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This week on Rhode Island Public television, WSBE:
Don
Carlo
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| ROBERTO ALAGNA as Don Carlo To see a preview, click on |
Great Performances at the Met
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Saturday, March 17 -- 7:00pm; Sunday, 2:00am; Sunday, 11:00pm Note early start time
WSBE Learn. Verizon Fios 478; Cox Cable 808.
Don Carlo
Verdi's "Don Carlo," about a Spanish prince (Roberto Alagna) who falls for the French princess (Marina Poplavskaya) he's supposed to marry as part of a Spanish-French peace treaty, only to have his father (Ferruccio Furlanetto) decide to wed her himself.
DURATION: 240 MIN
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| MARINA POPLAVSKAYA as the French Princess ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
DONIZETTI's
Don Pasquale
Friday, March 16, 2012, 8pm ~~ Free
Concert Version, Brown's Kassar Fox Auditorium,
151 Thayer St., Providence
Sunday, March 17, 2012, 8pm ~~ Free
Full Production, Brown's Alumnae Hall
194 Meeting St.
Semi-formal opening night gala includes VIP seating in conductor's circle and champagne toast after the performance.
Reservations for the gala by e-mailing
brownoperaproductions@gmail.com
SYNOPSIS:
Don Pasquale has demanded that Ernesto break up with Norina, his penniless widow of a girlfriend, and marry a woman Don Pasquale has chosen. But Ernesto refuses, because he and Norina truly love one another. To teach the young rascal who’s the boss, Pasquale decides to disinherit Ernesto and get married himself. Dr. Malatesta, foreseeing disaster, takes matters into his own hands and asks Don Pasquale to let him choose the bride. He explains he has a budding flower of a sister in a convent and means to introduce her to Don Pasquale. The old man is delighted, and so Dr. Malatesta starts to lay his trap.
The doctor tells Norina she must play the part of Sofronia, his sister, and enlists his cousin to help arrange a phony marriage. Norina acts meek and submissive when she meets Don Pasquale, and he “weds” her at once. But no sooner have they signed the (fake) marriage certificate than she changes character: now she makes the old man’s life a living hell by spending a fortune, partying all day and night, bossing Don Pasquale around, and even slapping him when he steps out of line. Just when Don Pasquale thinks he’s about to catch her in flagrante delicto with a paramour, Dr. Malatesta’s plot comes to a head, Don Pasquale learns an important lesson, and young love wins out over age and tyranny.
(Thanks to Seattle Opera for synopsis.)
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Rhode Island Civic Chorale
Rhode Island Civic Chorale
Chamber Choir
Sunday, April 1 2012, 3:00 PM
Celebrate 25th
Anniversary Season as Music Director
Our 55th Season 2011-2012
Edward M
arkward’s
Edward Markward, Music Director
Michael Kregler, Accompanist
Composers of
New EnglandChoral Music
Chester William
Billings
When Jesus
Wept William Billings
America William
Billings
(1746
– 1800)
At the
River Charles
Ives
(1874 – 1954)
At the
River Aaron
Copland
Simple
Gifts
Aaron Copland
(1900 – 1990)
From Landscapes by
T.S. Eliot Michael Kregler
1. New Hampshire
2. Virginia
3. Usk
The Last Words of
David
Randall Thompson
from “Frostiana”
Randall
Thompson
Choose Something Like
A Star
(1899 – 1984)
Come In
The Road Not Taken
INTERMISSION
Under the Willow Tree
(words by Gian-Carlo Menotti) Samuel Barber
(1910 – 1981)
French Choruses from The
Lark (Jean Anouilh) Leonard Bernstein
as adapted by Lillian
Hellman (1918 – 1990)
1. Spring Song
2. Court Song
3. Soldier’s Song
from “Alice In
Wonderland” Irving Fine
The Lobster
Quadrille (1914 – 1962)
Lullaby of the Duchess
Father
William
50 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI 02840
(401) 847-0292
$12 General Admission • $10 Seniors
$7 Students & Redwood Library Members with ID •
Children under 12, Free
Phone: 401-521-5670 • Email: info@ricco.org
Chamber Choir
R I C C O
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OPERA PROVIDENCE
March 30 and April 1, 2012
"Murder and Mayhem!"
— Featuring —
Diana McVey - Soprano • Denise Lachowski - Mezzo
Rene de la Garza - Baritone • Melissa Woolverton - Pianist
"Murder and Mayhem!"
— Featuring —
Diana McVey - Soprano • Denise Lachowski - Mezzo
Rene de la Garza - Baritone • Melissa Woolverton - 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.
— Tickets —$40 per person per concert $100 per person for the series (all three concerts)
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Met radio broadcasts
This Saturday at noon:
Mussorgsky's
KHOVANSHCHINA
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
Opera on Internet Radio for this coming
Saturday, March 17, features the LIVE broadcast from the Met of Mussorgsky's
monumental "Khovanshchina" with a superlative cast that includes bass
Ildar Abdrazakov with whom many of you will be familiar from the October 15th
HD-transmission earlier this season of Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" when
he sang the role of Enrico (Henry VIII).
Other than that, it's slim pickings once
again, with many stations doing the "rebroadcast thing" although
there does happen to be a performance on tap (via German radio) of Janacek's
somewhat lesser-known opera "Osud" ("Fate") which received
a performance in Stuttgart on the 11th of this month.
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
The Met has a potentially exciting item in
store for us tomorrow night (Thurs.) at 7:30, when they offer a free LIVE
performance of Verdi's "Macbeth" with Thomas Hampson in the title
role. Definitely worth checking out, I would say!
(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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LA BOHEME
March 25, 12pm at the Cable Car Cinema in Providence
Encore, from Gran Teatre Licou, Barcelona, Spain
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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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK
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