SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

RTHK RADIO 4 HONG KONG

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Sunday Opera: ??? [LISTING DATED 10/1/'23!] Puccini: Tosca 浦契尼：托斯卡
Puccini: Tosca 121’

Tosca: Mirella Freni (s)
Mario Cavaradossi: Plácido Domingo (t)
Baron Scarpia: Samuel Ramey (br)
Cho. of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Philharmonia Orch. / Giuseppe Sinopoli

浦契尼：托斯卡
托斯卡：費蘭妮（女高音）
馬里奧‧卡華拉多施：杜鳴高（男高音）
斯卡皮亞男爵：雷美（男中音）
高文花園皇家歌劇院合唱團
愛樂樂團 / 仙奴浦利 (3 hrs.)

Sunday Opera: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
from NY's Metropolitan Opera production of 1964

It was a performance of Lucia that literally made Joan Sutherland a star overnight. And no wonder. Her enormous, sumptuous voice seemed made for the role of the hapless young woman, driven mad by her fate.

When Sutherland sang Lucia’s famous “mad scene” it drove audiences, well, mad. Her cascading vocal embellishments seemed both unending and superhuman, but she tossed them off with the élan of an Olympic gymnast dazzling the crowd with a gold-medal performance. But then, Sutherland’s voice was always golden. (Met Opera)

The character of Lucia has become an icon in opera and beyond, an archetype of the constrained woman asserting herself in society.

Donizetti’s handling of this fragile woman’s state of mind remains seductively beautiful, thoroughly compelling, and deeply disturbing. The insanity that overtakes and destroys Lucia, depicted in opera’s most celebrated mad scene, became inexorably linked to Dame Joan Sutherland as one of her show-stopping-arias.

The tragic opera in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti for which Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian-language libretto is loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's 1819 historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor, one of his best-known novels from his Tales of my Landlord series. A case of art imitating life, the heroine of the novel, Lucy, is based on Janet Dalrymple, the daughter of the 1st Viscount of Stair who secretly got engaged to a political enemy of her family. Just like Lucy in the novel, Janet was forced to marry a different suitor and overcome with stress, subsequently stabbed him on her wedding night. The real-life Lord Arturo, David Dunbar, survived the stabbing, but Janet did not.

Legend says of the September 12th, 1669 attack that David Dunbar recovered from his injuries but would never talk about the events of the dreadful night. In time, he married a daughter of the seventh Earl of Eglinton and eventually died after falling from his horse in 1682. Archibald, Janet’s true love, never married and died in 1685.

The ivy-covered ruins of deserted Baldoon Castle, the historic castle which was owned by the Dunbars of Westfield from 1533 to about 1800 can still be visited and it’s said by some that you can still feel a heaviness of heart as you walk onto the castle grounds and that the ghost of Janet Dalrymple Dunbar haunts the ruin, in a bloodied wedding dress. Sung in Italian. Live concert recording from the Metropolitan Opera, New York on December 5th, 1964 courtesy of Euroradio.

Program

Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, tragic opera in three acts, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor

Artists

Joan Sutherland (soprano, Lucia)
Sándor Kónya (tenor, Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood)
Nicolae Herlea (baritone, Lord Enrico Ashton)
Bonaldo Giaiotti (bass, Raimondo Bidebent)
Robert Nagy (tenor, Normanno, a huntsman)
Carlotta Ordassy (mezzo-soprano, Alisa, Lucia's handmaid)
Charles Anthony (tenor, Lord Arturo Bucklaw)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Silvio Varviso (conductor) (3 hrs.)

SPECIAL PROGRAM: Het Zondagochtend Concert

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
Lorenzo Passerini (dirigent)
Pretty Yende (sopraan)

G. Rossini - Ouv. La Cenerentola
G. Rossini - Una voce poco fa (uit ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’)
G. Donizetti - Regnava nel silenzio… Quando rapito in estasi” (uit ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’)
G. Verdi - Balletmuziek (uit Aida)
G. Verdi - È strano ... sempre libera’ (uit ‘La Traviata’)
G. Puccini - Intermezzo (uit ‘Suor Angelica’)
G. Puccini - Denaro, nient’altro ... ore dolci e divine ... fanciulla è sbocciato l’amore” (uit ‘La Rondine’) (1 hr., 15 min.)

Programme musical
Giacomo Puccini Sonaten für Orgel, Liuwe Tamminga / Passacaille
Giacomo Puccini Sonaten für Orgel: 7. Sonata G-Dur (Largo), Liuwe Tamminga / Passacaille
Giuseppe Verdi , Leone Emanuele Bardare , Salvatore Cammarano Il Trovatore = Le Trouvère. Opéra en 4 actes (extrait): Miserere... Quel suon, quelle preci. (Leonora, Manrico), IV, Torino / Coro Teatro Regio , Torino / Orchestra Teatro Regio , Claudio Fenoglio , Anna Netrebko , Gianandrea Noseda , Rolando Villazón / DG
Giacomo Puccini Mottetto per San Paolino. Motet pour voix, choeur et orchestre: Motteto per San Paolino, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi , Riccardo Chailly , Romano Gandolfi , Alberto Mastromarino , Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi / Decca
Giacomo Puccini Messa a quattro voci con orchestra. Messa di Gloria. Messe pour ténor, baryton, choeur et orchestre, Roberto Alagna , Antonio Pappano , London Symphony Orchestra , London Symphony Orchestra / Chorus , Thomas Hampson , Stephen Westrop / EMI Classics
Giacomo Puccini Messa a quattro voci con orchestra. Messa di Gloria. Messe pour ténor, baryton, choeur et orchestre, Antonio Pappano , London Symphony Orchestra / Chorus , Thomas Hampson , Roberto Alagna , London Symphony Orchestra , Stephen Westrop / EMI Classics
Giacomo Puccini Messa a quattro voci con orchestra. Messa di Gloria. Messe pour ténor, baryton, choeur et orchestre, London Symphony Orchestra , Antonio Pappano , Roberto Alagna , Thomas Hampson , London Symphony Orchestra / Chorus , Stephen Westrop / EMI Classics
Giacomo Puccini Messa a quattro voci con orchestra. Messa di Gloria. Messe pour ténor, baryton, choeur et orchestre, Stephen Westrop , Antonio Pappano , London Symphony Orchestra / Chorus , Roberto Alagna , London Symphony Orchestra , Thomas Hampson / EMI Classics
Giacomo Puccini Messa a quattro voci con orchestra. Messa di Gloria. Messe pour ténor, baryton, choeur et orchestre, Thomas Hampson , Antonio Pappano , Stephen Westrop , Roberto Alagna , London Symphony Orchestra , London Symphony Orchestra / Chorus / EMI Classics
Giacomo Puccini Messa a quattro voci con orchestra. Messa di Gloria. Messe pour ténor, baryton, choeur et orchestre: Et expecto resurrectionem - Et vitam venturi saeculi, London Symphony Orchestra / Chorus , Thomas Hampson , Antonio Pappano , Roberto Alagna , London Symphony Orchestra , Stephen Westrop / EMI Classics
Jean Sibelius Karelia. Suite pour orchestre: 1. Intermezzo, Neeme Järvi , Göteborgs Symfoniorkester , Björn Bohlin / BIS
Antonio Ghislanzoni , Giuseppe Verdi Aida. Opéra en 4 actes (extraits), Paata Burchuladzé , Leo Nucci , Luciano Pavarotti , Ghena Dimitrova , Lorin Maazel , Luigi Roni , Ernesto Gavazzi , Maria Chiara , Milano / Orchestra Teatro alla Scala , Giulio Bertola , Milano / Coro Teatro alla Scala / Decca
Giuseppe Verdi , Antonio Ghislanzoni Aida. Opéra en 4 actes (extraits), Ghena Dimitrova , Paata Burchuladzé , Milano / Orchestra Teatro alla Scala , Leo Nucci , Milano / Coro Teatro alla Scala , Luigi Roni , Lorin Maazel , Giulio Bertola , Ernesto Gavazzi , Maria Chiara , Luciano Pavarotti / Decca
Giuseppe Verdi , Antonio Ghislanzoni Aida. Opéra en 4 actes (extraits): Vieni, o guerriero vindice. Arie/air/aria (Popolo), Akt/acte/atto II, Paata Burchuladzé , Leo Nucci , Milano / Coro Teatro alla Scala , Ernesto Gavazzi , Ghena Dimitrova , Giulio Bertola , Luciano Pavarotti , Milano / Orchestra Teatro alla Scala , Lorin Maazel , Maria Chiara , Luigi Roni / Decca
Venantius Fortunatus , Giacomo Puccini Vexilla, pour choeur d'hommes et orgue: Vexilla, Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi / Memb. , Roberto De Thierry , Romano Gandolfi / Decca
Giacomo Puccini , Anonyme A te, pour voix et piano, Krassimira Stoyanova , Maria Prinz / Naxos
Giacomo Puccini , Antonio Ghislanzoni Ad una morta! pour voix et piano: Ad una morta! pour voix et piano, Krassimira Stoyanova , Maria Prinz / Naxos
Giacomo Puccini Salve regina, pour soprano et harmonium: Salve del ciel regina, für Sopran und Orgel = Salve del ciel regina, pour soprano et orgue = Salve del ciel regina, per soprano e organo, Roberta Alexander , Unknown , Inconnu / Etcetera Records
Giacomo Puccini , Riccardo Chailly Adagietto, pour orchestre de chambre: Adagietto, Riccardo Chailly , Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi / Decca Records
Giacomo Puccini Scherzo pour quatuor à cordes: Allegro vivo, Quartetto David , Mauro Loguercio , Gabriele Baffero , Antonio Leofreddi , Marco Decimo , Marco Decimo , Quartetto David / BIS
Giacomo Puccini , Felice Romani Menti all'avviso. Mélodie pour voix et piano: Menti all'avviso, Michael Fabiano , Jonathan Papp / Enr. RTS (1 hr., 18 min.)

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Opera: Saverio Mercadante: ORAZI E CURIAZI

Tragedia lirica o 3 dějstvích, libreto Salvatore Cammarano podle kapitoly Souboj Horatiů a Curiatiů z První knihy Dějin Říma od Tita Livia.; Osoby a obsazení:; Starý Horatio, urozený Říman (Alastair Miles), Horatio, jeho syn (Anthony Michaels-Moore), Camilla, jeho sestra (Nelly Miricioiu), Sabina, žena Horatiova (Jennifer Rhys-Davies), Curiatio, její bratr a albanský válečník (Marcus Jerome), Velekněz (Paul Nilon).; Zpívá Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, sbormistr Geoffry Mitchell,; hraje Philharmonia Orchestra, řídí David Parry.; Připravil Libor Dřevikovský. (3 hrs., 2 min.)

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Opera: Verdi: Rigoletto
(Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenori, Tito Gobbi, baritoni, Maria Callas, sopraano, Nicola Zaccaria, basso, Adriana Lazzarini, altto, ja Giuse Gerbino, mezzosopraano, sekä Milanon La Scala -oopperan kuoro ja ork./Tullio Serafin).

J.S. Bach: Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden (Jumala, pyyhi pois minun syntini)
(Maya Boog, sopraano, ja Michael Chance, kontratenori, sekä Balthasar Neumann -yhtye/Thomas Hengelbrock).

Rimski-Korsakov: Viikinkivieraan aaria oopp. Sadko ja yksinlaulu Profeetta
(Anatoli Safiulin, basso, ja Neuvostoliiton valtion elokuvaork./Emin Hatshaturjan). (2 hrs., 48 min.)

WWUH
Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera: Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

I have regularly featured historic recordings, and once again on this occasion, I will be presenting one that originated at Glyndebourne. When it was first recorded in festival production there in 1935, Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte (1790) was virtually unknown on the operatic stage, as were so many of the Mozart operas, with the possible exception of Don Giovanni, which had occasionally been performed in the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries. Way back on Sunday, December 27, 1987 I broadcast the Seraphim LP reissue of the monaural 78 rpm recording of Cosí with Fritz Busch conducting. In 1934 the wealthy English blueblood John Christie opened to the public the newly built opera house on his ancestral estate at Glyndebourne, Sussex not far South of London. Christie was committed to the revival of Mozart's neglected operatic masterworks. His wife, soprano Audrey Mildmay, sang in early Glyndebourne productions of them. Summer festivals at Glyndebourne became a fixture on the international opera scene.

I next broadcast Don Giovanni (1787) as it was taped at the 1955 Festival, which RCA Victor picked up for release stateside on mono hi-fi LPs (Sunday, October 14, 1990). Then came a digitally remastered CD issue in early stereo sound of Le Nozze di Figaro (1786), made live-in-performance at the 1962 Festival. Silvio Varviso directed the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Glyndebourne Chorus. And what a distinguished international singing cast for its time! Italian soprano, Mirella Freni, is Susanna, the Turkish, Leyla Gencer was the Countess, and Swiss, Edith Mathis took on the breeches role of Cherubino. French baritone, Gabriel Bacquier, portrayed Count Almaviva. Figaro was the American, Heinz Blankenburg. Glyndebourne Enterprises, Ltd. released the 1962 "Marriage of Figaro" in digitally reprocessed sonics on three silver discs in 2008. I last presented this classic old recording on Sunday, December 14, 2008 and do so a second time this afternoon. (3 hrs., 30 min.)

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WDR 3 Oper: L'Italiana in Algeri
Dramma giocoso per musica von Gioacchino Rossini

Im frühen 19. Jahrhundert haben Seeräubergeschichten in Europa Hochkonjunktur. Und das obwohl damals auch auf dem Mittelmeer Händler oder Privatleute immer wieder von Piraten gekidnappt und als Sklaven nach Maghreb oder ins Osmanische Reich verkauft werden. Genau dies ist dem jungen Italiener Lindoro in Gioacchino Rossinis "L'Italiana in Algeri" passiert. Die Handlung dieser Zeitoper spielt ausdrücklich 1810, drei Jahre vor der Uraufführung. Lindoro wurde von Piraten nach Algerien gebracht und dort als Sklave verkauft. Als seine Verlobte Isabella ihm nachreist, wird auch sie gekidnappt, und ihr droht dasselbe Schicksal. Aber dann wenden Rossini und sein Librettist Angelo Anelli die realen Dramen zu einem turbulent-zeitlosen "dramma giocoso", wo Satire keine musikalischen Grenzen kennt.
Die neue Live-Aufnahme von "Die Italienerin in Algier" unter dem Italiener Giancarlo Andretta spielt virtuos mit all ihren Facetten und präsentiert stimmschön und rasant mit Originalklang im Graben die 210 Jahre alte Repertoire-Oper aktuell wie zur Rossini-Zeit.

Isabella: Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Alt
Lindoro: Alasdair Kent, Tenor
Mustafà: Ricardo Seguel, Bass
Taddeo: Pablo Ruiz, Bass
Elvira: Lilian Farahani, Sopran
Haly: José Coca Loza, Bassbariton
Zulma: Esther Kuiper, Sopran
La Cetra Vokalensemble Basel; Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Leitung: Giancarlo Andretta

Aufnahme aus dem Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Teatro de Ópera: No details available yet (3 hrs.)

Opera în interpretări de referinţă: No opera this week (3 hrs.)

RADIO BEETHOVEN
Santiago, CHILE

La Opera: Richard Strauss

Salome

Versión editada en 1999 por el sello Chandos

Salomé : Inga Nielsen
Herodes : Reiner Goldberg
Herodías : Ana Silja
Jokanaan : Robert Hale
Narraboth : Deon van der Walt
otras voces
solistas y la Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio Nacional Danesa bajo la dirección de Michael Schønwandt (3 hrs.)

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The WWFM Sunday Opera: WFMT Opera Series
The Ballad of the Canal
COMPOSER: YIN Qing
LIBRETTO: HUANG Weiruo
VENUE: National Centre for the Performing Arts
PRESENTING COMPANY: National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera
CAST:
SHUI Honglian ..... WANG Lida / WANG Zhe
QIN Xiaosheng ..... WANG Hongwei / WANG Zenan
GUAN Yanyan .....vWANG Li / JIN Tingting
ZHANG Shuiyao ..... SUN Li / WANG Hexiang
ENSEMBLE: NCPA Orchestra and Chorus
CHORUS DIRECTOR: MENG Huan
CONDUCTOR: LÜ Jia

Please Note: the Chinese family name comes first and is in uppercase. The first name is in sentence case and comes second in the listings above.

After the opera, join Michael Kownacky for two “western” pieces that were inspired by works from China and Japan.

The first is Gustav Mahler’s moving “Das Lied von der Erde” which features soloists Birgit Finnila and Peter Schrier who are joined by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kurt Sanderling. The piece is based on seven poems from China’s Tang Dynasty that were part of a compilation by Hans Bethge. It was written at a time of great upheaval in Mahler’s life.

The second piece come from the pen of American composer Alan Hovhaness. His Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints was born from his love of the music, arts, and culture of Japan and comprises his response to the three woodprints of the title with Hovhaness’ original music based on the Japanese idiom. (3 hrs., 30 min.)

La fanciulla del West
COMPOSER: Giacomo Puccini
LIBRETTO: Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini
VENUE: National Centre for the Performing Arts
PRESENTING COMPANY: National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera
CAST:
Minnie..... Amarilli Nizza
Jack Rance ..... Claudio Sgura
Dick Johnson alias Ramerrez ..... Marco Berti
Nick ..... KOU Jing
Ashby ..... WANG Meng
Sonora ..... Domenico Balzani
Trin ..... ZHU He
Sid ..... ENG Zhe
Bello ..... SHANG Chunlai
Harry ..... DU Fanyong
Joe ..... GUO Jianchao
Happy ..... ZHAO Denghui
Larkens ..... ZHAO Ming
Billy ..... DU Ang
Wowkle ..... LIU Lu
Jake Wallace ..... ZHANG Yang
ENSEMBLE: NCPA Orchestra and Chorus
CHORUS DIRECTOR: Salvatore Caputo
CONDUCTOR: Andrea Battistoni

Please Note: the Chinese family name comes first and is in uppercase. The first name is in sentence case and comes second in the listings above. (3 hrs., 30 min.)

SPECIAL PROGRAM: The Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
Cleveland Orchestra Children's Chorus

Limmie Pulliam, tenor (Otello)
Tamara Wilson, soprano (Desdemona)
Christopher Maltman, baritone (Iago)
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano (Emilia)
Pene Pati, tenor (Cassio)
Owen McCausland, tenor (Roderigo)
Raymond Aceto, bass (Lodovico)
Kidon Choi, baritone (Montano & The Herald)

Giuseppe Verdi: Otello (Acts I & II) (2 hrs.)

In Concert: No opera this week (2 hrs.)