Interesting Webcasts coming up:

KING-FM, The Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival. Broadcasting all performances from the Festival.  Started last week thru July 29th (still plenty left to hear).    Series is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 8 pm PDT

BBC Proms 2005 First Week schedule – Friday July 15th thru Thursday July 21st.  After the First Night (Tippett and Mendelssohn) on Prom 4 is the highly praised Royal Opera Die Walkuere  (Domingo in his Proms DEBUT!, with Meier who from all accounts stealing the entire opera and Terfel in his first Wotan)   in between on Prom 3 is Purcell’s The Fairy Queen from the Gabrieli Consort and Prom 2, a Gilbert & Sullivan evening and Stephen Hough (Rachmaniov Piano Conc 1), and ending with London Premiere of James MacMillan’s A Scotch Bestiary.   Oh and don’t forget , the first chamber concert of Barber, Faure and Warlock with Sir Thomas Allen.

Just bookmark the BBC Proms website and keep your Realplayer streaming BBC Radio 3 for – oh say, the next two months.

WQXR-FM, The annual Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert features James Levine leading the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in an all-Wagner program: Die Walküre, Act 1 and Gotterdämmerung, Act 3, with Deborah Voigt (Siegflinde and Brünnhilde), Clifton Forbis (Siegmund), Christian Franz (Siegfried), Melanie Diener (Gutrune), Lyubov Petrova (Woglinde), Maria Zifchack (Wellgunde), Jane Bunnell (Flosshilde), Alan Held (Gunther), and Kristinn Sigmundsson (Hunding and Hagen).  Check the website for the limited webcast streaming options. Sat., July 16 – 8:30 – 10:30 PM

Opera Stage [WFMT Radio Network WRTI ]:  Beethoven: FIDELIO Leonore: Deborah Voigt, soprano; Florestan: Thomas Moser, tenor; Don Fernando: James Morris, bass; Don Pizarro: Tom Fox, baritone; Marzelline: Harolyn Blackwell, soprano; Jacquino: Stanford Olsen, tenor  CONDUCTOR: Robert Bass; ENSEMBLE: The Collegiate Chorale; ORCHESTRA: Orchestra of St. Luke’s  Taped at Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York Sat. July 16th 130 pm

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