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This week at the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport:
This week on Rhode Island Public television, WSBE:
This week at the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport:
| Faust: Live from Royal Opera House London Wednesday, September 28th 2:00pm |
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| To hear Angela Gheorghiu sing a snippet, go to "Week of..." above. |
"This is opera at its grandest and best." - Paul Levy, The Wall Street Journal Europe
Live from the Royal Opera House London: In HD on the big screen as it is being performed in London.
Gounod's Faust was the most successful opera of its time, reaching Covent Garden in 1863, four years after its Parisian premiere, and quickly becoming a favorite of Victorian audiences. In 2004 Faust returned to The Royal Opera's repertory with a flourish: David McVicar's brilliantly theatrical production, played out in the Paris of the Second Empire, has given its familiar melodies, grand ensembles and epic central struggle between good and evil a new lease of life. Angela Gheorghiu is singing the role of Marguerite; Faust is tenor Vittorio Grigolo, and bass Rene Pape is singing Mephistopheles. |
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This week on Rhode Island Public television, WSBE:
IL TROVATORE
Great Performances at the Met
WSBE Learn 36.2 = (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478)A production of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," in which brothers (Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky) compete for the affections of the same woman (Sondra Radvanovsky). Dolora Zajick costars as Azucena, the gypsy with a dark secret.
Duration: 150 min
Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=87
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On WGBH
My Favorite Roles
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PLACIDO DOMINGO |
Placido Domingo reminisces about his favorite roles in this retrospective. The documentary, which also features his reflections on his childhood, includes his turn as Don Jose in "Carmen" at the Vienna Staatsoper.
| Saturday 9/24/11 2:00 AM WGBH 44 | Sunday 9/25/11 7:30 PM WGBH 2/HD | Monday 9/26/11 3:00 AM WGBH 44 |
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At the AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER in CAMBRIDGE
through October 2, 2011
Box Office: 617.547.8300 |
64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Opera fans who may be looking forward to the Met's LIVE HD-transmission of Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" on October 15 (starring soprano Anna Netrebko) will get a chance next Monday (September 26) at 6:30 p.m. to listen to the free LIVE audio-stream on the Met's website (www.metopera.org). Tune in at the time of the actual performance, and sit back and enjoy what will potentially be an exciting performance.
In the meantime, those of you who may be planning on heading on down to the Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport next Wednesday (Sept. 28) to watch the LIVE performance from London of Gounod's "Faust" can get a good idea of what it will sound like, as BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting this opera with the same cast, on Saturday afternoon.
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)
The Dutch station Radio 4 has a veritable blockbuster scheduled for this Saturday, as the Netherlands Opera (Amsterdam) will be performing BOTH operas of Gluck, that were based on the Greek character Iphigenie: "Iphigenie en Aulide" and (the opera he wrote 5 years later) "Iphigenie en Tauride" in a double-bill. It promises to be a LONG afternoon of opera, but that never seems to bother Wagner fans, right?
(www.radio4.nl/)
For more LIVE opera this Saturday, there's the ever-popular "Carmen" (by Bizet) which is being performed in Stockholm, and which is being aired on Swedish Radio.
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)
Then there's a bit of Richard Strauss on tap -- "Ariadne auf Naxos" -- courtesy of the Canadian Opera Company in a performance from last May.
(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)
And in a performance from last June, NPR will be broadcasting the San Francisco Opera's recently staged "Das Rheingold" by Richard Wagner -- the first part of their Ring cycle which earned much praise by the critics.
(www.wrti.org/)
Enjoy!
DAVE
through October 2, 2011
https://tickets.americanrepertorytheater.org/online/default.asp?BOset::WSseatSearch::Query::Clause::10::value=porgy
Box Office: 617.547.8300 |
64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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In the meantime, those of you who may be planning on heading on down to the Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport next Wednesday (Sept. 28) to watch the LIVE performance from London of Gounod's "Faust" can get a good idea of what it will sound like, as BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting this opera with the same cast, on Saturday afternoon.
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)
The Dutch station Radio 4 has a veritable blockbuster scheduled for this Saturday, as the Netherlands Opera (Amsterdam) will be performing BOTH operas of Gluck, that were based on the Greek character Iphigenie: "Iphigenie en Aulide" and (the opera he wrote 5 years later) "Iphigenie en Tauride" in a double-bill. It promises to be a LONG afternoon of opera, but that never seems to bother Wagner fans, right?
(www.radio4.nl/)
For more LIVE opera this Saturday, there's the ever-popular "Carmen" (by Bizet) which is being performed in Stockholm, and which is being aired on Swedish Radio.
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)
Then there's a bit of Richard Strauss on tap -- "Ariadne auf Naxos" -- courtesy of the Canadian Opera Company in a performance from last May.
(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)
And in a performance from last June, NPR will be broadcasting the San Francisco Opera's recently staged "Das Rheingold" by Richard Wagner -- the first part of their Ring cycle which earned much praise by the critics.
(www.wrti.org/)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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Met radio broadcast season is over until December 3.
Listen to the Met Opera Saturday afternoon broadcasts at 1pm, starting December 3, on Harvard Radio, 95.3 in the Boston area or live-streaming online at http://www.whrb.org
Good news!
Classical music radio
shake-up in
Rhode Island--
WGBH and WCRI
extend service!
WGBH will restore full-time Classical Radio to Rhode Island in partnership with Bryant University and will extend its service on 88.7FM.
88.7FM offers the NPR World of Opera every Sunday evening at 6:30 PM.
ALSO
Classical 95.9 Rhode Island WCRI, (a commercial station) previously heard only in Southern Rhode Island, will extend its service to 1180AM, on October 1.
WCRI features the American Opera Series, presented by Pier Liquors: From May through November, hear great opera performances with the American Opera Series. These weekly Saturday operas are rebroadcasts of some of the nations best. The American Opera Series includes: the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, and the Houston Grand Opera.
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