Week of June 23-June 30, 2011

This week's Met-HD Summer Encore:

Verdi’s 

 

 Simon Boccanegra

Placido Domingo as Simon Boccanegra

Adrianne Pieczonka as Amelia

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=176

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

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 -- 6:30 PM at a theater near you.

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This week on WSBE, Rhode Island Public Television:

 

NIXON IN CHINA

Janis Kelly as Pat Nixon & James Maddalena as Richard Nixon

Saturday, June 25 --8pm; Sunday, June 26-- 3:00am; Monday, June 27 -- 12am

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

Nixon in China

Composer John Adams conducts the Met premiere of his acclaimed opera "Nixon in China," about the 37th U.S. president's historic 1972 visit to communist China. Baritone James Maddalena, who created the role of Nixon in the original 1987 production, stars.

DURATION: 180 MIN

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=397

 

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

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

Sunday, June 26 -- 2 PM on WGBH 2

Duration: 120 min.

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Telecasts are not free! 

Please donate to our favorite opera hosts: WSBE and WGBH.

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 telecast, and you will receive a DVD of the performance.

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

WGBH

http://www.wgbh.org/support/tvpledge.cfm

 

Introduce Your Kids To Classical Music
KIDS CLASSICAL CHANNEL   
http://www.wgbh.org/topics/Kids-Classical-Channel-319
LISTEN, PLAY, AND WATCH
99.5 All Classical launches a new online channel just for kids – and anyone interested in discovering the world of classical music through a child's eyes. 

 

http://www.wgbh.org/changeyourworld/theKid.cfm

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

THE  MET SIMULCAST SUMMER

ENCORE SCHEDULE :

THIS WEEK:

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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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE D'AGUANNO

Those of you who enjoyed hearing (and seeing) Deborah Voigt and Marcello Giordani in this past season's production from the Met of Puccini's "Fanciulla del West" might want to check out this Saturday afternoon's NPR broadcast of this same opera, starring the same two leading singers, as it was performed at Lyric Opera of Chicago, around the same time as the Met was putting it on.

(www.wrti.org/)

Otherwise, Italian-opera fans might want to sample a performance that recently took place in Ottawa of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" -- part of this summer's schedule of opera performances from Canada, heard on CBC.

(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

Or -- you could tune in to Handel's "Alcina" in a performance from Vienna, dating from this past November.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Wagner enthusiasts can feast their ears (so to speak) on a recent performance (June 10) from Lyons of his towering masterpiece "Tristan & Isolde."

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

Speaking of towering masterpieces: Beethoven's "Fidelio" gets an airing on BBC 3 in a performance originating from London's Royal Opera House (March 2011).

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

If you can't wait till Saturday for an "opera fix" you may want to start tomorrow (Thursday) with a LIVE performance from Amsterdam of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin."

(www.radio4.nl/)

As you can see, the current opera season is winding down, but there are still wonderful and exciting opera broadcasts to be heard on the internet, and this summer we can always look forward to performances of Wagner operas from Bayreuth, Rossini operas from Pesaro, and many other works that will be performed at the various festivals this summer.

In the meantime -- Enjoy!

DAVE

 

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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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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

WATCH THIS SPACE

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What we do for love-- 

San Francisco Opera: Standing for 17 Hours for the Ring Cycle

http://genevaanderson.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/standing-for-valhalla-the-passion-endurance-and-strategy-it-takes-to-stand-through-the-ring-at-sf-opera/