projected English translations The Magic Flute Opera Overview “Surely the most gifted and promising English tenor for at least a generation.” – The Spectator on Andrew Staples “Polenzani sang with glowing sound, delivering […]
06/17/17 – Don Quichotte – 1pm
NEW-TO-CHICAGO PRODUCTION DON QUICHOTTE by Jules Massenet front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Performed in French with projected English translations Don Quichotte Opera Overview “Furlanetto is a storyteller…[he] raises magnificent singing to the level of great operatic art.” – Opera News on Ferruccio Furlanetto More than half a century before Man of La Mancha, Massenet […]
06/10/17 – Les Troyens – 1pm
NEW PRODUCTION & LYRIC PREMIERE LES TROYENS (THE TROJANS) by Hector Berlioz front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Performed in French with projected English translations Les Troyens Opera Overview “With touches of Homer, Shakespeare, and music like none ever written before… [Les Troyens] is the grandest French opera. Every performance is an occasion.” – Los Angeles […]
06/03/17 – Lucia di Lammermoor – 1pm
NEW-TO-CHICAGO PRODUCTION LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR by Gaetano Donizetti Performed in Italian with projected English translations frontpage photo credit: Todd Rosenberg Lucia di Lammermoor Opera Overview “Impeccably passionate…her perfectly placed coloratura thrillingly seducing us with every expressive note… sublime acting and supreme singing.” – Houston Chronicle on Albina Shagimuratova If you cherish the classic tale of star-crossed […]
05/27/17 – Das Rheingold @ 1pm – Lyric Opera of Chicago returns!
LYRIC’S NEW RING CYCLE. THE JOURNEY BEGINS. NEW PRODUCTION DAS RHEINGOLD by Richard Wagner Performed in German with projected English translations front page photo credit: Todd Rosenberg “Owens’s portrayal is so richly layered that it may become part of the history of the work.” – The New Yorker on Eric Owens as Alberich in Das Rheingold […]
Emerging Romanticism
Romanticism is one of those useful umbrella terms that covers not only our personal predilections – candle lit dinners, happy endings – but also that great swath of artistic endeavor that embraced thinking, literature, art, and music from the late 18th century through the early 20th century. The first whispers of Romanticism came with the Sturm […]
Playlist: May/13/17
8:43 PM Francis Poulenc — Sept Chansons Ensemble: I FagioliniLondon, 4789394 8:37 PM Traditional — El Rey que tanto madruga Conductor: Jordi SavallEnsemble: Hesperion XXMontserrat Figueras, sopranoAliaVox, 9809 8:04 PM Sir Arthur Sullivan — Te Deum (1872) Conductor: Sir Charles MackerrasEnsemble: BBC Concert OrchestraLondon Choral SocietyTeresa Cahill, sopranoMargaret Phillips, organBBC, 203 8:00 PM Gilbert & […]
