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WOSU 89.7 FM Classically Columbus
Saturdays at 1:30pm (Broadcasts run each spring until the Metropolitan Opera begins in December)
”Opera and More!”
“Saturday on Stage,” WOSU’s showcase for great opera recordings selected and narrated by Christopher Purdy, returns for another season, providing insights you won’t find anywhere else. We guarantee it! Spend Saturday afternoons with Christopher and some of the finest, most interesting operas ever recorded.
Broadcast schedule:
5/10/08
Bellini, La sonnambula
A bel canto masterpiece about a hapless young woman who sleepwalks to exquisite music with Natalie Dessay, Francesco Merli and Carlo Colombara, conducted by Evelino Pido
5/17/08
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro
Figaro, opera’s favorite hero-gets married in this new recording with Anna Netrebko, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Bo Skovhus conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt…from the 2006 Salzburg Festival
5/24/08
Puccini, Tosca
With Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi.
La Scala, Milan conducted by Victor de Sabata
Presented in memory of Giuseppe di Stefano
5/31/08
Dukas, Ariane et Barbe-bleu
The story of the sinister Bluebeard who conquered his many wives until he married the Princess Ariane…Paul Dukas’s early
20th century impressionist opera in a new recording conducted by Leon Botstein
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