Met-HD Simulcast FEBRUARY 16, 2013 ~ 1:00 pm ET
RIGOLETTO
Renee Fleming To Host Metropolitan Opera's Live In HD Broadcast Of Verdi's Rigoletto Featuring Piotr Beczala, Željko Lucic, Diana Damrau
http://www.classicalite.com/articles/1157/20130204/renee-fleming-host-metropolitan-operas-live-hd.htm
Verdi’s Rigoletto - New Production
Saturday, February 16, 2013, 1:00 pm ET
Michael Mayer’s bold new production locates Verdi’s tragedy of lust, betrayal, and revenge in Las Vegas in 1960. Željko Lučić sings the title role and Diana Damrau is his beautiful daughter, who falls under the spell of Piotr Beczala’s womanizing Duke.
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| Željko Lučić as Rigoletto |
Diana Damrau is a stunning Gilda… Piotr Beczala displays a big, beautiful tenor with great presence" (Wall Street Journal). As Rigoletto, Željko Lučić's “voice is big and penetrating, focused and true… His phrasing is supple and elegant" (New York Times).
"It's impossible not to like the new production. It's wildly entertaining… Michael Mayer captures both the emotional depth and surface glitter in an audacious staging” (Bloomberg).
Rigoletto Panel at the Guggenheim
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/28712898
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| Diana Damrau as Gilda |
Watch a web stream featuring the creative team and stars of the Met’s new Rigoletto.
Synopsis available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish
Synopsis:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?customid=134
Approximate runtime: 3:31
Oh, Baby! That Duke Sure Is a Dreamboat in the New ‘Rigoletto’
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/arts/music/mets-titles-translate-rigoletto-into-1960-rat-pack-speak.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&
Oh, Baby! That Duke Sure Is a Dreamboat in the New ‘Rigoletto’
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/arts/music/mets-titles-translate-rigoletto-into-1960-rat-pack-speak.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&
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from WQXR in New York
No 'R' Rating for
the Met's New Rigoletto
Wednesday, January
30, 2013 - 05:47 PM
On Feb. 16, the Met
will broadcast its new Rigoletto production to movie theaters across the
country as part of its Live in HD series. In keeping with its Las Vegas theme,
audiences at the Met will see a few scenes with scantily clad dancers (and a
topless pole dancer), but movie theater audiences will get something a bit more
restrained.
No nudity will be
broadcast to the theaters, thanks to a creative use of camera angles.
A Metropolitan Opera
spokesman said the screenings are not rated, which means the racy stuff is
off-limits. "It's not a Met rule, but since we do not have a rating for
our Live in HDs, it would be problematic to show in movie theaters," he
said.
In 2008, the Met
decided not to show a nude scene involving Karita Mattila in Strauss's Salome,
saying at the time that the theater broadcasts are family-friendly events.
As Operavore blogger
Fred Plotkin detailed in a post during the heat of summer 2012, nudity in opera
can present all kinds of challenges for singers and audiences alike.
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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
LA TRAVIATA
Great Performances at the Met
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Saturday, February 16 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, February 17 -- 3:00am; Monday, February 18 -- 12:00am
La Traviata
Soprano Natalie Dessay stars in Willy Decker's stylized production of Verdi's "La Traviata," about Violetta, a frail courtesan who sacrifices her happiness in order to spare her beloved Alfredo (Matthew Polenzani) and his family any strife her reputation could cause them.
DURATION: 150 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
synopsis; http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?customid=139
Gerald Finley
Aria of the Week: Gerald Finley singing Ralph Vaughan Williams
'Songs of Travel: Bright is the Ring of Words' http://bit.ly/XkgJeo
'Songs of Travel: Bright is the Ring of Words' http://bit.ly/XkgJeo
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Burned Opera Fire-Blower Released From Hospital
Thursday, February 07, 2013 - 06:00 PM
Wesley Daniel, the fire-blower who was burned at Lyric
Opera of Chicago
A fire-blowing stilt-walker with the Lyric Opera of
Chicago who suffered second-degree burns during a dress rehearsal was released
from the hospital Thursday.
Dr. Arthur Sanford of Loyola University Medical Center
said Wesley Daniel, 24, should heal within two weeks. He equated the injuries
to a "deep sunburn," and said that within six months, the incident
should likely be a "bad memory."
Daniel was rehearsing Monday for the opera Die
Meistersinger von Nuernberg when he had to swig flammable liquid and spit it
onto a torch he was holding. Witnesses described him staggering off stage and
falling to the floor.
The hospital released a picture of a Daniel with
bandages over his face, head and left hand and giving an "OK" sign.
"Wesley is in good spirits," Daniel's
father, Clifton Daniel, said. "We're going to take him home and let him
eat what he wants ... We're going to let him rest and begin to heal."
Clifton Daniel says his son hasn't been able to give a
cause for the accident.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
visited the opera after the incident. The opera has said it is fully
cooperating.
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/blogs/operavore/2013/feb/07/burned-opera-fire-blower-released-hospital/
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This coming Saturday (February 16), New York's Metropolitan Opera
will be transmitting their new production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" in
movie theaters all over the world. With an all-star cast that includes soprano
Diana Damrau (once seen as the Countess Adele in Rossini's "Le Comte
Ory") & tenor Piotr Beczala (last season's Des Grieux in Massenet's
"Manon"), it's bound to be a winner, IMO! And of course, even if you
don't get to see it at the movie theaters, you can listen to the performance on
most internet radio stations.
(www.wrti.org/)
The only other item of interest that I could find would be a LIVE
performance from Stockholm of Puccini's "Turandot" featuring soprano
Nina Stemme in the title role. Ms Stemme impressed mightily when she performed the role of Brunnhilde a
season or two ago at the San Francisco Opera.
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)
With an HD-transmission of Wagner's "Parsifal" coming up
on March 2, opera fans may want to tune in to the Met's LIVE audio-stream on
Friday evening at 5:55 p.m. when this particular opera can be heard in its
premiere performance this season, with tenor Jonas Kaufmann singing the title
role, as well as other singers who are scheduled to appear in the
HD-transmission next month.
(www.metopera.org)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met radio broadcast,
February 16, 2013 @ 1:00pm
Giuseppe Verdi's
RIGOLETTO
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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Adapting Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved
novel, The Secret Garden, as an opera, has been a joy, for two main reasons.
One is the strength and beauty of the book, and the other has been the delight
of working with a brilliant composer, Nolan Gasser, who has been as
encouraging, flexible and astute a collaborator as any librettist could wish
for.
from sfopera.com
From Book to Libretto:
Adapting The Secret Garden
Adapting Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved
novel, The Secret Garden, as an opera, has been a joy, for two main reasons.
One is the strength and beauty of the book, and the other has been the delight
of working with a brilliant composer, Nolan Gasser, who has been as
encouraging, flexible and astute a collaborator as any librettist could wish
for.
In regards to the adaptation, many adaptors
today seem to think that the more famous the book the greater the need to make
it "their own." I've always worked on exactly the opposite principle.
As the author of over two hundred original plays, scripts and novels, I have
had plenty of opportunity to indulge my own imaginative flights. To my mind,
what a great work requires from an adaptor or translator is faithfulness, and
in that capacity I have always stayed as close to the original as possible—if
the original is strong! And The Secret Garden is. The musical that was made
from the book some years ago took liberties, inventing characters and plots not
to be found in the original. This left me free to be different—free to be true
to Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The greatest challenge was technical: it was
the matter of length, and the quantity of time that elapses in the novel as the
children—its main characters—go through a kind of chrysalis period of slow
self-discovery before emerging, in the garden of the title, as the healthy,
heart-whole young people they deserve to be. Burnett takes her time leading the
reader through this evolution—and we love every minute of it. It's one of those
books that you never want to reach the end of. Burnett is able to go into the
secret inner lives of the characters; on stage, we can only dwell for so long
on this process, and yet at the same time we cannot rush the gradual stages of
development that mark the logic of Burnett's story and create the desire in us
for its fulfillment.
Music can do wonders of compression, and can
take us straight to the heart of a scene—literally, to its emotional core,
conveying what pages of dialog could only struggle to evoke. So I had to
restrain my instinct, as a dramatist, to tease out the drama in words, and let
the music tell the story too. David Gockley, our supremo, and Patrick Summers,
of the Houston Opera, have helped Nolan teach me how to tailor libretto scenes,
and this has been a marvelous journey of discovery. Every cut was a benefit!
And never fear, there's plenty of drama left, and wonderful, wonderful music.
Please come and enjoy it with us!
Storyboard images by Visual Designer Naomie
Kremer
MORE...
The Secret Garden video set
http://sfopera.com/About/Backstage-at-San-Francisco-Opera/January-2013/The-Secret-Garden-Video-Set.aspx
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Real Life Tragedy Transformed for the
Operatic Stage:
Don Carlo
The opera Don Carlo is based on the real world
harrowing life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias. His beloved, Princess Elisabeth
of Valois, was originally betrothed to him, but ended up being married to his
father King Philip II of Spain as part of a peace treaty ending the war between
the Hapsburg and Valois Houses. The eldest son of Philip II of Spain, Carlos
was born in 1545 frail and deformed; throughout his adolescence, he grew
increasingly unstable mentally. The rivalry between him and his father, involving
their love for Elisabeth, struggles for power, and Carlos’ unpredictable and
wild behavior ended in tragic consequences: Upon his father’s orders, Carlos
was imprisoned, dying after six months of solitary confinement.
Ferruccio Furlanetto as King Philip II
The opera Don Carlo focuses less on the
hopeful romantic relationship between Don Carlo and Elisabeth and instead
focuses on the unjust exercise of power by an aging, conservative establishment
determined to deny freedom to its subjects and vassal states. In the opera,
Philip is often considered the most interesting figure, the one drawn in the
greatest detail.
The conflicting pulls of love versus duty,
between the private and the public faces presented by each of the figures, are
best realized in the character of Philip II. Philip’s Act III aria (‘Ella
giammai m’amo!’- “She never loved me!” referring to Elisabeth), ameliorate his
merciless authority and, in private, reveal a humanity showing beneath the
harsh facade that is buckling in the face of duty’s demands.
Bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, the King Philip of
the upcoming Opera in Cinema La Scala version of Don Carlo, says that he has
had years to grow into and develop the layered complexity required to
communicate Philip’s character. Performing the role since 1981, he admits,
“Vocally, it’s not exactly easy, but it’s nothing very demanding, apart from
the finale where he’s first extremely violent, and then you need to find a
color where he’s extremely soft in order to show this redemption.” (Interview
with The Classical Source). “It’s a beautiful libretto and words and music
together define the character in a very precise way giving the king a human
aspect that doesn’t appear in the original play by Friedrich Schiller.”
The audience often cannot but help sympathize
with this character. Furlanetto continues, “In the libretto, the King is a
bigot, but Verdi gives you the opportunity to bring out the hidden human
elements in the man.” He finds the extreme darkness in Philip’s character and
contrasts them with the human aspects – an interesting play on the
“chiaroscuro” within the role — the dearest to Furlanetto’s heart.
See Furlanetto as Philip II this weekend in a
theater near you!
http://www.emergingpictures.com/2013/02/07/real-life-tragedy-transformed-for-the-operatic-stage-don-carlo/
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Where
are the divas?
Oh, to be a fly on the wall!
Diana Damrau
*January 28 - May 1, 2013
New York City - Metropolitan Opera
Rigoletto
*March 14 - April 6, 2013
New York City - Metropolitan Opera
La Traviata
*April 8, 2013, 8:00 PM
Washington, D.C., Eisenhower Theater
Recital accompanied by harpist Xavier de Maistre
*May 5 - 18, 2013
Zürich, Switzerland - Opernhaus
La Traviata
Natalie Dessay
February 4, 7, 11, 14, 17 20, 23, 2013
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Barcelona, Spain
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Joyce Di Donato 
February 18, 21, 24
Munich, Germany
I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI / ROMEO
Renee fleming
Thursday, March 14, 2013 | 7 PM
New York City -
A Streetcar Named Desire
Elina Garanca
*March 17
Heidelberg -Stadthalle, Germany
Ravel's "Scheherazade"
*April 6
New York City -
Recital
angela gheorghiu 
Romania! Romania! Romania!
Friday 10 May 2013
London, U.K. - Southbank Centre/Royal Festival Hall
Angela Gheorghiu with Romanian tenor Teodor Ilincai and Romanian conductor Tiberiu Soare leading the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
April 12, 14, 17, 20, 28, 2013
Dallas, TX: The Dallas Opera
Argento: The Aspern Papers
karita MATtILA
May 2, 2013
Karita Mattila
Karita Mattila
Katarina Karneus
Rudolfinum - Dvorak Hall
Prague / Praha
Angela Meade
March 9-24, 2013
Washington, D.C. - Washington National Opera
Norma
anna Netrebko
*March 25, 2013
Vail, Colorado: Vilar Performing Arts Center
"An Evening with Anna Netrebko"
* March 9, 12, 15, 18, 22, 28, 2013
Chicago, USA: Lyric Opera of Chicago
Puccini: La Bohéme (Mimi)
Jessye Norman
March 23, 2013
New York City - Apollo Theater
12 Moods for Jazz
March 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 2013
The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA
Manon Lescaut (title role)
Sondra Radvanovsky
March 16, 2013
New York City - Met – HD Broadcast
Host for Francesca da Rimini
April 20, 23, 26, 29, 2013
Bilbao, Spain – Bilbao Opera
Maria Stuarda
May 18, 26, 30; June 2,5,8, 2013
Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles Opera
Tosca
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Not opera but…
Stephen Colbert
Da da da DAAA! Watch music critic Matthew Guerrieri on the Colbert Report discussing the “First Four Notes” of Beethoven’s 5th.www.kdfc.com/Blog -Blake Lawrence
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Maxim Vengerov
He's baaack! Violinist Maxim Vengerov has just released his "comeback" CD. Where's he been? Find out and download a track for free in the latest KDFC eNotes Newsletter. Sign up now: www.kdfc.com/eNotes
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Congratulations to Rebecca Cunha of the University of
Rhode Island! Rebecca was chosen as the soprano soloist in The Rhode Island
Civic Chorale & Orchestra's Fifth Annual COLLEGIATE VOCAL SOLO COMPETITION.
She will appear as the soprano soloist with the Rhode Island Civic Chorale
& Orchestra in its March 16, 2013 concert. The work on the program that
will include the winning soloists is Schubert's Mass No. 3 in B-Flat Major.
Plan now for RICCO's March 16, 2013 Concert.
http://www.ricco.org/?page_id=111
With the Fusion Works Dance Company, Deb Munier,
Artistic Director and the Brown University Chorus, Bradley Naylor, Conductor
Arvo Pärt – Te Deum
Franz Schubert- Mass No. 3 in B-Flat Major
Soloists in the Schubert will be the winners of the
Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra’s 5th Annual Vocal Competition
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Now playing at the Avon (Providence) and the Jane
Pickens Theater (Newport):
Not opera but a movie about elderly opera singers--
Quartet
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| Tom Courtenay and Maggie Smith |
Lifelong friends Wilf and Reggie, together with former
colleague Cissy, are residents of Beecham House, a home for retired opera
singers. Every year on Giuseppe Verdi's birthday, the residents unite to give a
concert to raise funds for their home. But when Jean Horton, a former grande
dame of the opera fallen on hard times, also Reggie's ex-wife, moves into the
home to everyone's surprise, the plans for this year's concert start to
unravel. As old grudges threaten to undermine past glories and theatrical
temperaments play havoc with the rehearsal schedule, it becomes apparent that
having four of the finest singers in English operatic history under one roof
offers no guarantee that the show will go on.
Director: Dustin Hoffman
Running time: 98 minutes
Screenplay: Ronald Harwood
Cinematography: John de Borman
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Special Events
FREE EVENT with Sir Thomas Allen at Boston Public Library
"I
couldn’t have done without Mozart. Spiritually, culturally, aesthetically – it
has given me everything that I have needed."
~Sir Thomas Allen, Time Out London, February 8, 2012
Join British baritone Sir Thomas Allen as he discusses
BLO’s new production of Così Fan Tutte and reads excerpts from his published
memoir.
Foreign Parts – A Singer’s Journal chronicles his time
touring as an opera singer and offers insight into his creative process. The
story of Sir Thomas’ early life as a boy in a small fishing village in northern
England and his turn to a career as Britain’s premier baritone has been cited
by playwright Lee Hall as the inspiration for his film Billy Elliot.
Sir Thomas Allen makes his BLO debut in Così Fan Tutte
as stage director and in his signature role, Don Alfonso. Sir Thomas is an
established star of the world’s greatest opera houses, recently celebrating his
40th anniversary with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Location: Boston Public Library Central Branch, Rabb
Lecture Hall
Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Time: 6:00PM
This event is FREE and open to the public.
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Boston Lyric Opera Signature Series
in Partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts
Program: Mozart's Women
Passion, deep affection, and stifled creativity were the source of
some of the complex emotional ambiguities between Mozart and the women in his
life.
Mother (Anna Maria), Sister (Nannerl), Wife (Constanze), and Lover
(Aloysia) all come alive on the Signature Series stage. Anecdotes, letters,
diaries, and music reveal the diverse paths their lives took as they dealt with
Mozart’s nearly inhuman genius and all-too-human character.
About the Signature Series
Boston Lyric Opera presents the Signature Series in partnership
with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). These provocative preludes employ a
variety of art forms such as fine art, literature, and music through
performance and multimedia to highlight themes in the operas of the season.
Location: MFA, Remis Auditorium
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2013
Time: 2:00pm with reception* at 3:00 pm
$18 – BLO subscribers, MFA members, seniors and students
$22 – Non-Members
*Add $50 for reception with BLO presenters and performers at Bravo
Restaurant
To purchase tickets visit the MFA’s website at mfa.org, or contact
Development Associate Heather Coulter at hcoulter@blo.org or 617.542.4912 x229.
For more information about BLO’s Signature Series collaboration with the MFA,
visit blo.org.
Tickets to Mozart's Così Fan Tutte are still available!
Call BLO Audience Services at (617) 542-6772 to buy yours today.
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK!
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