Sat. 1 pm ET- Götterdämmerung, is the last in Richard Wagner’s cycle of four music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of the Ring.WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 04/27/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- One of Mozart’s last operas, La clemenza di Tito (The clemency of Titus), is a story of friendship and forgiveness triumphing over jealousy and violence. The new emperor of Rome, Tito, is much loved by the Roman people, with the exception of Vitellia, the daughter of the previous emperor. 04/20/2019.
Sat. 1pm. ET- Siegfried, by Richard Wagner on the Metropolitan Opera Matinee. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. Siegfried, is the third of the four music dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring cycle. 04/13/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET-Tosca on the Met is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. … It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, as well as some of Puccini’s best-known lyrical arias. 04/06/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- Walküre Music drama by Richard Wagner on the Met Opera Matinee.High in the mountains, Wotan, leader of the gods, tells his warrior daughter, the Valkyrie Brünnhilde, that she must defend his mortal son Siegmund in his upcoming battle with Hunding. She leaves joyfully to do what he has asked, as Fricka, Wotan’s wife and the goddess of marriage, appears. 03/30/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- SamsonSamson and Delilah, Op. 47, is a grand opera in three acts and four scenes by Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire., on Metropolitan Opera Matinee. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 03/23/2019
Sat. 1 pm. ET- Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi on the Metropolitan Opera Matinee. Falstaff (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfalstaf]) is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, parts 1 and 2. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 03/16/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Wagner’s visionary initial installment of the Ring Cycle depicts the original sin of the theft of the sacred golden treasure, the vanity of the gods, the greed of the Nibelungen, the fratricide of the giants, and the building of Valhalla. Bass-baritone Greer Grimsley sings the role of Wotan, the conflicted lord of the gods. 03/09/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard, it found favor with its Parisian audiences thanks to its comedic, yet dramatic, libretto and its beautifully written music that is both melodious and extremely difficult to sing. The opera, due to its patriotic content, was typically performed in France on Bastille Day. 03/02/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- Rigoletto (pronounced [riɡoˈletːto]) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo. 02/23/2019
