Watching the Radio – Domingo This Week; Veracini Next Week on Ö1

Saturday night (tonight), Domingo explores more of the baritone repertoire in a live broadcast from the Theater an der Wien of Verdi’s I due Foscari.

Placido Domingo (Francesco Foscari)

Arturo Chacón-Cruz (Jacopo Foscari)

Davinia Rodriguez (Lucrezia Contarini)

Roberto Tagliavini (Jacopo Loredano)

Andrew Owens (Barbarigo)

Gaia Petrone (Pisana); 

Arnold Schoenberg Chor

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester

Conducted by James Conlon

PD as uno Foscari

Meanwhile, across town at the Wiener Kontzerthaus, a performance of Veracini’s Adriano in Siria will be recorded for next week’s Saturday Night Opera broadcast. This mezzo-fest features some of our favorite Baroque specialists: Sonia Prina, Ann Hallenberg, Romina Basso, Roberta Invernizzi, and others, with the Ensemble Europa Galante under the baton (and violin) of Fabio Biondi. 

Sonia Prina, Ann Hallenberg, (and some guy)
rehearsing Veracini in Krakow Adriano in Siria.

If you know as little about this opera as I do, you might be interested in reading this article, published when the same cast performed Adriano in Siria in Krakow last month