Opera in Performance with Simon Healy

7.05pm Sunday

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Join Simon Healy every Sunday from 7.05pm as he presents Opera In Performance.
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Coming Up

Sunday 14 March 2010

Ariadne auf Naxos (Opera in two parts to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
(Hoftheater, Stuttgart, 25 October, 1912)
)

by Richard Strauss

Ariadne is alone in front of her cave. Three nymphs look on and lament her fate. Read the synopsis >

Cast includes:
Ariadne: Nina Stemme, soprano
Zerbinetta: Kathleen Kim, soprano
Composer: Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Music Master: Jochen Schmeckenbecher, baritone
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Kirill Petrenko

Recorded in New York last month
By arrangement with the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network
Post-production for ABC Classic FM by Simon Healy

Further ahead

Sunday 21 March 2010

La bohème (Opera in four acts to a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on the novel 'Scènes de la vie de bohème' by Henry Murger
(Teatro Regio (now the Teatro Regio di Torino) 1 February, 1896)
) by Giacomo Puccini > More

Sunday 28 March

Attila (Opera in one prologue and three acts to a libretto by Temistocle Solera based on the play ‘Attila, König der Hunnen’ (Attila, King of the Huns) by Zacharias Werner
(La Fenice, Venice, 17 March, 1846)
) by Giuseppe Verdi > More