VPR Classical

The Opera Company of Middlebury provides a live preview of their 10th anniversary production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.  They will give 5 fully-staged performances in Russian with English supertitles May 31 to June 8 at Middlebury's Town Hall Theater.

Listen Thursday May 23 at 11am.

Gounod's Roméo et Juliette is an opera full of entrancing music - and it includes no fewer than four love duets. We sample this music on A Passion for Opera this afternoon.

Beginning this week, Saturday Matinee, features operas from the WFMT Radio Network. Kicking off the WFMT season is Verdi's brooding and complex Simon Boccanegra from the Lyric Opera Of Chicago.

Thursday 5/16/13.  Walter Parker speaks with conductor Ronald Feldman, who will lead the Burlington Chamber Orchestra on Saturday in music of Britten, Bach, Haydn and young composer Noah Marconi.

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THE LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO - May 18 - July 13, 2013
 

Listen Saturday afternoons at 1.

 May 18, 2013

OPERA:   Simon Boccanegra (in Italian)
COMPOSER:  Giuseppe Verdi

CAST:
Boccanegra Thomas Hampson
Fiesco  Ferruccio Furlanetto
Amelia  Krassimira Stoyanova
Adorno  Frank Lopardo
Paolo  Quinn Kelsey
Pietro  Evan Boyer

The Heliand Consort will tour northern Vermont May 8-11 with music of Telemann, Dvorak and others for flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano.  They join Walter Parker in the VPR Performance Studio for a live preview.

May 7th is the birthday of both Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) and Pytor Illych Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893).  With few exceptions, the two composers did not admire each other, but their music is loved by classical music fans today. 

This afternoon, Joe Goetz presents works for string sextet by both composers.

Jacob Morton-Black is a senior at Colchester High School.  His piece for string quartet, "Chapter One: Bar 60," was inspired by the music of Arnold Schoenberg.