January 26, 2012
Love or Death?
Love or death? It's a question that's posed at some point in most every dramatic opera. And unlike everyday life, opera heroines generally have to choose between the two. In today's show, PT Young Artist in Residence Elizabeth Zharoff addresses the question in the role of four different opera characters: Iolanthe, Juliet, Elvira, and Pamina.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
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Robert Schumann
Third movement from Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 97 (Rhenish)
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, conductor
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Excerpts from Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin: Suite in A Minor
The Calefax Reed Quintet
Falany Performing Arts Center, Waleska, Georgia
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Camille Saint-Saens
Finale from Carnival of the Animals
Gideon Broshy and Christopher O'Riley, pianos, Brannon Cho, cello, Helen Gerhold, harp, Marcelina Suchocka, percussion
Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, New York City
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 38 in D, K 504 (Prague)
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany
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Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo a la Russe
The Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to the Marriage of Figaro
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
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PT Young Artist in Residence
Elizabeth Zharoff, soprano
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Peter Tchaikovsky
Iolanthe's Arioso, from Iolanthe
Elizabeth Zharoff, soprano, Milos Repicky, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Charles Gounod
Juliet's Waltz, from Romeo and Juliet
Elizabeth Zharoff, soprano, Milos Repicky, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Vincenzo Bellini
Qui la Voce, from I Puritani
Elizabeth Zharoff, soprano, Milos Repicky, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ach, ich fuhl's, from the Magic Flute
Elizabeth Zharoff, soprano, Milos Repicky, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
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Pietro Mascagni
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
The Russian National Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber, conductor
Festival del Sole, Napa Valley, California
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Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in A, Op. 118, No. 2
Sveinung Bjelland, piano
Oslo Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway