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Just a reminder that the opener for the new Met Rosenkavalier will be streamed on the Met website on Thursday, April 13, starting at 7pm ET.

While you wait, here's Boston's Handel & Haydn Society doing the Monteverdi Vespers at the Temple of Reverb Dendur.



Or there's one of Eliza Carthy's big band projects live in Hull, with a rather killer opening set from Olivia Chaney, right here.

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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This is just to remind ourselves that this is happening and we should probably do something about it.

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NPR interviews Jonas Kaufmann about his new Wagner disc.  The Archive's copy is due in this week with Real World's Sevara Nazarkhan reissue, so that'll be an eclectic noise day at the Borg Cube.

Getting a jump on the Easter rush, Arte Live Web's got a Matthaeus Passion with Karina Gauvin.

WQXR has archived January's Renee Fleming / Susan Graham Carnegie Hall recital.  (Read review at Opera Obsession.)

Also from January, the Boston Symphony's Verdi Requiem, with Cedolins, Gubanova, Neill, Colombara, cond. Daniele Gatti.