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This weeks' Sunday Opera is actually two one-act operas by George Benjamin followed by a grand ballet, We'll begin with "Picture a Day Like This" followed by a retelling of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" entitled "Into the Little Hill." After the opera, we turn to Prokofiev and his delightful ballet "Cinderella."
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This next installment from the NCPA is the first Chinese opera written in the style of a western opera. Based on the interactions of the lives of four people traveling on China's Grand Canal including a variety of styles like bel canto, singspiel, traditional Chinese opera performances, and more.
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We're in Beijing for this week's Sunday Opera and Richard Wagner's fabled battle of sacred and profane love, "Tannhauser." After the opera, we'll have music by Siegfried Wagner to fill out the afternoon.
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This week's Sunday Opera comes from Barcelona and features a production from 2016 of Massenet's "Manon" about the naive young woman who goes astray which results in her untimely death.
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A Tempo this past week (8/26) featured an interview about an award that underscores the role of librettists in the creation of an opera.
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The Sunday Opera is off to Belgium and the Opera Royal de Wallonie's production of Bellini's "La Sonnambula" where the sleepwalking of a young mountain girl causes a series of problems that happily get worked out in the end.
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This week's opera is the long forgotten comedy by Leonardo Vinci, "Li zite 'ngalera" or "The Newlyweds in the Galley" from La Scala. This comedy features abandonment, pursuit, disguises, and a happy ending.
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Berg's tale of a destitute soldier who is abused by his captain, suffers through medical experimentation, and ultimately succumbs to his mistrust for his partner causing him to drown, "Wozzeck," is this week's opera from the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
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This program features a live performance from 2022 of Saverio Mercadante's 1842 work "Il Proscritto" which takes place in 17th Century Scotland and follows the machinations of followers of Oliver Cromwell who will go to any lengths to grab the power they desire.
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This week the program gets its opera from the Opera Bastille and the Paris Opera production of "Nixon in China" that looks at Nixon's ground-breaking 1972 trip to China. It stars Thomas Hampson as Nixon and Renee Fleming as Pat Nixon.