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Schedule
JUNE 2009
FEMMES-FATALES
June 6, 2009, 1:00pm
CARMEN
Music by Georges Bizet
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after Prosper Mérimée's novel
VIENNA STATE OPERA
Carmen: Vesselina Kasarova, mezzo soprano
Don José: José Cura, tenor
Escamillo: Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, baritone
Conductor: Asher Fisch
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
recorded Feb. 2009
June 13, 2009, 1:00pm
MANON
Music by Jules Massenet
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gilles after Antoine-François Prévost's novel 'L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut'(1731)
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
Manon: Natalie Dessay, soprano
Des Grieux: Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
Lescaut: Christopher Feigum, baritone
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
Lyric Opera of Chicago Chorus and Orchestra
recorded Sep. 2008
June 20, 2009, 1:00pm
SALOME
Music by Richard Strauss
Text by Oscar Wilde
Download a PDF of the Salome Program
VANCOUVER OPERA
Salome: Mlada Khudoley, soprano
Jokanaan: Greer Grimsley, baritone
Herod: John Mac Master, tenor
Herodias: Judith Forst, mezzo soprano
Jonathan Darlington, conductor
Vancouver Opera Chorus and Orchestra
recorded May 2009
Following today's opera, one of the great interpreters of Salome, Dame Gwyneth Jones, is heard in conversation with Bill Richardson.
June 27, 2009, 1:00pm
LULU
Music by Alban Berg
Libretto by Alban Berg from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904)
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
Lulu: Marlis Petersen, soprano
Dr. Schöne/Jack the Ripper: Wolfgang Schöne, baritone
Alwa: William Burden, tenor
Countess Geschwitz: Jill Grove, mezzo-soprano
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
Chicago Lyric Opera Chorus and Orchestra
recorded Nov. 2008
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