kathryn lewek queen of the night lyric opera chicago

Nathan Gunn sang Papageno at the Met for the first time in 2006 and reprised the role here in three subsequent seasons. Her other performances this season include both Magnolia in Kern's Show Boat and Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff at San Francisco Opera Adina in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Deutsche Oper Berlin.

She has sung Pamina with both San Francisco Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin. Heidi Stober made her Met debut in 2011 as Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. He has sung Tamino with San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Bavarian State Opera, and Bordeaux Opera. Last winter, he starred as Count Almaviva in the Met premiere of the abridged, English-language holiday staging of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. He made his company debut last season in the Met premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Tempest, in which he sang the role of Ferdinand. Īlek Shrader first appeared at the Met as a winner of the 2007 National Council Auditions, a competition documented in Susan Froemke’s film The Audition. She is the music director of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque ensemble, the artistic director of opera for London’s Royal Academy of Music, and the author of the 2005 book Mozart’s Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music. Last season, she conducted a semi-staged performance of Gluck’s Armide, a presentation of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in partnership with The Juilliard School. Her recent performances of his operas have included La Clemenza di Tito at Chicago Opera Theater, Don Giovanni at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Lucio Silla at Bordeaux Opera. Jane Glover is a leading Mozart specialist.

The Magic Flute will be heard live over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. American soprano Kathryn Lewek makes her network broadcast debut as the Queen of the Night. The performance stars tenor Alek Shrader as Tamino soprano Heidi Stober as Pamina baritone Nathan Gunn as the bird-catcher Papageno, and bass-baritone Eric Owens as the mysterious Sarastro.

on KLRE with a live broadcast of the company’s holiday presentation, an abridged, English-language production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute.īritish conductor Jane Glover has made her Met debut this season leading this 100-minute presentation of Julie Taymor’s popular staging of the opera. The 2013-14 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues Saturday, Janufrom noon-2 p.m.

Kathryn lewek queen of the night lyric opera chicago