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By Ben Mattison
13 Jul 2005
The NPR program World of Opera will broadcast five operas recorded live at the Glimmerglass Opera over the next five weeks.
The five productions are drawn from the 2002 and 2004 summer seasons. They include Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur, Handel’s Imeneo, Puccini’s La fanciulla del West, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, and Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites.
Imeneo, with tenor John Tessier in the title role, will be broadcast on the weekend of July 16. The conductor was William Lacey; the cast also included countertenor Michael Maniaci. Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana will follow on the weekend of July 23. The Glimmerglass production was conducted by music director Stewart Robinson.
The broadcast of The Mines of Sulphur, which will come later in the summer, will give many American operagoers their first chance to hear the 1965 operatic thriller. The Glimmerglass production, which travels to New York City Opera this fall, was its American premiere. Robertson conducted; the cast included mezzo-soprano Beth Clayton.
Check http://www.npr.org/programs/worldofopera/programlistings/ for further schedule information.
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