Archive for April 8th, 2019
Streaming status
Sorry about the impairments over the past few days folks. One of our two DSL lines went down and we needed to temporarily put the Baltimore Radio Reading Service for the Blind onto the DSL we use for the WBJC streaming. BRRS has now been moved back over, so the impairments should cease. If they […]
05/11/19 – Dialogues des Carmélites – 1pm
The Metropolitan Opera Francis Poulenc Dialogues des Carmélites ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 9 MINS, 1 intermissions SUNG IN FRENCH photo credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the touching role of Blanche and soprano Karita […]
05/04/19 – Aida – 1pm
The Metropolitan Opera Giuseppe Verdi Aida ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 36 MINS, 2 intermissions SUNG IN ITALIAN photo credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera In what should be a highlight of the new season, soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, going toe-to-toe with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris. Later in the season, […]
Monday 04/08/19 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Sibelius, Lulu, Mephisto, and The Death of Cleopatra SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 Zubin Mehta, conductor BERLIOZ: The Death of Cleopatra Jenny Tourel, mezzo‐soprano Leonard Bernstein, conductor BERG: Lulu‐Suite Angelina Réaux,soprano Kurt Masur, conductor LISZT: Mephisto Waltz Kurt Masur, conductor
Playlist: Apr/08/19
10:50 PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Violin Sonata Key: cWilli Boskovsky,violinLili Kraus, pianoAngel/EMI, 63873 9:58 PM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 5 Key: eOpus: 64Conductor: Bernard HaitinkEnsemble: Royal Concertgebouw OrchestraLondon, 4758357 9:54 PM Giuseppe Verdi — La Traviata: Prelude to Act I Conductor: Claudio AbbadoEnsemble: Berlin PhilharmonicDG/Archiv, 471627 9:42 PM Claude Debussy — Prelude […]