Week of October 4 - October 11, 2012

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

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

Placido Domingo

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Saturday, October 6 -- 8:00pm; October 7 -- 3am; October 8 -- 12am

Placido Domingo: My Favorite Roles

Placido Domingo reminisces about his favorite roles in this retrospective. The documentary, which also features his reflections on his childhood, includes his turn as Don Jose in "Carmen" at the Vienna Staatsoper.

DURATION: 120 MIN

DETAILS: [HD] [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

in Simon Boccanegra

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In the mood for a trip to Vermont?

Peep at the leaves and listen to a little Bach!

2nd Annual Blache Moyse Memorial Concert

J.S. Bach: BWV 8 Cantata: Liebster Gott, wun werde' ich sterben?

                BWV 140 Cantata: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme.

                BWV 243, Magnificat

Hannah Yu, Soprano

Mary Westbrook-Geha, Mezzo-Soprano

Steven Paul Spears, Tenor

Sanford Sylvan, Baritone

Blanche Moyse Chorale, Mary Westbrook-Geha, Director

Blanche Moyse Memorial Orchestra

Sunday, October 7, 2012

3 PM, Parson Auditorium, Marlboro, Vt.

Tickets $20, $40   bmcvt.org   802-257-4523

To hear Wachet Auf: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sj-NKqR0tw

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

A mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar, as well as the old and the new coming up on this Saturday's internet opera schedule.

You can't get any newer than the recent world premiere in Berlin of Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth's "American Lulu" (to be heard on German radio). This new opera is, as expected, based on Alban Berg's 20th century work -- or at least, the first 2 acts of it are. Then Neuwirth goes her own way in Act 3, transplanting the characters of Lulu, the Countess Geschwitz, & Schigolch into the 60s & 70s as African-Americans. Well! Not only is it new, but it's different as well. The performance being broadcast took place this past Sunday.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

On more traditional territory, NPR is bringing us Mozart's comic masterpiece "The Marriage of Figaro" as heard as part of last season's San Francisco Opera schedule.

(www.wrti.org/)

More Mozart comes to us via Canada's CBC Radio 2. In this case, rather than an actual live broadcast, it's a live recording of "Don Giovanni" that's being aired this Saturday. Some familiar names in the cast are Diana Damrau as Donna Anna & Joyce Di Donato as Donna Elvira.

(www.cbc.ca/radio2/)

Even more Mozart is heading our way this weekend, as the Royal Swedish Opera (Stockholm) gives a LIVE performance of "The Magic Flute" (to be heard on Swedish radio).

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

In the mood for a light Rossini comedy? If so, then you might wish to tune in to the Belgian station Klara, as the opera "Il Signor Bruschino" will be broadcast in a performance that took place on August 12 as part of this past summer's Rossini Festival in Pesaro (Italy).

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

Since the Met's 2012/2013 season has just started, their free LIVE stream has now kicked in, and tonight (Oct. 3) at 7:25, Puccini's "Turandot" is scheduled to be broadcast. Then on next Tuesday (Oct. 9), again at 7:25, it's Verdi's "Otello" with soprano Renee Fleming singing the role of Desdemona. You could consider that one an audio preview of the upcoming HD-transmission of the opera which will take place later this month, on the 27th.

(www.metopera.org)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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COMING SOON! THE FIRST Live in HD: OCTOBER 13, 2012

Donizetti’s L'Elisir d'Amore–New Production

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

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Placido Domingo 

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations. 

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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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RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE

presents 

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Edward Markward, Conductor

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture

Dmitri Shostakovich: Festive Overture

Piano Concerto #2 in F Major

Aleksandra Vrebalov:  Transparent Walls (R.I. Premiere)

Michael Boriskin, Piano

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012

8 P.M.

Roberts Auditorium

 

$10 general admission

$5 Seniors and non-RIC students

FREE RIC students, faculty and staff
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At the NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY:

Gluck: Orfeo

Stephen Lord, Artistic Advisor of NEC's opera studies program, conducts Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice in Jordan Hall. Based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi this production features the NEC Philharmonia and a student cast led by singers in the Artist Diploma program, stage directed by Opera Studies Chair Joshua Major.

Orfeo Jaime Korkos
Euridice Hae Ji Chang
Cupid Soyoung Park

The opera follows Orpheus, granted permission by Cupid, into the Underworld to retrieve his beloved Euridice. Though originally set to an Italian libretto, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice owes much to the genre of French opera, especially its use of recitative or the rhythms of ordinary speech. Orfeo marks a shift away from the baroque style ofOpera Seria toward a new style that focuses on the story at hand instead of elaborate staging.

Mezzo-soprano Jaime Korkos '11 G.D., '13 A.D. (Orfeo) is a student of Luretta Bybee. During her previous studies at NEC, Korkos sang the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (in photo) and the title role of La Périchole, as well as the solo part in Mahler's Symphony No. 3. Immediately before returning to NEC for the Artist Diploma, she participated in the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, which allowed her to perform in four operas in a two-month span.

Soprano Hae Ji Chang '12 A.D. (Euridice) studies withLorraine Nubar. At NEC, she has previous sung Pamina in The Magic Flute (in photo). During the 2011–12 season, Chang covered Giannetta from L'elisir d'Amore at New York City Opera in March and Mélisande from Pelléas et Mélisande at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in June. She was cast as Giulietta in Opera Boston's 2012 production of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montechhi—a production that unfortunately never took place, due to the closing of Opera Boston at the end of 2011. Chang is enrolled as of fall 2012 in the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera, and returns to NEC for tonight's performance.

Soprano Soyoung Park '12 M.M., '14 A.D. (Cupid) studies with Lorraine Nubar. At Aspen in 2012, when she reprised her showcase role from NEC's 2011 production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, Park "delivered a relentless, forceful and blazingly sung Queen of the Night," according to MusicWeb's eyewitness. Park has also appeared at NEC in the 2012 Boston premiere of Benjamin Britten'sPaul Bunyan.

Come back tomorrow night
for vocal music in a
completely different vein.

Date: October 10, 2012 - 8:00:PM

Price: Free

Location: NEC’s Jordan Hall

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