Week of April 27-May 5, 2011

This week's Met-HD Simulcast:

Sondra Radvanovsky and Marcelo Álvarez

Il Trovatore

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered in the 2008–09 season. This revival stars four extraordinary singers—Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.

Marco Armiliato; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

Expected Running time: 2 hours, 45 minutes 

Intermission Schedule: 

1:00 pm performances: At approximately 2:10 pm

Synopsis of Il Trovatore: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=87

To hear the Radvanovsky and Hvorostovsky - Il trovatore duet, click on "Week of..." above.

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This  week  on WSBE, Rhode Island Public Television

Renée Fleming as Armida

 Rossini's

Armida 

WSBE (36.2) (RI Cox Cable 808) (RI Fios 478) (In Massachusetts, Comcast 294)

Saturday, April  30 -- 8:00pm; Sunday,  May 1 — 3:00 am; Monday, May 2  — 12:00 am

Duration: 180 minutes

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This week's Met radio broadcast:

Il Trovatore

You  can listen to the Met Opera Saturday afternoon broadcasts at 1pm on Harvard Radio, 95.3 in the Boston area or live-streaming online at http://www.whrb.org
 

Synopsis of Il Trovatore: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=87

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Giacomo Puccini's

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Puccini’s tragic love story stars soprano Svetla Vassileva as the geisha Cio-Cio-San opposite tenor Stefano Secco as Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton. The cast also features mezzo-soprano Daveda Karanas (Suzuki), baritone Quinn Kelsey (Sharpless), tenor Thomas Glenn (Goro) and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn (The Bonze). San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducts; Jose Maria Condemi, director. [Recorded Fall 2010]

To listen, go to 

http://www.kdfc.com/The-San-Francisco-Opera-on-KDFC/5805657   

and click on "Listen Live."

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET  

DAVE D'AGUANNO IS AWAY THIS WEEK

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 Do you think you might want 
to make the trek to Boston?

Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Friday, April 29, 2011, 8pm,

NEC’s Jordan Hall

Boston, MA

http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=229&pid=6829205

To see and hear Dawn Upshaw sing "Chansons de Bilitis" of Debussy, click on "Week of ..." above

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At the Cutler Majestic Theater

219 Tremont Street, Boston

OPERA BOSTON

MARIA PADILLA 

Described by Donizetti scholar William Ashbrook as "one of the most unfairly neglected of Donizetti's mature operas," Maria Padilla is a tour de force loosely based on the life of a woman who secretly married King Pedro the Cruel of Castile. In this new production, beloved soprano Barbara Quintiliani returns to a role she triumphed in at the 2009 Wexford Festival. In her Ireland debut: "the evening belonged, thrilling and unequivocally, to Barbara Quintiliani as Maria. . . She has a remarkable range of colors at her disposal, her coloratura is superbly executed. . . She also has one of the rarest qualities: an innate understanding of how to build this music to a thrilling climax, with superb high notes" (Opera News)

Sung in Italian with English titles

Cast

Barbara Quintiliani as Maria Padilla
Adriano Graziani as Don Ruiz
Laura Vlasak Nolen as Ines
DongWon Kim as Don Pedro
Young Bok Kim as Don Ramiro
Yeghishe Manucharyan as Don Luigi
Glorivy Arroyo as Francisca
John Salvi as Don Alfonso di Pardo

Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by Julia Pevzner

Performances

Friday,
May 6, at 7:30 pm

Sunday,
May 8, at 3:00 pm

Tuesday,
May 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA

April 29, May 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 2011 At the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre

BLO premiere and new BLO production Ah, the thrill of the chase. Over hill, over dale, girdling the Earth in 40 minutes—when the words are mostly Shakespeare, even the libretto sings. Britten gives us a stageful of sprites and mortals in a touching and very funny take: a dreamscape. Or is it a nightmare? Depends on how you feel about unrequited love, and donkeys.