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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Opera lays claim to Sunday afternoons from 3 o’clock.
