Week of February 3-10, 2011

 

This week on WSBE:

Great Performances at the Met

MAC Beth

"Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!"

Saturday, February 5 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, February 6 -- 3:00am; Monday, February 7 -- 12am

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

Željko Lučić

Maria Guleghina

 

Verdi's "Macbeth" is set in a decimated post-WWII landscape. 

To hear MACBETH, act 4 (5) Perfidi all' anglo contro me v' unite!..Pieta, rispetto, amore, click on "Week of February 1-8, 2011," above.

Synopsis:

http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=209

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Fresh Air, hosted by Terry Gross on PBS (WRNI and WGBH) had a delightful short feature celebrating Maestro James Levine's fortieth anniversary with the Met. You can listen to the podcast:

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=132051082&m=133401560

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The San Francisco Opera on KDFC

Sunday, February 06, 2011 at 11 PM EDT; (8:00 PM PDT)

Jules Massenet’s Werther Bringing one of his signature roles to San Francisco Opera, renowned tenor Ramón Vargas appears as Werther, the poet who cannot bear the pain of unfulfilled love, alongside acclaimed mezzo-soprano Alice Coote as Charlotte. Massenet’s opera, based on Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, also features soprano Heidi Stober (Sophie), baritone Brian Mulligan (Albert) and bass-baritone Christian van Horn (The Bailiff). Emmanuel Villaume, conductor; Francisco Negrin, director.  [Recorded Fall 2010] 2 hours, 30 minutes including one intermission Sung in French

Synopsis:  

http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=91

KDFC is the radio home of the San Francisco Opera, with a full-length production, recorded live at the War Memorial Opera House, on the first Sunday of every month at 8pm. Dianne Nicolini hosts. Go to:

http://www.kdfc.com/The-San-Francisco-Opera-on-KDFC/5805657

Click on "Listen Live."

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH 

DAVE D'AGUANNO

Tonight's opening night performance of John Adams's opera "Nixon in China" will be given a LIVE audio stream via the Met's Real Player. Simply log on to www.metopera.org & let "Watch & Listen" direct you to the proper link. This may be regarded as an audio preview of the Met's HD-transmission of this opera later this month.  http://www.metoperafamily.org/stream.aspx

On Saturday afternoon (Feb. 5) most stations will be carrying the Met's LIVE performance of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" which many of you may have seen in area movie theatres last year. However, it's Dimitri Hvorostovsky who will be singing the title role (not Domingo) this time around.

Alternatively, one might prefer to listen to the less familiar "From the House of the Dead" of Leos Janacek, in a broadcast of tomorrow night's performance in Amsterdam.

(www.radio4.nl/)

Plus, Swedish Radio has a LIVE performance from Goteborg of Handel's "Alcina."

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

Or -- in case you missed it last summer - Rossini's rarely performed "Sigismondo" is being given a second broadcast on ORF. The performance stems from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro this past summer & is scheduled to be released on DVD.

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

Then on Monday, Feb. 7, if you still haven't had your fill of opera this weekend -- & if you're really craving for yet another "La Boheme" -- Puccini's opera is being streamed LIVE on the Met's Real Player. http://www.metoperafamily.org/stream.aspx

Happy Listening!

DAVE

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No opera from WGBH on TV this week; this is as close as we get to classical music...

The New Play Piano in a Flash: 3 Steps to Piano Success

Piano-playing advice for beginners from Scott Houston ("Piano Guy")

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-New-Play-Piano-in-a-Flash-3-Steps-to-Piano-Success-1326/episodes/-23183

Schedule

Sunday 2/6/11 1:30 AM WGBH 2/HD	Monday 2/14/11 2:00 AM WGBH 2/HD

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Do you think you might want to 

make the trek to Boston?

BLO (Boston Lyric Opera)

February 2, 4, 5, 6, 2011

At The Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, 

 527 Tremont Street, Boston

Victor Ullmann's

THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS or Death Quits

http://blo.org/2010-2011_annex.html

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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