Week of September 9-17, 2010

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA

Tickets for BLO's 2010-2011 Season go on sale to the public Sunday, September 12

http://www.blo.org/

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WHAT IS GOING ON AT WGBH??

NOTE:
My apologies for the deviations from the announced schedule. For some reason, WGBH seems to approach the broadcasts of the operas in a very haphazard way; it is as if they assigned somebody who prefers ice hockey to throw the operas on if they happen to remember. I plan to talk to the folks at WGBH to see if there is some way we can get a more accurate schedule. During Opera Bash weekend, every time I turned the TV on, The Audition was on, and most of them had not been in the schedule.

In the meantime, patience! Just remember that opera has been La Cenerentola of public television for a long time and we actually ARE seeing a lot more of it than in the past.

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Great Performances at the Met

Armida

Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini's "Armida" as the niece of the Damascus king during the Crusades, a sorceress who falls for a Christian soldier (Lawrence Brownlee).

Synopsis:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=295

Sunday Sep 12 at 12:30 PM
WGBH 2/HD
Duration: 3 hours

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LIVE FROM THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON
COSI FAN TUTTE


September 10th 2:00PM , replay September 12th 11:00am

OFFICIAL WEBSITE
http://emergingpictures.com/opera-in-cinema/

First LIVE screening from the ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON
on our screen as it is being performed

COSI FAN TUTTE
Friday September 10th 2:00pm LIVE
Sunday September 12th 11:00am prerecorded

The new Royal Opera Season begins with a great audience favourite - both in opera and in its production. This great comedy with an edge brings a classic score by Mozart to a witty story of deception and trust tested to its limit. Can two apparently faithful couples have their affections altered by some apparently harmless deception? Jonathan Miller's ever-popular production updates the 18th-century to today - while fashions and technology may have changed since Mozart's time, human behaviour remains as fickle and manipulative as ever. Royal Opera favourite Thomas Allen returns in a strong cast of singers under acclaimed German conductor Thomas Hengelbrock. The title may suggest that it is the way of women to behave this way - 'such is the way they are' - but then it seems to be true of the men too. In this most sophisticated of operas with the most sublime of scores, no-one escapes unscathed.

200 minutes with one intermission
$24 for live performance screening
$20 for prerecorded screening


Emerging Pictures & Opus Arte to Screen Opera & Shakespeare

Emerging Pictures and Opus Arte have announced a partnership that will bring Opus Arte’s events programming into cinemas. The deal will bring live footage from the opera and ballet at London’s Royal Opera House and Shakespeare performances from the Globe Theatre. This year’s season starts September 10, with a broadcast of the opera’s performance of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” The deal will add to Emerging’s already existing lineup of Opera from Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. The deal was negotiated by Ira Deutchman of Emerging and Isabelle Fauchet of Opus Arte

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La Danse: Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris

Frederick Wiseman's documentary about the Paris Opera Ballet, "La Danse: Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris," captures rehearsals and performances of such ballets as Wayne McGregor's "Genus," Pierre Lacotte's "Paquita," Rudolf Nureyev's "The Nutcracker."

WSBE (36.2) (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 294)

Saturday, September 11, 8 PM
Sunday, September 12, 3 AM
Monday, September 13, 12 AM

DURATION: 180 MIN

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH DAVE D'AGUANNO
If you're into rarities, this Saturday should be most appealing for you:
At 1 p.m., from March 2010 in Madrid, we have Soler's "L'Arbore di Diana" courtesy of the CBC Radio.
(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)
Also at 1 o'clock, Netherlands Radio 4 gives us a chance to hear the opera "Wuthering Heights" (Montpellier 7/14/10), composed by Bernard Herrmann, the man who gave us the screeching violins during the infamous shower scene in the 1960 Hitchcock thriller "Psycho" (as well as music for "Twilight Zone" . . .you get the idea!)
(www.radio4.nl/)
A third choice at 1 p.m. would be a 1993 Berlin performance of "Der Cid" by Peter Cornelius.
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
Or -- on somewhat more familiar ground -- Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" can be heard at 1 o'clock in a San Francisco Opera performance from last September.
(www.wrti.org/)
Then at 2 p.m., Swedish Radio airs a performance of Purcell's "Dido & Aeneas" (a recent Viennese event) with Gerald Finley as Aeneas. Those of us who may have seen the Met telecast of "Doctor Atomic" a while back will remember Finley as the leading baritone in that one!
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)
You can always check for additional radio broadcasts by consulting www.operacast.com later this week.
Enjoy!
DAVE

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