Week of June 16-June 25, 2011

This week's Met-HD Opera Simulcast encore, at a theater near you:

Wednesday, June 22, 2011--- 6:30 PM

Great Performances at the Met

Donizetti's

DON PASQUALE

ANNA NETREBKO as "Norina"

Donizetti's comic "Don Pasquale," starring soprano Anna Netrebko as Norina, a penniless young woman who tricks the wealthy Don (John Del Carlo) into thinking he's married her.

Synopsis:  http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=121

ANNA NETREBKO and MATTHEW POLENZANI as "Ernesto"

Anna Netrebko & Mariusz Kwiecien  as her brother, Dr. Malatesta

To see the duet of Anna Netrebko & Mariusz Kwiecien  as her brother, Dr. Malatesta, including her famous somersault,  click on "Week of ...." above.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

THIS WEEK ON WSBE, Rhode Island Public Television 

 

Great Performances at the Met

Iphigénie en Tauride

Susan Graham

Placido Domingo

See the trailer-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knTixo69wNU&feature=related

A production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Iphigénie en Tauride," based on a Greek myth in which a high priestess (Susan Graham) is reunited with her brother (Placido Domingo) after a lengthy separation.

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=206

Saturday, June 18 --8pm; Sunday, June 19-- 3:00am; Monday, June 20 -- 12am

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

Duration: 120 min.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Broadcasts are not free! 

Please donate to WSBE.

WSBE -- Rhode Island Public Television

https://ecom.ripbs.org/ic/fundraise/pledge_form

or call 401-222-3636

WSBE makes you a tantalizing offer: 

If you donate $500, your name will be added to the list of credits when your favorite opera is broadcast, and you will receive a DVD of the performance.  

https://ecom.ripbs.org/ic/fundraise/pledge_form

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

THE  MET SIMULCAST SUMMER

ENCORE SCHEDULE :

THIS WEEK:

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE D'AGUANNO

Opera on internet radio for this coming Saturday (June 18) offers a wide-ranging selection of operas, with warhorses like "Carmen" & "Don Giovanni" noticeably absent (for a change, I guess.)

Of interest to fanciers of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, there's a broadcast from last December of "The Mikado" as performed at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. If you tune in, you might want to take note of the fact that Stephanie Blythe can be heard in the role of Katisha -- a far cry from her role of Fricka in the Met's recent "Die Walkure" perhaps, but a tribute to her versatility!

(www.wrti.org/)

The CBC has a new opera by English-born composer Bramwell Tovey -- "The Inventor" -- as performed this past January by the Calgary Opera Company, surely one of Canada's most enterprising opera companies.

(www.cbc.ca/radio/)

Another modern work can be heard on Radio 4: It's Rihm's opera "Dionysos" which premiered last summer in Salzburg, but the broadcast on tap for this Saturday stems from a recent performance from this month's Holland Festival.

(www.radio4.nl/)

On more familiar territory, you can catch a recent performance of Verdi's "Macbeth" on BBC 3, with the same cast that performed this work in a LIVE transmission on Monday, which was shown at the Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport. Baritone Simon Keenlyside takes the title role in this Royal Opera House production.

(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

Another LIVE broadcast comes to us from Paris, as Wagner's monumental "Die Gotterdammerung" can be heard on French Radio.

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

Last but not least, Janacek's tragic and dramatic "Katya Kabanova" can be heard on ORF in a recent performance from the Vienna State Opera.

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

A lot of interesting choices, in my opinion! So -- ENJOY!

DAVE

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Classical music radio returns to Rhode Island in August...

WGBH Restores Full-Time Classical Radio to Rhode Island
Partnership with Bryant University extends service on 88.7FM, offers students new tech platforms

---

Radio listeners in the Ocean State will once again have access to a full-time classical music station as the result of a partnership between Boston public broadcaster WGBH and Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I.

Beginning in August, the University’s station, WJMF 88.7FM, will re-transmit the signal from WGBH’s 99.5 All Classical service, returning round-the-clock classical broadcasts to the Providence area.

Bryant’s student-run station will continue uninterrupted on a variety of new technology platforms, including via WJMF HD-2, smartphone applications, and the use of one of WGBH’s mobile DTV channels. Bryant’s WJMF will be the first student-run station in the region to be available on the groundbreaking new mobile service.

“This is a major step in WGBH’s commitment to restore a full-time classical service to audiences in our region,” said WGBH Chief Operating Officer Ben Godley. “We’re delighted to be working with Bryant University and its students as they move from over-the-air broadcast to new and emerging digital audio services for their listeners.”

The reciprocal arrangement will give Bryant students the opportunity to learn from WGBH digital and broadcast technology experts during the summer in preparation for an August transition. WGBH has been a pioneer in expanding classical music onto new platforms, with live streaming, dedicated online streams, an all-classical HD channel, podcasts and mobile applications.

“Bryant has just taken a strategic step in a new direction with a terrific partner,” said Bryant University President Ronald K. Machtley, “I am thrilled that this collaboration returns classical music broadcasts to Rhode Island while providing our students hands-on opportunities to master leading-edge technologies for delivery of WJMF music, sports programming, and talk shows not just in New England but throughout the country.”

The arrangement involves no capital commitment on behalf of WGBH, and Bryant University plans to maximize the 88.7 signal by increasing its power from 225 watts to 1200 watts by virtue of a recently awarded construction permit from the FCC.

“This is a wonderful arrangement for both institutions,” said Marita Rivero, WGBH Vice President for Radio and TV. “It’s a great fit with public media’s educational mission to be working with Bryant University as we begin to realize the possibilities we imagined for 99.5All Classical (WCRB) when we acquired it in late 2009.”

Adds Benjamin Roe, WGBH’s new Managing Director for Classical Services, “Rhode Island classical-music audiences were among the most loyal to both WCRB and WGBH. But when WCRB’s dial position shifted from 102.5 to 99.5, Providence became one of the largest markets in the country to be without a full-time classical station. We are absolutely delighted to be returning to an area with so much vibrant cultural activity, and look forward to sharing it with the rest of the region.”

In the coming months WGBH will be evaluating call letter options as it considers the new reach of the classical service throughout New England.

http://www.wgbh.org/articles/WGBH-Restores-Full-Time-Classical-Radio-to-Rhode-Island-3179

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Met radio broadcast season is over until November 13.

Listen to the Met Opera Saturday afternoon broadcasts at 1pm, starting November 13, on Harvard Radio, 95.3 in the Boston area or live-streaming online at http://www.whrb.org
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

No opera from WGBH on TV this week!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~