"A night at the opera" and an evening of orchestral music await us today and tomorrow.
We get "a night at the opera" this evening and orchestrea music tomorrow/
July 19, 2025
Here's WCRB's description: https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2025-04-23/puccinis-tosca-live-from-tanglewood
Saturday, July 19, 2025
8:00 PMAndris Nelsons, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and a cast of phenomenal singers bring Puccini’s operatic tale of love and treachery, “Tosca,” to the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood. Floria Tosca, driven by jealousy and love, struggles to save her lover, painter Mario Cavaradossi, from the sadistic chief of police, Baron Scarpia.
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Kristine Opolais, soprano (Tosca)
SeokJong Baek, tenor (Cavaradossi)
Bryn Terfel, baritone (Scarpia)
Patrick Carfizzi, bass-baritone (Sacristan)
Neal Ferreira, tenor (Spoletta)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductorGiacomo PUCCINI Tosca
For more information on Tanglewood concerts, visit the BSO box office.
The BSO's performance detail page https://www.bso.org/events/bso-july-19-puccini-tosca?performance=2025-07-19-20%3A00 doesn't tell us much more, but it does have a link to the program notes as well as to performer bios:
PUCCINI Tosca
Concert performance; sung in Italian with English supertitles. Please note that the onstage drama of Tosca features rifles and a starter pistol that will be fired in Act III.
The opera has its dramatic moments. If you can find a libretto, it might be useful.
July 19, 2025
There will be some discrepancies between what WCRB tells us and what we see in the BSO page because the piano soloist soesn't want his performance broadcast. Here's what 'CRB says:
Sunday, July 20, 2025
7:00 PMBoston Symphony Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in two masterpieces that highlight the virtuosity and expressive range of the young professionals of the TMC, starting with the Symphony No. 2 by Brahms, recorded on July 7, followed by Hector Berlioz’s musical depiction of all-consuming, obsessive love, Symphonie fantastique.
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yiran Zhao, conductor (Smetana)Johannes BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
Bedrich SMETANA Vltava (The Moldau)
Hector BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastiqueYuja Wang's performance of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 is not available for broadcast at the soloist's request.
Although the evening broadcast will differ from the live show in the afternoon, the program detail page https://www.bso.org/events/july-20-tmco-yuja-wang?performance=2025-07-20-14%3A30 at least gives acxces to the program notes for the Berlioz. Here's the url for the July 7 program detail page https://www.bso.org/events/july-7-twd-music-ctr-orch?performance=2025-07-07-20:00
Note that the orchestra is the lTanglewood Festival Orchestra, the students who are in the summer pprogram at Tanglewood. They're quite good, of course.
So it may seem a bit confusing, but it's all good music.
Saturday brings French composition, as WCRB notes:
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