ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): Metropolitan Opera

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Showing posts with label Metropolitan Opera. Show all posts

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Playing

Gioachino Rossini
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA {THE BARBER OF SEVILLE]

Giacomo Sagripanti

Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Aigul Akhmetshina, Jack Swanson), Peter Kálmán, Alexander Vinogradov

New Production/Met Premiere - Recorded May 2025

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Playing

John Adams
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

John Adams

Julia Bullock, Gerald Finley, Paul Appleby, Elizabeth DeShong

New Production/Met Premiere - Recorded May 2025

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Playing

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

Joana Mallwitz

Michael Sumuel, Olga Kulchynska, Federica Lombardi, Joshua Hopkins, Sun-Ly Pierce, Elizabeth Bishop, Maurizio Muraro

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Playing

Jake Heggie
MOBY DICK

Libretto by Gene Scheer

Karen Kamensek

Brandon Jovanovic, Stephen Costello, Peter Mattei, Ryan Speedo Green, Janai Brugger, Malcolm MacKenzie, William Burden

New Production/Met Premiere - March 2025

Playing

Rossini
L’ASSEDIO DI CORINTO

Thomas Schippers

Beverly Sills, Shirley Verrett, Harry Theyard, Justíno Díaz

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Beverly Sills’s Met debut with a performance from April 19, 1975

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Playing

Osvaldo Golijov
AINADAMAR

Libretto by David Henry Hwang

Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Angel Blue, Daniela Mack, Elena Villalón, Alfredo Tejada

New Production/Met Premiere - Fall 2024

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Playing

Beethoven
FIDELIO

Susanna Mälkki

Lise Davidsen , David Butt Philip, René Pape, Tomasz Konieczny, Ying Fang, Magnus Dietrich, Stephen Milling

Recorded March 2025

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Playing at AllClassical.org (98.9 in PDX)

Richard Strauss
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS

Andrew Davis

Jessye Norman, Gianna Rolandi, William Cochran, Maria Ewing, Dale Duesing

Performance from January 5, 1985

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Playing at AllClassical.org (98.9 in PDX)

Richard Wagner
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER

Thomas Schippers

George London, Leonie Rysanek, Karl Liebl, Giorgio Tozzi

Performance from March 5, 1960

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Playing at AllClassical.org (98.9 in PDX)

Giuseppe Verdi
LA TRAVIATA

Marco Armiliato

Renée Fleming, Matthew Polenzani, Dwayne Croft

Performance from November 27, 2007

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Playing at AllClassical.org (98.9 in PDX)

Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Angel Blue, Piotr Beczała, Judit Kutasi , Quinn Kelsey, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Morris Robinson

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Playing at AllClassical.org (98.9 in PDX)

Giuseppe Verdi
TOSCA

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso, Quinn Kelsey , Patrick Carfizzi

Performance from November 23, 2024

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Playing at AllClassical.org (98.9 in PDX)

Jacques Offenbach
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN

Marco Armiliato

Benjamin Bernheim, Christian Van Horn, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Pretty Yende, Erin Morley, Clémentine Margaine, Aaron Blake

Performance from October 5, 2024

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Playing

Jeanine Tesori
GROUNDED

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Emily D’Angelo, Ellie Dehn, Ben Bliss, Kyle Miller, Greer Grimsley

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Currently Playing

Giuseppe Verdi
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Lise Davidsen, Brian Jagde, Igor Golovatenko, Soloman Howard, Judit Kutasi, Patrick Carfizzi

Live on 98.9 All Classical at 9:00 AM

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Currently Playing

Giuseppe Verdi
UN BALLO IN MASCHERE
Live Performance from October 27, 2023

Carlo Rizzi

Charles Castronovo, Angela Meade, Quinn Kelse, Liv Redpath, Olesya Petrova

98.9 - All Classical Portland

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Currently Playing

Anthony Davis
X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X
Libretto by Thulani Davis

Robert O’Hara, Kazem Abdullah

Will Liverman, Leah Hawkins, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Michael Sumuel, Victor Ryan Robertson

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Live From the Met on 98.9 AllClassical.org

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.