Here’s the line up of great operas coming your way on KSQD’s Monday Night at the Opera for the remainder of 2020.
OCTOBER 19: THE BARBER OF BAGHDAD
By Peter Cornelius with Dale Duesing, Fritz Peter, Helen Donath, Marga Schiml with Ferdinand Leitner conducting the Cologne Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra
MASS IN D MINOR
By Johann Nepomuk Hummer with Susan Gritton, Pamela Helen Stephen, Mark Padmore, Stephen Varcoe and the Collegium Musicum 90 conducted by Richard Hickox
OCTOBER 26: MACBETH
By Giuseppe Verdi with Shirley Verrett, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Piero Cappuccilli and Claudio Abbado conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala
NOVEMBER 2: FEDORA
by Umberto Giordano with Magda Olivero, Mario del Monaco, Tito Gobbi, Leonardo Monreale, Lucia Cappellino and Nicola Rescigno conducting Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra and Chorus
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI HIGHLIGHTS
by Riccardo Zandonai with Magdo Olivero and Mario del Monaco
NOVEMBER 9: NORMA
by Vincenzo Bellini with Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserat Caballé, Samuel Ramey and Richard Bonynge conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera
NOVEMBER 16: YEOMEN OF THE GUARD
by Gilbert and Sullivan with Dennis Dowling, Richard Lewis, John Camerona, Alexander Your, Sir Geraint Evans, Owen Brannigan, Alexander Young, John Carol Case, Elsie Morison, Marjoirie Thomas, Monica Sinclair, and Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and Pro Arte Orchestra
IN TERRA PAX
by Gerald Finzi with Donald Sweeney and Richard Hickox conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
NOVEMBER 23: COSI FAN TUTTE
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Leontyne Price, Sherrill Milnes, Tatiana Troyanos, George Shirley, Judith Raskin, Ezio Flagello and Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and the New Philharmonia Orchestra
NOVEMBER 30: DR. ATOMIC
by John Adams with Gerald Finley, Julia Bullock, Brindley Sherratt, Andrew Staples, Jennifer Johnston, Aubrey Allicock, Marcus Farnsworth, Samuel Sakker, and John Adams conducting the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra
ENCORES
by Gerald Finley singing works of Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams
DECEMBER 7: MANON
by Jules Massenet with Victoria de los Angeles, Henri Legay, Michel Dens with Pierre Monteux conducting the Orchestre du Theatre National de L’Opera-Comique.
DECEMBER 14: GIANNI SCHICCHI
by Giacomo Puccini with Fernando Corena and Renata Tebaldi with Lamberto Gardelli conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
LA BELLA DORMENTE NEL BOSCO (SLEEPING BEAUTY)
by Ottorino Respighi with Richard Haan, Denisa Slepkovska, Jana Valaskova, Guillermo Doninguez with Adriano conducting the Slovak Philharmonic Chorus and Radio Symphony Orchestra
DECEMBER 21: NOYE’S FLUDDE
by Benjamin Britten with Owen Brannigan, Sheila Rex, Trevor Anthony and Norman Del Mar leading the English Opera Group Orchestra
FANTASIA ON CHRISTMAS CAROLS / FLOS CAMPI
by Ralph Vaughan Williams with Thomas Allen, the Corydon Singers and Matthew Best conducting the English Chamber Orchestra
DECEMBER 28: EINE NACHT IN VENEDIG
by Johann Strauss, Jr. with Cesare Curzi, Rudolf Schock, Erika Koth, Heinz Stoll, Ernst Pauly, Ursula Schirrmacher and Wener Schmidt-Boelcke conducting the RIAS Choir and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra
SONGS FROM GERMAN OPERETTAS
by Johann Strauss, Franz Lehar and others featuring Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Beverly Sills, and Jonas Kaufmann.
