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Tuesday, 16 March 2010
11:56PM

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Visitors to our media center will be greeted by our digital welcome mat, and can see themselves on U•TV, an interactive exhibit where you can explore the art and science of television production. You can also take a peek inside our television studios. more...

WOSU 89.7 FM Classically Columbus
Saturdays at 1:30pm (Broadcasts run each spring until the Metropolitan Opera begins in late November)

”Opera and More!”
“Saturday on Stage,” WOSU’s showcase for great opera recordings selected and narrated by Christopher Purdy, returns for another season, providing insights you won’t find anywhere else. We guarantee it! Spend Saturday afternoons with Christopher and some of the finest, most interesting operas ever recorded.

Saturday, May 2, 1:30pm
MOZART: Cosi fan tutte (That’s What They All Do)
A new recording of Mozart’s bittersweet comedy, with Thomas Allen, Janice Watson and Christopher Maltman, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras sung in English


Saturday, May 9, 1:30pm
BIZET: Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)
Opening night of Opera Columbus’s 2008-2009 season, recorded in performance in the Ohio Theatre. William Boggs conducts the Columbus Symphony, with Vale Rideout, Brian Bannion and Philip Cutlip.


Saturday, May 16, 1:30pm
PUCCINI: Turandot
Puccini’s final opera, performed last January by Opera Columbus. William Boggs conducts the Columbus Symphony, with Othalie Graham and Randolph Locke.


Saturday, May 23, 1:30pm
WEBER: Der Freischütz (The Marksman)
The classic German romantic opera by Carl Maria von Weber complete with a haunted forest. Rudolph Schock and Elisabeth Gruemmer star with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Joseph Keilberth.


Saturday, May 30, 1:30pm
Beverly Sills’ 80th birthday
Beloved American soprano Beverly Sills (1929-2006) stars as Donizetti’s Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn), with Shirley Verrett, Paul Plishka and Stuart Burrows. Plus selections from Manon, La traviata, Giulio Cesare and The Ballad of Baby Doe.

Beyond the Gridiron: The Life and Times of Woody Hayes

A fascinating profile of one of the most gifted and complex coaches of the twentieth century. This program chronicles Hayes’ rise from a high school coach in a small Ohio town to college football dominance as the head coach of the OSU Buckeyes. This first-ever public television documentary on Woody Hayes also looks at the times that shaped the man, from WWII through the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. more...

Saturday on Stage

Saturdays at 1:30pm on 89.7. ”Opera and More!” WOSU’s showcase for great opera recordings selected and narrated by Christopher Purdy, returns for another season, providing insights you won’t find anywhere else. We guarantee it! more...