During 2020-2021, the METropolitan Opera in NY streamed a different opera every evening for free.
Since I had at the time been in the orchestra for 33 years, I thought it might be fun to learn more - the plots, the composers and the times they lived in.
These videos are the result of this effort. One day I might do more!
Les Dialogues des Carmélites - Francis Poulenc
An in-depth discussion about the opera based on the true story of sixteen nuns who were sent to the guillotine in 1794
Il Trittico - Giacomo Puccini
The last complete work completed by the Italian master
Also includes his only comedy!
Rusalka - Antonin Dvorak
The little mermaid of Prague
Der Rosenkavalier - Richard Strauss
Program notes and miscellany about one of the most beautiful operas and complex composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Don Giovanni - W.A. Mozart
Mozart's timeless tale of bad male behavior
Turandot - Giacomo Puccini
The mythic epic of Puccini's last work
Eugene Onegin - Pyotr Tchaikovsky
The tragic setting of Pushkin's masterpiece
Hänsel und Gretel - Engelbert Humperdinck
A masterful rendition of the fairytale brought to us by the Brothers Grimm
La Fille du Régiment - Gaetano Donizetti
High C's in the Austrian Alps!
Werther - Jules Massenet
An exploration of nineteenth century poetic unrequited love and tragedy
Falstaff - Giuseppe Verdi
An Italian treatment of the Merry Wives of Windsor by the master of Italian opera.
Desiree elsevier
Check out my letter to the editor from August 2020
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