Please accept my deep appreciation for sharing your commitment for quality public broadcasting through your generous gifts to WOSU. A total of $ 609,321 was raised during our year-end campaign. Thanks to you we can continue making a difference in central Ohio!
Tom Rieland, General Manager
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WOSU 89.7 FM Classically Columbus
Saturdays at 1:30pm (Broadcasts run each spring until the Metropolitan Opera begins in late November)
”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.
Saturday, May 2, 1:30pm
MOZART: Cosi fan tutte (That’s What They All Do)
A new recording of Mozart’s bittersweet comedy, with Thomas Allen, Janice Watson and Christopher Maltman, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras sung in English
Saturday, May 9, 1:30pm
BIZET: Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)
Opening night of Opera Columbus’s 2008-2009 season, recorded in performance in the Ohio Theatre. William Boggs conducts the Columbus Symphony, with Vale Rideout, Brian Bannion and Philip Cutlip.
Saturday, May 16, 1:30pm
PUCCINI: Turandot
Puccini’s final opera, performed last January by Opera Columbus. William Boggs conducts the Columbus Symphony, with Othalie Graham and Randolph Locke.
Saturday, May 23, 1:30pm
WEBER: Der Freischütz (The Marksman)
The classic German romantic opera by Carl Maria von Weber complete with a haunted forest. Rudolph Schock and Elisabeth Gruemmer star with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Joseph Keilberth.
Saturday, May 30, 1:30pm
Beverly Sills’ 80th birthday
Beloved American soprano Beverly Sills (1929-2006) stars as Donizetti’s Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn), with Shirley Verrett, Paul Plishka and Stuart Burrows. Plus selections from Manon, La traviata, Giulio Cesare and The Ballad of Baby Doe.
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