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By Jacob Stockinger
The new season of weekly live radio broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera starts this Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, at noon on Wisconsin Public Radio. It open the “Met Live in HD” season at noon at the Point and The Palace cinemas on Madison’s west side and Sun Prairie, respectively. Here is the “Live in HD” schedule: https://www.metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA98WrBhAYEiwA2WvhOj0HP5-xcXKDJFvUeS_2VO_wu0imdxy1aRnN-aFgYuC3yYL90dbf2BoCFKsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
The opening opera is the exotic, lyrically melodic and Romantic “Florencia en el Amazonas” (Florence in the Amazon, below and in the YouTube preview at the bottom) by the Mexican composer Daniel Catan.
It will be the first opera staged in Spanish at the Met in many decades. But you might recall that the Madison Opera and Madison Symphony Orchestras under John DeMain presented it in an outstanding production at the Overture Center in the spring of 2018.
Here is a review from this blog to remind you about the work and the local production:
And here is the complete schedule of Met radio broadcasts on Saturday afternoons, which includes works by Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Bizet, Puccini, Wagner, Gounod, Terrence Blanchard, Anthony Davis and Jake Heggie among others.
https://www.metopera.org/season/radio/saturday-matinee-broadcasts/
But The Ear thought you might also like to read and listen to what OperaWire sees at the The Top 10 up-and-coming opera singers, who just might be heard in this season’s or future productions at the Met.
The story has profiles with biographies, appearances in upcoming productions, here and in Europe, as well as singing samples from YouTube:
What do you think of “Florencia en el Amazonas”?
Which singers, productions and broadcasts do you most look forward to?
The Ear wants to hear.
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