Week of June 28 - July 5, 2012

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)  

LA CENERENTOLA

Episode Information

Program Information

When To Watch

Great Performances at the Met

Saturday, June 30 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, July 1 -- 3:00am; Monday, July 2 -- 12:00am

LA CENERENTOLA

A production of "La Cenerentola," Rossini's adaptation of the "Cinderella" fable, starring mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca in the lead role and tenor Lawrence Brownlee as her Prince Charming. Don Magnifico: Alessandro Corbelli. Alidoro: John Relyea.

DURATION: 180 MIN

DETAILS: [HD] [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

SYNOPSIS: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=36

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A special treat: FREE Diana Damrau and Rolando Villazon in 

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8G1TaAlsjA 

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To hear Bob Edwards' fascinating interview with

 composer, conductor, and chorister Eric Whitacre

click on http://soundcloud.com/ericwhitacre/eric-whitacre-on-the-bob

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Some excellent "late" Verdi turns up on the opera schedule for this coming Saturday (June 30), namely "Aida" & "Falstaff."

The "Aida" performance is one that took place this past January and is a continuation of the cycle of Lyric Opera of Chicago radio broadcasts being aired by NPR. Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky sings the role of Aida, partnered with Marcello Giordani as Radames. Both singers are veterans of fairly recent Met HD-transmissions, with Ms Radvanovsky having appeared singing the role of Leonora in last season's "Trovatore" & Giordani recently starring in "Ernani" (televised last Sunday on Channel 2).

(www.wrti.org/)

London's Royal Opera House is the company serving us the other Verdi offering: "Falstaff" with an excellent ensemble cast working to bring this comic masterpiece to life.

(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

Speaking of masterpieces, "Lucia di Lammermoor" (Donizetti) will be heard in a LIVE performance on ORF, direct from the Vienna State Opera. Tenor Piotr Beczala -- recently seen at the Met as Des Grieux opposite Anna Netrebko in Massenet's "Manon" -- sings the tenor role of Edgardo. Soprano Diana Damrau, originally slated to sing the title role, is being replaced by Brenda Rae, according to the latest information I have at hand.

(http://oe1.at/)

For this week's obscure opera, there's Czech composer Zdenek Fibich's "Sarka" in a performance from Braunschweig that took place on March 22 of this year. Traditional-minded opera-lovers may rest assured that Fibich's opera, premiering in the 1890s, is suitably melodic and dramatic in a style reminiscent of Dvorak's nearly contemporaneous opera "Rusalka."

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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UPCOMING MET-HD Summer Encores

No HD Encore on the Fourth of July!

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

US: July 11, 2012, 6:30 pm (local time)

Estimated running time: 3 hours

Bartlett Sher’s 2009 production stars Joseph Calleja in the tour-de-force title role of Offenbach's fictionalized take on the life and loves of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann. Anna Netrebko is the tragic Antonia and Alan Held sings the demonic four villains. Met Music Director James Levine conducts.

Conductor: James Levine
Production: Bartlett Sher
Cast: Kathleen Kim, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, Alan Held
The Live in HD production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann does not include the partial nudity seen in the stage production.

Original transmission: December 19, 2009

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Lucia di Lammermoor

US: July 18, 2012, 6:30 pm (local time)

Estimated running time: 2 hours, 25 minutes

Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Donizetti’s bel canto tragedy in her Met role debut, with Piotr Beczala as her lover, Edgardo. Mariusz Kwiecien is her tyrannical brother. Mary Zimmerman’s hit production, first seen in 2007, is staged as a Victorian ghost story.

Production: Mary Zimmerman
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Cast: Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien, Ildar Abdrazakov

Original transmission: February 7, 2009
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Der Rosenkavalier

US: July 25, 2012, 6:30 pm (local time)

Estimated running time: 3 hours, 20 minutes

Strauss’s comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th-century Vienna stars Renée Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover. Edo de Waart conducts a cast that also includes Kristinn Sigmundsson and Thomas Allen.

Production: Nathaniel Merrill
Conductor: Edo de Waart
Cast: Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Christine Schäfer, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, Kristinn Sigmundsson

Original transmission: Saturday, January 9, 2010

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MET RADIO BROADCAST

No more broadcasts until autumn!

Enjoy the summer!

Listen to the Met Opera Saturday afternoon broadcasts on Harvard Radio, 95.3 in the Boston area or live-streaming online at http://www.whrb.org

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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 

THIS WEEK! 

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