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Verdi: Falstaff
14 Apr, 2021 | 1:56:22 |
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In this episode, we present Giuseppe Verdi’s 3 act comic opera entitled Falstaff featuring Arrigo Boito’s Italian libretto adapted from Shakepeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and several scenes of Henry IV parts 1 and 2, an opera that first premiered at La Scala in Milan in 1893. Set in Windsor, England between 1399 to 1413 common era during Henry...
14 Apr, 2021 | 1:56:22 |
EN | Program Coordinator | Flat Baroque: High Brow Radio by Low Brow Folks
In this episode, we present Giuseppe Verdi’s 3 act comic opera entitled Falstaff featuring Arrigo Boito’s Italian libretto adapted from Shakepeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and several scenes of Henry IV parts 1 and 2, an opera that first premiered at La Scala in Milan in 1893. Set in Windsor, England between 1399 to 1413 common era during Henry...
Jacques Offenbach's Fantasio06 Apr, 2021 | 1:56:27 |
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In this episode, we’re listening to Jacques Offenbach’s 3 act opera, Fantasio, with a French language libretto written by Paul de Musset. Fantasio premiered at the Opera Comique in Paris in 1872 though it only saw 10 performances at its debut venue. The opera bombed largely because of bad timing. Offenback, a german-born Frenchman released the opera shortly after the...
Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes28 Mar, 2021 | 1:58:36 |
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In this episode, we’re listening to the 20th century tragic opera Peter Grimes written by Benjamin Britten with a libretto written by Montague Slater adapted from the poem Peter Grimes found in George Crabbe’s novel, The Borough. Peter Grimes first premiered in 1945 at Sadler’s Wells in London. Set in a Suffolk coastal village in the mid 19th century, Benjamin...
Leonard Bernstein's 'A West Side Story'17 Mar, 2021 | 1:58:08 |
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In this episode, we’re doing something just a bit different and instead of Opera, we’ll enjoy the musical West Side Story composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. West Side Story is a Romeo and Juliet inspired story set in mid-century New York’s Upper West side that explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two New...
Donizetti's Don Pasquale10 Mar, 2021 | 1:57:11 |
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In this episode, we have another classic from Gaetano Donizetti. This opera buffa, or comic opera entitled Don Pasquale has an Italian libretto written by Angelo Anelli and believed to be completed by Giovanni Ruffini. Don Pasquale premiered at the Salle Ventadour in Paris is 1843. The performance featured here was performed at the Prinzregententheater in Munich in January 1962....
Donizetti's Roberto Devereux04 Mar, 2021 | 1:56:25 |
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In this episode of Flat Baroque, we’ll be listening to the third tragic opera in Gaetano Donizetti’s tudor England series preceded by Il Castello di Kenilworth, Anna Bolena, and Mary Stuarda which we listened to last week. This tragic opera composed by Donizetti with an Italian libretto written by Salvadore Cammarano is loosely based on the life of Robert Devereux...
Donizetti's Maria Stuarda25 Feb, 2021 | 2:01:17 |
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In this episode of Flat Baroque, we’ll be enjoying another one of Gaetano Donizetti’s operas dealing with the Tudor Period in English history including our last program’s presentation of Anna Bolena as well as Roberto Devereux and Il Castello di Kenilworth. This presentation of Maria Stuarda or Mary Stuart is a two act tragic opera composed by Donizetti to an...
Donizetti's Anna Bolena18 Feb, 2021 | 1:58:14 |
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In this episode, listeners will enjoy Gaetano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, the 2nd opera in Donizetti’s collection of four dealing with the Tudor period in England. Anna Bolena is a 2 act composition accompanying an Italian libretto written by Felice Romani. Premiering in 1830 at Milan’s Teatro Carcano, Anna Bolena has a comparatively small cast including the Queen Anna Bolena, written...
Leos Janacek’s Jenufa11 Feb, 2021 | 1:59:46 |
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This episode features Leos Janacek’s Jenufa, otherwise known as Her Stepdaughter, a three act opera based on the play written by Gabriela Priessova. First performed at the National Theatre in Brno Chechoslovakia in 1904, Jenufa is one of the first operas written in prose and the Janacek himself also wrote the Czech-language libretto. Set in a Moravian villiage in the...
Boito: Mefistofele03 Feb, 2021 | 2:00:13 |
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Join us for a midwinter journey into darkness. In this edition of Flat Baroque, we present Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele, the only opera Boito completed as both composer and librettist. This Faustian-themed Italian language four act opera with a prologue and epilogue premiered at La Scala in Milan in 1868 with Boito himself as conductor. The production of Mefistofele presented here...
Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann28 Jan, 2021 | 1:58:29 |
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In this episode, your listeners will enjoy Les contes d’Hoffmann or the Tales of Hoffman, an opera fantastique composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Jules Barbier based on a couple of short stories by German Romantic era author E.T.A. Hoffman, the protagonist in our opera today. Premiering at the Opera-Comique in Paris in 1881, this opera has...
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro21 Jan, 2021 | 2:03:34 |
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In this episode, we present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, or The Marriage of Figaro, a four act comic opera composed in 1786 to an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo da Ponte. Based on the second stage comedy, La folle journee in the Figaro trilogy written by Pierre Beaumarchais, Le nozze di Figaro first premiered in Vienna at...
Mozart's Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute)14 Jan, 2021 | 1:59:50 |
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In this edition, we present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, or The Magic Flute. The performance was recorded at the Nationaltheatre Munchen/Munich National Theatre in 1964 with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bavarian State Opera Chorus conducted by Fritz Reiger with the vocal talents of Fritz Wunderlich, Anneliese Rothenberger,, Gertrud Freedmann, Ferry Gruber, Albrecht Peter, Karl Christian Kohn, Keith...
The Barber of Seville08 Jan, 2021 | 1:59:10 |
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In this episode, we present Il barbiere di Siviglia, or The Barber of Seville composed by Giochino Rossino to an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. This two act opera recounts the events of the first in the Figaro trilogy written by French playwright, Pierre Baumarchais that revolve around the character Figaro, the barber in our opera today, and famously the...
Ep. 12 Puccini's La Boheme17 Nov, 2020 | 1:55:19 |
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In this episode, we feature La Boheme composed in 1895 by Giacomo Puccino to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. This four act opera is based on Henri Murger's 1851 novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) and is set in the Parisian Latin Quarter around 1830 with a focus on a young seamstress and her...
Ep. 10 Monteverde's L'Orfeo03 Nov, 2020 | 1:51:57 |
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Hallowe'en has passed but who doesn't love a little more spookiness! This episode of Flat Baroque features the New London Concort's performance of Claudio Monteverde's L'Orfeo. First performed in 1607 with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio, L'Orfeo is one of the earliest operas that is still performed today. There are many characters including Orfeo, Eurydices, Speranza, Caronte, Prosoperina and Plutone...
Ep. 9 Strauss's Die Fledermaus27 Oct, 2020 | 1:55:22 |
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Happy Hallowe'en! In this week's episode, we present Strauss's Die Fledermaus, a crowd pleaser replete with masks and masquerade and even a bat suit. This operetta, composed by Johann Strauss to a German libretto co-written by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée premiered in Vienna in 1874. The version we'll listen to here is peformed by the Bayerisches Staatsorchester (Bavarian State...
Ep. 8 Verdi's Rigoletto20 Oct, 2020 | 2:00:29 |
EN | Program Coordinator | Flat Baroque: High Brow Radio by Low Brow Folks
Our ninth episode of Flat Baroque is a presentation of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave that premiered in Venice in 1851. This partictular performance is by Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna accompanied by Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna conducted by Riccardo Chailly was recorded in 1989. It features the voice talents of June Anderson,...
Puccini's Tosca 13 Oct, 2020 | 1:59:57 |
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This episode of Flat Baroque features Giocomo Puccini's opera Tosca. The piece you'll listen to was a 2004 performance by Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire accompanied by Choeur National De L'Opéra De Paris and conducted by Georges Prêtre. It features to vocal talents of Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi among others. I'm trying something new this...
ep. 6 El Barbarillo & Scheherazade07 Oct, 2020 | 1:58:29 |
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We're bringing you a double feature in this new episode of Flat Baroque. In the first hour and 12 minute segment, you'll enjoy Orquesta sinfonica de Tenerife's performance of Francisco Asenjo Barbieri's El Barbarillo de Lavapies, conducted by Victor Pablo Perez and featuring voices of Maria Bayo, Lola Casariego, Manuel Lanza, Juan Pons, Jose A Sempere and Stefano Palatchi. The...
