Metropolitan Opera: From The Archives - Verdi’s La Forza del Destino

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:00:00 +0000

Airs Saturday, March 23 at 12 noon. The 2012-13 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with an archival broadcast of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino from March 12, 1977. Met Music Director James Levine conducts an all-star cast led by soprano Leontyne Price as Leonora, tenor Plácido Domingo as Don Alvaro, baritone Cornell MacNeil as Don Carlo, mezzo-soprano Rosalind Elias as Preziosilla, baritone Renato Capecchi as Melitone, and bass Martti Talvela as the Padre Guardiano. La Forza del Destino will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12 p.m. CT on Saturday, March 23.

Shreveport remembers native son Van Cliburn

Kate Archer Kent — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:36:18 +0000

Shreveport is paying tribute to its native son Van Cliburn, the legendary pianist died Feb. 27 at his Fort Worth home. His early career was nurtured by the Shreveport Symphony community, and he never forgot that, according to Lester Senter Wilson. She’s been executive director of the Wideman International Piano Competition in Shreveport for 30 years. She said Cliburn played five times with the Shreveport Symphony, including a performance in 1972 when he celebrated the orchestra’s 25^th anniversary. People packed the hall.

Placido Domingo

Metropolitan Opera: From The Archives - Verdi’s La Forza del Destino

Shreveport remembers native son Van Cliburn