Week of June 9-June 16, 2011

Monday, June 13 at the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport

Macbeth

Simon Keenlyside as MacBeth

 

from the Royal Opera House London

Monday, June 13, 2:30pm

at

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 

"England was abuzz about more than the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William this month. In opera circles, the chatter was about barihunk Simon Keenlyside's long-awaited U.K. debut as the title character in Verdi's "Macbeth." Apparently, the always intense and vocally gifted singer didn't disappoint." To read Barihunks' full review, go to

http://barihunks.blogspot.com/2011/05/keenlysides-stunning-uk-debut-as.html

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.

To hear Simon Keenlyside sing “Pietà, rispetto, amore” from  Macbeth, click on “Week of …” above.

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This week's Met Simulcast Encore:
Wednesday, June 15th, 6:30pm at a theater near you. 

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

PATRICIA RACETTE

Puccini's classic "Madama Butterfly," about a Japanese geisha (Patricia Racette) who marries an American naval officer (Marcello Giordani).

Synopsis:

http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=8

Duration: 5 hours

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This week on WSBE, Rhode Island Public Television:

 

The original spaghetti western!

LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST

Deborah Voight as Minnie is La Fanciulla, The Girl of the Golden West

Synopsis: 

http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=393

Marcelo Giordani as Dick Johnson (alias Ramerrez) with Voigt

Saturday, June 11 -- 8:00pm, Sunday, June 12, 3 am; Monday, June 13, 12 am

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

To see interview with Deborah Voigt and Marcello Giordani on the Met Opera Puccini's La Fanciulla Del West, click on 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&feature=related&hl=iw&v=DUUkdGvNdNE

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

THIS SUMMER'S MET SIMULCAST 

ENCORE SCHEDULE IS OUT!

THIS WEEK: 
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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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE D'AGUANNO

Once again, opera on internet radio for this coming Saturday (June 11) offers an interesting variety of works to choose from, depending on one's taste or listening schedule.

Fans of Richard Wagner's operas can take in a performance from Berlin (6/3/11) of his universally acclaimed comic masterpiece "Die Meistersinger" to be heard on German Radio.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Fans of Giuseppe Verdi's operas, on the other hand, may choose to listen to "Un Ballo in Maschera" in a Lyric Opera of Chicago performance from last November, featuring Sondra Radvanovsky in the leading soprano role of Amelia.

(www.wrti.org/)

Nothing for fans of Mozart, Puccini, and/or Donizetti, however -- but they might want to tune in to Bellini's "I Puritani" instead! This performance from Geneva, which took place this past January, can be heard on ORF.

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

Fans of Benjamin Britten's operas, though, get to hear his final operatic work -- "Death in Venice" -- on CBC Radio, as it was performed in Toronto last October.

(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

A little bit off the beaten track, BBC Radio 3 delivers a performance from this past April of Rimsky-Korsakov's tragic opera "The Tsar's Bride" as performed at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Soprano Marina Poplavskaya (recently seen as Elizabeth in the Met's "Don Carlo") sings the title role.

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

Even farther off the beaten track, there's Finnish composer Leevi Madetoja's "The Ostrobothnians" courtesy of Finnish National Opera in Helsinki. You might want to tune in to this one this weekend, as the chances of this opera being broadcast ever again in either the near or distant future are "slim-to-none" (but don't bet on it!).

(www.radio4.nl/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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Classical music radio returns to Rhode Island in August...Watch this space for details!
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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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No opera from WGBH on TV this week!

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