Sounds of Learning

Welcome to Opera-Online! Welcome students and teachers to our Holiday Edition of Opera Online - this week focusing on New Years! YouTube Clip of the Week To celebrate the New Year, we’ll hear famous American soprano Kathleen Battle sing “Voices of Spring” or “ Frühlingsstimmen ” by the “Waltz King” Johann Strauss, Jr. with conductor Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra at the 1987’s New Year Concert. Web Site of the Week To find out more about this renowned American soprano, visit her web site where you will find more information about her life, recent recordings, and upcoming performances. Opera on the Air There’s lots going on over the next week or so on both TV and radio. On January 1st at 11am WRTI radio will broadcast “New Year’s From Vienna 2010” with conductor Georges Pretre and host Julie Andrews ! This is the Vienna Philharmonic's annual concert of music celebrating the New Year, with works by the Strauss family and their contemporaries. If you...

Welcome to Opera-Online! Welcome students and teachers to our Holiday Edition of Opera Online! My name is Aedin Larkin. I am the Community Programs intern with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and I will be taking over the blog entries for the time being. I hope to bring you lots of new and exciting information with updates on the upcoming productions for the 2010 season; but first…. With the holiday season approaching, I wanted to look at some Christmas and Chanukah music to keep us all in good spirits! You Tube Clip of the Week Chanukah is celebrated from December 11th-19th this season. This Jewish tradition has been celebrated for centuries. In our first clip of the week we will see a performance of Chanukah, O Chanukah sung by Marie Betcher. Handel’s Messiah is an extremely popular oratorio that is performed very frequently during the holiday season. Therefore I’m showing you one of the great soprano solos “Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion”. There are two versions; the tradit...