The Met-HD SIMULCAST
Saturday, november 5
at *12:00 Noon
Richard Wagner:
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Part 3:
The Ring of the Nibelung
SIEGFRIED
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To hear Jay Hunter Morris, click on "Week of..." above. |
In part three of the Ring, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountain top love nest.
Jay Hunter Morris sings the title role and Deborah Voigt’s Brunnhilde is his prize. Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. Fabio Luisi conducts
SYNOPSIS:
*IMPORTANT NOTE: The start time is at noon rather than the usual 1pm. Approximate run time: 5 hours, 56 minutes.
(It's long; bring sandwiches!)
(It's long; bring sandwiches!)
Listen to comic-opera singer
Anna Russell's recap of The Ring of the Niebelungen:
"You know, I'm not making this up!"
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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 |
Saturday, November 5 -- 8:00pm, Sunday; November 6 -- 3:00am; Monday, November 7, 12am
Lucia di Lammermoor
A production of Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor," a tragic opera about a young woman (Anna Netrebko) whose brother (Mariusz Kwiecien) pressures her to marry a nobleman despite her love for another (Piotr Beczala).
SYNOPSIS: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=55.
SYNOPSIS: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=55.
DURATION: 150 MIN
OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D'AGUANNO
This coming Saturday (November 5), some of you may be attending the LIVE HD-transmission of Wagner's "Siegfried" that the Met is offering at certain local movie theatres, but opera lovers who might be staying at home have a few very interesting offerings to choose from on internet radio.
Fans of Alban Berg's 20th century masterpiece "Lulu" can catch a LIVE performance from the Paris Opera, to be broadcast on French Radio.
(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)
Another work which many might also consider a 20th century masterpiece is Georges Enescu's "Oedipe" (based on the famous Sophoclean tragedy), coming to us via the Belgian radio station KLARA in a performance that was recently given in Brussels. It's a long one, starting with the title character's infancy and covering the main and often grisly events of his life up until the end. (How much longer would a version by Wagner have been, had he wrote one?)
(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)
Moving forward into the turn of this century (circa 2000), there's a performance on NPR of the Houston Grand Opera's production of Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking." The performance was given earlier this year (January/February) and features Joyce Di Donato as Sister Helen Prejean. Some of you may remember Di Donato's brilliant performance of the page Isolier in last season's Met HD-transmission of Rossini's "Le Comte Ory."
(www.wrti.org/)
In a lighter vein, there's a bit of Gilbert & Sullivan in the air if you tune in to CBC Radio 2, which is broadcasting last season's performance of "The Mikado" from the Lyric Opera of Chicago, with Stephanie Blythe in the cast.
(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)
And -- just in case you missed it this past summer -- the August 10 performance from Pesaro of Rossini's seldom-heard "Adelaide di Borgogna" can be heard on ORF.
(http://oe1.orf.at/)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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KDFC Streaming broadcast, 11PM Sunday, November 6
Sunday, Nov. 6, at 8PM/11PM EST | Siegfried by Richard Wagner The third Ring opera is, at heart, a coming-of-age story in which a fearless young hero discovers his destiny. Wotan's hope for recovery of the ring now rests with his grandson Siegfried, who must reject his adoptive father, forge a magical sword and slay a fearsome dragon to prove himself worthy of its mighty power—and the extraordinary woman who awaits him. London's Financial Times called soprano Nina Stemme "a Brünnhilde of tremendous subtlety and intensity, building her musical lines with calm intelligence." "A veteran of the country's major opera houses," tenor Jay Hunter Morris sings the role of Siegfried "easily and fervently" (San Francisco Chronicle). Francesca Zambello's "eerily resonant" production (The New York Times), which evokes a natural world ravaged by greed and neglect, is "one of the best Siegfrieds I've ever experienced," raved the Washington Post. A "sensitive interpretation that, far from imposing an artificial concept on Wagner's work, delivered new insight into the characters." Sunday night at 8pm in San Francisco; 11pm on the East Coast. |
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV THIS WEEK
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