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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Week of November 27-December 5, 2010





This week on WSBE:
 TOSCA
Karita Matila as Tosca
Karita Matila with Marcelo Alvarez as Cavaradossi

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

Saturday, November 27 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, November 28 ---3:00am; Monday, November 29 -- 12:00am


Duration: 150 min
 
Synopsis: 
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/production.aspx?id=11083

Season 4 opens with Luc Bondy's staging of Puccini's "Tosca," starring soprano Karita Mattila as the title character, whose lover (Marcelo Álvarez) is arrested by a police chief (George Gagnidze) and threatened with death unless she gives herself to him.
Tosca - Karita Mattila
Cavaradossi - Marcelo Álvarez
Scarpia - George Gagnidze
Sacristan - Paul Plishka
Spoletta - Joel Sorensen
Angelotti - David Pittsinger
Sciarrone - James Courtney
Shepherd - Jonathan Makepeace
Jailer - Keith Miller
Karita Matila  with George Gagnidze, as the evil Scarpia
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH DAVE D'AGUANNO

Lots of interesting items on tap for this Saturday (Nov. 27) on Internet Radio:
 Among the better-known operas, there's a performance from last February of Verdi's "Otello" to be aired on Canada's CBC, as done by the Canadian Opera Company. (At 1 p.m.)
(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

 Also at 1 o'clock, Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" can be heard on Radio 4 (the Netherlands) as performed this month by the Reisopera. (A different cast altogether from that shown in the recent Met HD-transmission of this opera, naturally.)
(www.radio4.nl/)

 Then at 1:30, you can sit back & listen to yet another "Don Giovanni" (Mozart) as performed by the English National Opera on BBC Radio 3.
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

 And at 2 o'clock, an all-Swedish cast tackles Verdi's monumental "Don Carlo" (LIVE from Goteborg, Sweden).
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

 For all you MODERN OPERA enthusiasts, the world premiere performance from Philadelphia of Margaret Garwood's new opera "The Scarlet Letter" will be broadcast on WRTI. It's based on the well-known novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (naturally!!!).
(www.wrti.org/)

 Then, for our OBSCURE OPERA of the WEEK: Mercadante's tragic "Virginia" gets a rare outing on German Radio, in a performance from last month's Wexford Festival. If you like Verdi and/or Donizetti, this one should be right up your alley! (at 1 p.m.)
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

 From the ARCHIVES: ORF is broadcasting a wonderful performance of Bellini's "La Sonnambula" with Joan Sutherland singing the soprano role, in a performance that was done at the Met on March 30, 1963. (starts at 1:30)
(http://oe1.orf.at/)

 Finally -- on Tuesday, November 30, at 8 p.m. -- the Met is giving us another LIVE performance of Bizet's "Carmen" with the incomparable Elina Garanca in the title role.

 In the meantime -- Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
 DAVE
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Week of November 12-19, 2010

This week at the Met in HD:

DON PASCUALE

Anna Netrebko as "Norina"


Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani in the Metropolitan Opera production of 
Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=121

Scroll down past weekly listings for information about the Met-HD screenings
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This week on WSBE:
SIMON BOCCANEGRA

 Saturday, November 13 -- 8:00pm
WSBE 36.2 is (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, 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.
DURATION: 150 MIN

Saturday,November 13 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, November 14 -- 3:00am; Monday, November 15 -- 12:00am
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH DAVE D'AGUANNO


For those of you who may not be attending this Saturday's live HD-transmission from the Met of Donizetti's comic masterpiece "Don Pasquale" (featuring Anna Netrebko), you won't have to miss out on your weekly/daily opera fix, as there's plenty to be heard on internet radio this weekend.
 
Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" turns up TWICE on Saturday's schedule.
One is a LIVE performance from Berlin, starting at 1 p.m. (www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
The other one derives from a performance last April from the Canadian Opera Company (also at 1 p.m.)
 
At the same time, WRTI is broadcasting the Houston Grand Opera's take on Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" from a performance this past January.
 
At 1:30, BBC Radio 3 is bringing us a performance from last month of "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Richard Strauss, from the Welsh National Opera.
 
If you'd rather listen to some Mozart, you have two choices:
At 1:30, there's a performance from Vienna of his rarely heard "La Finta Giardiniera" (delayed broadcast of this Friday's performance)  (http://oe1.orf.at/)
Or you might want to tune in to Belgium's Klara radio station for the Flemish National Opera's October 10th performance of "The Abduction from the Seraglio."
 
Happy Listening!
 
DAVE


OPERA IN FILM at the JANE PICKENS THEATER


OPERA AND THEATRE SCHEDULE
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT WWW.JANEPICKENS.COM
Tuesday December 7th, 11:00 am
         Live Opera: Wagner's Die Walküre
         Opening night Teatro alla Scala Milano

Friday December 10th  7:00pm NOTE DATE & TIME CHANGE
          Encore Theatre: Shakespeare's Hamlet
          NT LIVE National Theatre London
     
Sunday December 12th 11:00am
          Wagner's Die Walküre
           Replay of Opening Night Teatro alla Scala Milano

Thursday January 13th   7:00pm NOTE TIME CHANGE
          Encore Theatre: Fela!
          NT LIVE: National Theatre London

Thursday February 3rd    7:00pm  NOTE TIME CHANGE
          Encore Theatre: Shakespeare's King Lear
         NT LIVE: National Theatre London

Monday February 14th    7:00pm VALENTINE'S DAY
          Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
          The Globe Theatre, London

Thursday March 17th   3:00pm
           Live Theatre: Frankenstein
                                  Starring Filmmaker Danny Boyle
           NT LIVE: National Theatre London

Friday March 25th   7:00pm
          Replay: Frankenstein
                      Starring Filmmaker Danny Boyle
           NT LIVE: National Theatre London
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Week of November 4-11, 2010

THIS WEEK AT THE MET IN HD
ENCORE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, November 10, 2020 ~ 6:30 PM
 Rene Pape
is
BORIS GODUNOV
  Composer: Modest Mussorgsky Libretto by the composer, based on the play by Alexander Pushkin World premiere: St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Theater, February 8, 1874 Revised version (1872–75)
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=388
Scroll down past weekly listings for information about the Met-HD screenings
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This week on WSBE: 
CARMEN

Elīna Garanča as 'Carmen'
She's smokin'!
The Met's production of Bizet's "Carmen," starring Elina Garanca in the title role, a Gypsy girl; and Roberto Alagna as the soldier who becomes obsessed with her. Host: Renee Fleming.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=117

Duration: 180 min
Saturday,November 6 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, November 7 -- 3:00am; Monday, November 8 -- 12:00am
WSBE 36.2 is (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 294)
Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna

OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH DAVE D'AGUANNO

First off, a reminder that the Met is generously providing us with a FREE audio stream of this Thursday night's performance of Bizet's "Carmen" at 8 p.m. Elina Garanca -- surely one of the greatest Carmens of all time! -- sings the title role.
And next Tuesday (November 9) you can catch the Met's live performance of Mozart's "Cosi fan Tutte." That's at 8 o'clock once again, & free!
On Saturday (November 6) at 1 o'clock, you can catch a fairly recent performance (from Houston Grand Opera) of another Mozart favorite: "Don Giovanni" -- That's on WRTI.
Also at 1, Canada's CBC Radio 2 is broadcasting Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" as performed by the Canadian Opera Company (May 2010).
Then at 1:45, the BBC brings us a performance of Gounod's "Romeo & Juliette" from London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Yet another "Carmen" will be streamed on internet radio, this one being an October 1 performance from Barcelona, to be heard on Deutschland Radio Kultur, at 3 p.m.
Kurt Weill's "Mahagonny" (recently heard in a performance from Madrid) turns up once again at 3:30, this time coming to us on ORF from Vienna (10/15/10).
Or you can check out Giordano's "Andrea Chenier" (Stockholm 10/22/10) on Swedish Radio, also at 3:30.
Something for everyone, it seems!
DAVE

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JUST ANNOUNCED!
OPERA IN FILM at the JANE PICKENS THEATER


OPERA SCHEDULE
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT WWW.JANEPICKENS.COM

Tuesday December 7th, 11:00 am
         Live Opera: Wagner's Die Walküre
         Opening night Teatro alla Scala Milano


Sunday December 12th 11:00am
          Wagner's Die Walküre
           Replay of Opening Night Teatro alla Scala Milano



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