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VPR Classical
12:25 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

Live Performance: Pianists David Kaplan and Timo Andres Play Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'

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On Tuesday, May 28th at 5 pm, VPR Classical celebrates the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Stravinsky's groundbreaking ballet "The Rite of Spring" with a live performance by pianists David Kaplan and Timo Andres of the piano 4-hands arrangement .  The two pianists will also play the work in Burlington on Wednesday, May 29th (the true anniversary of the work) under the auspices of Burlington Ensemble.

David and Timo's performance in Burlington

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Saturday Matinee
11:15 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Werther

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Matthew Polenzani and Sophie-Koch in the Lyric Opera Of Chicago production of "Werther"
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By Tim Johnson

This week on Saturday Matinee, we hear Jules Massenet's Werther performed by the Lyric Opera Of Chicago. It's probably Massenet's most familiar work to American audiences and is based on the German novel The Sorrows Of  Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goeth.

The cast includes Matthew Polenzani as Werther, Sophie Koch as Charlotte, Kiri Deonarine as Sophie, Craig Verm as Albert and Philip Kraus as Bailiff.

Sir Andrew Davis conducts.

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A Passion for Opera
4:06 pm
Wed May 22, 2013

Richard Wagner

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We celebrate the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth with an exploration of a few of his early operas.

Listen Saturday at 12 noon.

Live Performances
1:20 pm
Mon May 20, 2013

Opera Company of Middlebury Live

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Soprano, Suzanne Kantorski-Merrill
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Baritone, Darik Knutsen (left) and Tenor, Bray Wilkins
OCM poster includes 'Young Girl with Green Eyes' by Alexej von Jawlensky.
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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.

Opera
7:25 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

Roméo et Juliette

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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.

Midday Classics
2:14 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

Scrag Mountain Music Live

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Marc Uys, Walter Parker, Evan Premo, Jacqueline Kerrod and Mary Bonhag
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Scrag Mountain Music is soprano Mary Bonhag and double bassist Evan Premo.  This week they are joined by Clockwise, harpist Jacqueline Kerrod and violinist Marc Uys, for music of Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst and others.  They join Walter Parker for a preview.

Listen Friday morning May 17 at 11.

Saturday Matinee
10:42 am
Thu May 16, 2013

Simon Boccanegra

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Baritone, Thomas Hampson in the title role of Simon Boccanegra
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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.

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Musical Conversations
10:39 am
Wed May 15, 2013

Conductor Ronald Feldman

Conductor Ronald Feldman
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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.

Listen online now

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VPR Classical
4:09 pm
Mon May 13, 2013

Saturday Matinee Opera Broadcast Schedule For Spring, 2013 From The WFMT Radio Network

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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

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Saturday Matinee
11:40 am
Thu May 9, 2013

Götterdämmerung

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Deborah Voigt as Brünnhilde and Lars Cleveman as Siegfried in Wagner's “Götterdämmerung.”
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Iain Paterson as Gunther and Hans-Peter König as Hagen in Wagner's “Götterdämmerung.”
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A scene in Wagner's “Götterdämmerung” with the Norns (Michaela Martens, Elizabeth DeShong, Heidi Melton)
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This week's Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast is Götterdämmerung. Robert Lepage's landmark production of Wagner's cataclysmic Ring finale stars Deborah Voigt and Katarina Dalayman as Brünnhilde, opposite Jay Hunter Morris and Lars Cleveman as Siegfried. Hans-Peter König is Hagen.

Fabio Luisi conducts.

Listen Saturday at 12 p.m.

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