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Anna Netrebko leads a starry cast in Verdi’s Il Trovatore on the season premiere of Great Performances at the Met Friday, January 22 at 9 p.m. on PBS, and repeated Sunday, January 24 at 12 p.m. (check...
View ArticleJulie Andrews in Vienna
As part of From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2016, host Julie Andrews visits the Lusthaus cafe in Vienna’s Prater park and explains the history of one of Vienna’s most popular attractions. The...
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Julie Andrews hosts the annual program with the Vienna Philharmonic, this year conducted by Mariss Jansons, and with the Vienna Boys’ Choir and Vienna State Ballet soloists. The New Year’s day...
View ArticleSee Salzburg with the Vienna Philharmonic
The Vienna Philharmonic performs in Salzburg, Austria, every summer. In this very special all-music and scenic feature, members of the orchestra and others play at historic sites and concert settings...
View ArticleAnna Netrebko’s Aria
Soprano Anna Netrebko sings Leonora’s aria from Act IV — “D’amor sull’ali rosee” — in Verdi’s opera, Il Trovatore. It is Netrebko’s highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine...
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Il Trovatore in Historical Context
Yonghoon Lee as Manrico in Great Performances at the Met: Il Trovatore (2016). Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) was the third opera presented at the...
View ArticleAnna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky Duet
Anna Netrebko (Leonora) and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Count di Luna) perform the Act IV duet at the final dress rehearsal for Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Leonora offers herself to the count in return for her...
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Verdi’s late masterpiece based on Otello, Shakespeare’s tragic drama of jealousy and deceit, airs on THIRTEEN’S Great Performances at the Met Sunday, February 21 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local...
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Otello in Historical Context
Sonya Yoncheva as Desdemona and Aleksandrs Antonenko in the title role of Verdi’s “Otello”. Photo: Ken Howard/ Metropolitan Opera GP at the Met: Otello premieres February 21, 2016 at noon ( (12:30 pm...
View ArticleAct III Finale
Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Sonya Yoncheva (Desdemona), Željko Lučić (Iago), and ensemble perform the Act III finale from Verdi’s Otello, in the Bartlett Sher production at the Met. In a rage over...
View ArticleŽeljko Lučić as Iago
Željko Lučić, known for his performances of Verdi operas, plays Otello’s sinister rival Iago in GP at the Met: Otello. This excerpt is from Iago’s “Credo” from Act II. The Serbian opera singer was a...
View ArticleOtello and Iago Duet, Act II Finale
Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello) and Željko Lučić (Iago) perform the Act II finale duet in Verdi’s Otello, directed by Bartlett Sher at the Met. The post Otello and Iago Duet, Act II Finale appeared first...
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James Levine conducts Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser with Johan Botha on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, March 13 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local schedule). Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung,...
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