Boston Symphony Orchestra

Transfiguration and Redemption in Wagner

Mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung joins the BSO and conductor Daniele Gatti for an exploration of Richard Wagner's music, celebrating the bicentennial of the composer's birth.

On-demand at Classical New England

Classical Concerts

Reneé Fleming and Susan Graham Live at Carnegie

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Join two stars of the opera stage for an informal evening of French songs, as Carnegie Hall is transformed into a Parisian salon.

Sunday at 8pm on Classical New England

Great Performances

Götterdämmerung: The Curse of the Ring Leads to the Twilight of the Gods

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Watch the climax of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, in Robert Lepage's revolutionary production at the Met.

Tonight at 9pm on WGBH 2

Great Performances

Siegfried: A Sword, a Dragon, and a Ring of Fire

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READ 'ENCOUNTERING WAGNER'

Richard Wagner's epic Ring cycle continues from the Met, as the hero arrives, with Jay Hunter Morris in the title role.

Tonight at 9pm on WGBH 2

Great Performances

Die Walküre: Gods, Mysteries, and Fire

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READ 'ENCOUNTERING WAGNER'

Siegmund and Sieglinde find each other, and Brünnhilde intervenes. Fire ensues. Find out how in Part 2 of Wagner's epic The Ring of the Nibelung.

Tonight at 9pm on WGBH 2

Great Performances

The Ring: Wagner's Genius, Through the Prism of Our Time

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READ 'ENCOUNTERING WAGNER'

See Robert Lepage's bold vision for the complete cycle of Wagner's masterpiece at the Metropolitan Opera.

Tuesday, Sept. 11 - Friday, Sept. 14, at 9pm on WGBH 2

GREAT PERFORMANCES

Wagner's Ring Cycle: Wagner's Dream

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See the challenges that director Robert Lepage and the Metropolitan Opera faced in mounting a production of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle.

Ring Cycle Begins
Monday at 9pm on WGBH2

World of Opera

Screwball Tragedy: Niobe, Regina di Tebe

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The Boston Early Music Festival revives a nearly forgotten masterpiece, with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and soprano Amanda Forsythe.

Opera

Elysian Heroes and Heroines: Orfeo ed Eurydice

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Martin Pearlman leads Boston Baroque, with countertenor Owen Willetts and soprano Mary Wilson in this 2012 performance of Gluck's revolutionary opera.

On-demand at Classical New England

Opera

Opera Bash 2012, Part 2

Arias and Barcarolles

Boston Lyric Opera's The Inspector

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Sicily or Washington, politics are politics. Boston Lyric Opera’s Music Director David Angus previews John Musto’s witty opera The Inspector.

On-demand at Classical New England

Arias and Barcarolles

Massenet's Tribute to Venice

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Tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson sings Massenet's Souvenir de Venise and music by Gounod and Hahn.

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CNE Journal

BLO's The Barber of Seville

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BARBER OF SEVILLE ON DRIVE TIME LIVE

"My taste must be totally depraved because I find this Figaro of Rossini a hundred times more preferable to Mozart's."

Classical Concerts

Maazel's Ring Without Words, in Concert at Carnegie

Lorin Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and his own symphonic synthesis of Wagner's Ring, in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York.

World of Opera

From Russia with Love -- and Laughs: Glinka's 'Ruslan and Lyudmila'

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Host Lisa Simeone present's Ruslan and Lyudmila from one of Russia's most historic musical venues, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Tonight at 6:30pm on Classical New England

Drive Time Live

Boston Lyric Opera's The Barber of Seville

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MORE ON ROSSINI

The stars of Boston Lyric Opera's production of Rossini's masterful comedy perform arias, duets, and a trio, with host Cathy Fuller.
On-demand at Classical New England

CNE Journal

Happy 53rd Birthday, Rossini! (?!?)

Arias and Barcarolles

Angela Gheorghiu sings Rossini

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Angela Gheorgiu sings arias from The Barber of Seville and William Tell for the week of Rossini's birthday.
On-demand at Classical New England

Arias and Barcarolles

Ganassi Sings Donizetti and Rossini

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Italian mezzo-soprano Sonia Ganassi sings Donizetti and Rossini, and pianist Frederic Chiu plays two of Rossini’s “Sins of Old Age.”
On-demand at Classical New England

Arias and Barcarolles

Elizabeth Futral sings Bach

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The American soprano sings arias from J.S. Bach’s Wedding Cantata, and the young Boston-based pianist Charlie Albright plays music by Menotti.
On-demand at Classical New England

Arias and Barcarolles

Patrizia Ciofi Sings Vivaldi

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The Italian soprano sings a motet by the Venetian master, and Byron Janis plays Liszt.
On-demand at Classical New England

CNE Journal

Opera's Decision To Close Stuns Arts Community

By Brian McCreath & WGBH News
Classical critic Lloyd Schwartz was just as surprised as everyone else to learn that Opera Boston, which premiered a Pulitzer-winning production last year, plans to close on Jan. 1.

Opera

Il Postino at LA Opera

Music News

How Opera Helped Create The Modern Media World

By NPR Staff
The Metropolitan Opera just opened a show that uses cutting-edge 3D projection technology. Historian Mark Schubin says that's just one of the opera world's many tech-savvy innovations, some of which helped give rise to modern radio and TV.

CNE Journal

Boston Lyric Opera's Macbeth

AUDIO PREVIEW AND SLIDESHOW

The BLO opens its new season with Verdi's harrowing, psychological tour de force.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Haydn and Wagner at the BSO

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Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducts Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 1 and 100, the "Military," and excerpts from Wagner's Die Meistersinger, with bass James Morris and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Saturday at 7pm on Classical New England

CNE Journal

Opera Boston's Béatrice et Bénédict

Classical Concerts

Opening Night At The New York Philharmonic

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Alan Gilbert leads the legendary orchestra in an evening of music by Richard Strauss and Samuel Barber, with guest soloist soprano Deborah Voigt.
Tonight at 9 on WGBH 2

Greater Boston

A.R.T. Reimagines Porgy And Bess

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WEB EXTRA: NORM LEWIS ON PLAYING "PORGY"

By Jared Bowen
Porgy and Bess is considered the American opera and one of the most singular pieces of theater ever produced in this country. The piece has undergone a transformation of sorts by American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus, who was handpicked by the Gershwin estate to refashion the opera into a musical.

World of Opera

Boston Baroque's Les Indes Galantes

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Hear Rameau's extravagent opera performed in concert with music director Martin Pearlman.

On-demand at Classical New England

Opera

Opera Bash 2011!

SCHEDULE AND VIDEO PREVIEWS

Join us on 99.5 All Classical and WGBH 2 and 44 for a weekend filled with drama, passion, and, most importantly, incredible voices.
Friday, Sept. 2-Sunday, Sept. 5

Mark Your Calendar

Candide at the Huntington: Tony-winner Mary Zimmerman takes on a flawed classic.

By Arthur Smith
Leonard Bernstein's problematic masterpiece bows at the Huntington.

Opera

Orlando Furioso At Champs-Elysées

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Vivaldi's masterpiece stars contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux and countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, heard last month in Boston Early Music Festival's Niobe.
Sunday at 6:30pm on 99.5 All Classical

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Baroque At The Shed

INTERVIEW WITH HERAS-CASADO AND MORE AT THE BSO TANGLEWOOD CHANNEL

Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham sings opera excerpts by Gluck and Handel, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the BSO in instrumental works by Rameau and Bach, live from Tanglewood.
Tonight at 7pm on 99.5 All Classical

Opera

Rescue Reversed: Rossini's 'L'Italiana in Algeri'

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Mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus is Isabella and tenor Lawrence Brownlee is Lindoro in a production from the Lausanne Opera in Switzerland.
Today at 6:30pm on 99.5 All Classical

Boston Symphony Orchestra

The BSO Opens Its Summer Home At Tanglewood

BSO TANGLEWOOD CHANNEL
INTERVIEW WITH DUTOIT

Charles Dutoit leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the spectacular Requiem by Berlioz, live from the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood

Tonight at 7pm on 99.5 All Classical

Arias and Barcarolles

Dawn Upshaw In Concert On The Cape

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The soprano sings Schubert's "Shepherd on the Rock" at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival.

Opera

Danielle de Niese In Handel's Semele

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The American soprano sings the title role in a performance with Les Talens Lyriques and conductor Christoph Rousset.
Sunday at 6:30pm on 99.5 All Classical

Opera

Shared Madness: Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera

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Soprano Sandrine Piau and tenor Jeremy Ovenden star in a rarely heard opera from La Monnaie in Brussels.
Sunday, June 26 at 6:30pm on 99.5 All Classical

Arias and Barcarolles

Celine Scheen Sings Songs of Love

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The Belgian soprano and the Ricercar Consort perform music by Rameau and Lambert in concert at the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival.

On-demand at Classical New England

Arias and Barcarolles

Deborah Voigt Sings Wagner

LISTEN AND WATCH "THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS"

One of the great dramatic sopranos of our time sings highlights from Tristan und Isolde, and Matthew White and Les Voix Baroques perform music by John Dowland.

Opera

Rossini's Overlooked Otello

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A rarely heard opera, in a performance with Lyon Opera Orchestra and Chorus and conductor Evelino Pidò.
Sunday, June 12 at 6:30pm on 99.5 All Classical

Opera

Verdi's Aida, from Maggio Musicale in Florence

MORE ON THE PRODUCTION FROM NPR WORLD OF OPERA

Soprano Hui He sings the title role in the story of a passionate love triangle amidst the mystery and spectacle of ancient Egypt.
Sunday, June 5 at 6:30pm on 99.5 All Classical

Music News

Zhou Long's Madame White Snake Wins 2011 Pulitzer Prize

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Premiered by Opera Boston in February 2010, the fantastic tale of passion and transformation explores cross-cultural connections.

99.5 Host Notes

Zarzuela!

By Cathy Fuller
One of the distinctive musical sounds of Spain is featured in another postcard from the WGBH Learning Tour.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Tempest, Shakespeare's Most Musical Play

MORE BACKSTAGE WITH BRIAN BELL

By James David Jacobs
How one of Shakespeare's last plays stands as a singular creation and points the way towards new forms of theater.

Live from Fraser

Polenzani and Drake Perform Schubert

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Matthew Polenzani takes a break from his starring roles at the Metropolitan Opera to perform selections from Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin with pianist Julius Drake.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

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BRIAN BELL'S GUIDED TOUR OF BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE

Seiji Ozawa leads Bartók's darkly psychological drama, Williams Steinberg conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 8, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus joins James Levine for Williams Bolcom's BSO-commissioned Symphony No. 8.
Saturday, Mar. 19 at 7pm on 99.5 All Classical

Friday, Oct. 8, 8pm on 99.5 All Classical

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