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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’d prefer, WHYY-TV 12 will telecast this concert on January 1st at 9pm. Check out your local listings for the channel on your television or cable system.
Later that day you can listen to Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow at 1pm. An Operetta in three acts, starring British soprano Dame Felicity Lott, American baritone Thomas Hampson and Polish soprano Elzbieta Szmytka with Franz Welser-Most conducting London Philharmonic with The Glyndebourne Chorus.
On Saturday, January 2 at 1 pm the Metropolitan Opera presents
Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel starring Miah Persson, Angelika Kirchschlager, Rosalind Plowright, Philip Langridge , Dwayne Croft and conductor Fabio Luisi.
Enjoying the holidays and I’ll be back in the New Year to talk about the opera company’s production of Tea: A Mirror of Soul. An east cost premier by Tan Dun.
Don't forget to invite your friends to sign up to receive these alerts by emailing their name, school, and age to us at outreach@operaphila.org.
Until next time …
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’d prefer, WHYY-TV 12 will telecast this concert on January 1st at 9pm. Check out your local listings for the channel on your television or cable system.
Later that day you can listen to Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow at 1pm. An Operetta in three acts, starring British soprano Dame Felicity Lott, American baritone Thomas Hampson and Polish soprano Elzbieta Szmytka with Franz Welser-Most conducting London Philharmonic with The Glyndebourne Chorus.
On Saturday, January 2 at 1 pm the Metropolitan Opera presents
Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel starring Miah Persson, Angelika Kirchschlager, Rosalind Plowright, Philip Langridge , Dwayne Croft and conductor Fabio Luisi.
Enjoying the holidays and I’ll be back in the New Year to talk about the opera company’s production of Tea: A Mirror of Soul. An east cost premier by Tan Dun.
Don't forget to invite your friends to sign up to receive these alerts by emailing their name, school, and age to us at outreach@operaphila.org.
Until next time …
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