At the Opera with IPR
Saturdays at 12 p.m. on IPR Classical
- Hosted by Jacqueline Halbloom
At the Opera with IPR showcases some of the best opera productions from Iowa and across the country. Join us weekly for productions by local and national companies, including the Des Moines Metro Opera, the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, the UNI School of Music/Opera Theatre, the Met Opera, San Fransisco Opera, and the Lyric Opera, among others. Listen on Saturdays at 12 p.m. on IPR Classical.
Metropolitan Opera
May 5: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette (3 hrs.)
Lyric Opera:
May 12: Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice (2 hrs. 20 min.)
May 19: Verdi’s Rigoletto (2 hrs. 30 min.)
May 26: Wagner’s Die Walküre (5 hrs.)
June 2: Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers (2 hrs. 30 min.)
June 9: Puccini’s Turandot (2 hrs. 30 min.)
June 16: Bellini’s I puritani (3 hrs. 30 min.)
European Companies:
June 23: G. Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence (debut)
June 30: Verdi’s Macbeth (3 hrs. 20 min.)
July 7: Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses (2 hrs. 30 min.)
July 14: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (2 hrs. 30 min.)
July 21: Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (2 hrs. 30 min.)
July 28: Wagner’s Lohengrin (4 hrs.)
August 4: Glyndebourne’s Pelléas et Mélisande (4 hrs.)
Lyric Opera:
August 11: Mozart’s Così fan tutte (3 hrs. 30 min.)
August 18: Gounod’s Faust (2 hrs. 30 min.)
August 25: Wagner’s Das Rheingold (2 hrs. 30 min.)
September 1: J. López’s Bel Canto (3 hrs.)
LA Opera:
September 8: Bizet’s Carmen (3 hrs. 30 min.)
September 15: Verdi’s Nabucco (3 hrs.)
September 22: Bellini’s Norma (3 hrs.)
September 29: Puccini’s and Leoncavallo’s Gianni Schicci & Pagliacci (2 hrs. 30 min.)
October: 6: J. Heggie’s Moby Dick (2 hrs. 30 min.)
San Francisco Opera:
October 13: Giordano’s Andrea Chénier (3 hrs.)
October 20: Rossini’s Barber of Seville (3 hrs.)
October 27: Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (2 hrs. 30 min.)
November 3: B. Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber (2 hrs. 30 min.)
November 10: Getty’s and Debussy’s Usher House & La chute de la maison Usher (2 hrs. 30 min.)
Opera Delaware:
November 17: Rossini’s Semiramide (3 hrs. 30 min.)
Opera Southwest:
November 24: Rossini’s William Tell (3 hrs. 30 min.)
