Week of February 24-March 3

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE: WSBE WILL START Der Rosenkavalier AT 7:30pm INSTEAD OF 8pm.

THIS WEEK'S MET-HD SIMULCAST 
(For info about attending the broadcast,s scroll down below the weekly listings)

Gluck’s  

Iphigénie en Tauride

Placido Domingo "Agamemnon"

Susan Graham "Iphigenie"

See preview!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPcPGn3tjaw

 

Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride

February 26, 2011 at 1:00 pm ET
U.S. Encore: Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2011, 6:30 p.m. local time
Expected Running time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
Synopsis:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=206
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This week on WSBE (Rhode Island Public TV):

Great Performances at the Met

 Der Rosenkavalier

Renee Fleming as Marschallin and Susan Hampshire in the "pants role"as her youthful lover, Octavian

 

Saturday, February 26 -- 7:30pm, Sunday, February 27 -- 3:00am; Monday, February 28--12am

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

Renée Fleming and Susan Graham star in Richard Strauss' comic "Der Rosenkavalier" as the middle-aged Marschallin and her young lover, Octavian, who falls for a woman (Miah Persson) closer to his age, but who's engaged to Marschallin's cousin.


To hear "Der Rosenkavalier - Trio - Renée Fleming - Susan Graham - Christine Schäfer" (2010), click on "Week of February 24..." above.

DURATION:  210 min

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=334

OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH 

DAVE D'AGUANNO

This Saturday, February 26, most internet radio stations have on their schedules the Met's LIVE performance of Gluck's "Iphigenie en Tauride", one of his last important operatic achievements, first performed in Paris in1779. You can listen to it on your internet radio station of choice, or actually watch it, as it is being simultaneously transmitted in High Definition in some area movie theatres. Well-known, 70-year-old tenor Placido Domingo takes on one of the leading roles in Saturday's performance.

Other broadcasts that may be of interest include a repeat airing from last October of Bizet's 2nd most popular opera after "Carmen." It's his earlier work "The Pearl Fishers" which can be heard on Austrian Radio (ORF).

(http://oe1.orf.at/)

On German Radio, "Der Liebe der Danae" (a work that appears late in the canon of operas by Richard Strauss) can be heard in a performance that was given in Berlin on January 23 of this year.

(http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

In the meantime, you can catch a LIVE broadcast from the Met of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" tomorrow night (Thursday) with Natalie Dessay singing the title role. She and other members of Thursday night's cast will be featured later this season when the Met relays a LIVE HD-transmission of this work. Check www.metopera.org for details on how to access their free audio stream when the broadcast is about to take place.

But you'll have to wait till Tuesday (March 1) if you're up for another hearing of Rossini's "Armida" in a free LIVE audio stream from the Met. Renee Fleming reprises the title role, and shares vocal honors with several others who appeared as cast members when this opera was shown in area theatres last May.

Happy Listening!

DAVE

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No opera from WGBH on TV this week.

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Do you think you might want 
to make the trek to Boston?

Here are some coming events, part of the

Celebrity Series of Boston:

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Sunday, February 27, 2011, 3 PM

Symphony Hall

Boston, MA

http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=229&pid=6829189

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Matthew Polenzani

Thursday, March 24, 2011, 8pm EDT

NEC’s Jordan Hall

Boston, MA

http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=229&pid=6829197

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Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Friday, April 29, 2011, 8pm,

NEC’s Jordan Hall

Boston, MA

http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=229&pid=6829205

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