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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Week of November 28 - December 5, 2013

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



FAUST




Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, November 30 -- 8pm; Sunday, December 1 -- 3am; Monday, December 22 -- 12:00am
Faust
A production of Gounod's "Faust" updates the story to the mid-20th century, with Faust (Jonas Kaufmann) now a nuclear scientist who strikes a deal with the devil (René Pape) in order to win the affections of a young woman (Marina Poplavskaya).
DURATION: 210 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?customid=695
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A Thanksgiving Aria for You



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HANDEL'S MESSIAH IS COMING!

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It is wonderful to see that Villazon has climbed back from that delibilitating and nearly career-ending malady.  Welcome back, Rolando! Click on the link for the review with several pictures. 

Metropolitan Opera 2013-14 Review - Eugene Onegin: Peter Mattei, Marina Poplavskaya, Rolando Villazon Triumph in Revival


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from Renée Fleming's Facebook page:


Very excited to announce that I will be a part of the 91st Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting on Friday, December 6th in Washington, D.C. The ceremony’s line-up will feature performances from me, Aretha Franklin, Joshua Bell, The Avett Brothers, Janelle Monáe, Train, and more. You can stream the event live at http://www.thenationaltree.org/.

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

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

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G.F. Handel: Messiah  |  December 7, 2013
The Providence Singers and the Rhode Island Philharmonic first collaborated for Messiah in December 2007. Seven years later, the December performance of Handel’s masterwork is a growing part of the city’s holiday performance traditions. Francisco Noya conducts, with soloists Martha Guth, soprano; Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Hutchinson, tenor; and Matthew Burns, bass-baritone.
7 p.m. Saturday, December 7, 2013, at The Vets




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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 
WITH  
DAVE  D' AGUANNO
There's an interesting array of diverse operas on the schedule for this coming Saturday (November 30) on internet radio, with the offering being presented on German Radio easily earning the title of Obscure Opera of the Week: It's "Schahrazade" (1917) by Bernhard Sekles, and it's being broadcast LIVE from Halle. Those opera-lovers who may be interested in checking out this opera had better do it this Saturday, as I have a sneaking suspicion that you won't be seeing it as an HD-transmission from the Met any time soon (although I COULD be wrong, I suppose).
More German operas can be heard as well, one of them being what many people consider to be a 20th century masterpiece: Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" as performed recently in London (the Royal Opera House), with an impressive cast, to be sure, with baritone Simon Keenlyside singing the title role and soprano Karita Mattila as Marie. (This one will be broadcast on Monday afternoon, Dec. 2.)
Wagner's "Die Gotterdammerung" also gets broadcast this weekend. It's on Radio 4 (the Netherlands), and is a LIVE performance from Amsterdam.
If "Die Gotterdammerung" doesn't happen to be one of your favorite Wagner operas, you could listen in to this week's offering on NPR, as an April 2013 performance from Houston Grand Opera is broadcast, the opera in question being "Tristan & Isolde." The soprano in that performance is Nina Stemme.
(www.wrti.org/)
Nina Stemme may also be heard in a LIVE performance of "Salome" (by Richard Strauss), via Swedish Radio, direct from Stockholm.
One more LIVE performance this Saturday worth mentioning is the one featured on ORF's schedule: Mozart's "The Magic Flute," as performed by the Vienna State Opera.
 "Die Frau ohne Schatten" can be seen LIVE from Munich on Sunday afternoon (Dec. 1). English subtitles are usually available for the video-streams from Munich.

Enjoy!

DAVE
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Parterre Box, an opera blog, is reporting that Anna Netrebko's split with Irwin Schrott is official. The lady is single. 
http://parterre.com/2013/11/25/single-lady/comment-page-1/#comments


Set your DVRs for a special 

RI Public Television Broadcast

8:00pm, Saturday, December 21st
*SILENT NIGHT - This opera recounts the true story of the World War I Christmas Eve truce. For one magical evening on December 24, 1914, French, German and British soldiers laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration reflecting the peace, fellowship and humanity of the season. Based on the Academy Award-nominated film Joyeux Noel, this two-act production was commissioned by the Minnesota Opera and premiered in November 2012 to national acclaim, including a Pulitzer Prize for Music for composer Kevin Puts. With a libretto by Mark Campbell, "Silent Night" is sung in French, English, German, Italian and Latin with English subtitles.


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COMING--
SATURDAY, December 14, 2013, 12:55pm
Live in HD 
FALSTAFF

An undisputed master of Verdi's final comic masterpiece, James Levine conducts Robert Carsen's acclaimed production, the first new Met Falstaff since 1964. Ambrogio Maestri sings the role of the blustery Sir John Falstaff, opposite a marvelous ensemble cast.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/opera/falstaff-verdi-tickets.aspx?utm_source=Falstaff&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=1314_SS
and
Watch James Levine and the company rehearse Falstaff
http://www.metoperafamily.org/video/2013-2014/falstaff?src=hdpage

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FINALLY!!
The Met radio broadcast season
begins December 7. 

Verdi's Rigoletto

December 7, 2013 12:30 pm ET

Heras-Casado; Yoncheva, Volkova, Polenzani, Hvorostovsky, Kocàn

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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 
THIS WEEK! 

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Week of November 21 - November 28, 2013

This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Rodelinda
Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, November 23 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, November 24 -- 3:00am; Monday, November 25 -- 12:00am

Rodelinda
Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Handel's "Rodelinda," a baroque opera about a queen and her assumed-dead husband (Andreas Scholl), and the usurper (Joseph Kaiser) who wants Rodelinda for his wife.
DURATION: 210 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

Set your DVRs for a special 

RI Public Television Broadcast

8:00pm, Saturday, December 21st
*SILENT NIGHT - This opera recounts the true story of the World War I Christmas Eve truce. For one magical evening on December 24, 1914, French, German and British soldiers laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration reflecting the peace, fellowship and humanity of the season. Based on the Academy Award-nominated film Joyeux Noel, this two-act production was commissioned by the Minnesota Opera and premiered in November 2012 to national acclaim, including a Pulitzer Prize for Music for composer Kevin Puts. With a libretto by Mark Campbell, "Silent Night" is sung in French, English, German, Italian and Latin with English subtitles.


Interview with Elīna Garanča translated from Kurier
“I cry when the pressure becomes too great”

The 37-year-old diva and soon-to-be second-time mother has a new book: An autobiography called "Really important are the shoes," which just came out this week. 


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HANDEL'S MESSIAH IS COMING!



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

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

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 
WITH  
DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Since British composer Benjamin Britten was born 100 years ago (November 22, 1913), it should come as no surprise that the opera schedule for this coming Saturday (November 23) is dominated by his works. Perhaps one of his most popular and most successful -- "Peter Grimes" (1945) -- is featured on ORF (Austria) in a LIVE performance being given by the Vienna State Opera.
(http://oe1.orf.at/)
The less frequently performed "Gloriana" (from 1953) can be heard on Swedish Radio in a performance that took place on June 29, 2013, at London's Royal Opera House.
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)
Another of his serious works that has received quite a bit of attention since its premiere back in 1951 -- "Billy Budd" -- can also be heard, the performance being broadcast having originally taken place in Royal Albert Hall this past August 26.
(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)
And -- in a definitely lighter vein -- the comedy "Albert Herring" (from 1947) is being performed LIVE from the Barbican and appears on the schedule of BBC Radio 3.
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)
Well! -- Just in case you were beginning to wonder if non-Britten fanciers were to be given a chance to listen to something more in tune with their particular musical tastes, German Radio has scheduled a LIVE performance from Potsdam of Handel's 1752 work "Jephtha." Although technically it should be considered an oratorio rather than an opera in the strict sense of the term, it's surely a noteworthy change-of-pace offering for opera fans this weekend.
But why restrict yourself to merely weekend opera listening? Thanks to the Met's generosity in providing listeners with FREE live audio-streams, there are 2 Richard Strauss operas on tap for us this coming week. On Friday evening (November 22) at 6:55 pm, it's the premiere performance this season of "Der Rosenkavalier" with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the title role. Then on Tuesday (November 26) at 7:25 pm, there's an additional performance of "Die Frau ohne Schatten" which has been receiving rave reviews as of late.
(www.metopera.org/)
Enjoy!

DAVE

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COMING--
SATURDAY, December 14, 2013, 12:55pm
Live in HD 
FALSTAFF

An undisputed master of Verdi's final comic masterpiece, James Levine conducts RobertCarsen's acclaimed production, the first new Met Falstaffsince 1964. Ambrogio Maestri sings the role of the blustery Sir John Falstaff, opposite a marvelous ensemble cast.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/opera/falstaff-verdi-tickets.aspx?utm_source=Falstaff&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=1314_SS
and
Watch James Levine and the company rehearse Falstaff
http://www.metoperafamily.org/video/2013-2014/falstaff?src=hdpage
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The Met radio broadcast season
begins the first week
of December. 



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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 
THIS WEEK! 

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