All links are live!
(Met Opera Season starts in a few weeks!)
Saturday, October 8 at 12:00 p.m. with Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, October 1, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, October 2, 2016 3:00am
Monday, October 3, 2016, 12:00am
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET
MACBETH
Star soprano Anna Netrebko delivers her searing portrayal of Lady
Macbeth, the mad and murderous mate of Zeljko Lucic's doomed Macbeth, for the
first time at the Met. Adrian Noble's chilling production of Verdi's masterful
adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy also stars Joseph Calleja as the noble
Macduff and Rene Pape as Banquo. Fabio Luisi conducts.
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WQXR
Review: Met's New
'Tristan und Isolde' Goes Radical
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
By David Patrick Stearns
"This was not your typical glittering, socialite-oriented
Met opening," writes David Patrick Stearns in his review of this much
anticipated new production of "Tristan und Isolde."
Review: A
Soprano Astonishes in the Met’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/arts/music/review-metropolitan-opera-tristan-und-isolde-wagner.html?_r=0
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Remembering the Old Metropolitan Opera House
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/remembering-old-metropolitan-opera-house/
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Remembering the Old Metropolitan Opera House
Monday, September 26, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
The last Monday in September is, customarily, the opening night of the season at the Metropolitan Opera house.
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News from Around the World of Music
The Transgender Opera Singer:
from Mezzo to
Tenor
September
16, 2016 by theoperastage
Exclusive
Guest Blog post for The Opera Stage by tenor Holden Madagame.
I’m
an FTM (female to male) transgender classical singer. You have probably not met
one of me before. I’ve been on testosterone about two years, use he/him/his
pronouns, have had top-surgery (a double mastectomy), and have still continued
to sing.
Nina Simone plays a stunning Bach-style
fugue in the middle of one of her classic songs
By
Daniel Ross, 15th September 2016, 16:06
Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has cancelled several
upcoming commitments due to additional, needed chemo. (One year ago, he was treated for a brain tumor.) Please keep him and his
family in your thoughts and hearts.
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DAVE D' AGUANNO
Tenor Stuart Skelton, as many of you probably already know, sang
in the opening night performance at the Met of Wagner's "Tristan &
Isolde" this pastMonday evening, and will also appear as Tristan in
next month's LIVE HD-transmission. In case you may want to hear him sing this
role in a different production and with a different supporting cast, you can
tune in to BBC Radio 3on Saturday for a broadcast of this opera from
English National Opera (July 2016). (www.bbc.co.uk/radio3)
Also from this past July, there's a performance from Madrid of
Bellini's "I Puritani" on ORF (Austria). This one features soprano
Diana Damrau as Elvira. FYI, if you prefer, I've included a link below to a
YouTube video of this same performance in the event that you wish to watch it
as well.
(audio only: http://oe1.orf.at/)
Fans of the music of John Adams can listen to a LIVE performance
of his 1986 opera "Nixon in China" which is being broadcast on
Swedish Radio. The performance itself comes to us from Stockholm.
Another 20th century opera -- Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues
of the Carmelites" -- is on NPR's schedule. It's a performance from the
San Francisco Opera, NOT from the 2015/2016 season, but an archival broadcast
from 1982. Of particular interest would be a chance to hear soprano Leontyne
Price as Madame Lidoine, plus Regine Crespin as Madame de Croissy.
The next FREE live audio-stream from the Met will take place on
Tuesday(October 4) at 7:25 pm. The opera: Rossini's "L'Italiana in
Algeri" with bass Ildar Abdrazakov in the comic role of Mustafa.
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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