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 29, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, August 30, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, August 31, 2015 @ 12:00am
Carmen
Richard
Eyre's mesmerizing production of Bizet's steamy melodrama returns with
mezzo-soprano
Length: 180 |
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
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| Carmen |
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Richard Wagner's Tannhauser
Wagner's treatment of the
Tannhauser story was influenced by his sense of a global disillusionment with
life and the disgust he was feeling for the trivial sensuousness and hedonism
of modern life. He longed “to find satisfaction
in a more elevated and noble element – something pure, chaste and
inaccessible”. Freedom in Tannhauser
becomes associated not with the unbridled expression of love – Venusberg and
its sexual excess-- but with asceticism.
We will examine the sources of Wagner's libretto, the musical score and
Wagner's use of motifs which reaches it summit in later works. YouTube video clips and allusions to the
libretto will be used to support and emphasize our examination of the work.
The course will be
offered at the URI OLLI program Tuesday afternoons, 1:30 to 3, .for six
consecutive weeks beginning September 8.
It will also be offered at the Circle of Scholars program at Salve
Regina College on Thursday mornings, 10
- 12 for five consecutive weeks beginning September 24. For more information please contact the
respective organizations.
Note: The
Metropolitan Opera will present its HD performance of Tannhauser on
October 31.
Suggested Reading: Ernest Newman: Tannhauser, in “The Wagner Operas”,
Princeton University
Press, 1991
Synopsis of Tannhauser
at Wikipedia on the net
Louis Mainelli has
offered courses on Wagner's operas – Lohengrin, The Ring, Tristan
and Isolde and - Parsifal - for the past few years at the
URI OLLI program
Jamie Barton
to Replace Elina Garanca in Metropolitan Opera's 'Anna Bolena'
Sunday, August
23, 2015
By Brian Wise
The company
has said that the mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton will play Giovanna Seymour in its
upcoming run of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena.
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The Musician
Portraits of John Singer Sargent
Monday, August 17, 2015
By Fred Plotkin
Blogger Fred Plotkin digs into a new Metropolitan Museum John Singer Sargent exhibit and discovers many of his portraits of notable musicians from the time.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
In case you missed it last week, there will be
a repeat broadcast of Massenet's "Werther" on French Radio on this
coming Saturday (August 29). The performance took place on August 15 as part of
this summer's opera festival in Salzburg, with Piotr Beczala and Angela
Gheorghiu taking on the roles of Werther and Charlotte, respectively.
Other operas on Saturday's schedule include a
number of rarities: For example, if you ever wondered what the first Ukrainian
folk opera sounded like, you'll certainly want to tune in to Swedish Radio for
the broadcast of "Kateryna" -- an 1890 opera by Mykola Arkas. It's a
performance from Odessa that took place on November 21, 2013.
Lully's "Armide" (from 1686) appears
on the ORF schedule. The opera was performed in Innsbruck as recently as last
Saturday (August 22).
And on Radio 3 (RAI), you can hear the
performance from La Scala that took place this past March 17, the opera being
Mozart's "Lucio Silla" which he wrote at the venerable old age of 16.
Or -- better yet -- you can watch the video, which some kind soul generously
uploaded to YouTube a few months ago.
Audio: www.radio3.rai.it/
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast season starts again in November. Watch this space!
radio broadcast season starts again in November. Watch this space!
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
