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Backstage at Lyric #75
2010/11 Season Preview with Music Director Sir Andrew Davis
February 4, 2010
Sir Andrew Davis, Lyric's renowned music director, introduces listeners to the 2010-11 season, including wonderful highlights from all eight operas.
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Macbeth
The great Thomas Hampson...a Lady Macbeth to die for...and a stunning new production from master Shakespearean Barbara Gaines!
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Carmen
One look from this seductive gypsy temptress and any man she wants is hers — driving them mad with hot desire and flicking them aside like cold cigarette ash when her fickle ardor cools.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
As soon as the evocative prelude begins, you know you're going to a wondrous place. Shakespeare's words and Britten's incandescent music transport us to an enchanted forest where fairies rule — and mere mortals have the chance to visit!
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A Masked Ball
Passion, political intrigue, witchcraft, and betrayal — here is opera at its grandest, with magnificent voices soaring at their fervent best!
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The Mikado
Wit, charm, fabulous music and lyrics — it's the most celebrated operetta in the English-speaking world, and it's been tickling funny bones for more than a hundred years!
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The Girl of the Golden West
Gold Rush fever is running high, and every miner in camp hopes to claim the heart of Minnie — the pistol-packing, poker-playing proprietress of the Polka Saloon. Even Sheriff Rance is in hot pursuit, but Minnie's in love with a tall dark stranger, who's really the notorious bank robber Ramerrez in disguise!
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Lohengrin
King Henry is looking for a champion to lead his armies against the invaders. And Elsa is praying for a savior to clear her of charges that she murdered her brother — levied by a villainous knight who wants power for himself and his sorceress wife.
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Hercules
Mighty Hercules has triumphed in war again. But while the hero celebrates, his wife Dejanira seethes — convinced that her husband has been seduced by a winsome captive.
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