Great Performances at the Met
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, August 1, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, August 2, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, August 3, 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
One last Met-HD
Summer Encore
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Aida
HD ENCORE
WED, JUL 29, 2015 7:00 PM
Opera on
WGBH 2
WGBH 2
1:00 PM
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| Joyce DiDonato as La Donna Del Lago |
Enjoy a new production of Rossini's opera with
Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Florez, Daniela Barcellona, John Osborn and Oren
Gradus. Michele Mariotti conducts.
Synopsis:
Backstage at
San Francisco Opera - July 2015
THE CATS OF SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
How Opera Productions are Revived
Friday, July 24, 2015 - 12:00 PM
By Fred Plotkin
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Metropolitan Opera Targets TV Sets, Launching Roku
Channel
Monday, July 27, 2015
By Brian Wise
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Rossini's ever-popular comic opera "The
Barber of Seville" comes to us this Saturday afternoon (August 1)
in a performance that took place in Los Angeles this past March, continuing
NPR's series of broadcasts from Los Angeles Opera's 2014/2015 season.
In a more serious vein, there's Bellini's
"Romeo & Juliet opera" -- "I Capuleti & I
Montecchi" -- which can be heard on French Radio in a performance that
took place in Paris on 11/11/11 (!!).
On the other hand, German Radio is
broadcasting a performance of "Il Vespro Siciliano." -- And no,
that's not a misspelling, since the opera being broadcast is NOT Verdi's work
("I Vespri Siciliani"), but the 1843 work of Peter Joseph von
Lindpaintner, pre-dating Verdi's by almost a decade. Lindpaintner's opera was
presented in Wildbad this summer, and it's last Saturday's performance that is
being broadcast this weekend.
One of the final operettas composed by Andre
Messager -- "L'Amour Masquee" -- appears on the schedule of the
Belgian station Klara. For those interested in such trivia, this particular
work is noteworthy for the fact that the leading man never sings in the entire
opera, but speaks instead. (This being an opera comique, there's a good deal of
spoken dialogue.)
Contemporary Italian composer Marco Tutino has
received some attention in the press lately, since his newest opera based on
"Two Women" (think Sophia Loren) was recently premiered in San
Francisco. However, it's another of his recent works that is being presented on
Italian Radio (RAI): the one-act opera "Le Braci"
("Embers") which can be heard LIVE in a performance from Martina
Franca. Listeners who shy away from modern works can take solace in the fact
that Tutino writes in a comparatively conservative vein.
For some opera fans, however, the big drawing
card of the weekend is actually taking place on Friday afternoon,
when the Bavarian Opera (Munich) presents its FREE, LIVE video-cast of
Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" featuring soprano Kristine Opolais and
tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the leading roles.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast season is over;
radio broadcast season is over;
check back here in November.
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Opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
