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World of Opera ListingsNPR's World of Opera features full-length operas and can be heard every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. July 23, 2008 Gluck's 18th-century "reform operas" were an entirely new breed of musical drama -- compact and straightforward, with every note intended to precisely express the intense emotions of the characters. Premiered in Paris, in 1779, Iphigenie en Tauride is one of his finest. July 30, 2008 There was a time when people were surprised to learn that Handel was among the most acclaimed opera composers of his time. Now, he's quickly becoming a favorite of our own time, as well. This production of Handel's Julius Caesar stars one of the world's foremost countertenors, Andreas Scholl, in the title role. August 6, 2008 Adapting Shakespeare successfully for the opera house proved an impossible task for countless composers. But it didn't phase Verdi. He wrote three, hit Shakespeare operas: Macbeth, Otello, and this week's opera, Falstaff, which ranks among the most brilliant of all Verdi's masterpieces. Shakespeare's outwardly comic play tells reams about the human condition, and Verdi took the deceptively profound tale and made it still richer, and more rewarding. August 13, 2008 Ever wonder what happened to poor old Des Grieux, after he lost the love of his life so tragically in Massenet's Manon? Well, the first work in this double-bill answers the question. It's followed by a dramatic and vocal tour de force for a single singer -- Poulenc's emotional roller-coaster The Human Voice. August 20, 2008 Glimmerglass Opera's jewel-like theater is the perfect venue for the crystalline textures and intimately-detailed vocals of Rossini's comic masterpiece. In short, it's the perfect place to hear why many consider Barber a nearly perfect operatic comedy. August 27, 2008 With Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti translated a celebrated tragedy by Sir Walter Scott into Italian, and came up with one of bel canto opera's greatest hits. But he also translated it into French, and that's the version we hear in this program. Sarah Coburn's performance of the famous "mad scene" is a can't-miss moment. September 3, 2008 Few if any 20th-century composers mastered opera as thoroughly as Benjamin Britten, and this Glimmerglass production brings us one of his finest efforts -- a bleak, beautiful and extraordinarily moving work based on the short novel by Thomas Mann. September 10, 2008 Idomeneo is a masterpiece that's only beginning to gain its rightful place in Mozart's canon. The opera does have an outlandish plot -- complete with conniving gods and a carnivorous sea monster -- but it's also blessed with some of Mozart's most beautiful music and a troupe of opera's most touchingly human characters. September 17, 2008 A brooding masterpiece, Tchaikovsky's dark drama deals with a caddish aristocrat whose indifference towards others turns full circle, and comes back to destroy him. This is the first of back-to-back productions from one of Italy's most prestigious theaters on the program.
September 24, 2008 This one might be considered Massenet's "other opera." His Manon is certainly more famous, but Werther is surely worthy of wider attention that it gets. Based on an influential, early novel by Goethe, the opera is the story of a man whose lost love proves more vital to him than life itself. Another stirring production from Genoa's historic Teatro Carlo Felice. October 1, 2008 From another of Italy's many, superb regional opera companies, it's a fanciful concoction by Rimsky-Korsakov. The Legend of the Invisible City has all the orchestral brilliance of the composer's familiar concert works, complementing a charming story blending Christian mysticism with age-old folk beliefs. |
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