Week of November 10-November 17, 2011

This week on WSBE, Rhode Island Public Television:

WSBE Learn 36.2= (RI Cox Cable 808) 

(RI Verizon Fios 478)

Great Performances at the Met

Roberto Alagna

Angela Gheorghiu

Giacomo Puccini
LA RONDINE

To hear Gheorghiu sing Chi Il bel sogno di Doretta, go to "Week of..." above.

Saturday, November 12 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, November 13 -- 3:00am;  Monday, November 14 -- 12:00am

La Rondine

Soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Roberto Alagna star in a production of Puccini's "La Rodine," about a kept woman who faces a difficult decision when she falls for the son of a respectable family.

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=264

DURATION: 120 MIN

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE D'AGUANNO

Next Monday (Nov. 14), if you'd like to hear Renee Fleming in a LIVE performance from the Met of an opera by Handel, why not check out the Met's free audio-stream at 7:30 and hear her sing the title role in "Rodelinda" which also happens to be scheduled for HD-transmission on Saturday afternoon, December 3?

(www.metopera.org)

Beforehand, however, there are some interesting items to be heard on internet radio this Saturday afternoon. Take, for instance, a repeat broadcast of Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia" in a Vienna State Opera performance that was given in October 2010.

(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

Wagner enthusiasts, after last weekend's "Siegfried," get a chance to hear one of his shorter, earlier works: "The Flying Dutchman." It's a recent performance on BBC Radio 3, from the Royal Opera House in London.

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

Then there's a real treat for those of you who sometimes seek out the less frequently performed operas of fairly well-known composers: It's Tchaikovsky's "The Enchantress" as performed in Ghent by the Flemish Opera Company. 

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

And -- last but not least -- a "blast from the past" in the form of a Met broadcast (dated February 4, 1961) of Verdi's "Il Trovatore." In the cast: Franco Corelli & Leontyne Price who had both made their Met debuts in these exact same roles only a few nights earlier (on January 27). Add the brilliant but under-rated Mario Sereni as Count Di Luna & mezzo-soprano Irene Dalis as Azucena, and you've got a cast that can hardly be bettered (IMHO).

(www.wrti.org/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

NO OPERA ON WGBH TV THIS WEEK!

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