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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, September 3, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, September 4, 2016 3:00am
Monday, September 5, 2016, 12:00am
Great Performances at the Met
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| Nina Stemme |
Turandot
Soprano Nina Stemme sings the title role of Puccini's final work, "Turandot," about an imperious Chinese princess and an unknown prince (Marco Berti) who falls for her.
To hear Nina Stemme sing
"In questa reggia" from Turandot
performed at La Scala, Milan
May 1, 2015
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News from Around the World of Music
Joyce DiDonato eagerly anticipates her debut with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra
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Classical Music Coloring Book: 8 Opera Composers from
Verdi to Strauss
Authored by Arthur Benjamin
If you are
an opera/classical music fan or want to raise your child one, this coloring
book is a must. Color 8 titans of opera music including Verdi, Puccini,
Rossini, Mozart and many more. All pictures are arranged with beautiful
backgrounds reflecting each composer's individual life and work.
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WQXR
Lenny's Legacy: An Appreciation of Bernstein on His
98th Birthday
Thursday,
August 25, 2016
WQXR
By Fred
Plotkin
'Everyone with
any connection to music in New York encountered Bernstein,' writes Fred
Plotkin, who shares his personal memories of the maestro in honor of his
birthday.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Wagner
enthusiasts will, no doubt, want to tune in to NPR this coming Saturday
(September 3) for a November 2015 performance of "Die Meistersinger"
which is part of the current series of broadcasts from the San Francisco
Opera's 2015/2016 season.
Halevy's
"La Juive" -- which seems to be turning up more frequently than ever
these days -- comes to us on Radio 3 (RAI) in a performance of the work that
took place in Lyons on April 1 of this year.
Fans
of Juan Diego Florez will actually get a rare chance to hear the tenor this
Saturday in a performance from this summer's Salzburg Festival of Otto
Nicolai's "Templario" (1840) which is one of at least 14 (!!!) operas
based on Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe." Florez can be heard in the
role of Ivanhoe himself in this August 30 performance. (Can Giovanni Pacini's
"Ivanhoe" from 1832 be next, or maybe Sir Arthur Sullivan's 1891
version which he wrote without Gilbert?)
We
also have yet another world premiere on the schedule for this Saturday --
another one, in fact, coming to us via Swedish Radio. This time around, it's
Sven-David Sandstrom's "Forestallningen" ("The
Performance") in its August 28, 2016 Stockholm performance. Interested listeners
may care to check out the following information regarding this new opera (taken
from the opera's Facebook page): "The chamber opera Föreställningen is set
in the Salpetrière Hospital in Paris. As part of their treatment, three women,
Henrika, Ann and Zora, are to appear before the world-famous physician Jean
Martin Charcot and a distinguished audience. Katarina Frostenson’s strong text
and Sven-David Sandström’s dynamic music shape the three women, their innermost
struggles, self-contempt and pain, and also the empathy that arises between
them.... "
Enjoy!
DAVE
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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!
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