This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and
Verizon 478)
Verizon 478)
Saturday, May 28, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, May 29, 2016 3:00am
Monday, May 30, 2016, 12:00am
Great Performances at the Met
THE PEARL FISHERS
THE PEARL FISHERS - For the first time in a century, the Met stages Bizet's lush, melodic romance. Diana Damrau leads the cast as Leila, with Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien as the two pearl fishers whose friendship is tested by their rivalry for her affections.
News from Around the World of Music
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lincoln Center, New York City
June 2–4
All of my Irish opera friends have raved about composer-librettist Gerald Barry’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s comedy. Although the opera received a concert performance in Los Angeles in 2011, Ramin Gray’s full production from London’s Royal Opera will have its U.S. premiere at the Rose Theater as part of the Lincoln Center–New York Philharmonic Opera Initiative.
It is preferable to see it live, but you might also watch this video of the opera by the Royal Opera House (which begins at 12:40)
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| Tobias Picker poses backstage at the Dallas Opera |
NYC Opera announces 1st full season after bankruptcy
Ronald Blum, Associated Press Updated
10:10 am, Wednesday, May 25, 2016
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WQXR
An Opera Lover's Guide to Summer Productions in North America
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| Glimmerglass Opera's Alice Busch Opera Theater |
Monday, May 23, 2016
WQXR
By Fred Plotkin
In his second column highlighting opera festivals and productions around the world, Fred Plotkin chronologically combs through the top events in North America.
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The opening of the 2012 Salzburg Festival in Salzburg, Austria
An Opera Lover's Guide to Europe's Leading Festivals
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
WQXR
By Fred Plotkin
In the first of two columns highlighting summer festivals abroad and at home, Fred Plotkin goes through the calendar to find Europe's best opera productions of the season and beyond.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
National Public Radio (NPR) has now begun its series of broadcasts of performances from the 2015/2016 season at Lyric Opera of Chicago. This coming Saturday (May 28) it's Rossini's take on the familiar Cinderella story -- "La Cenerentola" -- in a performance that took place in Chicago last October.
(www.wrti.org/)
More Italian opera comes to us via French Radio with a broadcast of the April 23, 2016 performance from Paris of Verdi's "Rigoletto" a video of which should be forthcoming, either on YouTube or as an officially released DVD. In the meantime, you can enjoy this video excerpt with soprano Olga Peretyatko (Gilda) and tenor Michael Fabiano (the Duke) as they perform a portion of their Act 2 duet in this afore-mentioned production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdC7UrdlLJI
(audio of complete opera: www.francemusique.fr/)
20th century opera is on tap for us on BBC Radio 3 with a performance that took place last December in Vienna, the opera being Britten's "Peter Grimes."
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)
Even more 20th century opera appears on Saturday's internet radio schedule with a LIVE performance from Turin of Hans Werner Henze's "Pollicino" (1980) which has been described as a "fairy tale for music." This one can be heard on RAI (Italy).
Enjoy!
DAVE
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| The Great Itzhak Perlman contracted polio at age 4. |
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast will return in December.
radio broadcast will return in December.
Watch this space. Enjoy the haitus!
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
