#opera cheat sheet

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A quick, light-hearted overview of Gioachino Rossini's screwball comedy, L'Italiana in Algeri. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn and opera expert Eric Skelly discuss Rossini’s hilarious screwball comedy, L’Italiana in Algeri, the story of the wily Italian girl, Isabella, and her plan to outwit the buffoon Mustafà, Bey of Algiers. For more information about Opera Cheat Sheet, go to www.classical917.org/cheatsheet. Love our shows? Show us by donating a few bucks here: bit.ly/UQweya. Donations contribute directly to your own continued audio happiness!

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A quick, light-hearted overview of Verdi's tale of tragic love, Luisa Miller. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn and opera expert Eric Skelly provide a quick, light-hearted discussion of Giuseppe Verdi's Luisa Miller, a tale of social class, concealed identities, treachery and tragic love set in the Tyrolean Alps. For more information about Opera Cheat Sheet, go to www.classical917.org/cheatsheet. Love our shows? Show us by donating a few bucks here: bit.ly/UQweya. Donations contribute directly to your own continued audio happiness!

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In this week's Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7 Program Director, St.John Flynn, and opera expert, Eric Skelly, take a quick and, as always, light-hearted look at how opera composers over the years and the centuries have used biblical texts and stories as the subject of their works. You might be surprised at what the OCS guys have to say!

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Listen to our light-hearted overview of Mozart’s “fiancée swapping” comic masterpiece Così fan tutte. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn and opera expert Eric Skelly discuss one of the three great operas Mozart wrote with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, Così fan tutte (subtitled La scuola degli amanti), often translated as Women Are Like That (or The School for Lovers). Two young soldiers, Guglielmo and Ferrando, decide to test the faithfulness of their fiancées, sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, by disguising themselves and courting the other sister…and comedy ensues! For more information about Opera Cheat Sheet, go to www.classical917.org/cheatsheet. Love our shows? Show us by donating a few bucks here: bit.ly/UQweya. Donations contribute directly to your own continued audio happiness!

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In this Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn and opera expert Eric Skelly discuss Richard Wagner's medieval masterpiece, Lohengrin, a work that gives the first taste of the style Wagner was to perfect in his Ring Cycle. It’s the story of the mysterious Knight of the Swan who appears out of a dream to defend the honor of and then marry the innocent Elsa who, in turn, cannot resist asking the one question she is forbidden to ask…with devastating consequences. For more Opera Cheat Sheet, go to www.classical917.org/cheatsheet. Love our shows? Show us by donating a few bucks here: bit.ly/UQweya. Donations contribute directly to your own continued audio happiness!

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Listen to our light-hearted overview of Mozart’s penultimate opera, The Magic Flute, the fourth most frequently performed opera world wide. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn and opera expert Eric Skelly take a light-hearted look at Mozart's beloved "Singspiel," The Magic Flute, an allegory of the education of humankind progressing from chaos to rational enlightenment to make "the Earth a heavenly kingdom, and mortals like the gods." For more Opera Cheat Sheet, go to www.classical917.org/cheatsheet. Love our shows? Show us by donating a few bucks here: bit.ly/UQweya. Donations contribute directly to your own continued audio happiness!

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In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn and opera expert Eric Skelly discuss some of the operas written by American composers since the 1950s that have made their way into the standard operatic repertoire. For more Opera Cheat Sheet, go to www.classical917.org/cheatsheet. Love our shows? Show us by donating a few bucks here: bit.ly/UQweya. Donations contribute directly to your own continued audio happiness!

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Listen to our light-hearted overview of Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto tour de force, I Capuleti e i Montecchi. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn and opera expert Eric Skelly discuss Bellini’s rarely-performed I Capuleti e i Montecchi, a non-Shakespearian treatment of the story of Romeo and Juliet and the devastating effect their families’ feud has on their young lives. For more Opera Cheat Sheet, go to www.classical917.org/cheatsheet. Love our shows? Show us by donating a few bucks here: bit.ly/UQweya. Donations contribute directly to your own continued audio happiness!