Week of May 5-May 12, 2011

Angela Gheorghiu is Mimi

To hear Ms. Gheorghiu sing Mimi's most famous aria, Si mi chiamano Mimi, click on "Week of..." above

Ramon Vargas is Rodolfo

  in 

LA BOHÈME

WSBE (36.2) (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 294)

Saturday, May 7 -- 8:00pm; Sunday,  May 8 — 3:00 am; Monday, May 9  — 12:00 am

A production of Puccini's "La Bohème," about a doomed love affair between poet Rodolfo (Ramón Vargas) and seamstress Mimi (Angela Gheorghiu ) in 1830s Paris. Marcello: Ludovic Tézier. Musetta: Ainhoa Arteta. Schaunard: Quinn Kelsey.

Duration: 150 min.

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SUMMERTIME...and the living is easy....

THIS SUMMER'S MET SIMULCAST 

ENCORE SCHEDULE IS OUT!

 

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly – Wednesday, June 15, 2011
6:30 PM

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale – Wednesday, June 22, 2011
6:30 PM

Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra – Wednesday, June 29, 2011
6:30 PM

Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment – Wednesday, July 13, 2011
6:30 PM

Puccini’s Tosca – Wednesday, July 20, 2011
6:30 PM

Verdi’s Don Carlo – Wednesday, July 27, 2011
6:30 PM 

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE D'AGUANNO

You can kick-start your internet radio opera-listening pleasure tonight (Wednesday, May 4) with a LIVE & free audio stream from the Met of a performance of Gluck's masterpiece "Orfeo ed Eurydice" starting at 8 p.m.

Then on next Tuesday (May 10), the Met will be offering another LIVE, free audio stream, this time of "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Richard Strauss, which incidentally happens to be the featured opera this Saturday on most internet radio stations. With Violeta Urmana in the lead; with virtually the same cast in both performances, you could listen to either the one on Saturday or the one on Tuesday. Why not both? (Are there any rabid "Ariadne auf Naxos" fans in the audience???)

Aside from the afore-mentioned Met broadcasts, also coming up this Saturday is a rare outing of Vivaldi's 1727 opera "Orlando Furioso" in a performance from Paris, which can be heard on French Radio. (http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)

On more familiar territory, the Netherlands Opera will be broadcasting a performance from Amsterdam of their current production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni." (www.radio4.nl/)

 Or -- if you prefer something from the last half of the twentieth century -- there's a Vienna performance of this Friday's "Vanessa" by Samuel Barber. which can be heard on ORF. (http://oe1.orf.at/)

 Or -- if you want to sample some 21st century opera -- there's the world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's "Matsukaze" from Brussels. Any takers on that one?  (http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php) 

Enjoy! 

DAVE

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This week's Met radio broadcast :

Ariadne Auf Naxos

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
 

Synopsis of

Ariadne Auf Naxos

http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=34

Do you think you might want to make

the trek to Boston?

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At the Cutler Majestic Theater

219 Tremont Street, Boston

OPERA BOSTON

MARIA PADILLA 

Described by Donizetti scholar William Ashbrook as "one of the most unfairly neglected of Donizetti's mature operas," Maria Padilla is a tour de force loosely based on the life of a woman who secretly married King Pedro the Cruel of Castile. In this new production, beloved soprano Barbara Quintiliani returns to a role she triumphed in at the 2009 Wexford Festival. In her Ireland debut: "the evening belonged, thrilling and unequivocally, to Barbara Quintiliani as Maria. . . She has a remarkable range of colors at her disposal, her coloratura is superbly executed. . . She also has one of the rarest qualities: an innate understanding of how to build this music to a thrilling climax, with superb high notes" (Opera News)

Sung in Italian with English titles

Cast

Barbara Quintiliani as Maria Padilla
Adriano Graziani as Don Ruiz
Laura Vlasak Nolen as Ines
DongWon Kim as Don Pedro
Young Bok Kim as Don Ramiro
Yeghishe Manucharyan as Don Luigi
Glorivy Arroyo as Francisca
John Salvi as Don Alfonso di Pardo

Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by Julia Pevzner

Performances

Friday,
May 6, at 7:30 pm

Sunday,
May 8, at 3:00 pm

Tuesday,
May 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA

May  6, 8, 10, 2011 At the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre

BLO premiere and new BLO production Ah, the thrill of the chase. Over hill, over dale, girdling the Earth in 40 minutes—when the words are mostly Shakespeare, even the libretto sings. Britten gives us a stageful of sprites and mortals in a touching and very funny take: a dreamscape. Or is it a nightmare? Depends on how you feel about unrequited love, and donkeys.