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In case you haven’t heard—but who hasn’t heard?—HE’S BACK.

Glyndebourne is streaming Giulio Cesare for free for a week starting tomorrow, Sunday, August 9, 2020, from 5:00 p.m. BST. 

This is the 2005 McVicar production starring Sarah Connolly, Danielle de Niese, Christophe Dumaux, Angelika Kirschlager, Patricia Bardon, Christopher Maltman, and Rachid Ben Abdeslam. 

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Marnie -Die Oper, die uns nun netterweise live aus der Met ins Kino übertragen wurde, nachdem wir sie in London knapp verpasst haben, basiert nicht direkt auf dem Hitchcock-Film, sondern auf dem gleichen Roman von Winston Graham wie dieser. Mr. Hitchcock scheint sich einige Freiheiten genommen zu haben, andererseits wäre der Roman ohne ihn wahrscheinlich längst der Vergessenheit anheim gefallen. So ist es aber eigentlich auch noch viel aufregender. Die Musik von Nico Muhly ist groß und schön, die Inszenierung sagenhaft clever, die Sänger sind bessere Schauspieler, Isabel Leonard ist absolut hinreißend, und die Hobbypsychologie ist nicht ganz so schlicht. Und Tippi Hedren kam zur Premiere.

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Tonight’s opera night: The Metropolitan Opera’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 2014

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Piau, Crebassa, Desandre, Prina, Leonard, Graves, Antonacci, DiDonato, and MORE

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

This week’s MMM is a corker, including French and Italian Gluck Orpheus-es with dreamy casts for their respective languages, so pop open your calendar and write in your faves!

Sandrine Piau, one of the finest Handel interpreters I have ever heard, sings an assortment of Handel arias with I Bollenti Spiriti. Deferred broadcast Tuesday, October 16 on France Musique.*

Marianne Crebassa, Hélène Guilmette, and Lea Desandre star in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice (reworked by Berlioz) at the Opéra Comique. Video livestream Thursday, October 18 on Arte Live Web.*

Sonia Prina, Roberta Mameli, and Marie-Sophie Pollack take on the same roles in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna version, 1762) in a concert performance at NOSPR in Katowice. Live audio broadcast Friday, October 19 on Dwójka.

This one’s for Dilys: Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers and the Academy of Ancient Music in Lully’s Te Deum and a selection of works by Rameau. Live broadcast Friday, October 19 on BBC Radio 3.*

Isabel Leonard, Janis Kelly, Denyce Graves, Iestyn Davies, and Christopher Maltman make up the appropriately Anglo-American cast for Marnie, an opera by Nico Muhly based on a British novel (known for being made into a Hitchcock film), premiered by the English National Opera, and now being revived by the Met. Live audio stream Friday, October 19 on the Metropolitan Opera website. 

Mezzophiles may want to hear mezzo emerita Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre) and mezzo celeberrima Joyce DiDonato (Didon) in Les Troyens at the Wiener Staatsoper. Deferred broadcast Saturday, October 20 on Ö1.*

Broadcasts marked with an asterisk (*) are on radio stations (or other platforms) known to me to have a history of making concert broadcasts available for listening on demand for at least a week following the initial broadcast. 

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Maltman, Sampson, Lemkühl, Gens, Prina, Piau, and Basso

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Christopher Maltman sings a variety of English, German, and French repertoire in recital with Joseph Middleton. Wednesday, January 10 on NPO Radio 4.*

Carolyn Sampson and Wiebke Lemkühl are among the soloists in a performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio to be broadcast live from Copenhagen. Thursday, January 11 on DR P2 Klassisk.

Veronique Gens sings four Duparc lieder with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Antonio Pappano. Thursday, January 11 on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

As part of the Wigmore Hall concert series “Sonia Prina: A Celebration,” our favorite pocket-sized Italian contralto performs a variety of baroque works with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Thursday, January 11 on BBC Radio 3.*

Sandrine Piau and Romina Basso, both of whom have impressed me in live performance, are among the soloists for Handel’s “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by baroque specialist Emmanuelle Haïm. Friday, January 12 on Sveriges Radio P2.

Broadcasts marked with an asterisk (*) are on channels known to me to have a history of making most if not all of their live concert broadcasts available for catch-up listening for at least a week afterward. I can’t guarantee that any of these will be archived online but if you miss the live broadcast, there may be hope!