Mozart's Cosi fan tutte: Riccardo Muti conducts soprano Barbara Frittoli, mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager and bass Ildebrando D'Arcangelo in a performance of Mozart's comic opera, given in February at the Vienna State Opera - in the same city where the work was first performed in 1790. Date: Saturday 1st November 2008 (starting this evening). Susan Bickley, mezzo (Leokadja Begbick), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, tenor (Fatty), Alan Opie, baritone, (Trinity Moses), Giselle Allen, soprano (Jenny), Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor (Jimmy Mahoney), Peter Hoare, tenor (Jack Smith, Toby Higgins), Stephan Loges, baritone (Bill), Brindley Sherratt, bass (Joe), Hannah Gordon (narrator), Ladies of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Christopher Bell (chorus master), Royal Scottish National Orchestra/HK Gruber.Īs before, these broadcasts are streamed from the Radio 3 website and some may be available for seven days after broadcast. Introduced by Donald Macleod, who also talks to the conductor about the context of the work and Weill and Brecht's influence on subsequent operatic developments. Prostitution and cheap alcohol attract many prospectors, but when Jimmy the barman declarates that all restraints are to be removed, there can only be tragic consequences.
The opera's story centres on three fugitives' setting up of a city in an American desert devoted solely to pleasure and debauchery. HK Gruber conducts soprano Susan Bickley and the Royal National Scottish Orchestra in a performance of Weill and Brecht's anti-capitalist satire, given in August at the Usher Hall in the opening concert of this year's Edinburgh International Festival. Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
Date: Saturday 20th September 2008 (starting this evening).
Since its reopening, its repertoire has consisted of plays by local companies, classical music concerts, and concerts by well-known touring musicians and bands.Opera on 3. In its early days, the theater's repertoire primarily featured plays, vaudeville reviews by traveling companies, and concerts. The building is in the Stoughton Main Street Commercial Historic District. The venue is now used for weddings, business and government meetings, rallies, and other functions. In the late 1980s a decision was made to save the building, restore its ornate Victorian interior, and rebuild the clock tower. In the 1950s the theater was closed and fell into ruin. From 1910 to the late 1920s, it also served as a movie theater. During the next 50 years, the Opera House was used for plays, political rallies, temperance speeches, boxing and wrestling matches, high school graduations, and class plays. It opened on Februwith Ullie Akerstrom's comic play, The Doctor's Warm Reception. The Stoughton Opera House was originally known as the City Auditorium.
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