Opera in Performance with Simon Healy

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Join Simon Healy every Sunday from 7.05pm as he presents Opera In Performance.
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Bayreuth Festival starts Sunday 8th August
The 2010 Bayreuth Festival website has information about the Festival Theatre, this year’s singers and conductors, and background information on the Festival’s orchestra and chorus. .

Coming Up

Sunday 5 September 2010

Agrippina (HWV6 - Drama per musica in three acts to a libretto by Vincenzo Grimani (Venice, 1709)

by Handel

Act I Agrippina, wife of the Roman emperor Claudio, schemes that Nerone, her son by a previous marriage, should succeed to the throne. Hearing that Claudio has been drowned, she arranges to have Nerone proclaimed, but the ceremony is interrupted by news of the arrival of Claudio, who has been rescued by his lieutenant Ottone: in return Claudio has named Ottone as his successor. Read the synopsis >

Agrippina: Ann Hallenberg, soprano
Claudio: Lorenzo Regazzo, bass
Nerone: José Maria Lo Monaco, mezzo-soprano
Poppea: Veronica Cangemi, soprano
Ottone: Xavier Sabata, countertenor
Pallante: Ugo Guagliardo, bass
Narciso/Giunone: Milena Storti, contralto
Lesbo: Roberto Abbondanza, bass
Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi

Courtesy of Polish Radio

Further ahead

Sunday 12 September 2010

Mireille (Opéra in five acts to a libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral’s epic poem ‘Mirèio’ (Paris, 1864) by Charles Gounod > More

Sunday 19 September

Don Giovanni (K527 - Opera buffa in two acts to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte (Prague, 1787) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart > More

Sunday 26 September

La Calisto (Opera in a prologue and three acts to a libretto by Giovanni Faustini after Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ (Venice, 1651) by Francesco Cavalli > More