This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Now broadcasting two or three operas every weekend!
Great Performances at the Met
Sunday, April 30, 2017, 3:00AM
Les Pêcheurs de Perles
The Pearl Fishers
A production of
Georges Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" ("Les Pêcheurs de
Perles"), a sweeping romance about a Hindu priestess (Diana Damrau)
pursued by rival pearl divers (Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien).
Length: 150
Monday, May 1, 2017, 12:00AM
THE MERRY WIDOW
Renée Fleming lights up
the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in
Lehár’s beloved operetta, set in Paris and seen in a glittering production
directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman. Nathan Gunn is Danilo,
Hanna’s former flame, who is supposed to woo and marry her in order to keep her
fortune in their home country of Pontevedro. Kelli O’Hara sings Valencienne,
the flirtatious young wife of the Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris, Baron Zeta,
played by Thomas Allen, and Alek Shrader is her suitor, Camille. Andrew Davis
conducts the waltz-rich score, and the new English translation is by Jeremy
Sams.
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Opera on WGBH this week!
WGBH2
Sunday, 1PM
Romeo
Et Juliette
The electrifying team of Vittorio Grigolo and Diana
Damrau reunites for a new production of Gounod's opera based on the Shakespeare
play. Damrau makes her role debut as Juliette in Bartlett Sher's new
production, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Elliot Madore sings Mercutio and
Mikhail Petrenko sings Frre Laurent. Sher's staging is a La Scala production,
initially presented by the Salzburg Festival, where it premiered in 2008.
Synopsis:
http://www.metopera.org/discover/synposes-archive/romeo-et-juliette/♫♫♫♫♫♫♫
Special feature!
Black Opera Singers
It’s past Black History month but I
just found it and it is wonderful—better late than never!
Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman (clockwise)
Black
History Month 2017: The Black Singers Dominating the Opera World Today
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
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WQXR
The Vanishing Vocal Recital (and Where to Find Some)
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News from Around the World of Music
Experience the energy of passion: “Tosca”
Live from the Vienna State Opera via free stream!
The notes Verdi didn’t want us to see will
be going
Kristin Lewis To Make Royal Opera House
Debut
Paris National Opera 2017-18 Season Leaked;
Jonas Kaufmann to Open Season in ‘Don Carlo’
Ben Bliss, tenor on Avoiding
Conservatories, His Met Debut, and Entrepreneurship
Artist Of The Week: Rolando Villazón
Delivers Comic Timing Directing ‘Don Pasquale’
More Than ‘Pagliacci:’ A Look At Ruggero
Leoncavallo’s Other Operas
Institute for Women Conductors
Watch: Vittorio Grigolo in spontaneous duet
with LA street singer
Uproar in China over incoming maestro
75 today, Barbra Streisand sings Debussy
Nice piece on Chineke in the New York Times
This music is supposed to help you
concentrate
Polish opera chief dies
Ludovic Morlot To Leave Seattle Symphony
Almanac: Igor Stravinsky on music critics
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This
coming Saturday (April 29), the opera being broadcast from the Met in New York
is none other than Wagner's first real big success: "The Flying
Dutchman." This LIVE performance can be heard on several internet radio
stations.
ORF
(Austria) has scheduled a delayed broadcast of the March 22, 2017 performance
from Rome of Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda."
Then,
on Radio 4 (the Netherlands), there's a LIVE performance of "Nabucco"
-- But wait! This is not the popular Verdi opera, but one written by
Michelangelo Falvetti in 1683. Strictly speaking, the original title of the
work is "Il Dialogo del Nabucco" although Radio 4 is referring to it,
simply, as "Nabucco."
Another
early work comes to us via Swedish Radio. It's an encore broadcast of the July
15, 2016 performance from Montpellier of Rameau's "Zoroastre" (1749;
revised in 1756).
And
for those of you who choose to do some mid-week opera-listening, you can tune in
to the Met's FREE live audio-stream next Tuesday (May 2) for a performance of
Franco Alfano's "Cyrano de Bergerac" with tenor Roberto Alagna
performing the title role.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast
radio broadcast
1:00 PM
Der Fliegende Holländer
(The Flying Dutchman)
WAGNER
Nézet-Séguin; Wagner, Zajick, Hunter Morris, Bliss, Volle, Selig
‘An
Evening Of Opera Highlights’ at Melbourne’s Plenary on Saturday 21 October and
Sydney Opera House on Tuesday 24 October.
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OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
