Upcoming Broadcasts: Tonight “Carmen” Live from the MET

It’s always a great idea to sit down with a glass of wine or a good cup of coffee or tea and listen to LIVE opera. If you can’t get to the house to hear it live, this is the next best thing. Here is what is coming up this week!

Carmen: Tuesday September 30, 2014

7:30pm

with

Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado
Micaëla: Anita Hartig
Carmen: Anita Rachvelishvili
Don José: Aleksandrs Antonenko
Escamillo: Massimo Cavalletti

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Soprano, Anita Hartig is Micaela

Macbeth: Friday, October 3, 2014

7:30pm

with

Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Lady Macbeth: Anna Netrebko
Macduff: Joseph Calleja
Macbeth: Željko Lucic
Banquo: René Pape

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Soprano Anna Netrebko is Lady Macbeth

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Carmen shakes things up, everywhere she goes! And, we LOVE it!

Two major North American companies are simultaneously staging Bizet’s “Carmen”, the Metropolitan Opera and the Canadian Opera Company. It seems that Carmen, the woman and the opera, generates headlines and shakes things up no matter where she goes. At both houses, cancellations made headlines and understudies either impressed or didn’t, much to the chagrin or pleasure of devoted Carmenites. Here are some reviews of both productions.

From the Associated Press: Gheorghiu cancels remainder of Carmen at the Met

Angela Gheorghiu

Metropolitan Opera Carmen stars Franco’s thugs and a Latvian Diva: Bloomberg

Elina Garanca

She’s Got Castanets, so let Carmen Dance from the New York Times

A scene from this season’s production of “Carmen”: to dance or not to dance?

Last minute stand in Carmen saves Canadian Opera Company’s Carmen from La Scena Musicale

Rinat Shaham fires up Toronto

Seductive, Sultry Carmen heats up the COC’S 2009/10 Winter Season from La Scena Musicale

COC’S “Carmen”

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This week’s MET broadcasts on Sirius/XM Radio/Met Radio

Mon. Feb. 8th, 8pm: Ariadne auf Naxos (Sirius/XM)

Nina Stemme is Ariadne

Conductor: Kirill Petrenko
Ariadne: Nina Stemme
Zerbinetta: Kathleen Kim
Composer: Sarah Connolly
Bacchus: Lance Ryan
Music Master: Jochen Schmeckenbecher

Production: Elijah Moshinsky
Set & Costume Designer: Michael Yeargan
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler

Tues. Feb. 9, 8pm: Carmen (Sirius/XM)

Brandon Jovanovich is Don Jose

Conductor: Alain Altinoglu
Micaela: Maija Kovalevska
Carmen: Olga Borodina
Don José: Brandon Jovanovich
Escamillo: Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Production: Richard Eyre
Set & Costume Designer: Rob Howell
Lighting Designer: Peter Mumford
Choreographer: Christopher Wheeldon

Sat. Feb. 13, 1pm: La Fille du Regiment (Sirius/XM/Toll Brothers Broadcast)

Kiri Te Kanawa is the Duchess of Krakenthorp

Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Marie: Diana Damrau
Marquise of Berkenfeld: Meredith Arwady
Duchess of Krakenthorp: Kiri Te Kanawa
Tonio: Juan Diego Flórez
Sulpice: Maurizio Muraro

Production: Laurent Pelly
Set Designer: Chantal Thomas
Costume Designer: Laurent Pelly
Lighting Designer: Joël Adam
Choreographer: Laura Scozzi
Associate Director/Dialogue: Agathe Mélinand

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