This week on Rhode Island Public television, WSBE:
La Fanciulla
del West
Great Performances at the Met
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Saturday, March 24 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, March 25 --3:00am; March 26 -- 12:00am
36.2 - WSBE Learn. Verizon Fios 478; Cox Cable 808.
La Fanciulla
del West
The Girl of the West
The Girl of the West
A production of Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West," about an Old West saloon owner (Deborah Voigt) in a California gold-rush town who'll stop at nothing to get the man (Marcello Giordani) she wants.
DURATION: 150 MIN
Listen to Deborah Voigt Talk About Minnie:
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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
SYNOPSIS
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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
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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THE 2012-13 Met Season
has been announced:
Go to http://www.metopera-digital.org/metopera/season2012-13#pg1
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has been announced:
Go to http://www.metopera-digital.org/metopera/season2012-13#pg1
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Rhode Island Civic Chorale
Chamber Choir
Sunday, April 1 2012, 3:00 PM
Celebrate Edward Markward’s
25th Anniversary Season as Music Director
Our 55th Season 2011-2012
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 ON THE INTERNET WITH DAVE D' AGUANNO
DAve is away this week; please tune in next week.
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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:
Verdi's
MACBETH
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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Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming perform for Thompson Center lunch crowd
By NEIL STEINBERG nsteinberg@suntimes.com March 19, 2012 2:36PM
ARTICLE EXTRAS
Updated: March 20, 2012 2:09AM
Mike Koetting, a deputy director at the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, had just gotten off the L at the Thompson Center Monday, and was heading toward the elevators to go to a government meeting on the Affordable Health Care Act when the haunting strains of “Vocalise” by Rachmaninoff snapped his head hard to the side.
He moved toward the center of the lower level food court like a man in a trance, his battered leather briefcase held limply at his side.
“I’m a music fan,” he said.
A few feet away from Koetting were two of the great musicians of our era, soprano Renee Fleming and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, performing a brief unannounced recital for the lunch crowd, passersby, jurors on their break and a select group who had been tipped off ahead of time, including Gov. Pat Quinn.
Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra backed the pair, making their debut performance together.
Some came without exactly knowing what to expect. Judy Kaufman had heard from a friend who volunteers at the CSO that something musical and noteworthy would be happening, and so brought her daughter, Vered, and grandson Jonah, 3, who just started studying the violin.
“She told us to make sure we didn’t miss this,” said Judy Kaufman, who lives downtown. They were delighted to learn who they had come to hear. “We had no idea. We are tremendous music lovers, and are so impressed with Renee Fleming and Yo-Yo Ma, the giants of opera and classical music.”
A few minutes before the performance began, people going down the escalators were handed programs explaining that the event was a joint production of the CSO and the Lyric Opera, and is part of programs at both institutions designed to encourage music in community settings and foster a greater public appreciation for the arts.
“Awesome,” said Fanny Clonch, a French teacher from Curie High School, taking a program. She was giving a tour to 17 students from France, and steered them over to listen.
Three students from the Tribeca Flashpoint digital vocational school happened by to patronize the Panda Express when they noticed the commotion.
“Who is it?” asked Jack Whelan, 18, sipping a Mountain Dew. Told Yo-Yo Ma was playing, Whelan, a musical recording arts student, replied, “he’s sick,” a slang term of approval meaning “cool” or “awesome.”
Choruses from Lake View High School, the Chicago High School for the Arts and Merit School of Music began the three-song program about 12:40 p.m. with a traditional South African folk song, and it was ended with a rendition of “America the Beautiful.” It was to have been a sing-along, but few in the crowd of several hundred tried to compete with one of America’s premiere vocalists.
While some patrons stood on chairs or crowded for a closer look, others blithely talked on their cell phones or continued their full-throated conversations or listened to their own music on earbuds. The door to the Department of Motor Vehicles office was open, but the music heard inside was very soft, nearly drowned out by booming announcements such as “Now serving B291 at counter No. 6.”
Fleming, the creative consultant for the Lyric, said that she and Ma, creative consultant to the CSO, had spent the morning talking with students, and that, coupled with their performance, had buoyed the artists.
“It’s inspiring to us and gives us a lot,” she said.
The entire performance lasted less than 15 minutes and Mike Koetting headed to his meeting. What did he think of the music?
“It was great,” he said, and then laughed. “They’re good.”
NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK
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