ABC Sydney Classic Opera in Performance with Simon Healy 7.05pm Sunday 22 February 2009(現地) MET:RIGOLETTO Giuseppe Verdi (Saturday 31 January 2009 at the MET)
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza Gilda: Aleksandra Kurzak Maddalena: Victoria Vizin Duke: Giuseppe Filianoti Rigoletto: George Gagnidze Sparafucile: Mikhail Petrenko
January 31, 2009 1:00 pm ET Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto Intermission #1 interviews Aleksandra Kurzak & Giuseppe Filianoti interviews Karita Mattila
They are joined by Aleksandra Kurzak as Gilda and Giuseppe Filianoti as the Duke of Mantua, both of whom are also singing their roles for the first time at the Met. Viktoria Vizin makes her Met debut as Maddalena, and Mikhail Petrenko sings his first Sparafucile with the company. Georgian bass George Gagnidze makes his Met debut on January 27 in the title role and sings the following five performances through February 12. Piotr Beczala, whose performances as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor last fall drew wide acclaim, sings the Duke on February 12.
Sunday 22 February 2009 3:00 Opera on Sunday(現地) Metropolitan Opera Season ADAMS: Doctor Atomic, an opera in two acts
Kitty Oppenheimer...........Sasha Cooke Pasqualita..................Meredith Arwady J Robert Oppenheimer....... Gerald Finley Edward Teller...............Richard Paul Fink General Leslie Groves.......Eric Owens
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Alan Gilbert (EBU)