{"id":14595,"date":"2013-08-26T12:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=14595"},"modified":"2013-08-26T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T17:36:59","slug":"ben-heppner-adds-saturday-post-opera-opera-show-on-cbc-radio-2-starting-sept-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/08\/26\/ben-heppner-adds-saturday-post-opera-opera-show-on-cbc-radio-2-starting-sept-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Heppner adds Saturday post-opera opera show on CBC Radio 2 starting Sept. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14596\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/ben-heppner-peter-grimes-007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14596\" alt=\"Ben Heppner as Peter Grimes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2011 (Royal Opera House photo).\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/ben-heppner-peter-grimes-007-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/ben-heppner-peter-grimes-007-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/ben-heppner-peter-grimes-007.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Heppner as Peter Grimes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2011 (Royal Opera House photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tenor Ben Heppner, currently rehearsing the title role in the Canadian Opera Company&#8217;s fall production of Benjamin Britten&#8217;s <em>Peter Grimes<\/em>, has added a second CBC Radio 2 show to his fall schedule, the public broadcaster announced today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Heppner, who is about to begin a stint as host of <em>Saturday Afternoon at the Opera<\/em> will, starting Sept. 7 at 4 p.m. Eastern, stay in the studio to host an additional hour of music and anecdotes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Backstage with Ben Heppner<\/em> will also air on Sundays at 10 a.m. Eastern, the CBC announced.<\/p>\n<p>Heppner&#8217;s playlist will mix vocal and instrumental works.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an incredibly exciting journey for me,&#8221; said Heppner in the news release. &#8220;It&#8217;s all about music and stories, and my idea is to be telling [stories] about my life as an opera singer when I&#8217;m out on the road, and also I think I want to let people know what&#8217;s behind the curtains &#8211; so a little bit backstage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenor Ben Heppner, currently rehearsing the title role in the Canadian Opera Company&#8217;s fall production of Benjamin Britten&#8217;s Peter Grimes, has added a second CBC Radio 2 show to his fall schedule, the public broadcaster announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,36,39,43,50,63,70],"tags":[6451,494,678,3712,2751,2752,2930,2974],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/ben-heppner-peter-grimes-007.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3Np","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14599,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595\/revisions\/14599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14595"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}