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Friday, July 30, 2010

Week of July 30-August 6, 2010


The Met-HD summer encores are finished and the new season doesn't begin until October.
WGBH is showing Carmen late at night this week. In the meantime, WSBE continues its weekend broadcasts. Keep WSBEand WGBH in mind when you plan your charitable gifts!



WSBE Learn (36.2) (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 294)
Saturday, July 31 -- 8:00pm
Sunday, August 1 — 3:00am
Monday,August 2 — 12:00am
Duration: 270 minutes

Deborah Voigt

stars in Richard Wagner's

Tristan und Isolde


Hear her sing "Liebestod":
http://www.mp3eq.com/video/deborah-voigt-as-isolde-liebestod__3217269873.html

For the synopsis and other information: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=86

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And in case you're not all Carmen'd out, herewith the last rose of summer...


Carmen
A production of Bizet's "Carmen," starring Elina Garanca in the title role, a Gypsy girl; and Roberto Alagna as Don Jose, the soldier who becomes obsessed with her.

WATCH Carmen seduce Don Jose...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlGMlxElB3A&feature=related

Thursday, August 5, at 1 AM on WGBH 44 (RI Cox Cable 804) (RI Fios 470)
Friday, August 6, at 3 AM, on WGBH 44 (RI Cox Cable 804) (RI Fios 470)
Monday, August 9m , 3 AM on WGBH 44 (RI Cox Cable 804) (RI Fios 470)
Duration: 180 min.
Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=117
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Watch an interview of Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna by Renee Fleming;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNc6BGFvy08&feature=related
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OPERA PROVIDENCE


"OPERA IN THE PARK"


"I Get A Kick Out of My Favorite Things ...
The Music of Cole Porter and Rogers and Hammerstein"
Sunday, August 1, 2010
5:00 to 6:30pm


WaterFire, Providence, RI

WaterFire
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Opera Providence will be the featured
performers with over 30 sopranos

For more information, please call our office.

401-331-6060

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OPERA ON THE 'NET BY DAVE D'AGUANNO
For those who are somewhat daring, you can kick things off on Friday (July 30) at 1:30 p.m. with a world premiere performance (taped July 27) from this summer's Salzburg Festival of Rihm's "Dionysos" on Austrian radio

(http://oe1.at/)

The same station will be airing a live performance (again from Salzburg) of Gluck's "Orfeo & Eurydice" on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday morning (at 8:30 a.m.) Radio France is digging into their archives & broadcasting a rare performance of Messager's "Les Petites Michus." (http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)

Also, on Saturday at 1 p.m., CBC Radio is broadcasting a performance from last December of Tchaikovsky's "The Tsarina's Slippers" (Covent Garden, London) (http://www.cbc.ca/)

Or (also at 1 p.m.) there's Wagner's "Die Walkure" from L.A. starring Placido Domingo (from this past spring) on WFMT (www.wmft.com/)

At the same time (1 p.m.) WRTI is airing Wagner's "Das Rheingold" (also from L.A. Opera)
(www.wrti.org)

Happy Listening!!


DAVE
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Royal Opera House comes to the Pickens!


Live screening of Cosi Fan Tutte opening night performance from Convent Garden
September 10th on the big screen at the Pickens as it is being performed in London

Shakespeare from the Globe Theatre in London announced for future screenings!

From the New York Times:
The Royal opera House in London is now expanding its offerings through a new deal with Emerging Pictures, a network that provides digital transmissions of events to movie theaters. In an agreement announced on Tuesday, Emerging Pictures will become the North American distributor of shows from the Royal Opera's media arm, Opus Arte. The shows will include live performances of operas and ballets, as well as filmed productions of Shakespeare plays from the Globe Theater, for which Opus Arte has the rights.

The first event to be shown under the new arrangement will be the opening-night performance of Mozart's "Così fan Tutte" on Sept. 10th (Friday) from Covent Garden in London.
Tickets will go on sale August 2nd

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