1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Giselle. Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov, choreography: Elena Tschernischova after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. With Nina Poláková, Masayu Kimoto, Rebecca Horner, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Alice Firenze, Leonardo Basílio, and Soloists and Corps de ballet des Wiener Staatsballetts. Production from September 2017. Register for free and view here.
2:30 pm ET: Philharmonie de Paris presents Casadesus conducts Debussy, Ravel, Schumann & Beethoven. Jean-Claude Casadesus conducts the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris in a Franco-German program of Debussy’s
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Ravel’s
Pavane pour une infante défunte Schumann’s Piano Concerto with soloist David Kadouch, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1. View here. LIVE
The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
, The Barber of Seville, one of opera’s best-loved comedies in a notable performance from 2007.
Mezzo-soprano
Joyce DiDonato starred as the determined Rosina opposite tenor
Lawrence Brownlee who made a sensational Metropolitan Opera debut that evening as the dashing Count Almaviva
. Baritone
John Del Carlo as Rosina’s jealous guardian Dr. Bartolo, and bass
Samuel Ramey as the scheming Don Basilio.
Maurizio Benini conducted.
Il Barbiere di Siviglia will be heard over the
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 9. Listen to it on Classical IPR.