This week on Rhode Island Public television,
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LA CENERENTOLA
Great Performances at the Met
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Saturday, June 30 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, July 1 -- 3:00am; Monday, July 2 -- 12:00am
LA CENERENTOLA
DURATION: 180 MIN
DETAILS: [HD] [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
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A special treat: FREE Diana Damrau and Rolando Villazon in
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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To hear Bob Edwards' fascinating interview with
composer, conductor, and chorister Eric Whitacre
click on http://soundcloud.com/ericwhitacre/eric-whitacre-on-the-bob
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Some
excellent "late" Verdi turns up on the opera schedule for this coming
Saturday (June 30), namely "Aida" & "Falstaff."
The
"Aida" performance is one that took place this past January and is a
continuation of the cycle of Lyric Opera of Chicago radio broadcasts being aired
by NPR. Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky sings the role of Aida, partnered with
Marcello Giordani as Radames. Both singers are veterans of fairly recent Met
HD-transmissions, with Ms Radvanovsky having appeared singing the role of
Leonora in last season's "Trovatore" & Giordani recently starring
in "Ernani" (televised last Sunday on Channel 2).
(www.wrti.org/)
London's
Royal Opera House is the company serving us the other Verdi offering:
"Falstaff" with an excellent ensemble cast working to bring this
comic masterpiece to life.
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)
Speaking
of masterpieces, "Lucia di Lammermoor" (Donizetti) will be heard in a
LIVE performance on ORF, direct from the Vienna State Opera. Tenor Piotr
Beczala -- recently seen at the Met as Des Grieux opposite Anna Netrebko in
Massenet's "Manon" -- sings the tenor role of Edgardo. Soprano Diana
Damrau, originally slated to sing the title role, is being replaced by Brenda
Rae, according to the latest information I have at hand.
(http://oe1.at/)
For
this week's obscure opera, there's Czech composer Zdenek Fibich's
"Sarka" in a performance from Braunschweig that took place on March
22 of this year. Traditional-minded opera-lovers may rest assured that Fibich's
opera, premiering in the 1890s, is suitably melodic and dramatic in a style
reminiscent of Dvorak's nearly contemporaneous opera "Rusalka."
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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UPCOMING MET-HD Summer Encores
No HD Encore on the Fourth of July!
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
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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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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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
Lucia di Lammermoor
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
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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