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Live Performances
1:20 pm
Mon May 20, 2013

Opera Company of Middlebury Live

OCM poster includes 'Young Girl with Green Eyes' by Alexej von Jawlensky.

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.

Opera
7:25 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

Roméo et Juliette

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Midday Classics
11:00 am
Wed May 8, 2013

Heliand Consort Live

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The Heliand Consort performing live at VPR

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.

VPR Classical
2:46 pm
Tue May 7, 2013

Happy Birthday, Brahms AND Tchaikovsky!

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.

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VPR Classical
11:26 am
Mon May 6, 2013

Student Composer Showcase: Jacob Morton-Black - "Chapter One: Bar 60"

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Jacob Morton-Black

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. 

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