Orem Library

Helmut Lohner excels in presenting this amusing love story on stage. With the Opera House Zurich Chorus and Orchestra, Dagmar Schellenberger as the Merry Widow, and Rodney Gilfry as Danilo.

A collection of performances by the most celebrated opera stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Two historic telecasts from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: in the first program, originally telecast in 1963, Dame Joan takes us on a journey through the Golden Age of Opera as she pays tribute to some of her most illustrious predecessors. The second program is a rare document of Dame Joan in recital, taped live in Toronto in 1969.

"Featuring arias and duets from operas which have been landmarks in the careers of Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti."--Container.

A collection of performances by the most celebrated opera stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The action takes place between 1598 and 1605. It concerns the reign of Tsar Boris Godunov who has murdered the Tsarevich Dmitri in order to obtain the succession, and the challenge made to it by the Pretender Dmitri.

A story featuring a forester and a vixen, who is first adopted by him and then escapes to the forest where she is wooed by a fox.

In Peking's Imperial Palace, suitors must answer three riddles to win the hand of the beautiful Turandot. Calaf, son of the exiled King Timur of Tartary, is struck with Turandot's beauty, and ignoring protests from his father and Liù, the servant girl who loves him, he matches wits with the princess.

The deepest of male friendships must contend with jealousy, a witch's premonition, and, ultimately war in the biblical tale of the King Saul's banishment of his son's best friend on the eve of battle. Charpentier's stately choruses, dances, and airs unfold with conductor William Christie's trademark rhetorical flair, transforming a neglected biblical parable into a sonically gripping psychological tableau.