Rameau's Les Indes Galantes – This Sunday on Staatsoper.tv

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Live and free of charge from Prinzregententheater: The festival premiere of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Indes Galantes!

With Anna Prohaska, Mathias Vidal, Lisette Oropesa, dancers of the Compagnie Eastman a.o. 

Don't miss our online broadcast on www.staatsoper.de/tv!

Learn more: https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productioninfo/les-indes-galantes.htmll

Note: By my calculation, it should be on at 12:00 PM Eastern time in the U.S. 

I’m sure it will be great, but it’ll be hard to live up to the visuals of Laura Scozzi’s production from Bordeaux (this is one of the safe-for-work images):

P.S: Next Sunday (July 31) is the new Die Meistersinger with none other than Jonas Kaufmann...and some other singers, probably. That will be an earlier start. Looks like I should have gotten a substitute organist.

(Mostly) French Operas Online at Culturebox

A pair of Py productions:

Hamlet at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie
Through June 17, 2014

Dialogues des Carmelites at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
Through June 22, 2014

French impressions of exotic lands:

Les Indes Galantes  at the Opéra National de Bordeaux
Through August 26, 2014

and An American in Paris:

Einstein on the Beach at the Théâtre du Châtelet
Through July 4, 2014

Mathias Vidal Sings Rameau: L'Impatience

Mathias Vidal is a tenor to keep an eye (and an ear) on!  He appeared in L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Philippe Jaroussky. (Remember their marvelous duet?) 

Interestingly, he made this Rameau recording in the U.S., but beyond performances in Dallas and Houston in conjunction with the recording, he seems to have stayed east of the Atlantic. According to his website he has been performing regularly in Europe.