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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Capriccio live from Met today

New York Met favorite, soprano Renee Flemming, is starring in today's production of Capriccio for the high-definition live broadcast around the world. Villagers can see the opera at Tinseltown in Benton at noon. The opera runs without a break and will last two hours and 20 minutes.
This is Flemming's first time singing all of Strauss' Capriccio, Previously, she has performed excerpts from the opera.
The cast includes Joseph Kaiser as Flamand, Russell Braun as Olivier, Peter Rose as La Roche, Sarah Connolly as Clairon.
Secondary roles include the Italian Singers sung by tenor Barry Banks and soprano Olga Makarina, the servant sung by Christopher Schaldenbrand, and Michael Devlin as the Major-Domo and Bernard Fitch as the prompter.

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