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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Week of June 30 - July 7, 2016





All links are live!


This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)  

Saturday, July 2, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, July 3, 2016 3:00am
Monday, July 4 2016, 12:00am


Lulu

Alban Berg's "Lulu," a tragedy about a woman (Marlis Petersen) who ruins the lives of those around her.
Length: 111 minutes
Synopsis: http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/Lulu/



















WQXR


When Is an Unfinished Work of Art Incomplete? Part 2

Monday, June 27, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
Fred Plotkin continues his investigation into the nature of unfinished works of arts, including a show at the Met Breuer and two musicals that open this question.


Elizabeth Caballero sings the title role in New York City Opera's 'Florencia en el Amazonas.'

New York City Opera Spreads Its Wings with 'Florencia'

Thursday, June 23, 2016
By David Patrick Stearns
'Florencia en el Amazonas,' kicks off New York City Opera's Spanish-language series, with a butterfly-themed production. David Patrick Stearns reviews the performance.
Construction work is still ongoing at the Sagrada Familia, but is the Basilica incomplete?


When Is an Unfinished Work Incomplete?
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
Are works left unfinished, such as Gaudí's Sagrada Familia or Schubert's Eighth Symphony, still complete in other ways? Fred Plotkin investigates this question.











OPERA ON THE INTERNET 
WITH  
DAVE  D' AGUANNO

British composer Iain Bell's new opera "In Parenthesis" has had its world premiere performances in Cardiff (Welsh National Opera), and The Opera Platform is providing us with a FREE video-stream of the work on Friday, July 1. Then on Saturday (July 2) BBC Radio 3 is offering an audio-only broadcast of this same work.
(audio link: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

On more familiar ground, there's Bizet's "Carmen" on German Radio in a performance from Darmstadt which took place earlier this month (June 4).

Continuing their series of broadcasts from Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2015/2016 season, NPR is presenting a broadcast of a performance from this past February of Gounod's "Romeo & Juliette."

Soprano Diana Damrau seems to have been performing the title role of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" all over the place quite recently, and one of those numerous performances took place in Paris on May 27 of this year. French Radio gives us a chance to hear it this Saturday.


Enjoy! -- & Have a safe & happy Fourth of July weekend!

DAVE






The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast will return in December. 



Watch this space. Enjoy the haitus! 




No opera on
WGBH this week!


  Tom Cruise, actor


Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Week of June 23 - June 30, 2016



This is Sixth Anniversary edition of the 
Opera Lovers of Rhode Island blog.



All links are live!


This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and 
Verizon 478)  

Saturday, June 25, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, June 26, 2016 3:00am
Monday, June 27 2016, 12:00am


Tannhauser


A production of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser," in which a minstrel knight (Johan Botha) is torn between a saintly woman (Eva-Maria Westbroek) and the sensual love goddess Venus (Michelle DeYoung).

Synopsis:













News from Around the World of Music

Michael Fabiano & Ana María Martínez © Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera

VOCAL GRANDEUR: DON CARLO AT SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
2016/06/17· by operatraveller in Live Reviews, Opera review.     




An American Opera Impresario Takes His Final Bow
June 16, 2016     8:26 AM
by TOM HUIZENGA




Listen to the Only Castrato Ever Recorded
Alessandro Moreschi was applauded by crowds with the call "Eviva il coltello" ("Long live the knife!")





Bayreuth Ring 2016: TV Broadcast Of Entire Cycle
Written By The Wagnerian on Saturday, 18 June 2016 | 5:31:00 am







WQXR

Sketches from the Opera House
Friday, June 17, 2016
WQXR
By Fred Plotkin
A new book featuring drawings of opera singers and houses inspires Fred Plotkin to think about draughtsman, photographers and other artists who've depicted "our favorite art form."


This illustration of José Carreras is from Hank Blaustein's book 'Drawn to Opera.' (Courtesy Hank Blaustein)








OPERA ON THE INTERNET 
WITH  
DAVE  D' AGUANNO

For the first Saturday of the summer, there are numerous opera broadcasts awaiting us on the internet, one of which is a performance from Paris of Wagner's "Tristan & Isolde." This one can be heard on French Radio, the original performance having taken place on May 21 of this year.

Over on Italian Radio (RAI), it's Giordano's "Fedora" the premiere of which took place in 1898 and featured none other than Enrico Caruso in the leading tenor role. The performance being broadcast, however, was one that took place in Naples this past May 18.

These days Austrian composer Emil von Reznicek may not be very popular, although a bit of the music from his opera "Donna Diana" was once used in the opening credits for the 1950s TV show "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon." Well, another one of his operas -- "Holofernes" (from 1922) -- was performed last month in Bonn, and German Radio has scheduled it for this coming Saturday.

One of the most popular operas of Richard Strauss -- "Der Rosenkavalier" -- can be heard on NPR, as a taped performance from February can be heard as part of their continuing series of broadcasts from the 2015/2016 season at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote can be heard in this one.

If opera with a decidedly more "modern" idiom is to your liking, Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos's 1997 opera "Three Sisters" (based on Anton Chekhov's play) can be heard on BBC Radio 3, as performed last March at the Vienna State Opera.

Enjoy!

DAVE






The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast will return in December. 



Watch this space. Enjoy the haitus! 





No opera on
WGBH this week!



Peter Dinklage, "Tyrion Lannister" in Game of Thrones