Opera For Everyone
Opera For Everyone is an English-speaking podcast specialized in the field of classical music and opera. As such, Opera For Everyone is a podcast selected by soclassiq, like Music Talks or Best Piano Music and many others. The oldest episode indexed by soclassiq is dated 2017-08-15. Since then, a total of 207 episodes have been recorded and broadcast by Opera For Everyone.
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With 2 articles published in the last 90 days, Opera For Everyone is currently a not very active podcast. "Not very active" does not mean that Opera For Everyone is less interesting than another more prolific source. Each media follows a specific editorial line, recording and broadcasting according to its own rhythm.
This editorial activity is slowing down compared to the previous period.
The last episode in Opera For Everyone, "Ep. 117 The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell", is dated 2024-04-15. By 2023, this podcast had published 11 episodes (3 since the beginning of 2024). Over the past 12 months, Opera For Everyone has published an average of 1 episodes per month.
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2024-04-15 01:03:36
Duration (h:m:s): 1:58:38
Was it only a dream? Baroque composer Henry Purcell was on his way to establishing a national operatic tradition based on the dramatic and musical traditions of the English, when, alas, his life was cut short after just 36 years. Join us as we explore Purcell’s musically and emotionally rich “The Fairy Queen,” a delightful twist on the Bard’s “A …
2024-02-26 20:02:34
Duration (h:m:s): 2:05:58
Where passion joins with music and poetry we find opera. In this sweet spot, we also find What We Need Is Here, the most recent project by accomplished musician and singer, Lisa Reagan. Lisa joins us to talk about creating an album of songs for classic poems that have been meaningful to her life. Lisa Reagan spent twenty years singing …
2024-01-22 16:31:20
Duration (h:m:s): 1:58:32
Two things never go out of fashion: opera and mystery. In this episode, mystery writer and former opera violinist Erica Miner talks with us about her opera mystery series and Lulu, Berg’s high-body-count melodrama. Lulu, which features prominently in Erica’s new novel, centers on a beautiful young woman whose admirers descend into obsession. Join us for a fascinating discussion of …
2023-12-31 21:57:47
Duration (h:m:s): 1:58:27
In Amahl and the Night Visitors, a young boy and his mother unexpectedly play host to the Magi on their way to meet the infant Jesus. Originally written for television, this opera uniquely bridges the ancient and modern in a heartfelt exploration of the meaning of hospitality. In the second half of this episode, we are joined by Grant to …
2023-11-19 16:42:19
Duration (h:m:s): 1:58:13
By turns funny, serious, and seriously funny, L’Italiana in Algeri is a fascinating assembly of romantic tropes: a spurned wife, a shipwrecked lover, a pirate king, and a daring escape. At the same time, it deals with serious themes of agency, power, and silence. Set in a world that is both alien and familiar, this opera has something to say …
2023-10-02 03:42:42
Duration (h:m:s): 2:09:00
“The face that launched a thousand ships.” Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, has a problem. Her husband plans to kill her, but she just wants him to fall in love with her again. She may just need a miracle to pull it off, but if anyone can do it, she can. Richard Strauss and Hugo …
2023-08-26 23:33:32
Duration (h:m:s): 1:58:35
One of the top ten most-performed operas in the world, Puccini’s Tosca is considered by some the greatest of operas. A painter provides refuge for an escaped political prisoner, which begins a chain of events that starts with petty jealousy and ends in a death leap. Things spiral further and further out of control in this epic confrontation of tyranny …
2023-08-01 04:04:46
Duration (h:m:s): 2:04:06
Richard Wagner’s style is one of the most distinctive and recognizable in all of opera. But Wagner wasn’t always the Wagner we’ve come to know. The earliest of Wagner’s operas to be performed in his lifetime was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Das Liebesverbot, where he is still developing his craft and working on his relationship to German …
2023-06-26 01:31:23
Duration (h:m:s): 1:58:29
At once a sweeping story about humanity and a deeply personal look at a married couple with unfulfilled aspirations, Die Frau Ohne Schatten is often considered the magnum opus of the famed partnership between composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Moving between lofty, other-worldly, and gritty settings, this opera simultaneously puzzles and inspires audiences. Being human, this opera …
2023-05-21 13:18:56
Duration (h:m:s): 2:00:34
One of history’s most infamous women, Lucrezia Borgia has inspired artists, dramatists, and TV show writers for centuries. Donizetti’s opera follows the play by Victor Hugo, telling of Lucrezia’s effort to find the kind of love that might change her life. However, it isn’t easy being a powerful woman in Renaissance Italy. Gaetano Donizetti, a prolific composer in the Bel …