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Attila

By editor • Oct 20, 2012

The San Francisco Opera concludes its broadcast season with Verdi's long-neglected opera Attila, with Ferruccio Furlanetto in the title role.

Listen Saturday at 1:00p.m.

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Attila: Act I
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Ensemble San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor Nicola Luisotti
Record Label San Francisco Opera

Addio

By editor • Oct 20, 2012

Our hour will be filled with farewell arias and duets - plus our October Mystery Voice Quiz.

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Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Overture (excerpt)
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ensemble Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
Album Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Record Label Telarc

Nixon in China

By editor • Oct 13, 2012

Photo: Cory Weaver, Courtesy San Francisco Opera / Chen-Ye Yuan (Chou En-lai), Maria Kanyova (Pat Nixon), and Brian Mulligan (Richard Nixon) in, "Nixon in China," by the San

The San Francisco Opera presents Nixon in China by John Adams, recorded in June at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco.

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Nixon in China: Act I
Composer John Adams
Ensemble San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor Lawrence Renes
Record Label San Francisco Opera

La forza del destino

By editor • Oct 13, 2012

La forza del destino is one of Verdi's most popular operas. We'llhear excerpts that feature such singers as Leontyne Price, Renata Tebaldi, and Enrico Caruso.

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The Marriage of Figaro

By editor • Oct 6, 2012

We hear the San Francisco Opera performance of Mozart's sparkling, tuneful masterpiece Le nozze di Figaro.

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Le nozze di Figaro: Acts I & II
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ensemble San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor Nicola Luisotti
Record Label San Francisco Opera

Offenbach

By editor • Oct 6, 2012

Peter Fox Smith explores Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and the Gluck opera of which it is a parody - as well as a couple of historic excerpts from Offenbach's La Perichole.

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VPR.net Archive

By Jonathan Butler • Sep 30, 2012

On April 15, 2013 we launched a new VPR.net. Much of the program content from the past 6 months, along with several weeks of news, migrated to the new site. The remaining news, program, and playlist content is still available in our archive.

If you're looking for something, try the site Search: it searches across the current site and the archives.

To explore the archive, visit www.vpr.net/archive.

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Porgy and Bess

By editor • Sep 29, 2012

We'll be listening to gems, sung by a variety of singers, from the most beloved of all American operas, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

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Jan Kiepura and Marta Eggerth

By editor • Sep 22, 2012

Pianist Marjan Kiepura joins Peter Fox Smith in a tribute to Marjan's parents, the Polish tenor Jan Kiepura and the Hungarian soprano Marta Eggerth.

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Fragments: A Conversation With Mark Steinberg of the Brentano Quartet

By Joe Goetz • Sep 20, 2012

This Friday evening, the Brentano String Quartet performs a fascinating program at Darmouth College, in which contemporary composers wrote companion pieces to unfinished "fragments" of pieces by classical composers. I spoke with violinist Mark Steinberg of the Brentano quartet about the program, and we'll hear that conversation this afternoon.

Information about the performance at Darmouth can be found here.

A Conversation With Arnold Steinhardt

By Walter Parker • Sep 20, 2012

Tuesday evening at FlynnSpace, the long-time violinist of the Guarneri Quartet, Arnold Steinhardt, will talk about and play Bach's Solo Violin Partita in D minor, which includes the famous Chaconne. It's part of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival and we'll get a preview this morning at 11 when he visits VPR's Walter Parker.

Peter and the Wolf

By Walter Parker • Sep 20, 2012

This weekend Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf will be performed in Brattleboro and Bellows Falls by the UConn Puppet Arts Program with narration by Tony Barrand and live music by the Hugh Keelan Ensemble.

We'll listen to it today narrated by the rock star Sting.

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