This week on Rhode Island Public television, WSBE:
DON PASQUALE
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| ANNA NETREBKO as Norina |
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| MATTHEW POLENZANI as Ernesto |
Great Performances at the Met
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Saturday, February 25 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, February 26 -- 3:00am; Monday, February 27 -- 12:00am
36.2 - WSBE Learn. Verizon Fios 478; Cox Cable 808.
DON PASQUALE
The Season 5 premiere features Donizetti's comic "Don Pasquale," starring soprano Anna Netrebko as a penniless young woman who tricks the wealthy Don Pasquale (John Del Carlo) into thinking he's married her.
Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=438
Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=438
DURATION: 150 MIN
Watch Netrebko's DUET WITH MARIEUSZ KWEICIEN AND HER Somersault:
Rhode Island Civic
Chorale and Orchestra
March 3, 2O12
8:00 PM
Pre-concert talk by
Dr. Samuel Breene - 7:00 PM
Dr. Samuel Breene - 7:00 PM
Bach is Back
Brandenburg
Concerto No. 3
Cantata No. 4
Christ Lag In
Todesbanden
Mass in G Major,
BWV 236
Motet No. 6
Lobet den Herrn,
alle Heiden
Concerto No. 3
Cantata No. 4
Christ Lag In
Todesbanden
Mass in G Major,
BWV 236
Motet No. 6
Lobet den Herrn,
alle Heiden
Soloists are the winners of the
Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra's
4th Annual
Collegiate Vocal Competition
Virginia A. Barney, Soprano;
Amanda Neves, Mezzo-soprano; Robert Cinnante, Tenor ;John Brakatesolos, Baritone
Amanda Neves, Mezzo-soprano; Robert Cinnante, Tenor ;John Brakatesolos, Baritone
This concert is supported in part by an Alfred Nash Patterson Grant from
Enjoy Placido Domingo's Visit with Stephen Colbert
2. http://www.colbertnation.com/
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Met radio broadcasts
This Saturday at noon:
Giuseppe Verdi's
ERNANI
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
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
The "Big Event" for many opera fans this
coming Saturday (Feb 25) would probably be the LIVE HD-transmission & radio
simulcast of Verdi's "Ernani" (from the MET). You can enjoy it at
some of our local movie theatres, and it should be a good one, with Marcello
Giordani singing the tenor lead, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky in a major role
as well, & up-and-coming soprano Angela Meade as Elvira.
Bizet's 2nd most popular opera after
"Carmen" -- "The Pearl Fishers" -- can be heard on Saturday
in a performance that took place in Berlin on December 19 of last year. Tenor
Joseph Calleja is featured in the cast. Many of you may remember his wonderful
performances in fairly recent MET HD-transmissions, such as Offenbach's
"Tales of Hoffmann" & Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor"
(opposite Natalie Dessay).
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
If Kurt Weill is your cup of tea, you can listen in on
the broadcast scheduled to be aired on Radio 4. It's a performance of "Mahagonny"
from Vienna (1/24/12).
(www.radio4.nl/)
Aside from the radio broadcasts already mentioned, the
MET has a LIVE audio-stream tonight (Wed.) at 7:30. It's free, and it's a
performance of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" starring soprano Patricia
Racette, who also starred in the HD-transmission of this work a couple of
seasons ago.
(www.metopera.org)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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THE 2012-13 Met Season
has been announced:
Go to http://www.metopera-digital.org/metopera/season2012-13#pg1
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THE 2012-13 Met Season
has been announced:
Go to http://www.metopera-digital.org/metopera/season2012-13#pg1
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These
statistics are a year old but I thought they would interest you.
The Met - the stats March 30, 2010
http://intermezzo.typepad.com/intermezzo/2010/03/the-met-the-stats.html
Nina Munk's feature on Peter Gelb and the Metropolitan
Opera in this month's Vanity Fair makes fascinating reading (sample "Gelb
took a deep breath, poured a few drops of Purell on his hands, and headed for
the party.") but if you haven't got time for the full 7,000+ words, here
are a few of the vital statistics revealed:
1,014 movie theaters in 44 countries showed the Met's
Turandot
13 cameras were used in the house
3,800 seats in the Met
88% were filled last season
56 - age of Peter Gelb
48 - median age of opera goers [versus 37 for the US
population]
40 or under - age of opera goers the video director of
Turandot tried to include in shot
1/3 - fall in number of Americans who attended an
opera in last few years
220 Met performances a year
$47 million - the Met’s accumulated deficit
1883 - first
Met opera house opened
1,115 - number of times Aida has been staged at the
Met since 1886
27% increase in annual expenses in the past 3 years,
since Gelb became general manager
$282 million annual expenses in 2009 (almost 4 times
what it costs to run the San Francisco Opera)
$110 million revenues from box office, movie tickets,
and other media last year
$247 million - value of Met’s endowment in 2009 (from
a high of $336million in 2007)
$61.5 million drawn down from endowment in the past 3
years
8.3% endowment draw down rate (5% is considered
appropriate for nonprofits)
$35 million bank loan collateralised by Chagall murals
8 new productions this season
$108 million donations received from individuals in
2009
1/2 or more of the donations came from the Met’s 40
managing directors
2 managing directors have recently pledged $10 million
and $30 million, respectively
$250,000 to $500,000 a year - expected annual donation
from each managing director
$25 million - record 2006 donation from Mercedes Bass
(wife of Sid Bass, worth $2 billion)
1% of Met budget is underwritten by the government
(compared with64% of the Bavarian State Opera’s $110 million budget)
11% rise in ticket prices next season
$138 average ticket price next season
2 hours before most performances, 200 orchestra seats,
normally priced at$100 each, are sold to the public for $20 in the Agnes Varis
and Karl Leichtman Rush Ticket program, costing Varis $2.3 million this year
$3 million worth of unsold seats were bought by board
members in 2008
$2 -$3 million - cost of a new production
$1 million plus - costume budget per opera
16 "powerful and uncompromising" trade
unions
$213 million labour costs last year, more than 3/4 of
the Met’s budget
$175,000 annual pay for Met chorus members
$16,000 per performance - principal singers' fee
$128,000 paid to Renee Fleming for 8 performances of
Der Rosenkavalier
$1.3 million - Peter Gelb's annual salary
10% - Gelb's voluntary pay cut this season
2 days after first meeting Peter Gelb, the Met’s board
of directors offered him the job
1 'interesting' moment with James Levine: “Nudity is not always more sexy. I know so
many moments in film or theater where two people touch each other fully
dressed, which beats the hell out of gratuitous nudity in my opinion."
What did this have to do with the Met? Levine shifted in his chair. Although
he’d been out of work for the past two months, recuperating from back surgery,
he looked relaxed and no less vigorous than usual. He smiled.
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ONLY TWO VIEWINGS IN RHODE ISLAND:
Coming March 13, 3:00pm to The Jane Pickens Theater, Newport, RI
Encore, March 25, 12pm at the Cable Car Cinema in Providence
Live, from Gran Teatre Licou, Barcelona, Spain
(Both are single performances)
LA BOHEME
Starring Ramon Vargas and Fiorenza Cedolins
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Coming April 17 to The Jane Pickens Theater, Newport, RI
VERDI'S RIGOLETTO LIVE FROM
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON
APRIL 17 (ONE SHOW ONLY); TIME ~ TBA
OVERVIEW
LIVE from the Royal Opera House, London, England Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Composed by Verdi, Conducted by John Eliot Ga,Starring Dimitri Platanias, Ekaterina Siurina, Vittorio Grigolo, Pablo Bemsch & Christine Rice,Sung in Italian with English subtitles,2 hrs 9 mins
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OPERA PROVIDENCE
February 24 & 26, 2012
"An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan"— Featuring —
Erin Holmes - Soprano • Desiree Maira - Mezzo • Kilian Mooney - Tenor • Nicholas LaRoche - Baritone
Leah Kenney - Soprano • Vinnie Joyce - Tenor • Eric Mazonson - Pianist
"An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan"— Featuring —
Erin Holmes - Soprano • Desiree Maira - Mezzo • Kilian Mooney - Tenor • Nicholas LaRoche - Baritone
Leah Kenney - Soprano • Vinnie Joyce - Tenor • Eric Mazonson - Pianist
Blithewold Mansion
Bristol, RI
Bristol, RI
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Concerts take place on Friday evenings at 7:00pm and Sunday afternoons at 3:00pm.Enjoy the ambiance of the beautiful Blithewold Mansion with the music of Opera Providence.
Each month features different composers, music, and superb singers!
Space is limited so reserve early.
Dessert, wine, and song.
Each month features different composers, music, and superb singers!
Space is limited so reserve early.
Dessert, wine, and song.
— Tickets —$40 per person per concert $100 per person for the series (all three concerts)
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PROVIDENCE SINGERS
Benjamin Britten | War Requiem —
War, Pity of War, Pacifism
The 1930s in Britain was not an easy time or place for a committed pacifist. Germany was arming; peace seemed an unlikely proposition. Yet Benjamin Britten’s abhorrence of violence was deeply seated and of long standing. He sought conscientious objector status in 1942, then continued “the work I’m most qualified to do” — composing, performing, and, at war’s end, mounting concerts with Yehudi Menuhin at the liberated Bergen–Belsen concentration camp. As England’s premier composer, Britten was commissioned to write a requiem for the Coventry Cathedral reconsecration in May 1962. His treatment of war, tempered by the poetry of Wilfred Owen, two world wars, and the Cold War gloom of nuclear arms, was not celebratory. “When you hear Britten’s music — if you really hear it, not just listen to it superficially,” said Leonard Bernstein, “you become aware of something very dark. There are gears that are grinding and not quite meshing. And they make a great pain. It was a difficult and lonely time.”
3:30 p.m. Sunday, March 4, 2012, Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Providence
News | About the concert | Read the texts | Buy tickets | Travel directions
Also performed at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3, in Boston: Tickets and information
News | About the concert | Read the texts | Buy tickets | Travel directions
Also performed at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3, in Boston: Tickets and information
NO OPERA ON WGBH TV THIS WEEK!
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