Week of June 2 -June 9, 2011

This week on WSBE, Rhode Island Public Television:

DON CARLO

Marina Poplavskaya

Roberto Alagna

Poplavskaya as Elisabetta  and Alagna as Don Carlo

Great Performances at the Met Saturday, June 4 -- 8:00pm*, Sunday, June 5 -- 2am; Monday, June 6 -- 12am   *This is the confirmed time.

WSBE (36.2) (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) 

(In Massachusetts, Comcast 294)

Don Carlo

Verdi's "Don Carlo," about a Spanish prince (Roberto Alagna) who falls for the French princess (Marina Poplavskaya) he's supposed to marry as part of a Spanish-French peace treaty, only to have his father (Ferruccio Furlanetto) decide to wed her himself.

SYNOPSIS: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=4

DURATION: 240 MIN
To hear Roberto Alagna sing the Lacrymosa, click on "Week of..." above.

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                                               Diana McVey, left, as Fiordiligi and Julianna Tauschinger-Dempsey as                                       Despina discuss romantic opportunities in a modern staging of Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” at RICPA.

64 Degrees Photography / Lisa Bruno

OPERA PROVIDENCE PRESENTS

 Mozart's Cosi` fan tutte

• June 03, 2011 - June 05, 2011
• Location: Rhode Island Center for the Performing Arts
• Address: 848 Park Avenue, Cranston, RI
• Times: 8PM
• Admission: Tickets on sale for $35, $50, and $65 with discounts for seniors. Call (401) 467-7275
• Phone: 1-401-331-6060
• Visit Website
• View Channing Gray's review in                                                                                   http://www.projo.com/music/content/go_cosi_fan_tutte_06-02-11_OLO98CR_v11.167e8cc.html

Opera Providence presents its major production of the 2011 season, Mozart's "Cosi` fan tutte," on Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4, at 8:00pm and Sunday, June 5, at 3:00pm, at the Rhode Island Center for Performing Arts, 848 Park Avenue, Cranston, Rhode Island. The Cast will include Diana McVey, Meredith Ziegler, Julianna Tauschinger Dempsey, Michael-Paul Krubitzer, Ken Mattice, and Paul Soper.

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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
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Donizetti’s Don Pasquale 
Wednesday, June 22, 2011--- 6:30 PM
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Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 -- 6:30 PM
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Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment –
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 -- 6:30 PM
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Puccini’s Tosca
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 -- 6:30 PM 
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Verdi’s Don Carlo 
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 -- 6:30 PM 

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Hurray! There's an opera on WGBH on TV this week!

                     

American Masters: Maestro James Levine — 40 Years at the Met

Wednesday, June 1, 8pm, WGBH 2
In celebration of conductor James Levine’s 40th anniversary at the Metropolitan Opera, this film provides a revealing portrait of one of classical music’s giants.
Rebroadcasts:  'GBH Kids: June 2 -- 7pm & 10pm
Friday, June 3, WGBH 44 --5am

                                 

Great Performances at the Met: Nixon in China

Thursday, June 2, 9pm, WGBH 2
The Met’s production of Nixon in China is based on significant moments during President Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, and features Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Mao Tse-tung among the lead characters.

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE D'AGUANNO

This Saturday (June 4), the ever-popular "Carmen" by Georges Bizet can be heard on NPR in a performance from this past March by the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Other performances from this opera company's 2010/2011 season will, no doubt, be featured in upcoming weeks.

(www.wrti.org/)

Another tried-and-true opera -- Puccini's "La Boheme" -- gets an outing on the Dutch radio station Radio 4, in a recent performance by that country's Reisopera.

(www.radio4.nl/)

If yet another "Carmen" or another "Boheme" doesn't stir one's interest, how about another "Aida" ??  This one can be heard on Canada's CBC Radio in a performance from Toronto (October 2010) with Sondra Radvanovsky in the lead.

(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

Those interested in sampling tenor Rolando Villazon's latest comeback may want to tune in to BBC Radio 3, as a recent (May 2011) performance from London's Royal Opera House will be broadcast. The opera: Massenet's "Werther" with Villazon singing the title role. (Reviews in the British press have been generally favorable.)

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

Going further back in opera history, there's Lully's "Atys" which can be heard on French Radio, as performed in Paris on 5/18/11.

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

Then -- for all you trivia buffs: Name an opera that actually started a war!

Answer: Auber's "La Muette de Portici" which, in an 1830 performance, led to riots which, in turn, led to the war for Belgium's independence.

Well! -- Here's your chance to actually hear this opera, as it will be broadcast on German Radio in a performance from Dessau that took place on 5/25/11. As far as I know, no riots broke out during that performance, and no new wars were started. BUT: At the end of the opera, Mount Vesuvius does erupt!!! (It's in the script, folks!)

Sounds like an exciting one!

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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 Plan ahead: Coming to the

Jane Pickens Theater in Newport:

Macbeth from Royal Opera House London

Monday, June 13, 2:30pm (One Show Only)

To buy tickets, go to the JP website 

http://www.janepickens.com/films-events/macbeth-royal-opera-house-london

and then click on the BUY TICKETS box.

You will be redirected to PayPal.com to complete your ticket order.

Film Overview

Verdi’s most evocative music brings Shakespeare’s drama to life on the stage of the Royal Opera House. Macbeth stars British baritone Simon Keenlyside as the titular tormented ruler of Scotland. Don’t miss this thrilling tale of power and corruption, broadcast LIVE from London.

About Macbeth
Verdi’s lifelong love affair with Shakespeare first took wing with Macbeth in 1847. The composer thought the play ‘one of the greatest creations of man’ and, along with his librettist Piave, set out to make of it, ‘something out of the ordinary’ on the operatic stage. Musically, Verdi’s masterstrokes were the macabre choruses for the witches, the evocative orchestral colours and the increased role for the ‘ugly and evil’ Lady Macbeth. Although Verdi later revised the opera in 1865 for Paris, his earlier, more unified version of the opera is used here for this revival of Phyllida Lloyd’s striking staging. Simon Keenlyside and Martina Serafin play the Scottish nobleman and his villainously ambitious wife, who spurs her husband to murder for the sake of his career, and American bass-baritone Raymond Aceto takes the role of Banquo, murder victim and symbol of conscience.

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Read "Sing for your life," about the

Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, 

in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/magazine/an-american-idol-just-for-opera.html?_r=3&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha210

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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
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