Trove Thursday

Leyla Gencer stars as Ponchielli's ill-fated street singer in this 1971 performance from Venice.

From the first postwar Bayreuth Festival (1951), a passionate performance of the final act of Die Walkuere. Featured are Astrid Varnay (Brunnhilde), Leonie Rysanek (Sieglinde), and Sigurd Bjoerling (Wotan). Herbert von Karajan conducts.

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The latest podcast from "Unnatural Acts of Opera" is The Prologue to Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss/Hoffmansthal) in a radiant performance from the Salzburg Festival 1954. Featured are Lisa della Casa, Hilde Gueden, Irmgard Seefried, Rudolf Schock and Paul Schoeffler. Karl Boehm leads the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Your hostess for the show is La Cieca, cultural doyenne at parterre box. For more details, please go to http://parterre.com/unnatural_acts.htm