Week of May 19-May 26, 2011

This week on Rhode Island Public Television, WSBE

Deborah Voigt

Robert Dean Smith

 Great Performances at the Met

Tristan 

und 

Isolde

For a preview, click on   "Week of. . ."  above

WSBE (36.2) (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478)  (In Massachusetts, Comcast 294) PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME: Saturday, May 14 --7:30pm; Monday, May 16  — 12:00 am

A production of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," about the doomed love between a Celtic princess (Deborah Voigt) and a knight (Robert Dean Smith), who's the nephew of King Marke (Matti Salminen), to whom she's betrothed.

Duration: 270 min

Synopsis:  http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=86

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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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Elina Garanča and 

Karel Mark Chichon

Mezzo-soprano Elina Garanča and her husband, conductor, Karel Mark Chichon

are expecting their first child in October. That's good news for them but alas, not for the Met, where Garanča was due to perform in Anna Bolena with Anna Netrebko for opening night at the Met on October 15. Congratulations to the happy couple! 
And best of luck to the Met Opera's manager, Peter Gelb who now has to find a comparable mezzo who is available on short notice...

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The Met radio broadcast season is over.

The Met Radio broadcasts resume November 19. 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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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE D'AGUANNO 

Now that the Met's 2010/2011 opera season has drawn to a close, internet radio stations are beginning to offer their usual diversity of opera performances. For example, this coming Saturday (May 21), BBC Radio 3 has a performance on their agenda of Wagner's "Parsifal" as heard this past February at London's Coliseum (English National Opera).
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

From German Radio, there's a performance (originating from last month) from Berlin of Berg's "Wozzeck.
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Two "rare" Verdi operas are also on tap:
"Stiffelio" can be heard in a LIVE performance from Stockholm.
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

"I Due Foscari" comes to us (also LIVE) from Paris, on French Radio.
(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)

There's also a world premiere in the offing this Saturday, as the CBC airs John Estacio's latest opera - "Lillian Alling" -- in a performance from last October, where the work was performed by the Vancouver Opera. Opera fans who usually shy away from contemporary works have nothing to "fear" from tuning in to this listener-friendly opera, if this Canadian composer's previous 2 operas ("Filumena" & "Frobisher") are anything to go by.
(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

Perhaps of even greater interest is an oldie-but-goodie: a Met performance from April 7, 1962, of Puccini's "Tosca" with Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli at what many people consider to be the peak of their considerable powers. Surely an operatic event, if there ever was one (IMO) !!!
(www.wrti.org/)

Enjoy!


DAVE