Week of December 9-16, 2010

 This week: Live in HD in a theater near you
   Scroll past the weekly listings for FAQ on the Met HD Program

Roberto Alagna is

DON CARLO

Verdi's drama about a Spanish prince whose father steals his beloved, told against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition.

MARINA POPLAVSKAYA as Elizabeth

Some reviews:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/arts/music/24carlo.html 

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-27/heretics-fry-alagna-shines-in-don-carlo-manuela-hoelterhoff.html

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/reviews/11-2010/don-carlo_32325.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/23/AR2010112306731.html


Synopsis:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=4

Approximate running time 4 hrs. 30 min. Intermission times
12:30 pm performances: At approximately 2:10 pm and 3:20 pm 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

NO OPERA ON TELEVISION THIS WEEK...SIGH!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH 

DAVE D'AGUANNO

Not going to see Verdi's "Don Carlo" LIVE from the Met this Saturday at your nearest opera-friendly movie theatre?

If such is the case, you can still thrill to the sound of opera via internet radio, possibly by kicking things off with a live performance from Amsterdam of Wagner's "Parsifal." It's a matinee performance, meaning you'll be listening to it in the morning here in R.I. (Check the Radio 4 website for the scheduled time.)

(www.radio4.nl/)

If "Parsifal" seems too short an opera for you, you can always check out Berlioz's monumental "Les Troyens" which is being broadcast on German radio at 1 o'clock. The 2 parts of the opera were performed on 2 separate evenings in Berlin this past week.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Also at 1, CBC Radio has a performance of Britten's "Death in Venice" from last month. It's a Canadian Opera production.

(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

Yet another monumental work -- Handel's "Serse" (that's "Xerxes" to most of us, I guess) -- is being broadcast on WRTI at 1 p.m. in a performance from this past April in Houston.

(www.wrti.org/)

A LIVE broadcast by the Vienna State Opera of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" can be heard on ORF at 1:30. 
(http://oe1.orf.at/)

And for all of us Anna Netrebko fans, Swedish Radio is bringing us one of her performances from last January of Massenet's "Manon" (another Vienna State Opera production).

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

Enjoy!

DAVE