Tune in on these chilly nights for dramatic stories set to the world’s greatest music and performed at the highest level possible. Orpheus and Euridice in Hades by Peter Paul Rubens.
JANUARY 10: MACBETH
By Giuseppe Verdi featuring Shirley Verrett, Placido Domingo, Piero Cappuccilli, Nicolai Ghiaurov with Claudio Abbado conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Milan and hosted by Jeremey Bot
JANUARY 17: PELLEAS ET MELISANDE
By Claude Debussy featuring Frederica von Stade, Richard Stilwell, José van Dam, Ruggiero Raimondi with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Opera Chorus and the Berlin Philharmonic and hosted by Joe Truskot
JANUARY 24: I PURITANI
By Vincenzo Bellini featuring Montserrat Caballé, Alfredo Kraus, Matteo Manuguerra, Julia Hamari with Riccardo Muti conducting the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra and hosted by Joe Truskot
JANUARY 31: RAKE’S PROGRESS
By Igor Stravinsky featuring Deborah York, Ian Bostridge, Bryn Terfel, Anne Sofie von Otter with John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and the London Symphony Orchestra and hosted by Joe Truskot
FEBRUARY 7: COMMUNITY CONCERT HALL
Past concerts from the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival hosted by Christopher Smith
FEBRUARY 14: VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL
Love scenes from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut with Leontyne Price and Placido Domingo, Tosca with Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano, La boheme with Mirella Freni and Luciano Pavarotti; Verdi’s Otello with Eileen Farrell and Richard Tucker, Un ballo in maschera with Montserrat Caballé and José Carreras, Aida with Renata Tebaldi and Mario del Monaco; Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt with Carol Neblett and René Kollo; and many, many more love duets.
FEBRUARY 21: IL TRITICO
By Giacomo Puccini featuring Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Robert Merrill, Giulietta Simionato, Fernando Corena with Lamberto Gardelli conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino hosted by Jeremey Bot
FEBRUARY 28: DON QUICHOTTE
By Jules Massenet featuring José van Dam, Teresa Berganza, Alain Fondary with Michel Plasson conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the National du Capitole de Toulouse hosted by Joe Truskot
MARCH 7: COMMUNITY CONCERT HALL
Past concerts from the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival hosted by Christopher Smith
MARCH 14: LOHENGRIN
with Siegfried Jerusalem, Cheryl Studer, Waltraud Meier, Hartmut Welker, Kurt Moll with Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna Opera Chorus and the Vienna Philharmonic hosted by Jeremey Bot
MARCH 21: WOZZECK
By Alban Berg with Hildegard Behrens, Franz Grundheber, Aage Haugland, Philip Langridge with Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna Opera Chorus and the Vienna Philharmonic hosted by Joe Truskot
MARCH 28: ORFEO ED EURIDICE
By Christoph Willibald Gluck with Gundula Janowitz, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Edda Moser with Karl Richter conducting the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra hosted by Joe Truskot
