Musical Offerings for the Holiday Season
Monday Night at the Opera with Joe Truskot
Mondays at 7 p.m.
November 18: Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti with Beverly Sills, Carlo Bergonzi, Piero Cappucilli, Justino Diaz, Thomas Schippers conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
November 25: Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin with Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Damon Evans, Simon Rattle conducts the London Philharmonic
December 2: Santa Cruz Baroque Festival with Linda Burman-Hall on KSQD Concert Hall
December 9: Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck with Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp, Walter Berry, Edita Gruberova, Vienna Boys Choir, Georg Solti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic
December 16: La bohème by Giacomo Puccini with José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Colin Davis conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
December 23: Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach with Catherine Bott, Michael Chance, Paul AGnew, Andrew King, Michael George, Philip Pickett conducts the New London Consort
December 30: Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Jr. with Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Rita Streich, Nicolai Gedda, Herbert von Karajan conductgs the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
