Friday Night at the Opera
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Dec 23 Friday Night at the Opera - 12/23/11 - La Boheme, Amahl & the Night Visitors, Potpourri
La bohème is an opera in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger
Dec 16 Friday Night at the Opera - 12/16/11 - Humperdink: Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck. The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel".
Dec 09 Friday Night at the Opera - 12/9/11- Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Dec 02 Friday Night at the Opera - 12/2/11 - Ponchielli: La Gioconda
La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, tyran de Padoue, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835.
Nov 25 Friday Night at the Opera - 11/25/11 - Operatic Triple Bill
Sean Bianco presents a special operatic triple bill. Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Puccini's Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi.
Nov 18 Friday Night at the Opera - 11/18/11 - Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on May 2, 1947, in a Chicago exhibition.
Nov 11 Friday Night at the Opera - 11/11/11 - Rossini: Il Turco in Italia
Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Felice Romani.
Nov 04 Friday Night at the Opera - 11/4/11 - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Dardanus
Dardanus is an opera in five acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The French libretto was by Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère. It was first performed at the Académie de musique in Paris on November 19, 1739.
Oct 28 Friday Night at the Opera - 10/28/11 - Wagner: Lohengrin
Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850, and is the story of a character taken from medieval German romance.
Oct 21 Friday Night at the Opera - 10/21/11 - Charpentier: Louise
Louise is an opera in four acts by Gustave Charpentier to an original French libretto by the composer, with some contributions by Saint-Pol-Roux, a symbolist poet and inspiration of the surrealists.
Oct 14 Friday Night at the Opera - All Opera Potpourri Fund Drive
All Opera Potpourri this week on the fund drive edition of Friday Night at the Opera
Oct 07 Friday Night at the Opera - 10/7/11 - Verdi: Don Carlo
Don Carlos is a five-act Grand Opera composed by Giuseppe VerdiSep 30 Friday Night at the Opera - 9/30/11 - All Opera Potpourri
All Opera Potpourri this week.
Sep 23 Friday Night at the Opera - 9/23/11 - Donizetti - Anna Bolena
This live 1957 recording of Anna Bolena from La Scala, stars Maria Callas and Giulietta Simionato. Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducts.
Sep 16 Friday Night at the Opera - 9/16/11 - Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte
Così fan tutte is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Sep 09 Friday Night at the Opera - 9/9/11 - Verdi: La Traviata
La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
Sep 02 Friday Night at the Opera - 9/2/11 - Bizet: Carmen
Famous and beloved, "Carmen" this week.
Aug 26 Friday Night at the Opera - 8/26/11 - Handel: Radamisto
Radamisto is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel
Aug 19 Friday Night at the Opera - 8/19/11 - Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.
Aug 12 Friday Night at the Opera - 8/12/11 - Richard Struass: Elektra and Salome
A Richard Strauss Double-Header and a night of operatic horror!