Thursday Opera Matinee
A new season of Afternoon on 3's Thursday Opera Matinees begins on Thursday 16th September. Click on "read more" to see the full schedule: Thurs 16th September Verdi - Il Trovatore Recorded at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona starring Fiorenza Cedolins and Marco Berti. Conducted by Marco Armiliato. Thusday 23rd September Chabrier – L’Etoile Recorded at the Grand Theatre, Geneva starring Jean-Paul Fouchecourt and conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce. Thursday 30th September Monteverdi – Ritorno d’Ulisse Recorded at the Cour des Hospices, Beaune starring Sara Mingardo and conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini. Thursday 7th October Smetana - The Bartered Bride Recorded at the National Theatre, Prague. Conducted by Ondrej Lenard. Thursday 14th October Berlioz – The Trojans Recorded at the Muziektheater, Amsterdam starring Bryan Hymel, Eva-Maria Westbroek and Charlotte Hellekant. Conducted by John Nelson Thursday 21st October Donizetti – L’Elisir d’amore Recorded at the Lyric Opera, Chicago starring Nicole Cabell, Giuseppe Filianoti and Alessandro Corbelli. Conducted by Bruno Campanella. Thursday 28th October Tchaikovsky - The Queen of Spades Recorded at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona starring Emily Magee and Misha Dydik. Conducted by Michael Boder. Thursday 4th November Janacek – Katya Kabanova Recorded at the Lyric Opera, Chicago starring Karita Mattila and conducted by Markus Stenz. Thursday 11th November Rameau – Les Indes Galantes Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Conducted by Frans Bruggen. Thursday 18th November Verdi - Ernani Recorded at the Lyric Opera, Chicago starring Salvatore Licitra and Sondra Radvanovsky. Conducted by Renato Palumbo. Thursday 25th November Weber – Euryanthe Recorded at the Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw starring Melanie Diener and Stephen Gadd. Conducted by Lukasz Borowicz. Thursday 2nd December Puccini – Tosca Recorded at the Lyric Opera, Chicago starring Deborah Voigt, Vladimir Galouzine and James Morris. Conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Thursday 9th December Dukas – Ariane et Barbe-bleu Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam starring Katarina Karneus and Andre Cognet. Conducted by Lothar Zagrosek. Thursday 16th December Bartok – Bluebeard’s Castle Recorded at the Muziektheater, Amsterdam starring Gabor Bretz and Elena Zhidkova. Conducted by Adam Fischer. Thursday 23rd December Bizet – Carmen Recorded at the Vienna State Opera starring Nadia Krasteva, Massimo Giordano, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo and Anna Netrebko. Conducted by Andris Nelsons. Thursday 30th December Bellini – Norma Recorded at the Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw. Conducted by Fabio Biondi.
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A performance from the Liceu theatre in Barcelona of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio.
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Katie Derham presents Part 1 of Berlioz's The Trojans performed by the Netherlands Opera.
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Katie Derham presents a performance of Bizet's tragic opera Carmen.
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Donald Runnicles conducts Britten's Peter Grimes at the Grand Theatre in Geneva.
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Louise Fryer introduces a performance of Cavalli's opera La Calisto.
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Louise Fryer presents Dukas's Ariane et barbe-bleu performed at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw.
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Louise Fryer presents Chicago Lyric Opera's production of Gounod's opera Faust.
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Penny Gore presents a performance of Gounod's opera Mireille, starring Inva Mula.
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A performance of Bellini's final opera I Puritani, set in England during the Civil War.
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A performance of Janacek's opera Katya Kabanova given at Chicago Lyric Opera.
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Bruno Campanella conducts a performance of Donizetti's comic opera L'elisir d'amore.
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A performance of Bellini's La Sonnambula, given in early 2010 at the Opera Bastille.
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Louise Fryer introduces a performance of Catalani's rarely-staged opera La Wally.
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Today's Thursday Opera Matinee is Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria.
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Penny Gore presents Monteverdi's seminal opera L'Orfeo, performed at La Scala Milan.
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Katie Derham presents Mozart's opera Don Giovanni performed at the Vienna State Opera.
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Katie Derham presents a performance of Puccini's opera Tosca, conducted by Andrew Davis.
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Louise Fryer presents a performance of Rameau's exotic opera Les Indes galantes.
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Katie Derham introduces Rossini's opera Il barbiere di Siviglia from Los Angeles Opera.
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A performance of Rossini's opera La donna del lago, based on the writings of Walter Scott.
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Roberto Abbado conducts Kate Aldrich and Juan Diego Florez in Rossini's opera Zelmira.
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Penny Gore presents a performance of Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride.
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Penny Gore presents a performance of Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades.
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Louise Fryer presents Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin from the Vienna State Opera.
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An afternoon of French music, beginning with Chabrier's comic opera L'Étoile.
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Katie Derham presents a performance of the first two acts of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
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Penny Gore introduces a performance given at Chicago's Lyric Opera of Verdi's Ernani.
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A performance of the first opera Mahler ever conducted, Verdi's Il Trovatore.
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A performance given at the Royal Opera House of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.
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A performance of Weber's rarely-heard opera Euryanthe, a tale of knights and courtly love.