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Opera On Sunday

Sunday at 3 pm.

Opera lays claim to Sunday afternoons from 3 o’clock. The series includes our annual season from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York as well as new recordings from the world of opera.

3:00 pm Today

Metropolitan Opera Season

Twenty-three operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House

(20) WAGNER: Siegfried, an opera in three acts

The third music drama of "The Ring of the Nibelung" cycle traces the first adventures of the hero Siegfried and culminates with his discovery of love

Siegfried...................... Jay Hunter Morris

Mime............................ Gerhard Siegel

Wanderer..................... Mark Delavan

Alberich....................... Eric Owens

Fafner.......................... Hans-Peter König

Woodbird.................... Lisette Oropesa

Erda............................. Meredith Arwady

Brünnhilde................... Deborah Voigt

Metropolitan Opera Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

3:00 pm on Sunday (26 May 2013)

Metropolitan Opera Season

Twenty-three operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House

(21) HANDEL: Giulio Cesare, an opera in three acts

Handel's fifth full-length opera for the Royal Academy of Music was his most sumptuous up to that point. It's a largely fictional look at the events that happened when Caesar visited Egypt in 48-47BC, in pursuit of his rival Pompey. It's there he meets the seductive Cleopatra in all her "infinite variety"

Giulio Cesare............... David Daniels

Cleopatra..................... Natalie Dessay

Tolomeo....................... Christophe Dumaux

Cornelia....................... Patricia Bardon

Sesto............................ Alice Coote

Achilla......................... Guido Loconsolo

Curio............................ John Moore

Nireno.......................... Rachid Ben Abdeslam

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Harry Bicket (EBU)

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