OPERA CONTINES THROUGH THE SPRING, SUMMER AND FALL
ON SATURDAY AFTERNOONS

With the conclusion of the Metropolitan Opera season, WCLV continues with opera on Saturday afternoons through the spring, summer and fall of 2012. We'll present full length opera broadcasts from the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Houston Opera, the San Francisco Opera and The Cleveland Orchestra opera productions, including the Salzburg performance of Dvoark's Rusalka,  which has been released commercially. This was the production about which the ciritcs said The Cleveland Orchestra plays better than the Vienna Philharmonic.
The opera broadcasts will all begin at 1:00 PM, following the BBC News.

Here are the schedules:

LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
5/12	Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffman
5/19	Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
5/26	Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
6/2	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute
6/9	Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
6/16	Jerome Kern: Show Boat
6/23	George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo
6/30	Giuseppe Verdi: Aïda
LOS ANGELES OPERA
7/7	Peter Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
7/14	Charles Gounod: Romeo et Juliette
7/21	Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
7/28	Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring
8/4	Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
8/11	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte
8/18	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
8/25	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
THE SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
9/1	Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
9/8	Cleveland Orchestra performance of Strauss' Salome - We had originally thought that the Last Night at the Proms would be aired at 2:00 PM. Instead it's airing at 8:00 PM.
9/15	Georges Bizet: Carmen
9/22	Gounod: Faust
9/29	Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia
10/6	George Frideric Handel: Xerxes
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
10/13	Antonín Dvorák: Rusalka (Salzburg performance)
10/20	Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
10/27	Verdi: Falstaff
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA
11/3	Gioacchino Rossini: The Barber of Seville
11/10	Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio
11/17	Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata
11/24	Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos
12/1	Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda