Week of June 7 - June 14, 2012

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

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

PLACIDO DOMINGO
as

RIGOLETTO

Great Performances Saturday, June 9 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, June 10 -- 3:00am; Monday, June 11 -- 12:00am

Rigoletto From Mantua*

A production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" that was filmed in Mantua, Italy, at the times and locations referenced in the libretto. Directed by Marco Bellochio, Placido Domingo stars in the baritone role of court jester Rigoletto, whose public ridicule of a nobleman brings with it a high price. Julia Novikova stars as his innocent daughter Gilda; Vittorio Grigolo as the womanizing Duke; and Ruggero Raimondi as the assassin Sparafucile
DURATION: 150 MIn.
DETAILS: [HD] [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=134

To hear Placido Domingo sing "Pari siamo!" click on: 

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

PBS makes this opera available on-line: 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/rigoletto-from-mantua/watch-the-full-program/1156/

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Have you ever wondered what 

the lyrics to

Carmina Burana mean? 

O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics (Animated) - Win Video

http://de.webfail.at/video/o-fortuna-misheard-lyrics-animated-win-video.html

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Should evil men get a second chance?

The World Premiere of SLAYING THE DRAGON opens JUNE 7 at the PRINCE MUSIC THEATER in Philadelphia, with a live video webcast on June 9th 2012. This new opera tells a powerful story through diverse, energetic, and vibrant music, and deals with themes of ethnic intolerance, forgiveness, and authentic personal redemption.

Ellen Frankel's Slaying the Dragon, debuted Thursday night, June 7, in Philadelphia.  I’m thrilled to let you know that the opera was recorded live and can be watched online on

Saturday night, 
June 9, 

at 8 pm

on www.operamusicbroadcast.com

Here’s the link: http://operamusicbroadcast.com/2012/05/31/slaying-the-dragon-live-video-webcast-june-9th-8pm-et-world-premiere-opera/

Music by Michael Ching

Libretto by Ellen Frankel

Inspired by a true story.
Based on the book “Not By The Sword” by Kathryn Watterson

Cast & Design Team

Christopher Lorge (Tenor) – Jerry Krieg, Grand Dragon KKK
Jason Switzer (Baritone) – Rabbi Nathan Goodman
Teresa Eickel (Soprano) – Vera Goodman, the Rabbi’s wife.
Roland Burks (Bass-Baritone) – Dr. Lincoln Masterson, a Baptist Preacher
David Koh (Tenor) – Giet Long, Director of the Asian American Center
Jennifer Braun/Sarah Beckham (Soprano) – Reverend Ava Gray
Jody Kidwell (Mezzo-Soprano) – Esther, a Holocaust survivor
Paul Corujo (Baritone) – Bud Connor, A Talk Show Host & Grand Magi of the KKK
Robert Davidson (Baritone) – Viper, the Nighthawk of the KKK
Daniel Foltz-Morrison (Tenor) – Beast, a young Skinhead
Sarah Beckham / Jennifer Hoffmann / Alexandra Roth – Tammy

Andrew M. Kurtz – Conductor
Leland Kimball- Stage Director
Peter Tupitza – Set Designer
J. Dominic Chacon – Lighting Designer
Amy Chmielewski – Costume Designer

Book Description from  Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/Not-Sword-Cantor-Transformed-Klansman/dp/1555534716/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339199135&sr=8-1

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

A couple of well-known operas, plus 3 noteworthy rarities, appear on the internet radio schedule for this coming Saturday (June 9).

Probably the most popular of the operas being broadcast this Saturday is Verdi's "Rigoletto" which can be heard on BBC Radio 3 in a performance that took place this past March at London's Royal Opera House. For those of you who saw this recently on the screen of the Cable Car Cinema in Providence, you'll be pleased to know that the identical cast is featured on Saturday's radio broadcast.

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

Perhaps not as popular as "Rigoletto" but relatively familiar to many opera-goers, "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Richard Strauss will be heard on NPR stations, coming to us from Lyric Opera of Chicago (November 2011) and featuring Deborah Voigt in the dual role of the Prima Donna & Ariadne.

(www.wrti.org/)

Radio 4 (the Netherlands) is giving enthusiastic fans of opera from the 1700s a chance to hear "Rosamunde" -- premiered in Mannheim in 1780 & written by Anton Schweitzer. The performance heard Saturday was originally taped on May 25, & comes to us from this year's Schwetzingen Festival.

(www.radio4.nl/)

Tchaikovsky's early & obscure opera "The Voyevode" ("The Watchman") (1869) is on hand on French Radio, via a live performance that was given in Moscow on April 20 of this year.

(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)

Plus, we get a rare opportunity to hear a Massenet opera that has totally disappeared from the standard repertory: his final opera "Cleopatre" (1912) can be heard this week on ORF.

(http://oe1.orf.at/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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Let's Have a Ball at the Metacomet Country Club

A Prelude to "The Merry Widow"

Be the Belle or the Beau of the Masquerade Ball

Cocktail Attire or Costume Encouraged

Appetizers, Dinner, Dessert

Lively Entertainment

Raffle

FRIDAY, June 8, 2012

6:00pm

Metacomet Country Club

500 Veteran's Memorial Parkway

East Providence, RI

$75 for Event Only

$100 per Person for this Event & One Ticket to the Opera 

on June 15 or 16, 2012

R.S.V. P. Nanci or Robert DeRobbio

Opera Providence 401-331-6060

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SEASON FINALE

June 15 and 16, 2012

"The Merry Widow"

8:00pm

RI Center for Performing Arts

848 Park Avenue, Cranston, RI

Does saying "I love you" really mean "I love your money?"
Composer: Franz Lehár
"The most popular operetta of the twentieth century!"
The Merry Widow was booked by Victor Leon and Leo Stein.

— Featuring —

Featuring DIANA MCVEY in the role of Hanna Glawariand
Rachele Schmiege, Kristina Riegle, Kara Lund, Denise Lachowski, Paul Soper, Giovanni Formisano,
Fred Frabotta, Fredric Scheff, David Kravitz, Jason Shealy, Devon Morin, and Kilian Mooney


Directed and Choreographed by David McCarty

 Music Director: Christopher McMullen-Laird • Artistic Director: Rene de la Garza
Chorus Director: Mark Conley • Costume Designer: Everett Hoag

Tickets now on sale by calling 401-331-6060.
Tickets are $35 and $60.
Senior discounts available on all $60 tickets.

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MET-HD Summer Encores

Anna Bolena

US: June 13, 2012, 6:30 pm (local time)


Estimated run time: 3 hours, 10 minutes


Anna Netrebko opened the Met’s 2011-12 season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king, singing one of opera's greatest mad scenes. David McVicar’s Met premiere production also stars Ekaterina Gubanova as her rival, Jane Seymour, and Ildar Abdrazakov as Henry VIII. Marco Armiliato conducts the first of Donizetti's Tudor trilogy.


Production: David McVicar
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Cast: Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello, Ildar Abdrazakov


Original transmission: October 15, 2011
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Le Comte Ory

US: June 20, 2012, 6:30 pm (local time)    


Estimated running time: 2 hours, 25 minutes                                                                                              


Bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez sings the title role of Rossini's vocally dazzling comedy, in Bartlett Sher’s Met premiere production. Joyce DiDonato stars in the trouser role of the page Isolier, who vies with Count Ory for the love of Countess Adèle, sung by Diana Damrau.


Production: Bartlett Sher
Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Cast: Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi


Original transmission: Saturday, April 9, 2011
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Don Giovanni

US: June 27, 2012, 6:30 pm (local time)


Estimated running time: 4 hours

Mariusz Kwiecien is the world’s most famous lover in Michael Grandage's new production, led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi. The lineup of refined Mozartians also includes Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas, and Luca Pisaroni.


Production: Michael Grandage
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Cast: Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Mojca Erdmann, Ramón Vargas, Mariusz Kwiecien, Luca Pisaroni, Joshua Bloom, Štefan Kocán


Original transmission: October 29, 2011
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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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