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Show Flying Dutchman Broadcast Live, Sat. KCDR . FM (88.1me) will broadcast Richard Wagner's dramatic three-act opera "Dor Fliegende Hollaender" (The Flying Dutchman) live, from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House on Saturday, January 27, starting at 12, noon, local time. Singing principal roles will be soprano Leonie Rysanek as Senta, baritone Cornel Mac-Neil Mac-Neil as the Dutchman, tenor Ticho Parly as Erik, and bass Giorgio Tozzi as Daland, Sen-ta's Sen-ta's father. On the polium will be Berislav Klobucar, making his Metropolitan Opera broadcast broad-cast debut. Intermission feature "Opera News on the Air", during which the noted musicologist and opera Boris Goldovsky will give a musical and dramatic dra-matic analysis of the broadcast broad-cast opera, and "Opera Quiz." Wagner is responsible for both the text and the music of "The Flying Dutchman." He based the plot of his opera on Heinrich Heine's version of an old legend. In 1839 Wagner had made a wild and stormy crossing of the North Sea during dur-ing which his ship was almost al-most wrecked three times and once was forced into a Nor-' Nor-' wegian port for safety. In the course of that tempetuous voyage, Wagner recalled the story of the Dutchman condemned con-demned to sail the seas until doomsday unless he could find a girl who loved him unselfishly. un-selfishly. The opera had its premiere in Dresden, Germany, on January Jan-uary 2, 1843. It was first heard in this country in Philadelphia Philadel-phia on November 8, 1876, in Italian. "Der Fliegende Hollaender" Hol-laender" entered the Matropol-itan Matropol-itan repertory on November 27, 1889, sung in the original German, Ger-man, as it shall be sung over KCDR this coming Saturday. |