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All links are live!
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, May 30, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, May 31, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, June 1, 2015 @ 12:00am
Sunday, May 31, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, June 1, 2015 @ 12:00am
L'Elisir
d'Amore
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET
L'Elisir d'Amore
Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera
"L'Elisir d'Amore," about a peasant (Matthew Polenzani) who wins the
heart of a beautiful farm owner (Anna Netrebko) with the help of a love potion
he purchased from a quack doctor (Ambrogio Maestri).
DURATION: 150 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
How The Met Opera's Chorus Master Gets 150
To Sound Like One
Much happiness to
Soprano Angela Meade and
her bridegroom, John Myers
Married May 23, 2015
“Salud,
amor, y pesetas y tiempo para disfrutarlos.”
(Health, love, and prosperity, and the time to enjoy them.)
Two Women
This June, San Francisco Opera will premiere a work by Marco
Tutino based on the novel 'La Ciociara' - which was adapted into the 1960
Vittoria de Sica film 'Two Women'.
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Daniel Barenboim designs 'radical' new piano
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Today's
performance from Paris of Rossini's opera "Tancredi" will be
broadcast on Saturday (May 30) on Swedish Radio, while a LIVE broadcast of
Mehul's "Uthal d'Etienne" (1806) comes to us on Saturday via French
Radio. The Mehul work will obviously be of major interest to those who enjoy
listening to works that are otherwise unavailable to the opera-listening
public.
Another
opera being "rescued" from obscurity this weekend is Herve's comical
version of the legendary Faust tale: It's his 1869 operetta "Dr. Faust
Junior" as performed in Munich earlier this month (May 16). Fans of the
lighter works of Offenbach will undoubtedly find much to enjoy in this
lightweight, melodic work.
If
neither Mehul's "Uthal d'Etienne" or Rossini's "Tancredi"
or Herve's "Dr. Faust Junior" sounds especially interesting, there's
always good old "Il Trovatore" (Verdi) which turns up on NPR in a
performance from Lyric Opera of Chicago (from November 2014). Mezzo-soprano
Stephanie Blythe -- a well-known Met singer ("Walkure" - "Ballo
in Maschera" - etc.) -- sings the role of Azucena in this one.
Finally,
beginning this Friday (May 29), a performance of Verdi's "Un Ballo in
Maschera" should become available for several weeks on the La Monnaie
website (Brussels). As usual, these performances from Brussels are free of
charge and, IMO, well worth one's time. (Coming up in July on the same website:
a triple bill of Rachmaninov: "Aleko" & "The Miserly
Knight" & "Francesca da Rimini").
Enjoy!
DAVE
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THE ROMANY MAID
Friday, May 29, 2015
Providence Public Library's
Auditorium
Opera last performed
over 100 years ago!
MORE INFO & TICKETS
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The Met
Saturday afternoon radio broadcast season is over;
check back here in November.
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No Opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
