Week of March 3- March 10, 2011

This week on WSBE:

PETER GRIMES

Anthony Dean Griffey stars in the title role of Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes

For an interview with Griffey:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QE55fyKlKE
For a preview:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EH9mytvqsY

Saturday, March 5 -- 7:30pm, Sunday, March 6 -- 3:00am; Monday, March 7--12am

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

Anthony Dean Griffey stars in the title role of Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes," about an English fisherman blamed for the deaths of two assistants. Ellen Orford: Patricia Racette. Capt. Balstrode: Anthony Michaels-Moore. Mrs. Sedley: Felicity Palmer.

DURATION:   3 hours.

Synopsis:  http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=215

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Next week at the Jane Pickens Theater, Newport
 Sunday, March 13, 2010, 1:00pm

RIGOLETTO

starring Placido Domingo 
 

Placido Domingo as Rigoletto

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=134

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In two weeks, the next MET-HD SIMULCAST:

Saturday, March 19, 2011, 1pm

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR

Joseph  Calleja & Natalie Dessay

Preview:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYQrXw5YUEs&feature=related

 Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=134
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET WITH 

DAVE D'AGUANNO 

This Saturday's opera schedule on internet radio is devoted almost entirely to the Met's 1 o'clock LIVE broadcast of Rossini's "Armida." Featured in the cast are, for the most part, the singers who appeared last May in the HD-transmission, with Renee Fleming in the title role and Lawrence Brownlee as Rinaldo.

Other broadcasts of interest include a performance from last month of Mozart's "Cosi fan Tutte" (Vienna State Opera) on German Radio.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Also of note is a performance from last August of Oskar Nedbal's light opera from 1916: "Die Winzerbraut" (translated as "The Vineyard Bride") to be heard on ORF.

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

French Radio digs into its archives for a 1983 performance featuring the one-and-only Jessye Norman in the role of Aricie in Rameau's "Hippolyte & Aricie" (1733).

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

Enjoy!

DAVE

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You can listen to the Met Opera Saturday afternoon broadcasts at 1pm on Harvard Radio, 95.3 in the Boston area or live-streaming online at http://www.whrb.org/

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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

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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