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08/30/14 – Mefistofele – (SF Opera begins) 1:00pm
San Francisco Opera OPERA: Mefistofele (in Italian) COMPOSER: Arrigo Boito The season kicks off with Boito’s resplendent retelling of Goethe’s Faust, a monumental work of “choral grandeur and melodic...
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09/06/14 – Tosca – 1:00pm
San Francisco Opera OPERA: Tosca (in Italian) COMPOSER: Giacomo Puccini CAST: Cesare Angelotti Christian Van Horn Sacristan Dale Travis Mario Cavaradossi Brian Jagde Floria Tosca Patricia Racette Baron...
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09/13/14 – The Flying Dutchman – 1:00pm
San Francisco Opera OPERA: Der Fliegende Holländer (in German) COMPOSER: Richard Wagner In Wagner’s first masterpiece, a ship’s captain is condemned to endlessly travel the seas in search of true love....
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09/27/14 – Peter Grimes – 1:00pm
San Francisco Opera OPERA: Peter Grimes (in English) COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten A special archive broadcast of the 1976 production of Peter Grimes, starring Jon Vickers on WFMT. Recorded Fall 1976, War...
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10/04/14 – The Barber of Seville – 1:00pm
San Francisco Opera OPERA: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (in Italian) COMPOSER: Gioachino Rossini With the help of a wily barber, a strong-willed young woman outwits a lecherous old man in this eternally...
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10/11/14 – Die Frau Onhe Schatten – 1:00pm
San Francisco Opera OPERA: Die Frau ohne Schatten (in German) COMPOSER: Richard Strauss CAST: The Empress’s Nurse Ruth Hesse Spirit Messenger James Johnson The Emperor Matti Kastu † The Empress Leonie...
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10/18/14 – La Traviata – 1:00pm
San Francisco Opera OPERA: La Traviata (in Italian) COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi Violetta Valéry may be the most heart-wrenching character in all of opera: a high-spirited but deceptively delicate woman...
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10/25/14 – Falstaff – 1pm
San Francisco Opera OPERA: Falstaff (in Italian) MUSIC BY GIUSEPPE VERDI Libretto by Arrigo Boito PRODUCTION NEW TO SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Bryn Terfel, the “definitive” Falstaff of our day (Chicago...
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11/01/14 – Show Boat – 1pm
San Francisco Opera OPERA: Show Boat COMPOSER: Music by Jerome Kern · Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Based on the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber A true classic of American musical theater,...
View Article11/08/14 – Lucrezia Borgia – 1:00pm
Caramoor Opera OPERA: Lucrezia Borgia COMPOSER: Donizetti Angela Meade, soprano; Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano; Michele Angelini, tenor; Christophoros Stamboglis, bass; Bel Canto Young Artists;...
View Article11/15/14 – Macbeth – 1:00pm
Chicago Symphony Orchestra OPERA: Macbeth COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi LIBRETTO: Francesco Maria Piave The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is excited to share this performance of Verdi’s Macbeth, recorded in...
View Article11/22/14 – Armida – 1:00pm
Rossini Opera Festival OPERA: Armida COMPOSER: Rossini Dramma per musica by Giovanni Schmidt Critical Edition Fondazione Rossini/Casa Ricordi, edited by Charles S. Brauner and Patricia B. Brauner...
View Article11/29/14 – TANNHÄUSER – 1:00pm
Bayreuth Festival OPERA: TANNHÄUSER COMPOSER: Wagner Conductor Axel Kober Director Sebastian Baumgarten Stage design Joep van Lieshout Costumes Nina von Mechow Lighting Franck Evin Video Christopher...
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06/27/15 – Tannhäuser – 1PM
Lyric Opera of Chicago by Richard Wagner In German with projected English texts Approximate running time: 4hrs, 11 min Only gods can live in endless bliss. Tannhäuser, minstrel and renegade, is lured...
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07/04/15 – Porgy and Bess – 1pm
Lyric Opera of Chicago by The Gershwins Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin In English with projected English texts Approximate running time: 3hrs, 10 min...
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07/11/15 – The Passenger – 1pm
Lyric Opera of Chicago by Mieczyslaw Weinberg In Russian, German, Polish, French, Yiddish, Czech, and English with projected English texts Approximate running time: 2hrs, 55 min There’s no escaping...
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07/18/15 – Tosca – 1pm
Lyric Opera of Chicago by Giacomo Puccini In Italian with projected English texts Approximate running time: 2hrs, 42 min Living for art…dying for love. A fiery diva, the rebel artist who claims her...
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07/25/15 – LA Opera begins with La Traviata @1PM!
LA Opera on air La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Sung in Italian. Two hours and 55 minutes, including two intermissions. In the giddy, glitzy world of the Roaring...
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08/01/15 – Dido & Aeneas/Bluebeard’s Castle – 1PM
LA Opera on air Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell Libretto by Nahum Tate Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók Libretto by Béla Balázs Performed in English and Hungarian respectively. The running time is...
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08/08/15 – Barber of Seville – 1PM
LA Opera on air The Barber of Seville by by Gioachino Rossini Libretto by Cesare Sterbini Sung in Italian. Three hours and 10 minutes, including one intermission. Dashing Count Almaviva has lost his...
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