Week of October 24 - October 31, 2019

This Saturday, 

October 26, 2019, 1:00 PM

Met-HD

For tickets and theaters*: 
https://www.metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/
* This week at Providence Place!

Manon

Exhilarating soprano Lisette Oropesa returns to cinemas on October 26 as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life. Tenor Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier des Grieux, whose desperate love for Manon proves their undoing. Maurizio Benini conducts Massenet’s sensual score. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to more than 2,200 theaters in more than 70 countries worldwide.

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/discover/synopses/manon/
Duration:  3 hrs. 52 minutes

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This week on Rhode Island Public television:

WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

Saturday, October 26, 2019, 8:00pm

Sunday, October 27,  2019, 3:00am 

Monday, October 28, 2019, 12:00am

The Exterminating Angel

The American premiere of Thomas Adès' opera "The Exterminating Angel" features John Tomlinson and Alice Coote; host Susan Graham.

Length: 150 minutes

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/user-information/synopses-archive/the-exterminating-angel

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

For many of us, the big news this week is the upcoming LIVE HD-transmission from the Met on Saturday, bringing us Massenet's "Manon" starring soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Michael Fabiano. As usual, this can be seen at selected movie theatres in your area.

In fact, there's even more Massenet on tap for this coming Saturday, as BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting a performance of "Werther" from London's Royal Opera House. Tenor Juan Diego Florez can be heard in the title role, with Isabel Leonard as Charlotte.

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

There's also a September 2019 performance on Saturday of the French-language version of Verdi's "Don Carlos" in a production from Antwerp which can be heard on the Belgian Radio station Klara.

(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

Then on Sunday, interested opera lovers will be given a chance to listen to an opera that has a DOG as the leading character! Who else but Offenbach would even consider such a thing? Well, it's obviously one of his many comic operas, and the title -- "Barkouf" (1860)-- refers to the dog himself -- Have no fear: The dog doesn't actually "sing" in this one, although he does do some barking. In any case, you can hear it in a performance that took place earlier this month in Cologne.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/offenbachs_barkouf_with_klink_kristinsson_kabongo_and_koch_from_cologne/51379/)

Even before all of the above, Friday (October 25) is chock-full of operatic treats in a something-for-everybody manner. First off, in case you were ever interested in hearing what the first Estonian opera ever written sounded like, you'll get your chance on Friday as Aav Evald's "The Vikings" (1928) will be broadcast, direct from Tallinn.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/aavs_the_vikings_with_jonas_tede_urb_tiits_soosalu_and_soom_from_tallinn/51329/)

On Friday evening at 7:25, the Met is offering yet another FREE live audio-stream. This time around, it's Puccini's "La Boheme."

(www.metopera.org/)

Also on Friday, the free opera video channel OperaVision is planning on showing TWO operas. First, there's Bizet's "Carmen" from Beijing followed by Johann Strauss's "Die Fledermaus" from Vienna. But that's only the beginning, since OperaVision will continue on Saturday with a video-stream of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" from Rome, and then on Sunday, it's Rossini's "Barber of Seville" from Santiago. -- And who was it that said opera was dead???

(https://operavision.eu/en/coming-soon)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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Jessye Norman with WQXR's  Fred Plotkin

Remembering Jessye Norman 

(1945–2019)

https://www.wqxr.org/story/remembering-jessye-norman/

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https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/aria-code

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NEWS FROM AROUND

 THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Star Soprano Warns of Rampant Body shaming in The Opera World

Lisette Oropesa denounces the double standard applied to her male colleagues, who don't come in for anything like the same pressure on their weight.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Star-Soprano-Warns-of-Rampant-Body-shaming-in-The-Opera-World-20181101-0045.html

Must-See Classical Concerts This November

The best of New York shows, from a 10-minute street opera to Verdi's Requiem. Oct 23, 2019

https://www.wqxr.org/story/must-see-classical-concerts-november-2019/

9 Weekends Of Cheap and Free Concert-Going In NYC This Fall

All the weekend concerts that you can see for $25 or less across New York City. Oct 18, 2019

https://www.wqxr.org/story/9-weekends-cheap-and-free-concert-going-nyc-fall/

Brigitte Fassbaender Speaks Out On MeToo Movement & Plácido Domingo

https://operawire.com/brigitte-fassbaender-speaks-out-on-metoo-movement-placido-domingo/

Royal Opera House To Present ‘The Lost Thing’ This December

Tan’s “The Lost Thing” was previously adapted into an Oscar-winning animated short film and tells the story of Shaun who collects bottle tops and discovers a strange creature that is out of place. He eventually helps the creature find a place of belonging.

https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/the-lost-thing-by-ben-wright-details?utm_medium=google&utm_source=ppc&utm_campaign=lost_thing_grant&utm_content=search&gclid=Cj0KCQjwl8XtBRDAARIsAKfwtxBc7uaF_ClW9vw00Pw7UYCslHOOQwu-Mv-jBdwWfP1kHy7HQdjC-DgaArIiEALw_wcB

Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato & Other Richard Tucker Winners On How the Award Helped Their Career

https://operawire.com/renee-fleming-joyce-didonato-other-richard-tucker-winners-on-how-the-award-helped-their-career/

Legendary Baritone Leo Nucci Has Reportedly Retired From The Stage

https://operawire.com/legendary-baritone-leo-nucci-has-reportedly-retired-from-the-stage/

Javier Camarena: I believe in unicorns

https://parterre.com/2019/10/24/i-believe-in-unicorns/

Immersed in eternal light

Christian Gerhaher delivers a Kindertotenlieder of such conciliatory tact that it erases all others.

https://parterre.com/2019/10/20/64813/

Drag me to hell

My first-ever Met Sunday opera brought the welcome return of Gluck’s sublime Orfeo ed Euridice in an enchanting afternoon that combined elegant conducting, joyous dancing and Jamie Barton’s extraordinary hero.

https://parterre.com/2019/10/21/drag-me-to-hell/

The lion king

Opéra Royal revives Grétry’s Richard Cœur-de-lion, one of the finest examples of the opéra comique genre.

https://parterre.com/2019/10/24/the-lion-king/

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THE MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON MATINEE IS ON HIATUS UNTIL DECEMBER.  TUNE IN TO WQXR TO HEAR OTHER OPERA COMPANIES PERFORM AT  1:00PM 

  

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NO OPERA ON WGBH THIS WEEK!

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Chair, House Finance Committee 

Week of October 17 - October 24, 2019

Dmitri Hvorostovsky 
16 October 1962 - 22 November 2017

Dmitri Hvorostovsky statue_Novodevichy Cemetery

Florence Hvorostovsky is at Novodevichy Cemetery.

Moscow, Russia ·

"Today is Dmitri’s birthday and also the ceremony of the unveiling of his statue. It was very touching as hundreds of people came to pay respect to Dmitri. Thank you all for coming. I’m very grateful to all of you. Happy birthday my love. You are always in my heart. RIP ❤️ I love you forever. "

He would have been  57 today, October 16.

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This week on Rhode Island Public television:

WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

Saturday, October 19, 2019, 8:00pm

Sunday, October 20,  2019, 3:00am 

Monday, October 21, 2019, 12:00am

Tosca

Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thrilled Met audiences when it rang in the New Year in 2018. Only weeks later, the production was seen by opera lovers worldwide as part of the Met’s Live in HD series of cinema presentations. In this performance, Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva is the passionate title diva, opposite charismatic tenor Vittorio Grigolo as her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Cavaradossi. Baritone Željko Lučić is the menacing Baron Scarpia, the evil chief of police who employs brutal tactics to ensnare both criminals and sexual conquests. On the podium, Emmanuel Villaume conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.  Isabel Leonard hosts.

Length: 150 minutes

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/discover/synopses/tosca/

Tosca stabs the evil Scarpia

"Die accursed! Die! Die! Die!

(seeing him motionless)

He is dead!

And now I pardon him!

All Rome trembled before him!'

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

A few weeks ago, Swedish Radio aired a LIVE broadcast from Stockholm of Franz Schreker's "Der Ferne Klang" ("The Distant Sound"), and this coming Saturday (October 19) this same opera can be seen, again LIVE from Stockholm, on OperaVision. At the time he wrote them (the early decades of the 20th century) Schreker's operas were quite popular -- until the Nazis came along and banned his music, due to the fact that he was part-Jewish. Erich Korngold and Walter Braunfels (to name 2 others) also suffered the same fate. Fortunately, now that we're well into the 21st century, their music can once again be appreciated, even if their operas never get a chance to enter the standard repertory.

(https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/der-ferne-klang-royal-swedish-opera#)

Lovers of music from the Baroque period will be happy to encounter 2 separate broadcasts on Saturday afternoon, one of which is the April 23, 2019 performance from Venice of Vivaldi's "Dorilla in Tempe" (premiered in 1726), which can be heard on Radio 3 (RAI).

Then on BBC Radio 3, Joyce Di Donato can be heard in the title role of Handel's "Agrippina" (1710) which was performed quite recently in London's Royal Opera House.

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

Enjoy!

DAVE

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Jessye Norman with WQXR's  Fred Plotkin

Remembering Jessye Norman 

(1945–2019)

https://www.wqxr.org/story/remembering-jessye-norman/

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Subscribe to the podcast!

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/aria-code

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NEWS FROM AROUND

 THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Dealing With Domingo: How Did Opera Get Here?

Just because Domingo is gone from the Metropolitan Opera following the cancellation of his Macbeth appearance on Sept. 24 doesn’t mean that he’s gone from the industry. Oct 2, 2019

https://www.wqxr.org/story/dealing-domingo-how-did-opera-get-here/

A school transformed itself by giving every student a violin

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/school-gives-new-students-violin-music-lessons/

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767205171/countertenor-anthony-roth-costanzo

How to listen to the old recordings & fakery of the modern opera industry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0NKF_g1siE&fbclid=IwAR1VntXBtsENa59WBEHBZzyVIf3xooawpPakCL-NDYTi5I7NKcqSAN6GgeU

Jessye Norman: First and foremost

They say you never forget your first.

https://parterre.com/2019/10/14/first-and-foremost/?fbclid=IwAR3AxUIYxlg54HrLcoY7_s04p62SdyuKMDK44gYs2-4sLM94YvyhT2JpW1I

Jessye Norman (age 22): Allmächt'ge Jungfrau: Interlochen: 8/3/68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuT7-6SqHKs&fbclid=IwAR20STI_q2qhFyLadaFzmvKjEC8mVtGCfvr_ad3oCcpf8Tlhm2tqIAxiExg

Jessye Norman + Kathleen Battle 'He's Got The Whole World In His Hand' 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJ3PlU-lKg

Denyce Graves Remembers Jessye Norman's 'One in a Million' Opera Voice and Lasting Impact on the Art

https://time.com/5691646/jessye-norman-obituary-denyce-graves/?fbclid=IwAR1WFEsXa5tG3NBXcCLCVCCgwoZKd9o3z_p0XrBt6knyWLRryUAOF_U1dQs

Mourning a true diva, Jessye Norman

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/01/mourning-true-diva-jessye-norman/?fbclid=IwAR0FZTq7U3RtmisxbCfOrTYx_BZBnActvYfzF1MmTnmQ94z4TuL4O4GiD3Q

Jessye Norman and Jonathan Capehart

Jessye Norman with The Post's Jonathan Capehart

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/01/mourning-true-diva-jessye-norman/?fbclid=IwAR0FZTq7U3RtmisxbCfOrTYx_BZBnActvYfzF1MmTnmQ94z4TuL4O4GiD3Q

Jessye Norman amazing grace for Martin Luther KING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dneH1XPT4z8&fbclid=IwAR39j7aPX61gfLzt_xdA-APU80KHOSFD7o-dPE0xk4mrqptgzKa6bFNA37Y

Yannick Nézet-Séguin Looks Ahead to His Second Season as Music Director at the Metropolitan Opera

The Maestro kicks off with Puccini's Turandot starring Christine Goerke, which begins October 3

http://www.playbill.com/article/yannick-nezet-seguin-looks-ahead-to-his-second-season-as-music-director-at-the-metropolitan-opera?fbclid=IwAR2KlVtesMVCpB8pbgy3WqllAxovsMr3GIDyGTkNKCXVv5UmnN-S_vX0i04

Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads a Revelatory ‘Turandot’

Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s first performance of the Metropolitan Opera this season offers a glimpse into the company’s artistic future.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/arts/music/yannick-nezet-seguin-turandot.html?fbclid=IwAR0bA_U8o52tZ2eDw9lCXfy4XRRX8iCg2VTrZa7jyXlBaqRImiOXSniWS3Q

Lincoln Center's White Light Festival Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

The festival continues to foster cross-cultural collaborations. It runs October 19 through November 24.

http://www.playbill.com/article/lincoln-centers-white-light-festival-celebrates-its-10th-anniversary

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THE MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON MATINEE IS ON HIATUS UNTIL DECEMBER.  TUNE IN TO WQXR TO HEAR OTHER OPERA COMPANIES PERFORM AT  1:00PM 

  

  GO  TO    

HTTP://WWW.WQXR.ORG/STREAMS  

           THEN CLICK ON WQXR 105.9 FM                 🎕🎕🎕🎕

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NO OPERA ON WGBH THIS WEEK!

Senator,Cory Booker (D-NJ), Candidate for U.S. President