SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9

KXPR ClassicalStream
Sacramento, California, USA

KXPR Music
Sacramento, California, USA

Opera on Sunday: WFMT Opera Series 2022: Almira by George Frideric Handel

HANDEL: Almira
Emoke Baráth (Almira)
Amanda Forsythe (Edilia)
Colin Balzer (Fernando)
Christian Immler (Consalvo)
Zachary Wilder (Osman)
Jesse Blumberg (Raymondo)
Teresa Wakim (Bellante) Jan
Kobow (Tabarco)
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal and Chamber Ensembles
Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs (dirs)
Bremen Broadcasting Hall, Germany (WFMT)
[source: Radio New Zealand Limited]

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Sunday Opera: Falla: La Vida Breve / Zandonai: Conchita
法雅：短暫的生命 / 薩當尼：康奇塔

Falla: La Vida Breve 63’
Salud: Victoria de los Ángeles (s)
La Abuela: Ines Rivadeneyra (ms)
Orfeón Donostiarra Orquesta Nacional de España/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Zandonai: Conchita 90’
Conchita: Gloria Davy (s)
Mateo: Giuseppe Campora (t)
Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Orch.Sinfonica Cittàdi Sanremo/Loris Gavarini

法雅：短暫的生命
莎路德：狄羅斯安卓利斯（女高音）
祖母：利華德內拉（女中音）
多諾士亞奧菲安合唱團
西班牙國家樂團/費伯克狄保高士
薩當尼：康奇塔
康奇塔：歌莉亞．戴維（女高音）
馬替奧：金波拿（男高音）
波隆那市劇院合唱團
聖雷莫城市交響樂團/加弗拉尼 (3 hrs.)

Sunday Opera: Vienna State Opera
Roberto Tagliavini (baritone), Eve-Maud Hubeaux (mezzo-soprano), Elena Stikhina (soprano), Piotr Beczała (tenor), Erwin Schrott (bass), Luca Salsi (baritone)
Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Verdi: Aida

Recording courtesy of Euroradio (3 hrs.)

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Opera: Georg Friedrich Händel: Acis a Galatea
Pastýřská opera pod taktovkou Johna Eliota Gardinera
V pořadu uslyšíme také Bachovu Loveckou kantátu a Vivaldiho violoncellové koncerty
Připravila Svatava Barančicová

Eugen Suchoň: Krútňava. Opera o šesti obrazech Svatební scéna z 3. obrazu
Zpívá Slovenský filharmonický sbor, sbormistr Jan Maria Dobrodinský, hraje Symfonický orchestr Čs. rozhlasu v Bratislavě, řídí Tibor Frešo (3 hrs., 15 min.)

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Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera: Mayr, L'amor coniugale, highlights from Beethoven's Fidelio and Cherubini's Lodoiska
It was a German composer, Johann Simon Mayr, who brought Italian opera from the eighteenth into the nineteenth century. Born in Bavaria in 1763, Mayr was a little younger than the Austrian Mozart and a little older than the Rhineland native Beethoven. He long outlived both of them, passing away in 1845. His operas continued to be performed in Italy and elsewhere in Europe up to circa 1850. For a while his works rivaled in popularity those of Rossini. It's therefore hard to believe how Mayr's operas in later times could be so completely forgotten.

Now in the twenty first century a conductor from Bavaria, Franz Hauk, has championed the cause of Mayr's music. He had already recorded several of Mayr's sacred oratorios, released on CD through the Naxos label. In 2017 Naxos came out with Hauk's recorded interpretation of Mayr's Telemaco (1797), the world premiere recording of that work, the first one of the Naxos series I would broadcast, on Sunday, October 10th of the same year. Broadcasts of others in this series soon followed. Mayr wrote at least 75 operas in his long career and mastered all the variants of the genre: opera buffa (Amore non soffre opposizione from 1810, Sunday, August 5, 2018) and opera semiseria (Le due duchesse, dating to 1814, Sunday, October 10, 2021). Both of these again are world premieres on Naxos discs, as well as Saffo (1794), his first opera, composed in Gluckian style, again with Hauk conducting, aired most recently on Sunday, May 22, 2022. Another popular subgenre was the heroic "rescue opera," of which Beethoven's Fidelio (1812) is the sole remaining representative surviving in the repertoire into modern times. Mayr's L'amor conjugale (1805) predates the final version of Beerthoven's one and only operatic work.

Like Fidelio, Mayr's "Conjugal Love" presents the story of the faithful wife, here named Zeliska, who seeks to free her innocent husband from prison and stop his execution. Like Leonora in Beethoven's opera, she disguises herself as a boy and inveigles employment as the jailor's assistant. This Italian language rescue opera was revived onstage at the 2004 Rossini in Wildbad Festival, where it was recorded live in performance in co-production with Southwest German Radio, and issued on two Naxos compact discs in 2008. This time it's Christopher Franklin directing the Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra with a six-member singing cast.

You listeners will have the opportunity to compare Mayr's rescue opera with excerpts from recordings of Beethoven's heroic Singspiel and a French language comedie heroique, Luigi Cherubini's Lodoiska (1791), which was aired twice before in its entirety on this program.

Simon Mayr, L'amor coniugale
Zeliska/Malvino ..... Cinzia Rizzone, Soprano
Amorveno ..... Francescantonio Bille, Tenor
Floreska ..... Tatjana Charalgina, Soprano
Peters ..... Dariusz Machej, Bass
Moroski ..... Giovanni Bellavia, Bass-baritone
Ardelao .....Bradley Trammel, Tenor
Württemberg Philharminic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin ..... Conductor
Naxos 8.660198-99 (3 hrs., 30 min.)

SPECIAL PROGRAM: Els concerts de Catalunya Música
TEMPORADA DE L'ORQUESTRA SIMFÒNICA ALEMANYA DE BERLÍN, 2021-2022
Maurice Ravel: ''Sheherazade'', cicle de cançons per a veu i orquestra. Sherif Mohie El Din: ''Tres cançons egípcies''. Najib Hankash: ''Aatini Al Naya Wa Ghanni'' (Dóna'm la flauta i canta per a mi)
Alexander Zemlinsky: ''La sireneta'', fantasia a partir d'Andersen

Fatma Said, soprano
Orquestra Simfònica Alemanya de Berlín
Dir.: Cristian Macelaru
Enregistrat per Ràdio Alemanya Cultura (Berlín) el dissabte 16 d'abril del 2022. Philharmonie. Berlín. Concert d'intercanvi. (78 min) (2 hrs.)

RADIO BEETHOVEN
Santiago, CHILE

La Opera: Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio
Grabación de 1998

Leonora (o Fidelio) Inga Nielsen, soprano
Florestán Gósta Winbergh
Marcelina Edith Lienbacher. soprano
Jaquino Herwig Pecoraro, tenor
Rocco Kurt Moll, bajo
Don Pizarro Alan Titus, barítono
Fon Fernando Wolfgang Glashof, bajo
Coro de la Radio Húngara Y la Sinfonia Nikolaus Esterházy
Michael Halász (3 hrs.)

TEATRO DE ÓPERA: ANTONIO VIVALDI
ORLANDO FURIOSO
MARILYN HORNE, VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES, LUCIA VALENTINI-TERRANI, CARMEN GONZALES, LAJOS KOZMA E SESTO BRUSCANTINI
CORO “AMICI DELLA POLIFONIA” E I SOLISTI VENETI, SOB A REGÊNCIA DE CLAUDIO SCIMONE (3 hrs.)

WDR 3 Oper (Starts at 1804/2:04PM): La finta pazza
Drama per musica von Francesco Sacrati

Die großartige Mariana Flores interpretiert als Deïdamia die erste Wahnsinnsszene der Operngeschichte in der neuen Einspielung von Francesco Sacratis "La finta pazza" durch die Cappella Mediterranea unter Leitung von Leonardo García Alarcón.
1641 eröffnete in Venedig das Teatro Novissimo mit einer aufsehenerregenden Oper, in der Claudio Monteverdis jüngerer Kollege Francesco Sacrati ein Libretto von Giulio Strozzi vertont hatte: "La finta pazza". Die schöne Deïdamia gibt hier vor, dem Wahnsinn verfallen zu sein, denn sie will ihren Geliebten Achill davon abhalten, mit Odysseus in den Kampf zu ziehen. Eine Glanzpartie für die sängerisch wie darstellerisch überragende Anna Renzi, die damit ihr Venedig-Debüt gab. "La finta pazza" wurde ein durchschlagender Erfolg in ganz Italien und 1645 auch schon in Paris. Der Wahnsinn als Opernstoff sollte Schule machen. Die erst 1984 wiederentdeckte Musik hat Leonardo García Alarcón mit seiner Cappella Mediterranea jetzt in einer farbreichen Interpretation aus der Hofoper von Versailles auf CD vorgelegt, mit Mariana Flores im Zentrum des fulminant agierenden Solostimmen-Ensembles.

Deidamia: Mariana Flores, Sopran
Achille: Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Countertenor
Ulisse: Carlo Vistoli, Countertenor Diomede: Valerio Contaldo, Tenor
Licomede: Alejandro Meerapfel, Bariton
Eunuco: Kacper Szelążek, Countertenor
Nodrice: Marcel Beekman, Tenor
Capitano: Salvo Vitale, Bass
Und andere
Cappella Mediterranea, Leitung: Leonardo García Alarcón (2 hrs., 56 min.)

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Il Cartellone: Bologna Festival
Luigi Sammarchi, In alloro mutò il suo pianto Il canto di Dafne sulle spoglie di Orfeo

prima esecuzione assoluta Ex Novo Ensemble direttore, Luigi Sammarchi
con Barbara Zanichelli, Pamela Lucciarini, Roberto Abbondanza

registrato il 15 settembre 2021 nell' Oratorio di San Filippo Neri di Bologna (1 hr., 10 min.)

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The WWFM Sunday Opera: WFMT Opera Series
Rusalka (in Czech)
COMPOSER: Antonín Dvořák
LIBRETTO: Jaroslav Kvapil
VENUE: China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts
PRESENTING COMPANY: National Centre for the Performing Arts

CAST:
Rusalka ..... ZHOU Xiaolin
Prince ..... Ladislav Elgr
Jezibaba ..... GUO Yanyu
Water Sprite ..... TIAN Haojiang
Foreign Princess ..... KE Luwa
Spirits ..... LI Xintong, WANG Jing, YANG Yanting
Gamekeeper ..... KOU Jing
Chef ..... ZHANG Xin
Hunter..... LIANG Yufeng
ENSEMBLE: NCPA Orchestra
CHORUS: NCPA Chorus
CONDUCTOR: Rastislav Stur

We’re happy to be bringing you more music of Dvorak after the opera. Besides two of his Bagatelles performed by the Sharoun Ensemble, there will be a performance of Dvorak’s true Symphony No. 1, written for a contest when Dvorak was 26 but was lost, stolen, or misplaced at the time and eventually found in a secondhand bookshop many years later. This truly interesting look at Dvorak’s early composing style is performed here by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi. (3 hrs., 30 min.)

A Village Teacher (in Mandarin)
COMPOSER: Hao Weiya
LIBRETTO: Liu Heng
VENUE: China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts
PRESENTING COMPANY: National Centre for the Performing Arts

CAST:
Yang Caihong ..... ZHOU Xiaolin
Zhou Luoping ..... WANG Hexiang
Li Wenguang ..... KOU Jing
Meng Qiuxia ..... ZHANG Wenqin
Lin Xifeng ..... WANG Lei
Zhou Wushan ..... GUAN Zhijing
ENSEMBLE: NCPA Orchestra
CHORUS: NCPA Chorus
CONDUCTOR: ZHANG Yi (3 hrs., 30 min.)

Place a l'Opera: No details available yet (4 hrs.)

In Concert: No details available yet (2 hrs.)