Week of January 12-January 20, 2011

This week on WSBE:

LUCIA Di LAMMERMOOR

Piotr Beczala and Anna Netrebko

Saturday, January 15 -- 8:00pm, Sunday, January 16 -- 3am; Monday, January 17 -- 12am

 WSBE Learn 36.2 -  (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 29

A production of Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor," a tragic opera about a young woman (Anna Netrebko) whose brother (Mariusz Kwiecien) pressures her to marry a nobleman despite her love for another (Piotr Beczala).

duration: 150 min

Synopsis:

http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=55

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At the Jane Pickens Theater, Newport:

Live HD Opera from Teatro alla Scala

Thursday January 20TH 2PM

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/PAGLIACCI LIVE

by Pietro Mascagni/Ruggero Leoncavallo

Synopsis:  http://www.janepickens.com/ca_det.php?id=568

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH 

DAVE D'AGUANNO

This Saturday, January 15, opera on internet radio is dominated by the Met broadcast at 1 o'clock of Verdi's "La Traviata." Marina Poplavskaya (seen recently as Elisabeth in Verdi's "Don Carlo") sings the role of Violetta, opposite Matthew Polenzani's Alfredo. You may remember him as Anna Netrebko's love interest in the recent HD-transmission of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale." Too bad this isn't being shown in area theatres -- but you can't have them every week, I suppose. (Too bad!)

Other than the Met broadcast, French Radio is airing a rare performance of Lully's 1679 opera "Bellerophon" from Versailles, the performance itself dating from 12/17/10.

(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)

Written over a century later, Martin y Soler's 1787 opera "L'Abore di Diana" can be heard on Swedish Radio, brought to us by the Teatro Real in Madrid in a performance from last March.

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

Happy Listening!

DAVE