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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Week of November 1 - November 8, 2013

OPERA ON WGBH TV 2

THIS FRIDAY, November 1
8pm 
from the San Francisco Opera

MOBY DICK


A San Francisco Opera production of "Moby-Dick," an adaption of the Herman Melville novel by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer. Jay Hunter Morris stars as Captain Ahab, whose obsessive pursuit of a white whale comes with a steep price.






This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)


Great Performances at the Met
Anna Bolena
Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, November 2 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, November 3 -- 3:00am; Monday, November 4 -- 12:00am
Anna Bolena
Season 6 opens with Gaetano Donizetti's "Anna Bolena," based on the last days of Anne Boleyn (Anna Netrebko), the second wife of British monarch Henry VIII (Ildar Abdrazakov)
DURATION: 210 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS





Did you see the Met featured on Sunday’s 60 minutes?

In case you didn’t, here it is!
HTTP://WWW.CBSNEWS.COM/VIDEO/WATCH/?ID=50157983N&TAG=API






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SAVE THE DATE! At the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport
La Scala, Milano
LIVE SIMULCAST: LA SCALA OPENING NIGHT FROM MILAN: LA TRAVIATA ON DECEMBER 7TH AT 1:00PM

Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Starring Diana Damrau, Giuseppina Piunti, Mara Zampieri
Conducted by Daniele Gatti
Staging and sets by Dmitri Tcherniakov
New Teatro alla Scala production
December 7, 2013   1:00pm
Running Time: 2 hours 40 minutes intermission included
Sung in Italian with  English subtitles









OPERA ON THE INTERNET 
WITH  
DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Two of the three operas that comprise Donizetti's (unofficial) Queens Trilogy can be heard on upcoming internet radio broadcasts, with ORF (Austria) giving us a performance from earlier this month of "Anna Bolena" (a Vienna State Opera production).

The other Donizetti work -- "Roberto Devereux" -- can be heard on BBC Radio 3 (on Monday, November 4) in a performance from Welsh National Opera, this one also having taken place earlier this month.

On the other hand, if these two tragic operas do not appeal to you, there are a couple of comic operas (both in Italian) to savor as well. For example, Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri" can be heard on NPR, the first in a series of broadcasts from Houston Grand Opera's 2012/2013 season (this one from last October).

Then, on German Radio, coming from the opera company in Stuttgart is an October 20 performance of Verdi's "Falstaff."

Enjoy!


DAVE



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The Met radio broadcast season
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of December. 



Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Week of October 24 - October 31, 2013

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THIS SATURDAY, October 26, 2013, 12:55pm



Live in HD 
For instructions on how to attend HD Simulcasts and Encores, scroll down past the weekly listings to the FAQs.

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THE NOSE
William Kentridge stormed the Met with his inventive production of Shostakovich’s opera, which dazzled opera and art lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010. Now Paulo Szot reprises his acclaimed performance of a bureaucrat, whose satirical misadventures in search of his missing nose are based on Gogol’s comic story. Pavel Smelkov conducts.


This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, 
and Verizon 478)

Great Performances at the Met
Il Trovatore

Saturday, October 26 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, October 27 -- 3:00am; Monday, October 28 -- 12:00am

Il Trovatore
A production of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," in which brothers (Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky) compete for the affections of the same woman (Sondra Radvanovsky). Dolora Zajick costars as Azucena, the gypsy with a dark secret.
DURATION: 150 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS





Turandot

The cinema at the Providence Place Mall is going to be showing 

Andrei Serban’s staging of Puccini’s final opera is a glorious pageant of rich colour, dance and drama."Turandot" 
from the Royal Opera House,
October 27, 1:00pm

More Royal Opera broadcasts?






SAVE THE DATE! At the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport
La Scala, Milano
LIVE SIMULCAST: LA SCALA OPENING NIGHT FROM MILAN: LA TRAVIATA ON DECEMBER 7TH AT 1:00PM
Diana Damrau

OVERVIEW:
La Scala officially inaugurates its opera season with an opening night regarded as the European cultural event of the year. This year, La Scala presents Verdi’s beloved work La Traviata, broadcast live! Opening night in Milan is always December 7th.  This year it is a Saturday. The opera will shown on our big screen as it is being performed in Milan.
Performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Starring Diana Damrau, Giuseppina Piunti, Mara Zampieri
Conducted by Daniele Gatti
Staging and sets by Dmitri Tcherniakov
New Teatro alla Scala production
December 7, 2013   1:00pm
Running Time: 2 hours 40 minutes intermission included
Sung in Italian with  English subtitles






OPERA ON THE INTERNET 
WITH  
DAVE  D' AGUANNO

This coming Saturday afternoon (October 26), as many of you may already know, Shostakovich's satirical opera "The Nose" will be shown in area movie theatres, as it is performed LIVE from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. However, those of you who might be more interested in simply tuning in to your favorite internet radio station will find some very interesting items on the schedule.

One of the more interesting items, IMO, would be NPR's offering, as they dig into the archives and come up with what looks to be a winner: Verdi's "Luisa Miller" in a San Francisco Opera performance from 1974, featuring soprano Katia Ricciarelli in the title role and a young Luciano Pavarotti as Rodolfo, 1974 being a year which, no doubt, found the tenor in his glorious vocal prime!

Fans of soprano Renee Fleming might want to tune in to ORF (Austria) for a performance from earlier this month of "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss, in which she will be singing the part of the Marschallin, partnered by mezzo Sophie Koch in the role of Octavian. Ms Koch will appear later this season in the Met's HD-transmission of Massenet's "Werther" opposite tenor Jonas Kaufmann.

More "adventurous" listeners might prefer to listen to an October 13, 2013 performance (from Munich) of Paul Hindemith's "Cardillac" (first given in 1926). If you look closely at the spelling of the work's title, you will discover that the opera is indeed NOT about someone's expensive and luxurious means of transportation!

Wonderful opera music programming even extends into the beginning of next week, as BBC Radio 3 brings us an archival performance of their own on Monday afternoon: a 1974 performance of Wagner's early opera "Die Feen" ("The Fairies"), written when the composer was only 20 years old and, needless to say, later eclipsed by his far better-known works ("Lohengrin" etc.). Certainly worth checking out, IMO.

Then on Tuesday evening (Oct. 29) at 7:55 pm, why not treat yourself to another performance of Puccini's "Tosca" as the Met offers this season's premiere performance in a LIVE audio-stream? In the cast: soprano Patricia Racette and tenor Roberto Alagna!

Enjoy!


DAVE


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The Met radio broadcast season
begins the first week
of December. 



NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 
THIS WEEK! 


































































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