Week of December 31, 2015 - January 7, 2016

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

 Saturday, January 2, 2016, 8:00pm

Sunday, January 3, 2016 3:00am

Monday, January 4, 2016, 12:00am

IL TROVATORE

 Season 10 opens with Verdi's "Il Trovatore," in which long-lost brothers (Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Yonghoon Lee) compete for the affections of the same woman (Anna Netrebko). Dolora Zajick costars as Azucena, the gypsy with a dark secret.

Length: 180 Hear Anna Netrebko sing, 
"Il Trovatore: "D'amor sull'ali rosee."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q043wiL0Qw

DURATION: 3 HRS.

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

SYNOPSIS: http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/Il-Trovatore/

Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov Wed in Vienna 

12/29/15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aipDoXEm-8Q

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WATCH NOW: 

DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY 

LIVE FROM MOSCOW

December 28, 2015 

The great baritone has posted his entire concert of December 27, 2105. Click here to watch–

http://meloman.ru/concert/dmitrij-hvorostovskij/

See more at: (including program translated into English)

http://slippedisc.com/2015/12/watch-now-dmitri-hvorostovsky-live-from-moscow/#sthash.xqPZeY7D.dpuf

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Black Water

Please help Jeremy Beck raise funds for his opera! Reached 20% of fundraising goal already. Every little bit helps!! 

 The Center for Contemporary Opera will be producing the stage premiere of his one-act opera, Black Water, at Symphony Space in New York.

 I am helping to raise funds for this production. Please consider supporting this Kickstarter campaign - We are grateful for your support, and please share this link with others who may be interested - many thanks!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/824307483/stage-premiere-jeremy-becks-powerful-opera-black-w

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

The first Saturday of the New Year brings us what will probably be a high-spirited LIVE broadcast from the Met of "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss.

(www.wrti.org/)

Also LIVE -- but from London's Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) -- is a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" with baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the title role.

(www.radio4.nl/)

If the 2 operas listed above are simply not long enough to satisfy one's operatic taste, even though there's no Wagner on hand this weekend, there's always Rossini's grand opera "William Tell" to fill the bill. The performance being broadcast took place in Geneva on September 21 of this year.

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

On December 21, a performance of "The Damnation of Faust" by Hector Berlioz took place in Paris with tenor Jonas Kaufmann singing the title role. One can hear the performance on French Radio this Saturday. On the other hand, one can also watch it (see the YouTube link below), provided one can somehow grasp the concept of Faust embarking upon a mission to Mars !! (I kid you not.)

(audio: www.francemusique.fr/)

(video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxVOBOne1UA)

And for those of you who'd rather spend New Year's Eve listening to a good opera rather than being out-and-about, the Met is offering a FREE live audio-stream tomorrow evening at 6:55 of Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers."

(www.metopera.org/)

Enjoy! -- And have a safe & wonderful New Year !!!

DAVE

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast 

Saturday, January 2, 2016, 1:00 pm.   

Die Fledermaus

by

J. STRAUSS, JR

Levine; Phillips, Crowe, Graham, Spence, Pittas, Szot, Opie

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No opera on

WGBH this week!

Darth Vader

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Week of December 23 - December 30, 2015

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

 Saturday, December 26, 2015, 8:00pm

Sunday, December 27, 2015 3:00am

Monday, December 28, 2015, 12:00am

Così fan tutte

Music Director James Levine makes his long-awaited return to the Met podium to conduct Mozart’s beloved opera about testing the ties of love. The cast is filled with youthful Met stars: Susanna Phillips and Isabel Leonard are the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, Matthew Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov are their lovers, with Danielle de Niese as the scheming Despina.

DURATION: 3 HRS. 40 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

SYNOPSIS: http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/The-Barber-of-Seville/

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wqxr

The Metropolitan Opera Season Halftime Show

Monday, December 21, 2015

Tune in at noon on Saturday, Dec. 26, as host and Metropolitan Opera soprano Debbie Voigt opens a treasury of live performance excerpts from the Met season so far.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/metropolitan-opera-season-halftime-show/

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The Third Annual Excellence in Opera (a. k. a. Freddie) Awards

Friday, December 18, 2015

By Fred Plotkin

Blogger Fred Plotkin honors and acknowledges many of the outstanding and memorable achievements in opera in 2015.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/third-annual-excellence-opera-k-freddie-awards/

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Black Water

Please help Jeremy Beck raise funds for his opera! Reached 20% of fundraising goal already. Every little bit helps!! 

 The Center for Contemporary Opera will be producing the stage premiere of his one-act opera, Black Water, at Symphony Space in New York.

 I am helping to raise funds for this production. Please consider supporting this Kickstarter campaign - We are grateful for your support, and please share this link with others who may be interested - many thanks!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/824307483/stage-premiere-jeremy-becks-powerful-opera-black-w

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Las Vegas Meets the Met, to the Distress of a Lifelong Opera Buff

Grace Notes

By JAMES BARRON DEC. 20, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/nyregion/las-vegas-meets-the-met-to-the-distress-of-a-lifelong-opera-buff.html?_r=0

Opera season's opening night at La Scala ends in disharmony

The Guardian

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 2:31 PM GMT

http://nr.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=1&articleid=53602486&source=facebook

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

A big weekend for fans of Humperdinck's opera "Hansel & Gretel" with 3 separate broadcast performances scheduled for this coming Saturday (December 26) !!

In order of performance date, German Radio is broadcasting the Vienna State Opera's performance of the work which took place this past November 19.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

On Radio 4 (the Netherlands), there's last Tuesday's performance from Amsterdam.

(www.radio4.nl/)

The most recent one (from last Thursday) comes to us via French Radio, as performed in Nantes.

(www.francemusique.fr/)

In keeping with the holiday spirit, Swedish Radio is airing a performance that actually took place in Moscow on March 11, 2014, the opera being Rimsky-Korsakov's "Christmas Eve."

(http://oe1.orf.at/)

The LIVE Met broadcast this Saturday is none other than perhaps Rossini's most popular work: "The Barber of Seville."

(www.wrti.org/)

In fact, the Met is also broadcasting a FREE live audio-stream TONIGHT of Johann Strauss's most popular operetta: "Die Fledermaus."

(www.metopera.org/)

If all of the above operas do little to excite more "tragically-oriented" opera-lovers (although the Witch DOES die in "Hansel & Gretel"), there's always a bit of Verdi on hand to provide more than a dash of tragedy. In this case, it's "La Forza del Destino" -- or more specifically, "The Force of Destiny" as performed last month in English at London's Coliseum (English National Opera).

(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

Despite the comic delights of "L'Elisir d'Amore" & "Don Pasquale," Donizetti also wrote his share of tragic operas, one of which -- "Roberto Devereux" -- can be heard on Radio 3 (RAI) in the September 1, 2015 performance from Madrid. It may also be SEEN if you wish to access the YouTube video which someone generously uploaded a while ago (with Spanish subtitles).

(audio only: www.radio3.rai.it/)

(video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvAnd_hgXrE)

Enjoy -- & Happy Holidays to you all !!!

DAVE

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast 

Saturday, December 26, 1:00 pm.   

ROSSINI's

The Barber of Seville

Walker; Leonard, Stayton, Madore, Lanchas, 

Pomakov

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No opera on

WGBH this week!