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LOC's production of Jimmy Lopez's Bel Canto, based on the novel by Ann Patchett, about a South American hostage crisis that starts at the recital of a touring American soprano. If you've read the book, you'll know the soprano's repertoire is somewhat unlikely, and that it all ends in tears.

Saturday Night in the Provinces*

The Boston Symphony gives us a preview of the Met's upcoming Rosenkavalier tonight, with Renee Fleming, Susan Graham, Erin Morley, Franz Hawlata, and Stephen Costello (in a bit of Italian Tenor luxury casting) tonight at 7pm, streaming at WCRB. Andris Nelsons conducts.

Meanwhile, WFMT has LOC's Rheingold opening, wherein our hero (Eric Owens) graduates from Alberich to Wotan, at 6:45ET.

*not to be confused with the Fennig's All Star String Band album of the same name

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The Library of Congress, that Cultural Bat-cave of America, has just posted up their Amanda Forsythe & Apollo's Fire concert from last November to the 'tubes, and we heart them for it.