sundry items

Harriet Walter, who will be Prospering in Brooklyn early in the new year, has a book out next week on a career's worth of Shakespeare, and she's written a short intro for The Arts Desk. Meanwhile, Janet McTeer, currently on Broadway in Josie Rourke's Les Liaisons Dangereuses revival, has a profile in The New Yorker.

Susan Graham's recital for Boston's Celebrity Series earlier this month has been archived on the WCRB site, and last spring's Boston Baroque Magic Flute with Nicholas Phan is also there, plus a bunch of other interesting things are currently inhabiting the WCRB archive if you click around.

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

nota

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

pregame

Peter Gelb moderates a panel discussion with director William Kentridge and the principle cast members of the Met's upcoming Lulu

sundry items

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.