La Cieca is delighted to announce the 2009-2010 Saturday afternoon broadcast season brought to you by the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network, beginning December 12. For each of these broadcasts, La Cieca will host (or at least leave the doors open for) a chat amongst the cher public.
So, while you’re getting your radio tubes revarnished or whatever it is you do, put your mind on this, my dears. Shall the chat format this season be the comment-based one we have followed recently (which allows for archiving of the comment thread, and helps out parterre.com’s circulation numbers) or the “instant message” form we used in previous seasons?
Your comments and discussions on this issue will help guide La Cieca in her continued service to her cher public. The complete broadcast schedule follows.
December 12 (12:30 PM) Puccini: Il Trittico. Ranzani; Racette, Murphy, Blythe, Licitra, Pirgu, Lucic, Corbelli
December 19. Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann . Levine; Kim, Netrebko, Gubanova, Lindsey, Calleja, Held
December 26. Strauss: Elektra. Luisi; Bullock, Voigt, Palmer, Schmidt, Nikitin
January 2 Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel. Davis; Persson, Kirchschlager, Plowright, Langridge, Croft
January 9 Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier . De Waart; Fleming, Graham, Schäfer, Cutler, Allen, Sigmundsson
January 16 Bizet: Carmen . Nézet-Séguin; Frittoli, Garanca, Alagna, Kwiecien
January 23 Barber: Vanessa (Archive Broadcast from February 1, 1958). Mitropoulos; Steber, Elias, Resnik, Gedda, Tozzi
January 30 Verdi: Stiffelio. Domingo; Radvanovsky, Cura, Dobber, Ens
February 6 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra. Levine; Pieczonka, Giordani, Domingo, Morris
February 13 Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment . Armiliato; Damrau, Palmer, Te Kanawa, Flórez, Muraro
February 20 Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos. Petrenko; Stemme, Kurzak, Connolly, Ryan, Schmeckenbecher
February 27 Puccini: La Bohème . Armiliato; Netrebko, Cabell, Beczala, Finley, Cavalletti, Gradus, Plishka
March 6 TBA
March 13 Shostakovich: The Nose . Gergiev; Popov, Gietz, Szot
March 20 Janácek:: From the House of the Dead (performance from Fall 2009). Salonen; Margita, Streit, Hoare, Mattei, White
March 27 Thomas: Hamlet. Langrée; Dessay, Larmore, Spence, Keenlyside, Morris
April 3 Verdi: Aida. Carignani; Papian, Zajick, Licitra, Guelfi, Colombara, Kocán
April 10 Mozart: Die Zauberflöte . Fischer; Kleiter, Shagimuratova, Polenzani, Gunn, Pittsinger, König
April 17 Verdi: La Traviata . Slatkin; Gheorghiu, Valenti, Hampson
April 24 Puccini: Tosca . Levine; Mattila, Kaufmann, Terfel, Del Carlo
May 1 Rossini: Armida . Frizza; Fleming, Brownlee, Ford, Zapata, Banks, van Rensburg
May 8 Berg: Lulu . Levine; Petersen, von Otter, Lehman, Schade, Pittsinger, Morris.
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