APRIL 7, 2012 at 12 noon
See right-sidebar for info re: attending a simulcast
Jules Massenet'S
MANON
Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.
To hear Anna Netrebko sing the gavotte, click on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMk3gp3g5GE&list=UULWiWcQEaD13TeTTe-9BAfQ&index=6&feature=plcp
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Satyagraha
Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, April 7 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, April 8 -- 3:00am; April 9 -- 12:00am
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Satyagraha
A performance of Philip Glass' "Satyagraha," about the early years of Mahatma Gandhi (Richard Croft). The production costars Rachelle Durkin, Alfred Walker and Kim Josephson; and features large-scale puppetry and sets made of corrugated metal.
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
DURATION: 180 MIN
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MET RADIO BROADCASTS
This Saturday at 12:00 noon
Jules Massenett
MANON
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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FIRST TAKES ON "MANON" with ANNA NETREBKO
which will be broadcast next Saturday.
Anna singing -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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SINGING OPERA BEARS
Go to P.S. 15
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THE 2012-13 Met Season
has been announced:
Go to
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
For many opera-lovers, the big news this week
is that the Met is offering a LIVE HD-transmission in area movie theatres of
Massenet's "Manon" with soprano Anna Netrebko in the title role, and
with tenor Piotr Beczala singing the role of her lover Des Grieux. Both singers
appeared together in the first HD-transmission of Donizetti's "Lucia di
Lammermoor" a few seasons back, as some of you may remember.
And what opera weekend would be complete
without another broadcast of Puccini's "La Boheme" ? This time, the
performance comes to us from Florence (November 2011) and can be heard on the
Belgian station Klara.
(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)
Handel enthusiasts get to hear "Deidamia"
in a performance from this past March 27 that took place in Amsterdam.
(www.radio4.nl/)
And Wagner enthusiasts, not to be left out,
have an opportunity to hear his opera "Lohengrin" as performed LIVE
from Stockholm this Saturday on the Swedish radio station.
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)
Finally, the "Obscure Opera of the
Week" award goes to Auber's "The Bronze Horse" which was
performed in Berlin on March 11 of this year. Perhaps one of its greatest
claims to fame is that one of the scenes in the opera actually takes place on
the planet Venus (!!!) -- which is to be expected, since the bronze horse of
the title is able to fly into outer space carrying passengers on its back. Hey,
it's not exactly "Star Trek" -- but as a comic opera, it's not as
unusual as you might think, especially as compared to Wayditch's 1925 opera
"The Venus Dwellers" which involves a young couple embracing and
suddenly finding themselves transported to Venus -- and the opera itself is
only 4 and a half hours long (!!!) -- but I digress. . .
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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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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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK
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