WSBE, Channel 36.2 (Cox Cable 808; Verizon Fios 498) (In MA, Comcast 294)
SIMON BOCCANEGRA*
A production of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra," starring Placido Domingo as a pirate-turned-chief magistrate. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka costars as Amelia Grimaldi, Boccanegra's long-lost daughter.
Saturday, July 3, 8 PM
Sunday, July 4, 3 AM
duration: 150 minutes
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* Should you happen to be in Arlington, MA on Saturday morning at 11 AM, the Capitol Theater [204 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA 02474-8403] will be showing the "Simon Boccanegra" produced by Teatro Alla Scala, Milan, Italy. Placido Domingo headlines a different cast:
Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacopo Fiesco)
Anja Harteros (Amelia)
Fabio Sartori (Gabriele Adorno)
Massimo Cavalletti (Paolo Albiani)
Ernesto Panariello (Pietro)
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WGBH - no opera this week but you may be interested in another heavenly pursuit:
HARP DREAMS
WGBH 2 (Same channel on Cox and Verizon Fios)
Thursday, July 1 @ 9 PM Saturday, July 3 @ 5 PM (WGBH 44; 804 Cox Cable; 470 Verizon Fios)
Sunday, July 4 @ 3 PM
HARP DREAMS
Filmmaker Susanne Schwibs follows six young harpists at the 2007 USA International Harp Competition, which is held every three years at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.
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Met-HD (For tickets and other FAQs, see below)
July 7, 6:30 PM; July 8, noon.
EUGENE ONEGIN
Running Time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky star in Tchaikovsky’s lushly romantic masterpiece about mistimed love.
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OPERA ON THE 'NET BY DAVE D'AGUANNOSome highlights for this Saturday, July 3:
DR P@: Bizet's CARMEN (Copenhagen 6/10) (www.dr.dk/p2/) at 1 PM
BBC Radio 3: Handel's TAMERLANO (Covent Garden '10) (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnpy) at 1:30 PM
WRTI: Berlioz's DAMNATION OF FAUST (Chicago 2/10) (www.classic99.com/popera.htm) at 1:30 PM
also RAI will be broadcasting a performance of Boito's MEFISTOFOLE (Rome 3/16/10) at 2 PM but I'm not sure of the link (something like http://www.rai.it/)
DIRECTIONS:Click here: http://liveweb.arte.tv/
"Don Giovanni" (July 5) on ARTE LIVE WEB
Monday, July 5, you can watch a LIVE performance of Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" direct from the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France.
It'll take you to the main page of the website. Then you can just click on the yellow blurb on the left regarding "Don Giovanni" when the time comes.
I hope those links work, at least when it's time to listen to the opera. If not, one can always go to the http://www.operacast.com/; go to the "This Saturday" page, and all the links for all the statons are right there.
The above is only a partial list, since many of the stations don't give their info to operacast until Friday evening!
Hope this helps!
DAVE
Renee Fleming as Tatiana in "Eugene Onegin"
