Unnatural Acts Of Opera

Rossini's Biblical epic is conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. Moses - Nicolai Ghiaurov; Sinais - Shirley Verrett; Pharaoh - Mario Petri; Eliezer - Giampaolo Corradi; Amenophis - Ottavio Garaventa; Auphis - Fernando Jacopucci; Osiris - Franco Ventriglia; Miriam - Gloria Lane; Anais - Teresa Zylis-Gara...

Relive the 1970s with a solid gold performance of Puccini's final opera. Turandot: Montserrat Caballe; Calaf: Luciano Pavarotti; Liu: Leona Mitchell; Timur: Giorgio Tozzi; Ping: Dale Duesing; Pang: Remy Corazza; Pong: Joseph Frank; Altoum: Raymond Manton; Mandarin: Aldo Bramante. Chorus and Orchestr...

Rossini's Biblical epic is conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. Moses - Nicolai Ghiaurov; Sinais - Shirley Verrett; Pharaoh - Mario Petri; Eliezer - Giampaolo Corradi; Amenophis - Ottavio Garaventa; Auphis - Fernando Jacopucci; Osiris - Franco Ventriglia; Miriam - Gloria Lane; Anais - Teresa Zylis-Gara...

Relive the 1970s with a solid gold performance of Puccini's final opera. Turandot: Montserrat Caballe; Calaf: Luciano Pavarotti; Liu: Leona Mitchell; Timur: Giorgio Tozzi; Ping: Dale Duesing; Pang: Remy Corazza; Pong: Joseph Frank; Altoum: Raymond Manton; Mandarin: Aldo Bramante. Chorus and Orchestr...

Relive the 1970s with a solid gold performance of Puccini's final opera. Montserrat Caballe (Turandot), Luciano Pavarotti (Calaf), Leona Mitchell (Liu), Giorgio Tozzi (Timur). The conductor is Riccardo Chailly.

Montserrat Caballe as Anna Bolena faces down the notorious La Scala loggionisti in this performance from February 21, 1982. Giovanna Seymour: Elena Obraztsova; Percy: Antonio Savastano; Enrico VIII: Paul Plishka; Smeton: Elena Zilio; Rochefort: Carlo Del Bosco. Conductor: Giuseppe Patane.

Montserrat Caballe as Anna Bolena faces down the notorious La Scala loggionisti in this performance from February 21, 1982. Giovanna Seymour: Elena Obraztsova; Percy: Antonio Savastano; Enrico VIII: Paul Plishka; Smeton: Elena Zilio; Rochefort: Carlo Del Bosco. Conductor: Giuseppe Patane.

For Good Friday, a decidedly non-traditional Parsifal Act Two. Renata Scotto sings her her only Kundry in this April 14, 1995 performance from the Meclkenburg State Theater. Parsifal: Edward Cook; Klingsor: Rudolf Kostas. Conductor: Ivan Torzs.

Love and death, Renaissance style. Francesca: Leyla Gencer: Samaritana: Annamaria Gasparini; Paolo: Renato Cioni: Giovanni: Anselmo Colzani, Malatestino: Mario Ferrara. Franco Capuana; Trieste March 16, 1961."One day, to pass the time, we read how passion / Conquered Lancelot; we were alone, / Innoc...

Love and death, Renaissance style. Francesca: Leyla Gencer: Samaritana: Annamaria Gasparini; Paolo: Renato Cioni: Giovanni: Anselmo Colzani, Malatestino: Mario Ferrara. Franco Capuana; Trieste March 16, 1961."Francesca, your anguished state / Makes me weep with pity and sadness, / But one thing I wo...

Winter storms have waned in the moon of May! James King (Siegmund), Eileen Farrell (Sieglinde) and Michael Langdon (Hunding) star in a concert performance recorded April 23, 1968 under the baton of Leonard Bernstein.

Mariella Devia is the sleepwalking Amina in this 1988 performance of Bellini's opera. Marcello Viotti conducts the Orchestra Sinfonica di Piacenza and the Coro Citta di Como. Luca Canonici (Elvino), Alessandro Verducci (Rodolfo), Elisabetta Battaglia (Lisa), Laura Musella (Teresa).

Mariella Devia is the sleepwalking Amina in this 1988 performance of Bellini's opera. Marcello Viotti conducts the Orchestra Sinfonica di Piacenza and the Coro Citta di Como. Luca Canonici (Elvino), Alessandro Verducci (Rodolfo), Elisabetta Battaglia (Lisa), Laura Musella (Teresa).

Wagner's epic of sacred and profane love stars Wolfgang Windgassen, Victoria de los Angeles, Grace Bumbry, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Josef Greindl. Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this live performance from the Bayreuth Festival, 1961.

Wagner's epic of sacred and profane love stars Wolfgang Windgassen, Victoria de los Angeles, Grace Bumbry, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Josef Greindl. Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this live performance from the Bayreuth Festival, 1961.

Wagner's epic of sacred and profane love stars Wolfgang Windgassen, Victoria de los Angeles, Grace Bumbry, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Josef Greindl. Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this live performance from the Bayreuth Festival, 1961.

Legendary Madame Vera Galupe-Borszkh spins her favorite discs and shares a diva anecdote.

Legendary Madame Vera Galupe-Borszkh will say "addio senza rancor" to New York in her 20th Annual Farewell Recital, March 20th through the 25th at the Thalia Theater at Symphony Space. La Cieca chats with Ira Siff, founder of La Gran Scena Opera and alter ego of Madame Vera.

A tribute to the American soprano Anna Moffo (1932-2006)

Jambalaya is a hodgepodge of leftovers, and the leftovers on this podcast include delicious bits of Eugene Onegin, Fedora, Die Zauberfloete, Giuditta and lots more.