Frühlingsfestival an der Oper Lyon

Wow, das kam überraschend! Gitarristin Laura Lootens gewinnt den Kunstförderpreis! 7000 Euro für die 26-Jährige, die schon einige Preise abgesahnt hat. Ihr Ziel: Jährlich ein neues Album - inspiriert von Konzertatmosphäre und tollem Raumklang. 

Der finnische Dirigent Klaus Mäkelä ist der gehypteste Jungstar am Pult. Zurzeit leitet er renommierte Orchester in Oslo und Paris. Die Toporchester in Amsterdam und Chicago haben ihn ab 2027 als neuen Chef verpflichtet. Wie gut ist Klaus Mäkelä? Antworten gab sein Gastspiel mit ... Show More

Rückwärtsgewandt, von Männern dominiert, veralteter Führungsstil - so sieht es in der Kulturbranche aus, findet Kathrin Zeitler. Mit ihrem Netzwerk alma will sie die patriarchale Strukturen knacken und neue Ideen einbringen. 

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