Comeback? Brokeback?

Opera has always been popular in Italy...and around the world for centuries. Lately it seems that opera is making a comeback, with productions in movie theaters, and most recently at the ballpark!

(picture from the SF Gate website) But there are rumblings in Italy about the opera houses and funding. And it's been announced NYC Opera has commissioned Brokeback Mountain.

Friday through Sunday you'll be able to experience Puccini's Tosca at the San Antonio Opera.

Don't miss this Saturday's opera, Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi with the Chicago Lyric Opera starting at noon; and it's a night of Schubert songs and music with Ron Moore with the Tuesday Night at the Opera on KPAC & KTXI.

Quotable

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. - W. H. Auden

So are you sensible about opera? Don't forget you have a chance to hear live opera June 27-29 with Puccini's Tosca with the San Antonio Opera.
Join us tonight for one of the great moments of opera, the Prelude and Love Death from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. Of course, you can listen Saturday afternoons at noon for opera and Tuesday nights at eight on KPAC and KTXI.

An afternoon at the opera

I'm excited to see Tosca the end of this month with San Antonio Opera. Being new to the city, I can't wait to hear the local groups and the visiting artists. The classical music world is small, so I wasn't too surpised to realize I have a friend who is part of the Cactus Pear Music Festival coming up next month.
Back to Tosca, a few years ago while living in Las Vegas I had the chance to perform with tenor Luciano Pavarotti as a second violinist with the Glen Willow Symphony. He was past his prime, but there were still shades of greatness in his voice. Rehearsals and the performance were stellar.
This afternoon hear Pavarotti at the top of his game in E lucevan le stelle – "And the stars were shining" from the 3rd act of Tosca. And hear great opera with Ron Moore every Tuesday at 8pm with Tuesday Night Opera on KPAC and KTXI!
John Clare, afternoon host