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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Week of February 27 - March 6, 2014



SATURDAY, March 1 2014,  12:00pm
Live in HD *

Prince Igor

Prince Igor comes to the Met for the first time in 100 years, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and starring bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov in the monumental title role.

Duration: 4 hrs. 30 min. 
U.S. Encore: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 6:30 pm local time


PREVIEW:





INTERVIEW WITH ILDAR ABDRAZAKOV



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




Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, March 1 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, March 2 -- 3:00am; Monday, March 3 --12:00am

Capriccio 
 On opening night of the 2008-09 Met season, Renee Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang the final scene of Strauss's wise and worldly meditation on art and life. Now she performs the entire work, in which the composer explores the essence of opera itself. Joseph Kaiser and Sarah Connolly also star with Andrew Davis conducting.
DURATION:   MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
SYNOPSIS: 



OPERA ON THE INTERNET 
WITH  
DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Most internet radio stations will be broadcasting the audio of this Saturday's HD-transmission of Borodin's "Prince Igor" (live from the Met). Anyone with even the slightest interest in 19th century Russian opera should take advantage of the opportunity to at least listen to this fairly infrequently performed score. And with the excellent bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov heading the cast, it's sure to be a vocal treat -- and hopefully a visual treat as well for all those opera fans who will be watching it at an area movie theatre.

The Met also has scheduled a LIVE performance this very evening at 7:25 on their free audio-stream. The opera tonight is "The Enchanted Island" (loosely based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest"), with the music having been written by a number of Baroque composers, both Handel and Vivaldi among them. A couple of the "familiar" voices on hand tonight would be those of mezzo Susan Graham and tenor/baritone Placido Domingo.

If you enjoyed the Met's HD-transmission of Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" a few seasons back, you might want to listen in to French Radio for a LIVE performance from Lyons of that very same work, but with different soloists.

And for more adventurous listeners, German Radio will be broadcasting the January 23, 2014 performance of the latest opera by Wilfried Hiller: "Der Flaschengeist" ("The Bottle Imp"), a work that is based on a tale by none other than Robert Louis Stevenson.


Enjoy!

DAVE 
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The Met

Saturday afternoon radio broadcast


Borodin's
PRINCE IGOR
March 1, 2014 12:00 pm ET

Noseda; Dyka, Rachvelishvili, Semishkur, Abdrazakov, Petrenko,, Kocan


Duration: 4 hours, 23 min.


NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 
THIS WEEK!

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Week of February 20 - February 27





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

LE COMTE ORY
Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, February 22 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, February 23 -- 3:00am; Monday, February 24 --12:00am
LE COMTE ORY
Rossini's vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan Diego Florez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adele, sung by soprano Diana Damrau. Bartlett Sher, director of the Met's hit productions of The Barber of Seville and Les Contes D'Hoffmann, describes the world of the opera as, "a place where love is dangerous. People get hurt. That can be very funny and very painful. Rossini captures both-with the most beautiful love music Rossini ever wrote."
DURATION:  150 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS









15 Reasons You Need To Start Singing Every Minute of Every Day





OPERA ON THE INTERNET 
WITH  
DAVE  D' AGUANNO

This coming Saturday (February 22), the Met is once again broadcasting a performance that took place earlier this season, i.e. before the start of the broadcast season which usually begins in December. So, this time around it's "Der Rosenkavalier" (Richard Strauss) in its November 22, 2013 performance.
(www.wrti.org/)

French Radio, on the other hand, is broadcasting LIVE this Saturday: From Paris, a performance of Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West."
(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)

Also, as performed earlier this month, Rossini's "Otello" (which, of course, predates Verdi's far more popular opera of the same name) can be heard on Klara (Belgium). It's a Flanders Opera production (Antwerp).
(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

One of Mozart's masterpieces -- "The Marriage of Figaro" -- is being broadcast on Swedish Radio. It's a September 19, 2013 performance that took place in Geneva.
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

Of special interest to fans of soprano Angela Gheorghiu, you can tune in to ORF (Austria) for a LIVE performance from the Vienna State Opera of Cilea's "Adriana Lecouvreur." Plus, if you're willing to shell out a few dollars, you can WATCH the performance by simply going to the Vienna State Opera website, as a video simulcast is being offered of this same performance.
(http://oe1.orf.at/)

Enjoy!


DAVE
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The Met 
Saturday afternoon radio broadcast 


Strauss's
Der Rosenkavalier
February 22, 2014 1:00 pm ET (Taped from Fall)
Gardner; Serafin, Coote, Morley, Cutler, Ketelsen, Rose
Duration: 4 hours, 23 min. 




NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 
THIS WEEK!