WQXR, New York's classical radio station, will present Carousel from the Lyric Opera of Chicago this afternoon at 1:00 pm as part of its Saturday at the Opera series. This is the much discussed production with Steven Pasquale and Laura Osnes, directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford. In the NYC area, you can listen over-the-air at 105.9 FM or stream online anywhere in a variety of formats from WQXR's website, www.wqxr.org.
If people are interested in Carousel, you might want to check out this video of the current Stratford Festival production, which will also see a cast recording released soon.
So far, the only part of this broadcast I've really loved have been Jennifer Gambatese and Matthew Hydzik. Those two are delightful.
The tempos are a bit lethargic, and seem to be sucking a lot of the life out of this score, IMO. Osnes and Pasquale (just finished the "Soliloquy") sound gorgeous but are not gripping me emotionally at all. I'm sure it was much more effective seeing them rather than just hearing them.
What a wonderful production of one of my favorite shows. Laura Osnes sounds beautiful here and Steven Pasquale was born to play Billy Bigelow. His rendition of 'Soliloquy' is simply heartbreaking. While I wish I could have seen this in person, I'm just glad I had a chance to hear it.
Edited to add: See, Mike, this is one of the things I love most about theater/art; it's so subjective. We both heard the same thing and yet I found it so emotionally satisfying and like they had a real connection to the characters. Often when I hear a concert production or recording wihout seeing the corresponding show, I feel like I've missed out on somethiong. Though I wish I had seen it in person, this broadcast made me feel transported to a place where songs I've heard a hundred times before sounded brand new.
Anyone have a download link for this? I also keep missing the broadcast. I know it's still going but i dont like to start things when they've already began.
How is the Stratford Festival getting another cast album? How often do regional theatre productions get to record albums? And if they have the money to do it why didn't they record a cast album of their Jesus Christ Superstar production? That I would have paid for!
Pasquale's doing the New York Pops Rodgers & Hammerstein concert in October isn't he? Can;t see how they'd let him get away with not doing Soliloquay after that performance. Might be worth getting a ticket on the off chance, just for that!
Is there any way to record this without any kind of rips or errors in the audio? There's a version that was recorded but it has skips and I really wanted to turn this broadcast into a fan made cast album since it looks like it wont be coming to Broadway anytime soon.
EDIT: I literally forgot it was already streaming. Hopefully it's rebroadcast again sometime soon.
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