Behind the Scenes “Onegin” Video

Posted on 27 September 2011 by:

We’ve just added a new behind-the-scenes video for Eugene Onegin. Click here to watch James Conlon prepare for the season-opening company premiere.

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LA Opera is collaborating with Classical KUSC to produce the sixth consecutive season of LA Opera on Air, a weekly broadcast series of performances recorded live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Hosted by Duff Murphy, the series will feature all six operas from LA Opera’s 2011/12 season, including a special live broadcast of Puccini’s La Bohème on Sunday, May 20, at 2pm.

The series will be broadcast locally on Classical KUSC 91.5FM and streamed online at www.kusc.org. The broadcasts will subsequently be syndicated throughout the United States and internationally on the WFMT Radio Network. Broadcast dates and times on the WFMT Radio Network vary in differing media markets; please visit WFMT for more information.

Broadcast Schedule
Eugene Onegin
KUSC: Saturday, May 19, 10am
WFMT release date: July 7
Young and impassioned, Tatiana (soprano Oksana Dyka) hastily writes a love letter to the brooding aristocrat Onegin (baritone Dalibor Jenis). She unwittingly sets off an unstoppable series of events, leaving Onegin forever regretting the love he so casually spurned. Click here for more information.

La Bohème LIVE BROADCAST
KUSC: Sunday, May 20, 2pm
A special live broadcast from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of Puccini’s classic love story. Follow the tale of six young Parisians who live an exuberant bohemian existence, surviving on love and laughter. The cast includes soprano Ailyn Perez and tenor Stephen Costello. Click here for more information.

Così fan tutte
KUSC: Saturday, May 26, 10am
WFMT release date: July 14
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s delightfully comic battle of the sexes comes to life with ravishingly beautiful music and sparkling wit. The cast includes soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and bass-baritone Ildebrando D’Arcangelo. Click here for more information.

Roméo et Juliette
KUSC: Saturday, June 2, 10am
WFMT release date: July 21
Soprano Nino Machaidze and tenor Vittorio Grigolo star as the world’s most famous lovers. Click here for more information.

Simon Boccanegra
KUSC: Saturday, June 9, 10am
WFMT release date: July 28
Plácido Domingo sings the title role of Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, a grand-scale study of power and treachery that finds an emotional center in the tender bond between father and daughter. Click here for more information.

Albert Herring
KUSC: Saturday, June 16, 10am
WFMT release date: August 4
Benjamin Britten’s comedy takes place in the English countryside, where meek mama’s boy Albert (tenor Alek Shrader) reluctantly becomes his village’s first May King when no maidens of sufficient virtue can be found. Soprano Christine Brewer stars as the formidable Lady Billows. here for more information.

La Bohème [rebroadcast]
KUSC: Saturday, June 25, 10am
WFMT release date: August 11
In this rebroadcast, a poet discovers true romance with a lovely, fragile seamstress among the evocative rooftops, cafés and garrets of Paris. Soprano Ailyn Pérez and tenor Stephen Costello, fast-rising young singers who are married in real life, star as Mimi and Rodolfo. Click here for more information.

LA Opera on Air is made possible by generous grants from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, spearheaded by the efforts of Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, and from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Behind the Scenes “Onegin” Video