Week of November 19-27, 2010

This week on WSBE 36.2 is (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 294)

HAMLET

Marlis Petersen as Ophélie

The Ambroise Thomas opera "Hamlet," based on the Shakespeare play, starring baritone Simon Keenlyside as the prince and soprano Marlis Petersen as Ophélie. Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore is Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, and James Morris is Claudius.





Synopsis: 
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/production.aspx?id=10647

Duration: 180 min.
Saturday, November 20 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, November 21 ---3:00am; Monday, November 22 -- 12:00am

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH DAVE D'AGUANNO 

New York's Metropolitan Opera continues its series of free LIVE audio streams with 2 Verdi masterworks:

This Friday evening at 8 p.m., you can listen to "Il Trovatore" with Patricia Racette singing the role of Leonora.

Then, next Monday at 7 p.m., you can catch a sort of preview of an upcoming Met HD-Transmission, when the Met airs "Don Carlo" with pretty much the same cast that will be seen in movie theaters next month.

(www.metopera.org)

On Saturday, November 20, 2 Handel operas will be featured on internet radio:

There's English National Opera's performance of last month's "Radamisto" which can be heard on BBC 3 at 1:30.

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

Or you could try the LIVE performance of "Alcina" (Vienna State Opera) being broadcast on ORF (also at 1:30).

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

Other than those Handel offerings, what better way to kick off Saturday's opera listening, than with a classic performance of Verdi's "Rigoletto" with a cast featuring Luciano Pavarotti & Joan Sutherland? Baritone Sherrill Milnes sings the leading role in that memorable 1971 recording which can be heard at 1 o'clock on WRTI.

(www.wrti.org/)

1 o'clock also marks the start of CBC Radio's broadcast of Bizet's "Carmen" in a January 2010 performance from the Canadian Opera Company's past season.

(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

Also at 1 p.m., there's Donizetti's "Roberto Devereux" coming to us from the Rome Opera's October 1st performance (on German radio).

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

For something a bit more radical than Donizetti, the Netherlands Opera is broadcasting a performance from Amsterdam of their recent "Soldaten" - Zimmermann's 1965 opera -- on Radio 4.

(www.radio4.nl/)

At 1:45, if you'd rather satisfy your longing for Wagner, there's "Tristan & Isolde" in a LIVE performance from Copenhagen.

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

Again -- Something for everyone, it would seem!

DAVE

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NO OPERA ON WGBH IN NOVEMBER...

 

We are not pleased.