ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): opera

Showing posts with label opera. Show all posts

Showing posts with label opera. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Playing

George Frideric Händel
PARTENOPE, HWV 27

Philippe Jaroussky, Karina Gauvin, John Mark Ainsley, Teresa Iervolino, Emöke Barath, Luca Tittoto

Riccardo Minasi
Il Pomo d'Oro

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Playing

Philip Glas
GALILEO GALILEI

Anne Manson
Richard Troxell, Lindsay Ohse, Andre Chiang, Nicholas Nelson
Portland Opera Orchestra & Chorus

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Playing

Philip Glass
IN THE PENAL COLONY

Omar Ebrahim and Michael Bennett

Michael Rafferty
Music Theatre Wales

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Playing

Philip Glass
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

Joseph Li

Jonas Hacker, Ben Edquist, Matthew Adam Fleischer, Nicolas Nestorak, Madison Leonard,

Wolf Trap Opera
Inscape Chamber Orchestra

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Playing

Nicola Porpora
ORLANDO (Angelica e Medoro)

Juan Bautista Otero

Robert Expert, Betsabée Haas, Olga Pitarch

Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Playing

Ján Cikker
VZKRIESENIE [RESURRECTION] (1962)

Jaroslav Krombholc

Alena Míková, Teodor Srubar, Beno Blachut

Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra

Friday, March 14, 2025

Playing

Antonio Vivaldi
BAJAZET, RV 703

Fabio Biondi

Ildebrando D'arcangelo,David Daniels, Patrizia Cioli, Vivic Genaux, Marijana Mijanovic, Elina Garanca

Europa Galante

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

Sunday, February 2, 2025

WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire

Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven’t acted on your desires. You’ve suffered a stunted, vicarious existence. You’ve silenced your passions. The volume, height, depth, lushness, and excess of operatic utterance reveal, by contrast, how small your gestures have been until now, how impoverished your physicality; you have only used a fraction of your bodily endowment, and your throat is closed.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Playing

Nicola Porpora
OPERA ARIAS

Max Emanuel Cenčić

George Petrou
Armonia Atenea

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Playing

George Frideric Handel
DEIDAMIA, HVW 42 (1741)

Rudolph Palmer

Julianne Baird, Brenda Harris, John Cheek, D'Anna Fortunato, Maire O'Brien, Peter Castaldi

Palmer Singers

Brewer Chamber Orchestra

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Playing

Philip Glass & Susan Marshall
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES
A Dance Opera Based on Jean Cocteau's Children of the Game

Conductor
Karen Kemensek

Voices
Christine Arand, Valerie Komar, Hal Cazalet, Philip Cutlip

Pianos
Eleanor Sandresky, Nelson Padgett, Philip Glass

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Playing

Philip Glass
SATYAGRAHA

Christopher Keene
New York City Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Friday, April 19, 2024

Currently Playing

Cecilia Bartoli
SACRIFICIUM

Giovanni Antonini
Il Giardino Armonico

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Currently Playing

Franz Ignaz Beck
L’ISLE DESERTE (1779)

Michael Schneider
La Stagione Frankfurt

Ana Maria Labin, Samantha Gaul, Theodore Browne, Fabian Kelly

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

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Currently Playing

Władysław Żeleński
JANEK (1899)

Wojciech Rodek

Małgorzata Grzegorzewicz, Agnieszka Kuk, Łukasz Gaj, Paweł Trojak, Dariusz Górskim,

Women’s Choir of The Henryk Wieniawski Philharmonic, I Signori Men’s Vocal Ensemble, Henryk Wieniawski Philharmo

Friday, March 1, 2024

Currently Playing

Max Emanuel Cenčić
PORPORA ARIAS

George Petrou
Armonia Atenea

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

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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.