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Sonya Yoncheva as Desdemona and Aleksandrs Antonenko in the title role of Verdi's "Otello".
The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Otello, Verdi’s masterful re-telling of Shakespeare’s tragedy, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin in a performance from 2015.
Tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko starred in the title role as the military hero torn apart by jealousy, and soprano Sonya Yoncheva was Desdemona, his innocent wife.
Baritone Željko Lučić sang Iago, the officer who aims to destroy both of them through treachery and cunning.
Maestro Nézet-Séguin led the Met Orchestra and Chorus in Verdi’s tempestuous, towering final drama.
The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a network broadcast premiere:
Anna Netrebko in an all-Puccini gala conducted by
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a special Met performance from New Year’s Eve, 2019.
The superstar soprano portrayed heroines from three Puccini operas. In Act One of
La Bohème she was the fragile seamstress Mimì opposite tenor
Matthew Polenzani as the poet Rodolfo.
She sang the title character in Act One of
Tosca with tenor
Evgeny Nikitin as Scarpia.
The performance concluded with Act Two of
Turandot, Netrebko’s first appearance as the formidable princess of the title, with Eyvazov as prince Calàf.
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Willard White, who sang the noble political prisoner Gorianchikov.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the Met Orchestra and Chorus in Janáček’s remarkable score – a distillation of unflinching drama and vivid humanity.
From the House of the Dead will be heard over the
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 17.
Click here to view a synopsis of From the House of the Dead.
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Published April 22, 2021 at 12:34 PM EDT
The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Die Frau ohne Schatten – The Woman Without a Shadow, Richard Strauss’s epic fairy tale that grapples with the essence of being human.
This encore broadcast from 2013 features American soprano
Christine Goerke whose breakthrough performance as the Dyer’s Wife established her as a leading dramatic soprano.
German soprano
Anne Schwanewilms starred in the title role as the otherworldly Empress who must decide whether to sacrifice someone else’s happiness to achieve her own. Hungarian mezzo-soprano
Ildikó Komlósi was the Empress’s scheming Nurse, Danish bass-baritone
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This encore broadcast from 2013 features American soprano
Christine Goerke whose breakthrough performance as the Dyer’s Wife established her as a leading dramatic soprano.
German soprano
Anne Schwanewilms starred in the title role as the otherworldly Empress who must decide whether to sacrifice someone else’s happiness to achieve her own. Hungarian mezzo-soprano
Ildikó Komlósi was the Empress’s scheming Nurse, Danish bass-baritone
Johan Reuter sang Barak, the humble Dyer, and German tenor
Torsten Kerl was the Emperor.
Vladimir Jurowski conducted the Met Orchestra in Strauss’s mesmerizing score.
Die Frau ohne Schatten will be heard over the
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 24. Listen to it on Classical IPR.
Willard White, who sang the noble political prisoner Gorianchikov.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the Met Orchestra and Chorus in Janáček’s remarkable score – a distillation of unflinching drama and vivid humanity.
From the House of the Dead will be heard over the
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 17.
Click here to view a synopsis of From the House of the Dead.
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