| This week on WSBE, Rhode Island Public Television: |
Great Performances at the Met
TURANDOT
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on WSBE in HD: Verizon Fios 478 and Cox Cable, 808.
The
Puccini opera "Turandot," about a ruthless Chinese princess (Maria
Guleghina) who makes her suitors answer a riddle, with fatal consequences if they fail; and the unknown prince (Marcello Giordani) who falls for her.
Duration:
150 min
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MONTHLY BROADCAST FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ON KDFC STREAMING RADIO
Click on http://www.kdfc.com/pages/11695633.php ("Listen Now") This broadcast can be heard at 11pm on the East Coast.
LA TRAVIATA
Sunday, Jan. 1, at 8PM on the WEST Coast | by Guiseppe Verdi For our New Year's Day SF Opera broadcast (at 8pm) we've asked SF Opera General Director David Gockley to select a personal favorite. He has chosen the SFO production of La Traviata, set in the Jazz Age, from June of 2009 starring the stunning Russian soprano, Anna Netrebko as the tragic Violetta.and Charles Castronovo as Alfredo Germont. Some of Verdi's most memorable moments come from this heartbreaking story based on Dumas, fils' Lady of the Camelias about a beautiful courtesan who is faced with making the ultimate sacrifice for love. |
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D'AGUANNO
Many opera fans the world over will be tuning
in to either one of two radio broadcasts on New Year's Eve of possibly the most
popular operetta of all time: Johann Strauss's "Die Fledermaus" !
The Met is bringing out a performance of it
that was originally broadcast on January 20, 1951. Probably the best-known
singers in the cast that sang on that afternoon would be tenor Richard Tucker
as Alfred and mezzo Rise Stevens as Count Orlofsky. This classic performance
can be heard on several internet radio stations.
(www.wrti.org/)
Then there's the LIVE broadcast of this
Strauss perennial favorite, coming to us straight from the Vienna State Opera
on ORF, and starring tenor Kurt Streit as Eisenstein.
(http://oe1.orf.at/)
Another operetta that ranks among the best of
that particular genre would be Lehar's "Count of Luxemburg" which can
be heard in a performance from Osnabruck that took place on November 26 of this
year.
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
Glinka's "Russlan & Ludmilla"
can be heard in a Bolshoi performance from November 3, on Radio 4 (the
Netherlands).
(www.radio4.nl/)
Of interest to many listeners, there's Verdi's
"Traviata" on BBC Radio, in a performance from London's Royal Opera
House. The featured soprano is Ailyn Perez, with strong support from tenor
Piotr Beczala and baritone Simon Keenlyside. Beczala sang the tenor lead in the
Met's "Lucia di Lammermoor" HD-transmission opposite Anna Netrebko a
few years back, and Keenlyside sang the title role in "Hamlet" (by
Ambroise Thomas) -- another Met HD-transmission.
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)
Then -- to kick off the New Year (in a manner
of speaking) -- you might want to check out the Met's LIVE audiostream on
Monday evening (Jan. 2, 2012) of Donizetti's delightful comedy "The Daughter
of the Regiment" with the same cast which performed this work in another
recent free audiostream from the Met.
(www.metopera.org)
May the coming New Year for everyone be a
bright & happy one, filled with OPERA and other things of beauty!
DAVE
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COMING SOON!
ENCORE PRESENTATION at THE CABLE CAR THEATER
in Providence, RI
SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012
DON GIOVANNI
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| ANNA NETREBKO |
Starring Anna Netrebko, Bryn Terfel & Peter Mattei
LIVE from La Scala, Milan, Italy on Wednesday, December 7, 2011,
Composed by Mozart
Conducted by Daniel Barenboim
Directed by Robert Carsen
Choreographed by Philippe Giraudeau
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
3 hrs 15 mins including one intermission
Part of 2011-2012 Season, Complete Opera in Cinema Series
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