This week's opera broadcast include some of my favorite living voices! First up, WFMT is broadcasting Il Postino, from the LA Opera with Placido Domingo as the poet Neruda. This should be on air Saturday July 16 at 1pm ET ("PREFEED: Friday, July 15, 2011 - 1500 ET | LIVE FEED: Saturday, July 16, 2011 - 1300 ET").
WETA is playing Handel's Alcina with a cast headlined by two excellent singers: Anja Harteros (Alcina), and Vesselina Kasarova (Ruggiero). Broadcast at 1pm ET July 16.
Finally, NPR's World of Opera is featuring Ernani, with one of my favorite living basses, Ferruccio Furlanetto, as Silva. (He was an adorable Leporello to Sam Ramey's Giovanni in a memorable 1987 Salzburg Festival performance with Karajan.) The rest of the cast is none too shabby either: Rudy Park (Ernani); Dimitra Theodossiou (Elvira); and Marco De Felice (Don Carlo). WDAV is livestreaming this.
