Week of October 25 - November 1, 2012

The next Live in HD simulcast: 
OCTOBER 27, 2012 ~ 12:55pm*

otello

Johan Botha is Otello

Verdi’s towering masterpiece, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy, makes its first Live in HD appearance. Semyon Bychkov conducts an extraordinary cast led by Johan Botha in the title role of the jealous Moor of Venice, opposite Renée Fleming in one of her greatest roles, Otello’s innocent wife Desdemona. Falk Struckmann sings Iago, Otello’s disloyal ensign, and Michael Fabiano is the captain Cassio.

SYNOPSIS:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=18

Duration: 185 min. 

To hear a clip from the October 5, 2012 performance, click on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2JrHu5x4w

*For information about attending the Met HD simulcasts, scroll down beyond calendar...
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This week on Rhode Island Public television,

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

Don Carlo

Episode Information

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Great Performances at the Met

Saturday, October 27 -- 7:30pm; Sunday, October 28 -- 2:30am; Sunday, October 29 -- 11:30pm

Don Carlo

Verdi's "Don Carlo," about a Spanish prince (Roberto Alagna) who falls for the French princess (Marina Poplavskaya) he's supposed to marry as part of a Spanish-French peace treaty, only to have his father (Ferruccio Furlanetto) decide to wed her himself.

DURATION: 240 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

SYNOPSIS: HTTP://WWW.METOPERAFAMILY.ORG/METOPERA/HISTORY/STORIES/SYNOPSIS.ASPX?ID=4

An unexpected treat:
The Met's "Elixir" is on Youtube!

L'Elisir d'Amore

Metropolitan Opera 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b0mnx_-yfI&feature=plcp

Anna Netrebko stars in L'Elisir d'Amore at the Met

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THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Met’s Pinch Hitter Can’t Always Step Up

By DANIEL J. WAKIN

Published: October 15, 2012

The anticipated return of the recuperating James Levine affects many people inside the Metropolitan Opera. But the most interested, you might think, is his frequent substitute, the Italian conductor Fabio Luisi...

To read the rest of this article, go to 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/arts/music/fabio-luisi-cant-cover-for-james-levine-in-next-met-season.html?_r=1&

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

 Not going to see the HD-transmission this Saturday of the Met's current production of Verdi's "Otello" with Renee Fleming as Desdemona? No worries, as there's plenty of terrific opera to be heard on internet radio this weekend.

For starters, BBC Radio 3 has a wonderful, though virtually unknown opera by Donizetti scheduled for broadcast. It's "Caterina Cornaro" (written towards the end of his career) which, believe it or not, would have become instantly popular at its premiere back in the 1840s except that Franz Lachner's opera by the same name completely overshadowed it at that time. At any rate, the broadcast of this opera on tap will soon be released on CD, in case you do wish to hear it but won't be around to listen to the radio broadcast.

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

ORF is airing a performance from last summer (7/23/12) of Glinka's "A Life for the Czar" which was part of this year's festival in Montpellier (France).

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

Then there's some Verdi on the schedule (of course!) as French Radio brings us a LIVE performance from Lyons of his opera "Macbeth."

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

Venturing into 21st century opera, you might want to give George Benjamin's "Written on Skin" a try. It's on Radio 4 (the Netherlands) & was heard in Amsterdam on October 11. Incidentally, the opera itself premiered this past summer to some impressive critical acclaim. IMO, it's one of the best of the modern operas written this century (so far).

(www.radio4.nl/)

On NPR, an October 2011 performance of Rossini's ever-popular "The Barber of Seville" will be broadcast, as part of their cycle of broadcasts of operas performed last season at the Houston Grand Opera.

(www.wrti.org/)

Figaro (a.k.a. the Barber of Seville) makes a re-appearance next Monday (Oct. 29) when the Met's free LIVE audio-stream treats us to Mozart's comic masterpiece "The Marriage of Figaro."

(www.metopera.org)

 Enjoy!

 DAVE

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Opera in Cinema

‎7 year-old Alma Deutscher writes her first opera, The Sweeper of Dreams - do you think this child prodigy is the future of opera?  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20036511

Girl, seven, stuns experts with opera

www.bbc.co.uk

Alma Deutscher, aged seven, has composed her first opera called The Sweeper of Dreams.

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Classical KDFC

A quick afternoon quiz. Someone just forwarded me this photo. Do you know what this is? (It's not a game board) -Ray

Scroll to the end for the answer...

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TOMORROW: "Dancing With the Opera Stars"

UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS

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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:

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585 Elmgrove Avenue
Providence RI 02906
401-331-6060

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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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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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 

THIS WEEK! 

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Classical KDFC:  It's a Janko piano from the 19th century. With 264 keys instead of the usual 88 on a traditional piano. The idea was to have a more simplied set-up with a smaller reach. It failed because players refused to take on yet another keyboard set-up. -Ray

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