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Metropolitan Opera
Ken Howard
Sonya Yoncheva as Desdemona and Aleksandrs Antonenko in the title role of Verdi s Otello .
The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Otello, Verdi’s masterful re-telling of Shakespeare’s tragedy, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin in a performance from 2015.
Tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko starred in the title role as the military hero torn apart by jealousy, and soprano Sonya Yoncheva was Desdemona, his innocent wife.
Baritone Željko Lučić sang Iago, the officer who aims to destroy both of them through treachery and cunning.
Maestro Nézet-Séguin led the Met Orchestra and Chorus in Verdi’s tempestuous, towering final drama.
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s
Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four
Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
, a 2014 performance featuring mezzo-soprano
Anita Rachvelishvili in the role that brought her international stardom.
She sang the title character of the gypsy who prizes her freedom above everything else, opposite tenor
Aleksandrs Antonenko as the volatile and jealous Don José. Soprano
Anita Hartig was the virtuous Micaëla, and bass
Ildar Abdrazakov sang the swaggering bullfighter Escamillo.
Pablo Heras-Casado conducted the Met Orchestra and Chorus in Bizet’s blockbuster score, one of the most beloved operas in the repertory.
Carmen will be heard over the
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, March 6. Listen to it on Classical IPR.