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Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Beverly Sills Award-winner Susanna Phillips stars in the title role, Giuseppe Filianoti is Edgardo and Brian Mulligan is Enrico in this opera based on a popular novel by Sir Walter Scott.

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Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffman

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Saturday at the Opera returns with the Lyric Opera of Chicago's performance of The Tales of Hoffman. Recorded in October, this performance features Matthew Polenzani in the title role.

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Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor arrived at Houston Grand Opera last season in a new production by Tony Award–winning Scottish director John Doyle.

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Heggie's Dead Man Walking

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir of working with Louisiana death-row inmates, has become one of the few recent operas to have entered the repertory.

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Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Strauss’s elegant and moving meditation on the conventions of the theater pits a comedienne against a prima donna at a high-society dinner party in Vienna.

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Wagner's Götterdämmerung

Saturday, November 05, 2011

The San Francisco Opera's world-premiere production of Wagner's Ring cycle reaches its transcendent climax. Nina Stemme plays Brünnhilde and Ian Storey is Siegfried.

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