October 11 - 18, 2012

This season's first Live in HD simulcast: OCTOBER 13, 2012 ~ 12:55pm

L’Elisir d’Amore

Anna Netrebko as Adina and Matthew Polenzani as Nemorino in Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore.”

October 13, 2012, 12:55 pm ET

U.S. Encore: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 6:30 pm local time

Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani star in Bartlett Sher's new production of one of the greatest comic gems in opera, as the fickle Adina and her besotted Nemorino. Mariusz Kwiecien is the blustery sergeant Belcore and Ambrogio Maestri is Dulcamara, the loveable quack and dispenser of the elixir. Maurizio Benini conducts.

Approximate runtime: 3:02

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=122

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

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

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Great Performances at the Met

Saturday, October 13 -- 8:00pm, Sunday, October 14 -- 3:00am; Monday, October 15 -- 12:00am

Don Pasquale

The Season 5 premiere features Donizetti's comic "Don Pasquale," starring soprano Anna Netrebko as a penniless young woman who tricks the wealthy Don (John Del Carlo) into thinking he's married her.

DURATION: 150 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

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Maestro 

James Levine 

to Return!

out of the past

by La Cieca | 9:54 pm | Oct 11, 2012

http://parterre.com/2012/10/11/out-of-the-past-2/#more-26782

Well, you can provisionally knock La Cieca over with a
feather. “James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera’s Music
Director, will return to conducting on May 19, 2013 with
 the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. He will then lead three
operas in the Met’s 2013-14 season, including a new
production of Verdi’s Falstaff and revivals of Mozart’s Così 
fan tutte and Berg’s Wozzeck.” The press release from the
Met, sent at the peculiar hour of 7:30 pm, continues…
(Click to read the whole story)

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Great Performances at the Met

OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

There are some interesting items to look forward to this coming Saturday (Oct. 13) on internet radio, surely enough to please almost everyone, with the possible exception of those listeners who absolutely must hear yet another performance of "Carmen" or "La Boheme" every single week. FWIW, however, those two operas may actually be on somebody's schedule somewhere, but I didn't notice them listed anywhere.

Well, there ARE a couple of Wagner operas to be heard on Saturday. For one, French Radio is broadcasting a performance (from Paris) of "Tristan & Isolde" while Radio 4 (the Netherlands) has "Die Gotterdammerung" slated for broadcast; it's a Reisopera performance from September 30.

(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)  & (www.radio4.nl/)

The Belgian station Klara is bringing us a Flemish Opera performance of "The Damnation of Faust" by Hector Berlioz -- not an opera (strictly speaking), although everyone these days (including the Met and English National Opera) seems to be presenting it as such.

(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

Another work that is not strictly an opera (considered, rather, an oratorio by some) is Handel's "Jephtha" (from 1751) which can be heard on BBC Radio 3 in a performance that took place earlier this month (or possibly late in September) by the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff.

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

Moving into more modern territory, there's a double-bill of 2 one-act operas by Weinberg (both composed in 1975) on the schedule of one German radio station. The 2 operas in question are "Lady Magnesia" and "Congratulations." There's usually nothing in Weinberg's music to scare the horses out of the corral (in a manner of speaking), but Mozart it ain't (again, in a manner of speaking).

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

But wait! There IS a performance of "Carmen" lurking in the wings, but it won't take place until Monday (Oct.15) as the Met presents it on its FREE live audiostream, starting at 7:25 p.m.

(www.metopera.org)

Enjoy!

DAVE

Renee Fleming 

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

                                                   --Renee Fleming 

To hear a young Fleming sing Dvorak's "Song to the Moon":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1PMzQ8PuCo

2012-2013 SEASON

All Concerts are at the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Providence, RI

Holiday Concert - 

Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 8 PM

Pre-concert talk by Dr. Samuel Breene - 7:00 PM

• Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria  with Jean Danton, soprano & Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano

Jean Danton

Megan Roth

• Benjamin Britten - St. Nicolas with Kirk Dougherty, tenor and the North Smithfield High School Women's Choir, Regina McAdam conductor

Kirk Dougherty

Regina McAdam

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 8:00 PM

Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul

Pre-concert talk by

Dr. Samuel Breene - 7:00 PM

Arvo Pärt – Te Deum

Fusionworks Dance Company

Deb Meunier, Artistic Director

Brown University Chorus

L.  Frederick  Jodry, Conductor

Franz Schubert – Mass  No. 3 in Bb Major

Soloists are the winners of the

Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra's

5th Annual Collegiate Vocal Competition

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Saturday, May 11, 2013 8:00 PM

Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul

Pre-concert talk by

Dr. Samuel Breene - 7:00 PM

ALL BEETHOVEN PROGRAM

Ludwig van Beethoven – Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt

Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 1 in C Major

Ludwig van Beethoven – Mass in C Major

Patrice Tiedemann, Soprano

Hillary Nicholson, Mezzo-soprano

Martin Kelly, Tenor

René de la Garza, Baritone

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All concerts conducted by

Edward Markward, Music Director    

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UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS

Saturday, October 20, 2012"The Three Sopranos"

Featuring Norma Ciazzia, Kate Norigian, and Alisa Cassola,
with Bolly Ray Poli and Melissa Woolverton as pianist.

St. Michael's Church
Bristol, RI
8:00pm

PROGRAM

For tickets, please call the Opera Providence office at 401-331-6060.

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Thursday, October 25, 2012"Dancing With the Opera Stars"

Dinner/Concert
Metacomet Country Club
500 Veterans Memorial Parkway
East Providence, RI

Tickets: $60 per person
Includes a four course dinner with wine pairings.
For tickets, please call the Opera Providence office at 401-331-6060.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012"Fa-la-la and Opera"

 Dinner/Concert to Celebrate the Holiday Season
Metacomet Country Club
500 Veterans Memorial Parkway
East Providence, RI

Tickets: $60 per person
Includes a four course dinner with wine pairings.
For tickets, please call the Opera Providence office at 401-331-6060.

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Friday, January 25, 2013 and Sunday, January 27, 2013 
Winter Concert Series

Blithewold Mansion and Gardens
Bristol, RI

Tickets: $40 per person
For tickets, please call the Opera Providence office at 401-331-6060.

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Friday, February 15, 2013 and Sunday, February 17, 2013
 Winter Concert Series
Valentine's Day Concert

Blithewold Mansion and Gardens
Bristol, RI

Tickets: $40 per person
For tickets, please call the Opera Providence office at 401-331-6060.

Annual Appeal
2012-2013

Join Opera Providence by becoming a contributor
to Rhode Island's Premier Opera Company.

With your donation of $1000 you receive:

• Opera Classics Series – one ticket to each performance
   
• Blithewold Concert – one ticket

With your donation of $500 you receive:

• One ticket to all performances in the Opera Classics Series
  
  OR
   
• One ticket to all performances in the Blithewold Concert Series

With your donation of $250 you receive:

• One ticket to a Blithewold Concert
  
  OR
   
• One ticket to a Newport Concert.

To contribute to the Annual Appeal, please contact:

Opera Providence
585 Elmgrove Avenue
Providence RI 02906
401-331-6060

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Position available: Communications Director The Singers will hire a new communications director this fall. Duties, qualifications, and application instructions are online. Junior Providence Singers: Three audition sessions T.J. Harper, JPS music director, will conduct auditions from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Carter Center on Monday, August 27; Wednesday, September 5; and Monday, September 10. If those dates and times don’t work, call 751-5700 or e-mail the office and we’ll find some that do.  More about the JPS

Our 41st Season  |  Creation and Coronation Subscribe now Create your choral season Subscribe to our three-concert series and save nearly 20 percent. You’ll have premium seating for Duruflé Requiem Haydn Creation Fit for a Queen Our friends at the Philharmonic will also offer Providence Singers subscribers a 15-percent discount on tickets for Handel’s Messiah* Mahler’s Symphony No. 2* Order your subscriptions online or call the Singers office at 401-751-5700. * Tickets for Messiah and Mahler are available directly from the Philharmonic. November 3–4, 2012: Duruflé’s Requiem Whitacre’s Five Hebrew Love Songs Like Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé left the terrifying “Dies Irae” movement out of his 1947 Requiem. It is a requiem that tends toward contemplation and consolation. Other works include Daniel Pinkham’s Wedding Cantata, and Eric Whitacre’s Five Hebrew Love Songs, a setting of five poems by his wife, Hila Plitmann. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, St. Mary’s Church, Bristol 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Providence December 8, 2012: George Frideric Handel’s Messiah Two and a half centuries after its first performance, Handel’sMessiah easily remains the most frequently performed, most beloved work in the choral canon. The Providence Singers and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra join forces for a December performance at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Betsy Burleigh conducts. 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, The Vets, Providence Buy tickets from the Philharmonic online or by phone: 401-248-7000 February 10, 2013: Franz Joseph Haydn’s Creation Haydn had spectacular choral triumphs late in his life, none greater than the oratorio The Creation. The Singers and the New Bedford Symphony will perform The Creation in New Bedford and Providence. 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, at Temple Emanu-El in Providence (Also performed Saturday, Feb. 9, in New Bedford. More at New Bedford Symphony) April 6-7, 2013: Fit for a Queen Music was everywhere at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953: selections from England’s glorious musical past (Handel’s Zadok the Priest has been part of every coronation since George II in 1727)  and new works by Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Healy Willan and others. The Singers will perform music written for Queen Elizabeth at her coronation and during the six decades since, including new music from the recently published Choirbook for the Queen. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6, 2013, Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Providence 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 7, 2013, St. Mary’s Church, Bristol May 4, 2013: Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection Symphony,” was, with the Eighth Symphony, among Mahler’s most popular and successful works during his lifetime. He was struck by a text he heard at the funeral of the conductor Hans von Bülow: “Auferstehen, ja auferstehen wirst du, mein Staub,  nach kurzer Ruhe!” (“You shall arise, my dust, yes you shall arise after a brief rest!”) The  Singers will perform as guest artists with the Rhode Island Philharmonic. 8 p.m. Saturday, May 4 The Vets, Providence Tickets are available from the Rhode Island Philharmonic online or by phone: 401-248-7000 --------------------------------------------------- The Providence Singers Inc.  |  667 Waterman Avenue  |  East Providence  RI  02914 The Carter Center  |  Studio 154  |  401-751-5700  |  Fax: 401-751-5722

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MET RADIO BROADCAST

Autumn is here it and the Met opera season started with a new production of L'Elisir d'Amore!

Alas, there are no radio broadcasts until 
after the leaves have fallen. 

The 2012-13 Radio broadcasts will begin 

December 8, 12:55pm with Verdi's 

Un Ballo in Maschera 

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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NEW OPERA -- MUSIC AVAILABLE SOON ON YOU TUBE.

• • Monday, August 20, 2012
  • 6:00pm

• The Theatre at St. Clements, 423 W 46th Street, New York, NY

• Selections from Weinberg's beautiful 1920's opera will be performed by Asa Fradkin-baritone, Karin Laine-soprano, Daniel Neer-tenor, Adi Sieradzki-mezzo soprano, Cynthia Hilts-musical director and accompanist, and Ellen L. Weinberg-narration Incorporating original music and traditional Jewish songs, this lovely opera, which has not been performed in the US since 1949 at Carnegie Hall, was recently rediscovered by Weinberg's granddaughter, Ellen L. Weinberg. Free to the public. Part of the Strawberry One-Act Festival.

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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 

THIS WEEK! 

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