Frühlingsfestival an der Oper Lyon

In der Neuinszenierung von "Pagliacci" gibt Jonas Kaufmann an der Bayerischen Staatsoper den Canio. Eine Partie, die etliche Tücken bereit hält, besonders in der berühmte Arie "Vesti la giubba", die der Startenor in der Küche zwischen Ricotta und Tomatensoße zum Besten geben wird ... Show More

Den französischen Spätromantiker Edouard Lalo kennen wir vor allem durch seine "Symphonie espagnole" für Violine und Orchester. Lalos wichtigste Oper ist "Le Roi d'Ys / Der König von Ys", 1888 in Paris aus der Taufe gehoben. In Budapest hat sich der ungarische Dirigent György Vas ... Show More

Eine große Liebe für die Berge hegte der amerikanische-armenische Komponist Alan Hovhaness. Er lebte bevorzugt mit Bergblick und komponierte seine Leidenschaft in immer neue Werke. Das bekannteste: "Mysterious Mountain". 

Escuchamos la ópera de uno de los compositores más grandes de todos los tiempos: Puccini. Con esta pieza pasó de un día para otro a convertirse en el sucesor de Verdi. Massenet ya había puesto música a esta historia pero Puccini la llevó a la italiana. Un relato que trata los ato ... Show More

Synopsis On today’s date in 1805, Beethoven’s opera, Leonore, had its premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, after many postponements due to getting the opera’s libretto approved by government censors and the orchestral parts copied in time. There was also the little matt ... Show More

Synopsis On today’s date in 1926, Giacomo Puccini’s last opera, Turandot, had its belated premiere at the La Scala Opera House in Milan, with Arturo Toscanini conducting. The originally scheduled 1925 premiere had to be postponed, as Puccini had died in November 1924, leaving Tur ... Show More

Today’s episode is drawn from a Talking about Opera excerpt, featuring Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" with lecturer Bridget Paolucci. At the time this recording was made, Bridget was a frequent lecturer at the Met Opera Guild, New York City Opera, and regularly appeared on the Met ... Show More

Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff, is based on Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, Part 1, but it did not become a huge success until Arturo Toscanini insisted on reviving it at La Scala, and later The Metropolitan Opera, in the 1890s. On today's episode of The Metropo ... Show More

Synopsis Whether you live in sunny California or snowy Minnesota, the arrival of the solstice means, “It’s official: Winter is here!” And if you were born someplace sunny, but moved to someplace snowy, the arrival of winter is pretty hard to ignore. Winter must have made an impre ... Show More

Opera is a story set to music. An Opera is like a play, or a musical, but in which everything is sung instead of spoken. In Opera, a character doesn’t say goodbye as they leave, they sing a “Goodbye Song” that lasts for minutes. Tune in to find out how such an amazing invention w ... Show More