Week of July 6 - July 13, 2017

VACATION!

I’ll be back next week

BUT

Dave D'Aguanno

is here!

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D' AGUANNO

Here we are in the 21st century, and opera composers are still finding inspiration in the works of Shakespeare, as did Giuseppe Verdi, Ambroise Thomas, and a few others in the 19th century. Just as Ryan Wigglesworth gave us a new operatic version of "A Winter's Tale" earlier this year, Australian composer Brett Dean has now joined in with his own version of "Hamlet" which is being performed this summer in Glyndebourne. Tomorrow (July 6), you can watch a LIVE performance of this brand-new opera at the link below.

(video link: http://glyndebourne.com/tickets-and-whats-on/events/2017/watch-hamlet/)

Another LIVE opera video will be available on Sunday (July 9), as the Bavarian State Opera (Munich) will be performing Wagner's "Tannhauser."

(https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productioninfo/tannhaeuser-1.html)

If you missed last week's video-stream of Schreker's "The Stigmatized" (also from Munich), you may want to listen to the audio version of that performance, which can be accessed on Saturday on ORF (Austria).

(http://oe1.orf.at/)

Yet another new opera is on hand, as Radio 3 (RAI) brings us the December 2, 2016 performance of Marco Betta's "Notte per me Luminosa." This one took place in Modena, Italy.

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

The "other" Radio 3 (BBC) has scheduled a London Royal Opera House performance from July 1 of Mozart's "Mitradate, Re di Ponto" which was written when the composer had attained the ripe old age of 14 !!!

(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

Also, on NPR, as part of their continuing series of broadcasts from Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2016/2017 season, it's Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" with well-known baritone Mariusz Kwiecien singing the title role in this March 2017 performance.

(www.wrti.org/)

Enjoy!

DAVE