Oh wow!  It’s “Rob Besserer Week”  on The Internet.  The world’s favorite Silent Opera Star is featured in a wide variety of offerings.  

11:00-2:00 LRT KLASIKA: AIDA from Florence with Mehta conducting, Berti and d’Intino singing, with Rob Besserer as The Sphinx. 4 F.K.

12:58-5:00 CESKY ROZHLAD VLTAVA and RADIO CLASICA DE ESPANA: THE JACOBIN — Demonstrating his ability to be silent in almost any language, Besserer portrays the Bureau Drawer in this Dvorak rarity. 2 F.K.

1:00-4:00 DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR: WERTHER from Vienna. It takes a stellar performer to steal a show from Koch and Kaufmann, but Besserer’s portrayal of a flowering delphinium manages the feat. 2 F.K.

1:00-5:00 CBC TWO : I CAPULETI E I MONTECHI with Tara Erraught, Eri Nakamura, and Rob Besserer as a Veronese fishpeddler who has sold his sole to the Devil.3 F.K.

1:00-4:00 DR P2: A grabbag from Copenhagen. 2 F.K. Besserer recapitulates his turn as the Stage Manager from LE CONTE ORY.

l:00-4:30 NRK: FAUST from ROH with Grigolo, Frigolo, Durstein, and Osborne. 4 F.K. Watch for Besserer during the Kermesse scene as the Ghost Of Charles Gounod making minor tweaks to the score.

1:00-5:00 VPR, WCLV: DIE WALKURE from San Francisco. 2 F.K. Rob appears as Warthilde, the ninth Valkyrie, who stays home and packs sack lunches for everybody.

1:00-4:00 NPR World of Opera: DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER from Washington DC. 3 F.K. In his debut with the company, Rob plays a spinning wheel.

1:00-5:00 WFMT Network: SIEGFRIED from San Francisco. 2 F.K. Stimme, Storey, with Besserer as the Forest Walrus.

1:30-4:45 BARTOK RADIO: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 3 F.K. for those who want to hear what Domingo sounded like as a baritone before he became a tenor who became a baritone. RB has a cameo as a shaving mug in this early-career outing.

1:30-5L30 FRANCE MUSIQUE: J.C. Bach’s ZANAIDA not enough data to rate. Rob participates in the big Ping Pong tournament that closes Act Two.

2:00-6:00 ESPACE 2: ATYS 1 F.K. More than anything else, it was Besserer’s portrayal of the disgruntled Rameau that established him on the international circuit.

2:00-6:00 KLARA: LA MAGICIENNE by Halevy 4 F.K. for those not overcome by ennui. Rob plays Wand, the stick used by the central character to shake at things of which there are more of than you can shake a stick at.

2:00-6:00 RADIO STEPHANSDOM: PARSIFAL – Windgassen, Moedl, Leitner, with Besserer in a pre-natal turn as the dead swan’s grieving mate.

(COMPILER’S NOTE — OperaCast has several sites that have not yet posted their offerings, meaning there should be more to choose from than this. There’s GOT to be more to choose from than this.)

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