Les Contes d'Hoffmann
~Tales of Hoffmann~
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JOSEPH CALLEJA IS HOFFMANN |
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| ANNA NETREBKO with KATE LINDSEY as "NICKLAUSSE" |
Saturday, January 22 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, January 23 -- 3:00am; Monday, January 24 -- 12am
36.2 - WSBE Learn - (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 29)Les Contes d'Hoffmann
A production of Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffmann," about the life, loves and psychological manifestations of the German Romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann (Joseph Calleja). Antonia/Stella: Anna Netrebko. Olympia: Kathleen Kim.
DURATION: 180 MIN
To hear "Barcarolle" performed by Kate Lindsey and Ekaterina Gubanova, click on "Week of January 20-27, 2011," above.
SYNOPSIS
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=15 |
| ANNA NETREBKO AS ANTONIA |
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH
DAVE D'AGUANNO
This Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, the Metropolitan Opera in New York is generously making available a free LIVE audio stream of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" -- headed by Dimitri Hvorostovsky who superbly portrayed Eugene Onegin opposite Renee Fleming a few years back in a Met HD-transmission. Simply go to www.metopera.org, click on "Watch & Listen", & then click on the Met Player at the time of the performance.
There's even more free LIVE opera from the Met (& more Verdi, too) this Saturday, Jan.22, at 1 p.m. when you can listen to "Rigoletto" which can be accessed over many internet radio stations, WRTI being only one example. The cast includes tenor Joseph Calleja who was last season's Hoffmann in Offenbach's masterwork, & who is scheduled to sing opposite Natalie Dessay in the upcoming Met HD-transmission of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" later this season.
(www.wrti.org/)
Another LIVE broadcast can be heard on ORF, which will be airing the Vienna State Opera's current rendition of Mozart's "Cosi fan Tutte."
(http://oe1.orf.at/)
In addition to all of the above, a couple of French operatic works may also be heard on Saturday. Charles Lecocq's "La Fille de Madame Angot" comes to us in a performance from Lausanne that was taped on November 11. If you've never heard anything by Lecocq, just think "Offenbach" & you won't be far off the mark. That's on Radio 4 (Netherlands).
(www.radio4.nl/)
Then, on French Radio, there's Poulenc's "Les Mamelles de Tiresias" (Lyons 1/7/11), the title of which can be translated as "The Breasts of Tiresias." Hmmm. . .
(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)
Any of these should help take our minds off THE SNOW!!!
DAVE
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Let it snow! |
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