This week on Rhode Island Public television, WSBE:
Don Giovanni
Great Performances at the Met
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Saturday, March 3 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, March 4 -- 3:00am; Monday, March 5 -- 12:00am
36.2 - WSBE Learn. Verizon Fios 478; Cox Cable 808.
Don Giovanni
Baritone Mariusz Kwiecien stars as the serial seducer "Don Giovanni," who swaggers his way to eternal damnation in this production of Mozart's 1787 masterpiece, which costars soprano Barbara Frittoli as the fiery Donna Elvira.
DURATION: 180 MIN
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Rhode
Island Civic Chorale
and
Orchestra
Saturday, March 3, 2O12, 8pm
Pre-concert talk by
Dr. Samuel Breene - 7:00 PM
Dr. Samuel Breene - 7:00 PM
The Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul
30 Fenner St.
Providence, RI 02903
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ROSSINI ON HIS LEAP YEAR BIRTHDAY
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PROVIDENCE
SINGERS
Benjamin Britten
War, Pity of War, Pacifism
The 1930s in Britain was not an easy time or place for a committed pacifist. Germany was arming; peace seemed an unlikely proposition. Yet Benjamin Britten’s abhorrence of violence was deeply seated and of long standing. He sought conscientious objector status in 1942, then continued “the work I’m most qualified to do” — composing, performing, and, at war’s end, mounting concerts with Yehudi Menuhin at the liberated Bergen–Belsen concentration camp. As England’s premier composer, Britten was commissioned to write a requiem for the Coventry Cathedral reconsecration in May 1962. His treatment of war, tempered by the poetry of Wilfred Owen, two world wars, and the Cold War gloom of nuclear arms, was not celebratory. “When you hear Britten’s music — if you really hear it, not just listen to it superficially,” said Leonard Bernstein, “you become aware of something very dark. There are gears that are grinding and not quite meshing. And they make a great pain. It was a difficult and lonely time.”
3:30 p.m. Sunday, March 4, 2012, Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Providence
News | About the concert | Read the texts | Buy tickets | Travel directions
Also performed at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3, in Boston: Tickets and information
News | About the concert | Read the texts | Buy tickets | Travel directions
Also performed at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3, in Boston: Tickets and information
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OPERA PROVIDENCE
March 30 and April 1, 2012
"Murder and Mayhem!"
— Featuring —
Diana McVey - Soprano • Denise Lachowski - Mezzo
Rene de la Garza - Baritone • Melissa Woolverton - Pianist
"Murder and Mayhem!"
— Featuring —
Diana McVey - Soprano • Denise Lachowski - Mezzo
Rene de la Garza - Baritone • Melissa Woolverton - Pianist
Blithewold Mansion
Bristol, RI
Bristol, RI
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Concerts take place on Friday evenings at 7:00pm and
Sunday afternoons at 3:00pm.
Enjoy the ambiance of the beautiful Blithewold Mansion with the
music of Opera Providence.
Each month features different composers, music, and superb
singers!
Space is limited so reserve early.
Dessert, wine, and song.
— Tickets —$40 per person per concert $100 per
person for the series (all three concerts)
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Met radio broadcasts
This Saturday at noon:
Giuseppe Verdi's
AIDA
Listen to the Met Opera Saturday afternoon broadcasts at 1pm, on Harvard Radio, 95.3 in the Boston area or live-streaming online at http://www.whrb.org
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This coming Saturday (March 3), many internet
radio stations will be airing the LIVE performance from the Met of Verdi's
"Aida" with Violeta Urmana as Aida, Marcelo Alvarez as Radames, and
Stephanie Blythe as Amneris -- all "veterans" of past HD-transmissions
that the Met has offered over the past several years.
Of interest to fans of Russian opera,
Rimsky-Korsakov's penultimate opera is on hand, coming to us via Radio 4 in a
3/1/12 performance from Amsterdam. The opera in question: "The Legend of
the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" (there's a nice long
title for you!), or as those of you who have a special fondness for this opera
(and you know who you are) call it: "Kitezh."
(www.radio4.nl/)
French Radio, on the other hand, has a
double-bill of 2 one-acters that were recently performed in Lyons (1/29/12):
Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" and the less familiar "A Florentine
Tragedy" by Zemlinsky, who was Arnold Schoenberg's brother-in-law and a
man who was in love with Gustav Mahler's wife Alma, a couple of items that may
be of some interest to opera-trivia buffs.
(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)
Then, on Monday, March 5, the Met has a free
LIVE audio-stream scheduled at 7:30, as Donizetti's "L'Elisir
d'Amore" will be broadcast with Diana Damrau and Juan Diego Florez as
Adina and Nemorino, respectively. Sounds super!
(www.metopera.org)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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San Francisco Opera
| Sunday, March 4, 2012 on KDFC [at 8:00pm (PDT)] 11pm EDT in Rhode Island |
Go to
http://www.KDFC.COM
Click on "Listen Live"
Music by Christopher Theofanidis and Libretto by Donna Di Novelli
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| THOMAS HAMPSON |
What makes a hero? The
question was never an academic one for Rick Rescorla, a British-born
adventurer who fought in Vietnam before settling in New York as head of
security for a brokerage firm based in the World Trade Center. On September 11,
2001, his extraordinary courage and calmness in a crisis paid off: Rescorla led
all of the 2,700 people under his care to safety—literally singing them down
the stairs—before heading back into the burning building for one last check. He
never emerged.
Thomas Hampson, William Burden, Melody Moore,
Nadine Sierra, Henry Phipps, Mohannad Mchallah, Michael Sumuel, Susannah
Biller, Sara Gartland, Maya Lahyani, Ta’u Pupu’a, Daniel Snyder, Trevor
Scheunemann and Wayne Tigges; directed by Francesca Zambello; conducted by
Patrick Summers. Recorded Fall 2010, War Memorial Opera House.
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THE 2012-13 Met Season
has been announced:
Go to http://www.metopera-digital.org/metopera/season2012-13#pg1
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THE 2012-13 Met Season
has been announced:
Go to http://www.metopera-digital.org/metopera/season2012-13#pg1
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ONLY TWO VIEWINGS IN RHODE ISLAND:
Coming March 13, 3:00pm to The Jane Pickens Theater, Newport, RI
Encore, March 25, 12pm at the Cable Car Cinema in Providence
Live, from Gran Teatre Licou, Barcelona, Spain
(Both are single performances)
LA BOHEME
Starring
Ramon Vargas and Fiorenza Cedolins
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Coming April 17 to The Jane Pickens Theater, Newport, RI
VERDI'S RIGOLETTO LIVE FROM
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON
APRIL 17 (ONE SHOW ONLY); TIME ~ TBA
OVERVIEW
LIVE from the Royal Opera House, London, England Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Composed by Verdi, Conducted by John Eliot Ga,Starring Dimitri Platanias, Ekaterina Siurina, Vittorio Grigolo, Pablo Bemsch & Christine Rice. Sung in Italian with English subtitles, 2 hrs 9 mins
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV THIS WEEK!
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