All links are live!
THE 2015-16 MET SCHEDULES ARE HERE!
THE 2015-16 MET OPERA SEASON:
HTTP://WWW.METOPERA.ORG/METOPERA/SEASON/INDEX.ASPX?TYPE=NEXT&SN=ST
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THE 2015-16 MET-HD SCHEDULE:
HTTP://WWW.METOPERA.ORG/METOPERA/LIVEINHD/LIVE-IN-HD-2015-16-SEASON
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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, February 28, 2015, 8:00pm
Sunday, March 1, 2015 3:00am
Monday, March 2, 2015 12:00am
Great Performances at the Met
CARMEN
HTTP://WWW.METOPERA.ORG/METOPERA/SEASON/SYNOPSIS/CARMEN
A PRODUCTION OF BIZET’S “CARMEN,” STARRING ANITA RACHVELISHVILI IN THE TITLE ROLE, A GYPSY GIRL; ALEKSANDRS ANTONENKO AS THE SOLDIER WHO LOVES HER; AND ILDAR ABDRAZAKOV AS THE BULLFIGHTER WHO COMES BETWEEN THEM.
HTTP://WWW.METOPERA.ORG/METOPERA/SEASON/SYNOPSIS/CARMEN
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
February 2015 (finally) comes to a close this coming Saturday, & there's some terrific opera being broadcast on internet radio for us to enjoy. One such broadcast, being carried on several stations, is the October 6, 2014 performance from the Met of Mozart's "The Magic Flute." (On the following Saturday afternoon -- March 7 -- regular LIVE broadcasts from the Met will resume with Bizet's "Carmen.")
ORF (Austria) is offering a LIVE broadcast from the Vienna State Opera of Bellini's "I Puritani." Soprano Olga Peretyatko is being featured in the role of Elvira, a role which she sang at the Met last season.
In the mood for some Philip Glass? His 1983 opera "Akhnaten" can be heard this Saturday on Klara (Belgium) in a Flemish Opera performance.
From Bordeaux comes a performance of Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust." This one took place on the 22nd of this month.
Then there's a LIVE performance from Amsterdam of Handel's "Tamerlano" to be heard on Radio 4 (the Netherlands). The production is the same one that is currently available as a FREE video-stream from Brussels.
And what internet radio schedule would be complete without something by Verdi? Swedish Radio has his comic masterpiece "Falstaff" scheduled for this Saturday, as it was performed in Stockholm this past February 12.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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Jonas Kaufmann: classical music industry is run like an artistic
'catastrophe'
The world-famous tenor says that he and his colleagues feel as though
they are in 'straight-jackets'
12:01AM GMT 22 Feb 2015
Jonas Kaufmann, one of the world's most famous living tenors, has said that the classical music industry is run like an artistic “catastrophe” and is killing off the “spontaneity” and “passion” of performers.Speaking
on Desert Island Discs, the German opera singer said that he and his colleagues
felt as though they were in “straight-jackets”, having to make diary
commitments years in advance.
“I
always compare it to a painter and you have to make him choose the colours that
he will paint in five years’ time,” Kaufmann, 45, said.
“They
will all tell you 'no way, I mean who knows who I will feel then?' Because one
of the more important ingredients of artistry is actually the spontaneity and
the passion that comes from within.
“On the
other hand, obviously at a time of financial crisis you can be very happy and
thankful to have contracts for such a long period, but artistically speaking
it’s a catastrophe.”
Kaufmann
said he was thankful to be in the “rare position” to “actually do something
against it by just refusing to sign contracts" which are too far advance
for his liking.
He
lamented that fact that people would sooner book tickets for blockbuster films
or musicals than for the opera.
“There
are so many cheaper tickets to have access to classical music and to opera and
still people hesitate to come,” he said.
“They
just want to see the show, they want to be entertained. We are also in the
entertainment industry. You don’t need to read three books before you
understand [opera].”
He said
his luxury item would be a coffee machine because “without coffee life is not
half as worth it”.
Kaufmann,
who is an accomplished Lieder singer as well as a tenor, is best known for his
performances in spinto roles such as Don José in Carmen, Cavaradossi in Tosca,
Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur, and the title role in Don Carlos.
Last
February he was said to have provoked “one of the greatest ovations in recent
memory” at the New York Metropolitan Opera House, for his interpretation of the
tortured poet Werther in Massenet’s opera of the same name.
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Interview with Jonas Kaufmann on
the BBC's Desert Island Discs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0532g5t
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The Met
The Met
Saturday afternoon radio broadcast
February 28, 2015, 1:00 pm ET
February 28, 2015, 1:00 pm ET
MOZART'S
DIE ZAUBERFLOTE
(The Magic Flute)
Performance from February 28, 2014
Fischer; Vende, Durlovski, Spence, Werba, McKinny, Pape
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On WGBH 2, Friday, 9pm
On WGBH 44, Saturday, 2am
La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema
Conducted by
Alan Gilbert, selections include music by Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Luis
Bacalov, performed by the New York Philharmonic and featuring Joshua Bell,
Renée Fleming and Josh Groban. The concert includes video projection with
animated graphics and film clips related to the films La Dolce Vita, Cinema
Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in the West, Il Postino and more.
No opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
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