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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Week of March 29, 2012 - April 5, 2012


Next week, April 7, at 1:00pm: The next Met-HD broadcast, "Manon," with Anna Netrebko.

This week on Rhode Island Public television, WSBE: 

IPHIGÉNIE
EN TAURIDE





Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, March 31 -- 8:00pm

A production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Iphigénie en Tauride," based on a Greek myth in which a high priestess (Susan Graham) is reunited with her brother (Placido Domingo) after a lengthy separation.


WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=206
DURATION: 120 MIN


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Coming April 17 to The Jane Pickens Theater, Newport, RI

VERDI'S RIGOLETTO LIVE FROM 

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON

APRIL 17 (ONE SHOW ONLY); TIME ~ TBA
Verdi's Rigoletto Live from Royal Opera Hosue London

LIVE FROM THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON, ENGLAND TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2012

Composed by Verdi, Conducted by John Eliot Ga,Starring Dimitri Platanias, Ekaterina Siurina, Vittorio Grigolo, Pablo Bemsch & Christine Rice.   Sung in Italian with English subtitles, 2 hrs 9 mins
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THIS SUNDAY!





Rhode Island Civic Chorale 
Chamber Choir
Sunday, April 1 2012, 3:00 PM


Celebrate Edward Markward’s

25th Anniversary Season as Music Director

Our 55th Season 2011-2012



Edward Markward, Music Director

Michael Kregler, Accompanist

Composers of 
New EnglandChoral Music 
      
                                Chester                                                      William Billings
                                When Jesus Wept                                      William Billings
                                America                                                     William Billings
                                                                                                       (1746 – 1800)

                                At the River                                                Charles Ives
                                                                                                       (1874 – 1954)

                                At the River                                                 Aaron Copland
                                Simple Gifts                                                Aaron Copland
                                                                                          (1900 – 1990)

                                From Landscapes by T.S. Eliot                     Michael Kregler
                                            1.      New Hampshire
                                            2.      Virginia
                                            3.      Usk

                               The Last Words of David                             Randall Thompson
                                    from “Frostiana”                                    Randall Thompson                               
                               Choose Something Like A Star                            (1899 – 1984)
                        Come In
                                    The Road Not Taken    
                           
                                   INTERMISSION

                               Under the Willow Tree (words by Gian-Carlo Menotti)    Samuel Barber
                                                                                                    (1910 – 1981)

                               French Choruses from The Lark (Jean Anouilh)        Leonard Bernstein
                             as adapted by Lillian Hellman                             (1918 – 1990)
                             1.      Spring Song
                             2.      Court Song
                                               3.      Soldier’s Song

                   from “Alice In Wonderland”                                           Irving Fine
                                        The Lobster Quadrille                                          (1914 – 1962)
                            Lullaby of the Duchess
                                        Father William
                                                         

        
Redwood Library and Athenaeum 
50 Bellevue Avenue  Newport, RI 02840
(401) 847-0292  

$12 General Admission • $10 Seniors

$7 Students & Redwood Library Members with ID • 

Children under 12, Free

Phone: 401-521-5670 • Email: info@ricco.org

Chamber Choir
R I C C O


 



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THE 2012-13 Met Season



has been announced:

Go to 
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO



This coming Saturday (March 31), the Met radio broadcast is of Donizetti's perennial favorite "L'Elisir d'Amore" with Juan Diego Florez and Diana Damrau in the leading roles. Both of these singers, as many of you will recall, delivered top-notch performances in last season's HD-transmission of Rossini's "Comte Ory." Also in the cast this Saturday is baritone Mariusz Kwiecien and bass Alessandro Corbelli, both of whom starred in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" (with Anna Netrebko) in November 2010.

(www.wrti.org/)



Another perennial favorite -- this one by Bizet -- is "Carmen" which will be broadcast LIVE from Salzburg, and can be heard on ORF. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recently seen in the title role of Gounod's "Faust" when the Met offered it as an HD-transmission last December, will be singing the dramatic role of Don Jose in this Saturday's performance.
(http://oe1.orf.at/)

In the mood for a blockbuster? Well, why not tune in to German Radio this Saturday when last night's performance of Wagner's "Tristan & Isolde" is aired on internet radio? The performance was given in Berlin, with soprano Nina Stemme singing the role of Isolde, after having sung Brunnhilde this past summer in the San Francisco Opera's Ring Cycle.
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

And what Saturday afternoon would be complete without yet another World Premiere? This time, coming from the Flemish Opera, it's German composer Christian Jost's latest: "Rumor" -- Word is out that it's a towering masterpiece, but that's only a RUMOR. (Sorry, folks, I couldn't resist that one!)
(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

Enjoy!

DAVE


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MET RADIO BROADCASTS




This Saturday at noon:

Donizetti's



L'ELISIR  D'AMORE
The Elixir of Love 


Listen to the Met Opera Saturday afternoon broadcasts at 1pm, on Harvard Radio, 95.3 in the Boston area or live-streaming online at http://www.whrb.org
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FIRST TAKES ON "MANON" with ANNA NETREBKO 

which will be broadcast next Saturday.




Anna singing -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XMk3gp3g5GE


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San Francisco Opera, Sunday night broadcast, from KDFC
THIS WEEK: 
Gaetano Donizetti’s
LUCREZIA BORGIA


Superstar soprano Renee Fleming returns to SF Opera as Donizetti's tragic anti-heroine Lucrezia Borgia.  The infamous femme fatale takes no prisoners but has a soft spot for her long-lost son, Gennaro, sung by rising American tenor, Michael Fabiano.  Lead by internationally-acclaimed opera conductor, Riccardo Frizza.



"Lucretia Borgia" broadcasts from KDFC at 
8pm, Pacific Daylight Time, so it is heard here at 11pm,
Sunday night, April 1.
To Listen, go to 
and click on "Listen Now."
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 NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 
THIS WEEK 

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