Strange chatfellows

Miss Bobolink accepts the challenge: It’s Margaret-and-Will Day!

11:00-2:00 LRT KLASIKA RUSALKA from Glyndebourne 2 F.K. “You have just heard the shape-shifting ending of Dvorak’s miscegenational RUSALKA, with Ana Maria Martinez, Brandon Jovanovich, and Mel Ferrer.”

11:00-1:00 NRK KLASSISK An Anna Prohaska recital Not enough data to rate. “You have just heard the Prohaska ending of the Anna recital, with Anna Prohaska.” (This isn’t as easy as it looks.).

12:00-5:00 DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR LOHENGRIN from Berlin — 3 F.K. “You have just heard the WTF ending of Wagner’s proto-political LOHENGRIN with Klaus Florian Vogt, Annette Dasch, and Rima the bird girl.”

12:00-4:00 ESPACE MUSIQUE TANN HAUSER from Bayreuth — 4 F.K. “You have just heard the horticultural ending of Wagner’s omni-sexual TANNHAUSER with Lars Clevemann, Camilla Nylund, and Ava Gardner.”

1:00-5:00 CBC TWO, also ESPACE 2 at 2:00 IPHIGENIE EN TAURIDE — 3 F.K. “You have just heard the heart-warming ending of Gluck’s family-values opera with Susan Graham and the Menendez brothers.”

1:00-5:00 DWOJKA POLSKIE, FRANCE MUSIQUE, others Verdi’s OBERTO — No data to rate. “You have just heard the oom-pah-pah ending of Verdi’s oom-pah-pah-filled OBERTO with Michele Pertusi, Maria Guleghina, and a host of others who want to add the opera to their repertoire before it disappears for another handred years.”

1:00-4:00 NRK KLASSISK DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER from ROH — 3 F.K. “You have just heard the cliff-hanging ending of Wagner’s ultra-neutrotic FLYING DUTCHMAN with Anya Kampe, Egil Solins, and Natalie Wood.”

1:00-5:00 RTP ANTENA 2 TOSCA from the Met — 2 F.K. “You have just heard the rather jumpy ending of Puccini’s gossamer comedy TOSCA, with Leontyne Price, Franco Corelli, and Silvio Berlusconi.”

1:00-4:00 VPR, WCLV, WFMT LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR from Houston. 3 F.K. “You have just heard the stabbing ending of Donizetti’s penetrating drama LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, with Albina Shagimuratova and SONNY TUFTS ? ! ? !”

1:00-5:00 NPR World of Opera THE JACOBIN. 2 F.K. “You have just heard the peasantly-pleasant ending of Dvorak’s pleasantly-peasant THE JACOBIN, with Jacob Marley, Jakob Riis, and Jake, the guy down at the Seven-Eleven who always wants to show you his appendectomy scar.”

1:00-5:00 WFMT Network PETER GRIMES. No data to rate. “You have just heard the water-logged ending of Britten’s provincial PETER GRIMES, with Anthony Dean Griffey and Natalie Wood again.”

1:20-4:30 DR P2 KLASSISK LA DONNA DEL LAGO. 2 F.K. “You have just heard the spirited ending of Rossini’s incomprehensible LA DONNA DEL LAGO with Joyce Di Donato, Juan Diego Florez, and Nessie in her only operatic appearance before she sinks to the bottom again.”

1:30-5:00 BARTOK RADIO THE BARTERED BRIDE. 3 F.K. “You have just heard the rustic ending of Smetana’s dirndl-clad BARTERED BRIDE, with Dorothea Roschmann, Kurt Streit, and Kim Kardashian.”

1:30-5:00 BBC 3 LA SONNAMBULA from ROH. No data to rate, but it ain’t gonna be good. “You have just heard the hastily-contrived ending of Bellini’s narcoleptic LA SONNAMBULA with Eglise Guittierez, River Phoenix, and Aristotle Onassis.”

2:00-5:00 CESKY ROZHLAS VLTAVA DALIBOR, Prague, 1950. 2 F.K. “You have just heard the fervently nationalistic ending of Dvorak’s fervently nationalistic DALIBOR, with Beno Blachut, Marie Podvalova, and an all-star cast of native Czech speakers.”

2:00-6:00 KLARA DER FREISCHUTZ. 3 F.K. “You have just heard the pietistic ending of Weber’s badly-aimed DER FREISCHUTZ, with Andrew Kennedy, Sophie Karthauser, and Lee Harvey Oswald.”

2:00-5:00 RADIO STEPHANSDOM LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. 3 F.K. “You have just heard the non-gay ending of Mozart’s non-gay comedy, THE MARRIAGE OF NON-GAY FIGARO, with Boje Skovhus and Cecilia Bartoli. Special guests in the gala sequence include Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, John Edwards, Elliott Spitzer and numerous others who need a bandwagon to jump on.”

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