Wagner’s
Die Walküre. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Christopher Ventris, Ain Anger, Waltraud Meier, Linda Watson, and Tomasz Konieczny. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here.
1 pm ET: Copland House presents
Underscored: Jalbert’s
Crossings. Vermont-born composer Pierre Jalbert was inspired by the migration of people voyaging into new and unfamiliar places and traces Jalbert’s own French-Canadian-American ancestry.
Crossings is built around a folk song from Quebec,
Quand j’ai parti du Canada (When I Left Canada), which is deconstructed, reinterpreted, reassembled, and reordered in inventive and unexpected ways. The program features a complete performance of the work, preceded by an introductory conversation with the composer, and followed by a live Q&A with viewers. Register and view here.
Rising opera star from Edina comes home for A Holiday Special COVID and a Christmas special bring rising opera singer Liv Redpath home.
By Rob Hubbard Special to the Star Tribune December 18, 2020 10:22am Text size Copy shortlink:
Gretel got her.
Liv Redpath was an Edina eighth-grader when that fairy-tale character who s seduced by a witch s giant gingerbread house convinced her to become an opera singer. She sang the role at age 14 in a production of Engelbert Humperdinck s Hansel and Gretel staged by Minnesota Opera s youth program, Project Opera. After I sang that Gretel, I was totally hooked, she said last week.