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Great Opera in Columbus This Saturday

Licia Albanese as Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme
Licia Albanese as Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme
3:00PM
November
28, 2012

Two magnificent archival broadcasts form the Metropolitan Opera on Classical 101, this Saturday at 1 pm.

Gustav Mahler’s 8th Symphony and Georg Solti This Evening

6:55PM
October
26, 2012

We conclude our week long celebration of conductor Georg Solti’s 100th birth anniversary on Symphony @ 7 tonight with his acclaimed recording of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand.

This Saturday: Don Quixote and Jules Massenet

3:13PM
August
10, 2012

Jules Massenet died 100 years ago. We commemorate this anniversary with one of his last operas, Don Quichotte. Saturday on Stage, Classical 101.

Tchaikovsky-Orleanskaya Deva

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Joan of Arc at her most romantic, from a 19th century print
1:25PM
October 15, 2011

Introducing Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans.

Something Wonderful: Joyce DiDonato Answers Your Questions

9:00AM
October
15, 2011

Joyce DiDonato answers questions about opera from the students at Rosa Parks Elementary School in Tulsa, OK.

Italo Montemezzi’s The Love of Three Kings

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The poster for the original production of Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re
12:55PM
October 8, 2011

Discover a wonderful opera, unjustly neglected. The Love of Three Kings (L’amore dei tre re) by Italo Montemezzi.

Today’s Serenity Break

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Bliss out with a compline service sung by Stile Antico
11:30AM
October 6, 2011

Listen to Stile Antico sing a motet by Thomas Tallis and forget the world and its problems for five minutes.

Politics on Stage, or Fox News Has Nothing on THIS!

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...already an opera
3:15PM
September 26, 2011

What political story would make the best opera? Vietnam? JFK? The 2000 elections?

Anne Boleyn…The Opera!

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Anne Boleyn (1503?-1536) on her last day referred to herself as 'Anne sans-tete'
1:00PM
September 24, 2011

Donizetti’s Anna Bolena opens the Metropolitan Opera’s 128th season. Anna Netrebko inherits the title role from Maria Callas, Beverly Sills, Leyla Gencer and Joan Sutherland

Happy Birthday, Sophia!

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Sophia Loren as Aida in 1951, with help from Renata Tebaldi.
10:51AM
September 20, 2011

Sophia Loren’s 1951 film of Aida is fun to remember on the great lady’s birthday.