All links are live!
MET-HD Simulcasts return!
This Saturday,
October 3, 2015
1:00pm
at a movie theater near you.
(See column on right.)
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| Yonghoon Lee is Manrico |
Verdi’s
Il Trovatore
Anna Netrebko
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| is Leonora |
Welcome back to Dmitri Hvorostovsky!!
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| Dmitri Hvorostovsky |
David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered in the 2008–09 season. This revival stars four extraordinary singers—Anna Newtrebko, Dolora Zajick, Lee Yonghoon, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.
Expected Running time: 2 hours, 45
minutes
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Great Performances at the Met
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, October 3, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, October 4, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, October 5, 2015 @ 12:00am
Les Contes d'Hoffman
Offenbach's
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
The magnetic tenor Vittorio Grigolo takes on the tortured poet and unwitting adventurer of the title of Offenbach’s operatic masterpiece, in the Met’s wild, kaleidoscopic production. Hibla Gerzmava, Erin Morley, and Christine Rice sing the three heroines—each an idealized embodiment of some aspect of Hoffmann’s desire. Thomas Hampson portrays the shadowy Four Villains, and Yves Abel conducts the sparkling score.
DURATION: 210 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
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Ailing Baritone Showered with Roses at Metropolitan
Opera Return
Monday, September 28, 2015
By WQXR Staff
Amid emotional scenes, audience and musicians at the
Metropolitan Opera House welcomed back Dmitri Hvorostovsky as he takes a pause
from treatment for a brain tumor.
Q&A: Sondra Radvanovsky on Tackling Opera's Triple
Crown
Saturday, September 26, 2015
By Brian Wise
This season, Radvanovsky is expected to become the
first singer in Met history to sing all three of Gaetano Donizetti's Tudor
queens.
The Advantages of Sundays at the Opera
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
By Fred Plotkin
Sunday matinees, if marketed and priced intelligently,
might lure back some of the suburban and outer-borough audiences that the Met
Opera has lost, writes Fred Plotkin.
Esa-Pekka Salonen on How Composers Evoke a Sense of
Place
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 04:00 PM
By Fred Plotkin
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
A LIVE broadcast
of Rameau's opera-ballet "Platee" (1745) from Paris comes to us on
French Radio this coming Saturday (October 3).
RAI Radio 3 has a
May 23, 3015 performance on the agenda of Bernstein's operetta
"Candide" (1956), as performed in Florence.
The Belgian
station Klara will be broadcasting a recent performance of Wagner's
"Tannhauser" from the Flemish Opera in Ghent.
And in case you
missed it the first time around, Lithuanian composer Onute Narbutaite's
"Cornet" -- in its world premiere performance in Vilnius on February
21, 2014 -- gets another airing on Swedish Radio this Saturday.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast season starts again
radio broadcast season starts again
December 5.
(Oh, how will I wait until December??)
Here's the line-up for the Met's 2015/2016 season of Saturday matinee performances being broadcast on the radio:
Dec. 5 - Puccini: BOHEME (Frittoli, Vargas)
Dec. 12 - Verdi: RIGOLETTO (Lucic, Sierra, Beczala)
Dec. 19 - Rossini: DONNA DEL LAGO (DiDonato, Barcellona, Brownlee)
Dec. 26 - Rossini: BARBER OF SEVILLE (Madore,
Leonard, Stayton)
Jan. 2 - J.Strauss: FLEDERMAUS (Spence, Phillips, Crowe)
Jan. 9 - Donizetti: ANNA BOLENA (Radvanovsky, Barton, Costello, Abdrazakov)
Jan. 16 - Bizet: PEARL FISHERS (Damrau, Polenzani, Kwiecien)
Jan. 23 - Wagner: TANNHAUSER (Botha, Westbroek, DeYoung)
Jan. 30 - Puccini: TURANDOT (Goerke, Berti, Hartig)
Feb. 6 - Mascagni: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Urmana, Lee)
Leoncavallo: PAGLIACCI (Alagna, Frittoli)
Feb. 13 - Verdi: TROVATORE (Giordani, Meade, Zajick, Hvorostovsky)
Feb. 20 - Donizetti: MARIA STUARDA (Radvanovsky,
Heever, Albelo)
Feb. 27 - Berg: LULU (Petersen, Reuter, Groves, Graham)
March 5 - Puccini: MANON LESCAUT (Opolais, Kaufmann)
March 12 - Donizetti: DON PASQUALE (Maestri, Buratto, Camarena)
March 19 - Donizetti: L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Grigolo, Kurzak, Corbelli)
March 26 - Mozart: MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Petrenko, Hartig, Willis-Sorensen)
April 2 - Puccini: MADAME BUTTERFLY (Opolais, Alagna)
April 9 - Verdi: SIMON BOCCANEGRA (Domingo)
April 16 - Donizetti: ROBERTO DEVEREUX (Polenzani, Radvanovsky, Garanca)
April 23 - Verdi: OTELLO (Antonenko, Gerzmava, Lucic)
April 30 - R.Strauss: ELEKTRA (Stemme, Pieczonka, Meier)
May 7 - Mozart: ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO (Shugimuratova, Appleby, Kim)
Of course, some of these will also receive simultaneous HD-transmissions at local movie theatres.
Plus, there will be numerous free LIVE audio-streams of most of these operas, broadcast mid-week.
2 items of interest have been announced on the website of the Bavarian State Opera (Munich) as being video-streamed for free:
Sunday, Nov. 15 - Boito: MEFISTOFELE (Pape, Calleja, Opolais)
Saturday, Dec. 12 - Prokofiev: FIERY ANGEL (Herlitzius, Nikitin)
(full schedule to be announced in September)
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
