Week of August 6-13, 2010

PETER GRIMES

Anthony Dean Griffey stars in the title role of Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes," about an English fisherman blamed for the deaths of two assistants. Ellen Orford: Patricia Racette. Capt. Balstrode: Anthony Michaels-Moore. Mrs. Sedley: Felicity Palmer.

ANTHONY DEAN GRIFFEY

WSBE (36.2) (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 294)
Saturday, August 7 -- 8:00 pm

Sunday, August 8 — 3:00 am

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Monday, August 9 — 12:00 am

Duration: 180 min

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=215

Watch an interview with ANTHONY DEAN GRIFFEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QE55fyKlKE
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And in case you're not all Carmen'd out, herewith the last rose of summer...

Carmen

A production of Bizet's "Carmen," starring Elina Garanca in the title role, a Gypsy girl; and Roberto Alagna as Don Jose, the soldier who becomes obsessed with her.

WATCH Carmen seduce Don Jose...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlGMlxElB3A&feature=related

Friday, August 6, 3 AM, on WGBH 44 (RI Cox Cable 804) (RI Fios 470)
Monday, August 9, 3 AM on WGBH 44 (RI Cox Cable 804) (RI Fios 470)
Duration: 180 min.
Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=117
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Watch an interview of Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna by Renee Fleming;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNc6BGFvy08&feature=related
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OPERA PROVIDENCE

"OPERA IN THE PARK"

WaterFire
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Opera Providence will be the featured
performers with over 30 sopranos

For more information, please call our office.

401-331-6060

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH DAVE D'AGUANNO
This Saturday (August 7), you can get a head start at noontime with a performance of Wagner's "Siegfried" (taped from L.A. Opera this past June)
(http://www.wfmt.com/)

If Richard Wagner is not your thing, you can give his son Siegfried a shot at 2 p.m. at which time his opera "Banadietrich" is getting a rare airing from a 1995 performance. (Son Siegfried actually wrote almost 20 operas of his own!)
(http://www.radiostephansdom.at/)
At 1 p.m., KOHM is broadcasting a performance from Florence (November '09) of Janacek's "Cunning Little Vixen."
(http://kohm.org/news/)
Plus, at 1:30, you'll get a chance to listen to last Sunday's Salzburg performance of Berg's "Lulu" (which was also televised in Europe, by the way)
(http://oe1.orf.at/programm/)
Then, starting on Monday, August 9, RAITRE is broadcasting the operas from this summer's Rossini Festival in Pesaro, starting with his opera "Sigismondo."
Hope you can listen to at least one of these interesting operas!
DAVE

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Week of July 30-August 6, 2010

The Met-HD summer encores are finished and the new season doesn't begin until October.
WGBH is showing Carmen late at night this week. In the meantime, WSBE continues its weekend broadcasts. Keep WSBEand WGBH in mind when you plan your charitable gifts!


WSBE Learn (36.2) (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 294)
Saturday, July 31 -- 8:00pm

Sunday, August 1 — 3:00am

PBS will send you a one-time only tune-in reminder for this specific broadcast. We will not keep your email address after sending the reminder, and your email is used for no other purpose.

You can choose to remove this reminder until the day it is scheduled by clicking "remove" next to the reminder, or within the TV schedules preferences pane, which is accessible from the main schedules interface.

remind me:	the day before the broadcast the day of the broadcast
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Monday,August 2 — 12:00am

Duration: 270 minutes

Deborah Voigt

stars in Richard Wagner's

Tristan und Isolde

Hear her sing "Liebestod":
http://www.mp3eq.com/video/deborah-voigt-as-isolde-liebestod__3217269873.html

For the synopsis and other information: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=86

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And in case you're not all Carmen'd out, herewith the last rose of summer...

Carmen

A production of Bizet's "Carmen," starring Elina Garanca in the title role, a Gypsy girl; and Roberto Alagna as Don Jose, the soldier who becomes obsessed with her.

WATCH Carmen seduce Don Jose...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlGMlxElB3A&feature=related

Thursday, August 5, at 1 AM on WGBH 44 (RI Cox Cable 804) (RI Fios 470)
Friday, August 6, at 3 AM, on WGBH 44 (RI Cox Cable 804) (RI Fios 470)
Monday, August 9m , 3 AM on WGBH 44 (RI Cox Cable 804) (RI Fios 470)
Duration: 180 min.
Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=117
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Watch an interview of Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna by Renee Fleming;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNc6BGFvy08&feature=related
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OPERA PROVIDENCE

"OPERA IN THE PARK"

"I Get A Kick Out of My Favorite Things ...
The Music of Cole Porter and Rogers and Hammerstein"
Sunday, August 1, 2010
5:00 to 6:30pm

WaterFire
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Opera Providence will be the featured
performers with over 30 sopranos

For more information, please call our office.

401-331-6060

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OPERA ON THE 'NET BY DAVE D'AGUANNO
For those who are somewhat daring, you can kick things off on Friday (July 30) at 1:30 p.m. with a world premiere performance (taped July 27) from this summer's Salzburg Festival of Rihm's "Dionysos" on Austrian radio

(http://oe1.at/)

The same station will be airing a live performance (again from Salzburg) of Gluck's "Orfeo & Eurydice" on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday morning (at 8:30 a.m.) Radio France is digging into their archives & broadcasting a rare performance of Messager's "Les Petites Michus." (http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)

Also, on Saturday at 1 p.m., CBC Radio is broadcasting a performance from last December of Tchaikovsky's "The Tsarina's Slippers" (Covent Garden, London) (http://www.cbc.ca/)

Or (also at 1 p.m.) there's Wagner's "Die Walkure" from L.A. starring Placido Domingo (from this past spring) on WFMT (www.wmft.com/)

At the same time (1 p.m.) WRTI is airing Wagner's "Das Rheingold" (also from L.A. Opera)
(www.wrti.org)

Happy Listening!!


DAVE
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Royal Opera House comes to the Pickens!

Live screening of Cosi Fan Tutte opening night performance from Convent Garden
September 10th on the big screen at the Pickens as it is being performed in London

Shakespeare from the Globe Theatre in London announced for future screenings!

From the New York Times:
The Royal opera House in London is now expanding its offerings through a new deal with Emerging Pictures, a network that provides digital transmissions of events to movie theaters. In an agreement announced on Tuesday, Emerging Pictures will become the North American distributor of shows from the Royal Opera's media arm, Opus Arte. The shows will include live performances of operas and ballets, as well as filmed productions of Shakespeare plays from the Globe Theater, for which Opus Arte has the rights.

The first event to be shown under the new arrangement will be the opening-night performance of Mozart's "Così fan Tutte" on Sept. 10th (Friday) from Covent Garden in London.
Tickets will go on sale August 2nd

For advance tickets for events visit www.janepickens.com
For advance tickets for feature films, visit www.movietickets.com

To become a Pickens Star and join our membership/philanthropy program, visit www.Friendsjpt.org

The Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center
49 Touro Street
Newport, RI 02840
401-846-5474
www.janepickens.com

Week of July 24-August 1, 2010

It's "Carmen" Week in Rhode Island!
On WSBE and Met-HD at local theaters.

Carmen

A production of Bizet's "Carmen," starring Elina Garanca in the title role, a Gypsy girl; and Roberto Alagna as the soldier who becomes obsessed with her. Host: Renee Fleming.

WSBE Learn (36.2) (Cox Cable 808) (Fios 478)

Saturday, July 24 -- 8:00pm

Sunday, July 25 — 3:00am

PBS will send you a one-time only tune-in reminder for this specific broadcast. We will not keep your email address after sending the reminder, and your email is used for no other purpose.

You can choose to remove this reminder until the day it is scheduled by clicking "remove" next to the reminder, or within the TV schedules preferences pane, which is accessible from the main schedules interface.

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Monday, July 26 — 12:00am

Duration: 180 min.

For a snippet of Garanca singing (though not in the Met production which is not yet available on YouTube, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSdgbuP7HSo&feature=related

also in

Met-HD*

"Carmen"

Wednesday, July 28, 6:30 PM
Thursday, July 29, Noon
Duration: 2 hrs., 50 minutes

*For information about the Met-HD recordings, see below, past weekly listings.

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NO OPERA ON WGBH THIS WEEK--SUMMER DOLDRUMS!
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Support our public television stations for bringing us so much opera...WBSE in Rhode Island, WGBH in Boston, and the Met-HD Program from the Metropolitan Opera: Information below.
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OPERA PROVIDENCE

"OPERA IN THE PARK"

"Diva, Diva, Diva"
Sunday, July 25, 2010
5:00 to 6:30pm

"I Get A Kick Out of My Favorite Things ...
The Music of Cole Porter and Rogers and Hammerstein"
Sunday, August 1, 2010
5:00 to 6:30pm

WaterFire
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Opera Providence will be the featured
performers with over 30 sopranos

For more information, please call our office.

401-331-6060

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OPERA ON THE 'NET BY DAVE D'AGUANNO

This Saturday, July 24, these particular radio broadcasts may be of some interest:
1 p.m. Rossini: "L'Equivoco Stravagante"
Generali: "Adelina" (double bill) (Wildbad 7/24/10 - live) Deutschland Radio Kultur (www.radio.de/dkultur/)
1 p.m. Rossini: "Barber of Seville" (L.A. 12/09) WRTI (www.wrti.org)
1:30 p.m. Weinberg: "The Passenger" (Bregenz 7/21/10) (World Premiere) ORF (http://oe1.orf.at/)
Beginning Sunday, July 25, performances from this summer's Wagner festival in Bayreuth will be aired, starting with "Lohengrin" (featuring Jonas Kaufmann in the title role). For a complete listing (with casts) of all ten operas to be broadcast, please go here:

http://operacast.com/bayreuth_2010.htm
Happy listening!
DAVE

Week of July 17-24, 2010

Support our public television stations for bringing us so much opera...WBSE in Rhode Island, WGBH in Boston, and the Met-HD Program from the Metropolitan Opera: Information below.

CARMEN is Coming on Met-HD July 28 & 29th!

THIS WEEKEND:

WSBE, Channel 36.2 (Cox Cable 808; Verizon Fios 498) (In MA, Comcast 294)

Saturday, July 17, 8 PM
Sunday, July 18, 3 AM
Monday, July 19, 12 AM
Duration: 120 minutes

LA RONDINE
("The Swallow")
by
Giacomo Puccini

Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu in their last collaboration before their real-life divorce.

For synopsis and other information:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=264

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WGBH

HAMLET

by

Ambrose Thomas

Sunday Jul 18 at 1:30 PM
WGBH 2/HD
Tuesday Jul 20 at 1:00 AM
WGBH 2/HD

Duration: 180 minutes

The Ambroise Thomas opera "Hamlet," based on the Shakespeare play, starring baritone Simon Keenlyside as the prince and soprano Marlis Petersen as Ophélie. Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore is Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, and James Morris is Claudius.

http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis/aspx?id=306

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MET-HD*

TURANDOT

by

Giacomo Puccini

Wednesday, July 21, 6:30 PM

Thursday, July 22, Noon

*See below, past weekly listings, for information about the Met-HD Program, locations, etc.

Synopsis and other info:

http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=26

http://underbelly-buce.blogspot.com/2009/11/opera-mets-hd-turandot.html
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OPERA PROVIDENCE

"OPERA IN THE PARK"

"Una Bella Festa: Italian Opera Favorites"
Sunday, July 18, 2010
5:00 to 6:30pm

"Diva, Diva, Diva"
Sunday, July 25, 2010
5:00 to 6:30pm

"I Get A Kick Out of My Favorite Things ...
The Music of Cole Porter and Rogers and Hammerstein"
Sunday, August 1, 2010
5:00 to 6:30pm

WaterFire
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Opera Providence will be the featured
performers with over 30 sopranos

For more information, please call our office.

401-331-6060

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OPERA ON THE 'NET BY DAVE D'AGUANNO

Here are some opera performances that may be of interest for this Saturday afternoon's listening pleasure:

1 p.m. Schumann's "Genoveva" (Leipzig 5/30/10) German radio broadcast (www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

1 p.m. Bolcom's "A View from the Bridge" (Washington 11/07) WPLN (http://wpln.org/?cat=7)

1:30 p.m. Johann Strauss's "Die Fledermaus" (Vienna 7/15/10) Austrian radio broadcast (http://roi.orf.at/)

2 p.m. Rossini's "Otello" (NOT the one by Verdi) (Lausanne 2/26/10) Swedish radio broadcast (http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

Enjoy!

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Coming in Met-HD, July 28 & 29

CARMEN

Elina Garanca, who sings the title role, sings the Habanera (L'amour est un oiseaux rebelle) from Bizet's opera 'Carmen,' here in concert. No YouTube excerpts are yet available of the Met-HD production. Even if you think you've seen all the productions of Carmen you ever wanted to see, this one is a must-see!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHvZN_deRmY

Week of July 10-17, 2010

OPERA IN CINEMA AT THE JANE PICKENS THEATER (Newport)
Dazzling Aida from the Bregenz Festival

July 11, Sunday, 12:00noon

AIDA

Indra Thomas as Aida

Dazzling Aida from the Bregenz Festival

Verdi’s Aida is one of the most popular operas of all time. It premiered at the Cairo Opera House on Christmas Eve, 1871, and was an immediate commercial success. The plot of Aida is filled with political intrigue, love, betrayal, passion, and vengeance – all set against the backdrop of ancient Egypt. This new production from the summer Bregenz Festival brings a fresh look at this classic: the action takes place on Bregenz’s famous “floating stage,” turning Austria’s Lake Constance into the Nile River for the evening. Although this production is in many ways unconventional, the music and drama are actually heightened by the setting: “The location will enhance the grand passion and tragic conflict of the story, with superb music,” said David Pountney, the artistic director. “The Bregenz floating stage and Giuseppe Verdi are a perfect match.” The creative team is truly living up to Aida’s reputation as “an intimate chamber opera, with a circus in the middle!”


Verdi’s Aida
from the Bregenz Festival, Austria

Starring Tatiana Serjan, Iano Tamar and Rubens Pelizzari
Conducted by Carlo Rizzi
Staged by Graham Vick

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MET-HD SUMMER ENCORES
(For instructions on going to Met-HD productions, see below, following weekly listings)

LA BOHEME

by

GIACOMO PUCCINI

Ramon Vargas as Rudolfo & Angela Gheorghiu as Mimi

Wednesday, July 14, 6:30 PM
Thursday, July 15, Noon
Duration: 2 hrs., 10 minutes

For a synopsis and other information:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=160

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WSBE, Channel 36.2 (Cox Cable 808; Verizon Fios 498) (In MA, Comcast 294)

DER ROSENKAVALIER

by

RICHARD STRAUSS

Renee Fleming stars as the Marschallin, a "cougar" in Der Rosenkavalier
with Susan Graham (in the "pants role")as her 17 year-old male lover Octavian
For a synopsis and other information:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=21

Duration: 210 minutes (Better stock up on the popcorn!)
Saturday, July 10, 8 PM
Sunday, July 11, 3 AM
Monday, July 12, 12 AM
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WGBH Summer Doldrums: No opera this week.

Next week--Thomas Ambrose's "Hamlet" with Simon Keenlyside

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OPERA ON THE 'NET BY DAVE D'AGUANNO

http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Don_Giovanni_au_festival_d_Aix-en-Provence/

The above link will take you to a video of the July 5 performance of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" from this year's Aix-en-Provence summer festival.

This coming Saturday (July 10), here are some opera performances that can be heard on the internet:

1 p.m. Massenet's MANON w/Anna Netrebko (Covent Garden 7/10) (www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

1 p.m. Gounod's MIREILLE (Paris 9/09) (www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

1 p.m. Gretry's ANDROMAQUE (Schwetzingen 4/10) (www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

1 p.m. Debussy's PELLEAS & MELISANDE (Duisburg 4/11/10) (www.kohm.org/news/)

1 p.m. Mozart's MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Chicago 2/28/10) (www.wrti.org/)

1:30 p.m. Donizetti's L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Chicago 1/10) (www.classic99.com/)

2 p.m. Chabrier's EDUCATION MANQUEE/Rossini's CAMBIALE DI MATRIMONIO (Wexford 10/31/09) (www.sverigesradio.se.p2/)

More listings can be found Saturday at www.operacast.com

Have a great week ahead!

DAVE