This week at the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport:
Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 12:00pm
Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 12:00pm
from Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Italy
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| ZUBIN MEHTA conducts |
Giuseppe Verdi's
AIDA
Conducted by Zubin Mehta
Directed by Ferzan Ozpetek
Choreographed by Francesco Ventriglia
Starring Luciana D’Intino, Hui He, Marco Berti
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
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| Amneris, mezzo-soprano: Luciana D’Intino |
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| Aida, soprano: Hui He |
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| Radames, tenor: Marco Berti |
Synopsis:
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This week's Met-HD Summer Encore is
TOSCA
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| Karita Matila as Tosca |
For a preview, click on "Week of... " above.
This week's featured Met HD Summer encore is 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
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| Karita Matila with George Gagnidze, as the evil Scarpia |
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 6:30 pm, at a theater near you.
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| Karita Matila with Marcelo Alvarez as Cavaradossi |
Synopsis:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/production.aspx?id=11083Duration: 150 min
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This week on WSBE, Rhode Island Public Television: TURANDOT
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| Maria Guleghina |
Maria Guleghina asTurandot
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| Marcello Giordani as Calàf |
Synopsis:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=359
WSBE 36.2 is (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 294)
Saturday, July 16-- 8:00pm; Sunday, July 17 -- 3:00am; Monday, July 18 -- 12:00am
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This week on WGBH,
RIGOLETTO
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| Placido Domingo as Rigoletto |
Great Performances: Rigoletto from MantuaPlácido Domingo gives voice and soul to Rigoletto, a court jester whose public ridicule of a nobleman brings with it a high price. Recorded in high definition in the Renaissance splendor of Mantua, Italy, the production transports you to the actual places and hours of the day specified in the libretto.
Sunday, July 17, 3pm, WGBH 2, more airings
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D'AGUANNO
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Once again, Canada pays tribute to one of its most gifted singers -- tenor Jon Vickers -- by showcasing another one of his outstanding performances this Saturday (July 16), just as they did last week. This time, on CBC Radio 2, you can hear the 1972 recording of Wagner's "Tristan & Isolde" with Vickers as Tristan, a role that he sang to great acclaim both in North America and abroad.
(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)
Bringing us back into the present, BBC 3 will be broadcasting a LIVE performance (a London Proms concert, in fact) of Rossini's "William Tell" with Michele Pertusi in the title role. Pertusi, as some of you may recall, recently sang the part of the Tutor in the Met's HD-transmission of this same composer's "Le Comte Ory."
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)
Another Rossini gem ("The Barber of Seville") can be heard on German Radio in a performance from Wiesbaden that took place on April 16 of this year.
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
Then, for the second week in a row, you can tune in to Daniel Catan's last completed opera -- "Il Postino" -- in its world premiere performance from last September, as done by the Los Angeles Opera, and with Placido Domingo creating one of the lead roles.
(www.wrti.org/)
In the meantime, for those of you who may be looking for an opera nobody's ever heard before (except, perhaps, a few of us fanatics): Check out "Le Paradis Perdu" ("Paradise Lost"), written in 1878 by Theodore Dubois. It's scheduled to be heard on French Radio, sometime tomorrow afternoon (July 14), in a LIVE performance from this summer Montpellier Festival. (Coming up later this month: Catel's 1802 opera "Semiramis" -- Where do they find them?)
(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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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.
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.
THE MET SIMULCAST SUMMER
ENCORE SCHEDULE :
(Only two left!)
(Only two left!)
Puccini’s Tosca
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 -- 6:30 PM
Verdi’s Don Carlo
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 -- 6:30 PM
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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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