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This week on Rhode Island Public television:
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, March 3, 2018, 8:00pm
Sunday, March 4, 2018 3:00am
Monday, March 5, 2018 12:00am
L'Amour de Loin
A production of Kaija Saariaho's
medieval romance "L'Amour de Loin," about a troubadour (Eric Owens)
whose yearning for idealized love seems naive until a pilgrim (Tamara Mumford)
tells him of a countess (Susanna Phillips) in far-off Tripoli.
Length: 150
Synopsis: http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/Amour-de-Loin/
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Next Met-HD
Next Saturday, March 10, 2018, 1:00PM
Semiramide
Next Saturday, March 10, 2018, 1:00PM
Semiramide
For tickets and locations http://www.metopera.org/Season/In-Cinemas/
3
Minute Opera: Puccini's 'La Bohème'
Give WQXR morning host Jeff Spurgeon three minutes and
he'll give you an entire opera. Listen as Spurgeon breaks down Puccini's
"La Bohème" in a New York minute (or three). Feb 22, 2018
https://www.wqxr.org/story/3-minute-opera-puccini-la-boheme
Encore!
An Analysis of the Metropolitan Opera’s New Season
The Metropolitan Opera has just announced the repertory and casting for its 2018–19 season, and Fred Plotkin is looking forward to next year with great enthusiasm. Feb 15, 2018
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NEWS FROM AROUND THE
WORLD OF MUSIC
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Grace in action - the inimitable
Jessye Norman weighs in with elegance and smarts.
Join the Instagram Bach Birthday
Party
In celebration of J.S. Bach's 333rd
birthday, share a video of you playing Bach's work, a picture with a few words
of appreciation — just remember to use the hashtag #Bach333. Feb 28, 2018
Emmanuel
Macron Is Stepping Into 'Peter and the Wolf'
The French President is having a
moment with the Prokofiev piece. Feb 27, 2018
The Best
Classical Releases of February 2018
Here are some of our favorite album
releases from February. Feb 27, 2018
Poll: Which Film Will Take Home the Oscar for Best
Score?
Will it be “Phantom Thread”? Or will
John Williams pick up his sixth Academy Award with another “Star Wars” score? Feb
26, 2018
Keeping it
Classical at the Winter Games
The Pyeongchang Olympics displayed
virtuosity at every turn, leap, and lutz — and that bravura wasn’t limited to
the athletics: The music of the Games delivered its share of feats,
too. Feb 26, 2018
Bass-Baritone
Shenyang Showcases the Art Songs of Huang Zi
Watch Chinese bass-baritone
Shenyang's performance in the WQXR café. Feb 23, 2018
Reflections
from the Keyboard: Debussy and the Piano
A five-part special installment of
Reflections from the Keyboard featuring the piano music of Claude
Debussy. Feb 22, 2018
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In 1968 Jimi Hendrix became a
neighbor of sorts to another musical legend — George Friedrich Handel. Feb
22, 2018
Watch
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Watch the legendary guitarist do
what he does best. Feb 21, 2018
Why Does
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but there are a lot of competing ideas. Feb 21, 2018
Opera & homophobia: It’s not
over till the fat lady Tweets
Opera Singer Fired After Homophobic
Slurs Posted to Facebook Page
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D’AGUANNO
3 radio broadcasts from the Met this week! First off, tomorrow night (Thursday) at 7:55 p.m., you can tune in to the Met's free LIVE audio-stream of "Elektra" by Richard Strauss, followed on Tuesday (March 6) with a LIVE audio-stream of Rossini's "Semiramide." The latter begins at 7:25 p.m. and features the same cast that will be appearing in the HD-transmission on March 10.(www.metopera.org/)
The 3rd Met broadcast is the Saturday afternoon performance of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" which can be heard on several internet radio stations.
Also on Saturday, German Radio has scheduled a broadcast of the January 19, 2018 performance from Dresden of Weber's "Euryanthe."
(www,dradio.de/dkultur/)
There's even more German opera on tap this Saturday with a video-stream on Culture Box of Wagner's "Tristan & Isolde" from Berlin. (This one might be blocked here in the U.S., but it's worth checking it out in the event that it's available to all of us Wagner fans.)
Non-Wagnerian opera fans, however, who may opt out of the "Butterfly" broadcast from the Met or the "Euryanthe" from Dresden might be interested, instead, in the LIVE performance of Donizetti's "La Favorite" which comes to us direct from Florence and can be heard on Radio 3 (RAI).
Or -- just to complicate matters a little bit more -- fans of 20th century opera may choose to watch the video-stream on OperaVision: a recent (Feb. 23) performance from Prague of Bohuslav Martinu's "Julietta" (1937), complete with English subtitles provided.
And for those of you who may want even more opera on Sunday, you can access WFMT for a LIVE performance from Lyric Opera of Chicago of Gounod's "Faust."
Enjoy!
DAVE
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THE MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON
RADIO BROADCAST AT
ON WQXR
March 3, 2018
1 PM
1 PM
Madama Butterfly
PUCCINI
Armiliato; Jaho,
Zifchak, Aronica, Frontali
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NO OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
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| Placido Domingo |
