Saturday, March 30, 2013

Guglielmo Tell

On March 2, 2013, At the Opera broadcast a recording of Rossini's Guglieilmo Tell, or as well call it in English, William Tell. It is a long but exciting opera, and of course, everybody knows the overture. And everyone knows the scene Lego'ed bellow, where Mr. Tell is made to shoot an apple off his son's head.



You can listen to the broadcast here.

You can read more about the opera here.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Lucia de Lammermoor

Pay no attention to the date above. This opera was broadcast on Saturday, February 23, 2013.

In this last scene of Lucia de Lammermoor, after the soprano has both gone insane and died (that's opera, folks), Edgardo takes his own life in the graveyard of the Lammermoors.




You can listen to the beautiful broadcast of this opera here.

You can read more about the opera here.