Week of June 30-July 7, 2011

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

This week on WSBE, Rhode Island Public Television:

 

TOSCA

Karita Matila as Tosca

Karita Matila with Marcelo Alvarez as Cavaradossi

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

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

Saturday, July 2 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, July 3 ---3:00am; Monday, July 4-- 12:00am

Duration: 150 min
 

Synopsis: 

http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/production.aspx?id=11083

Season 4 opens with Luc Bondy's staging of Puccini's "Tosca," starring soprano Karita Mattila as the title character, whose lover (Marcelo Álvarez) is arrested by a police chief (George Gagnidze) and threatened with death unless she gives herself to him.

Tosca - Karita Mattila

Cavaradossi - Marcelo Álvarez

Scarpia - George Gagnidze

Sacristan - Paul Plishka

Spoletta - Joel Sorensen

Angelotti - David Pittsinger

Sciarrone - James Courtney

Shepherd - Jonathan Makepeace

Jailer - Keith Miller

Karita Matila  with George Gagnidze, as the evil Scarpia

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WGBH 2: Sunday, June 3 ~ 1pm

Natalie Dessay as

Lucia di Lammermoor

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=55

Duration: 120 minutes

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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 :

NEXT WEEK:

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

This Saturday, July 2, offers another interesting selection of operatic treats for our listening pleasure.

For example, NPR brings us a performance from last February of Wagner's "Lohengrin" (Lyric Opera of Chicago) featuring Johan Botha in the title role. This South African tenor was seen not so long ago singing the role of Radames when the Met transmitted a performance of Verdi's "Aida" at area movie theatres.

(www.wrti.org/)

Perhaps even more popular than "Lohengrin" is the opera that is currently being performed at London's Royal Opera House and which can be heard this Saturday on BBC 3: Puccini's "Madame Butterfly."

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

Canadian Radio, on the other hand, will be broadcasting an opera of more recent vintage: "Nixon in China" by John Adams, as it was performed last February in Toronto by the Canadian Opera Company, and it offers a different cast from the one some of you may have seen in this season's live Met HD-transmission earlier this year.

(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

Another "modern" classic -- Britten's "Peter Grimes" -- can be heard on Belgium's Klara radio station. The performance itself, from last summer, is by the Flemish Opera Company.

(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

Very loosely based on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," there's Weber's "Oberon" coming to us on French Radio in a performance from Toulouse, originally heard on 4/22/11.

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

On an even lighter note, why not try Smetana's most popular opera -- "The Bartered Bride?" ORF will be broadcasting it on Saturday in a performance that originated in Graz.

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

Enjoy the music -- and have a great Fourth of July !!!

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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