What interesting gods of scheduling aspired to give us (almost) an entire day of Ms. Voigt from Beethoven to Wagner. And after the crazy work week this week (two nights til 3 and an all nighter last night)… i need some relief!

First …FIDELIO in a concert version recorded last year at Carnegie Hall.

1:30PM WRTI Opera Stage [From the WFMT Radio Network]
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

Robert Bass,  The Collegiate Chorale and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s;  Recorded last year (4 hrs., 30 min.)

AND then tonight – the piece de resistance… a LIVE Tanglewood webcast with Wagner and Levine (this is rare folks!).   This is Ms. Voigt’s debut as Brünnhilde – she will be singing the “Immolation” from Wagner’s Götterdämerung.  The concert opens with Act One of Walkuere in which she will sing the part of Sieglinde. Maestro Levine leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra for this concert.

8:30 PM EDT – WQXR***  SPECIAL PROGRAM: TMC Orchestra: All-Wagner Program
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert

Wagner
Die Walküre, Act 1
Götterdämmerung, Act 3 
James Levine, conductor
Deborah Voigt, soprano (Sieglinde and Brünnhilde)
Clifton Forbis, tenor (Siegmund)
Christian Franz, tenor (Siegfried)
Melanie Diener, soprano (Gutrune)
Lyubov Petrova, soprano (Woglinde)
Maria Zifchack, soprano (Wellgunde)
Jane Bunnell, mezzo-soprano (Flosshilde)
Alan Held, bass-baritone (Gunther)
Stephen Milling, (Hunding in Walküre I)
John Creek, (Hagen in Götterdämmerung III)
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor

** A note about listening to WQXR on the web – you can only do it thru AOL (so you must be a member).