Kentucky Opera – Madame Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini’s immortal Madame Butterfly is the next production by Kentucky Opera (November 19 and 21). General Director David Roth hosts this introduction to the opera with Yunah Lee as Cio-Cio San, Adam Diegel, Pinkerton, John Fanning,  Sharpless,  and Mika Shigematsu, Suzuki.

Pianists Jay Coughlon and Ethan McCullom

Jay Coughlon and Ethan McCollum performed a program of duos and solos. Both are students of Dror Biran at the University of Louisville School of Music.

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole: Feria (arranged for piano four-hands)

Cellist Paul York & Pianist Dror Biran

Cellist Paul York and pianist Dror Biran provided a preview of their October 13th faculty recital on Lunchtime Classics.  In addition to playing Schubert and Shostakovich, the duo played a work by Cincinnati composer Douglas Knehans.

Kentucky Opera – Cav & Pag

Kentucky Opera opens its 2010-2011 season with two one-act operas: Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci.  Classical 90.5 hosted the company for a preview of their first production on Lunchtime Classics. (Photo: John Mac Master and Elizabeth Caballero)

Diane Earle, Piano

Diane Earle, piano

Program:

Galuppi: Gigue in D Major

J. S. Bach: Gigue (from Partita in B-flat Major)

Mozart: Eine Kleine Gigue

Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22

Debussy: La Cathedrale Engloutie

Rachmaninoff: Prelude, D Major, Op. 23, No. 4

Cowell: The Tides of Manaunaun

Cowell: Aeolian Harp

Gershwin: I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You (Gershwin/Wild) and Swanee