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This will be
our reply to violence:
to make music
more intensely,
more
beautifully, more devotedly
than ever
before.
--Leonard
Bernstein
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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
*All links below are live
Boris Gudunov
Great Performances at the Met
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Saturday, April 20 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, April 21 -- 3:00am; April 22 -- 12:00am
Boris Gudunov
Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" stars bass René Pape as the 16th-century Russian tsar whose reign is challenged by a novice monk (Aleksandrs Antonenko) masquerading as the dead Tsarevich Dimitri, whose murder opened the door for Boris' ascension.
DURATION: 210 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
SIR COLIN DAVIS, 1927-2013
Sir Colin first conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in 1959 and became
Principal Conductor in 1995. He was the longest serving Principal Conductor in
the LSO’s history and has been at the head of the LSO family for many years.
His musicianship and his humanity have been cherished by musicians and
audiences alike.
Sir Colin’s role in British musical life was immense.
Alongside his commitment to the LSO, he forged special relationships with the
Royal Opera House, the BBCSO, and the English Chamber Orchestra, as well as
mentoring many young performers and conductors at the Royal Academy of Music
and the Guildhall School.
He was internationally renowned for his interpretations
of Mozart, Sibelius and Berlioz, and music lovers across the world have been
inspired by his performances and recordings.
Sir Colin passed away after illness on Sunday evening, 14
April, at the age of 85. He will be remembered with huge affection and
admiration by the LSO and our thoughts are with his family at this time.
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Don’t miss ricco’s
Chamber Choir concert
Sunday,
April 21 at 7:30pm
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| Dr. Markward rehearses with the Rhode Island Civic Chorale Chamber Choir |
If you've never heard Brahms' Liebeslieder
Walzer,
you are in for a treat...
It’s not the sort of thing you'd ever hear in
church!
These are love songs that make you feeling like dancing!
Directions to the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, click on:
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'Heisman Trophy of opera' goes to Isabel Leonard
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press – April 15, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — This year's Richard Tucker award — often
called the "Heisman Trophy of opera" — goes to mezzo-soprano Isabel
Leonard.
The 2013 prize marks the centennial of the birth of the
great tenor who started his career as a cantor in Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn
synagogues — named Ruvn Ticker.
Tucker went on to build a stellar international career, as
have past recipients of the award including soprano Renee Fleming, mezzo Joyce
DiDonato and tenor Lawrence Brownlee.
Also announced Monday were recipients of career and study
grants sponsored by the foundation, which perpetuates the Brooklyn-born tenor's
legacy by nurturing singers and bringing opera into the community through free
performances and education programs.
Each year the nonprofit Richard Tucker Music Foundation
awards the prize — plus $30,000 — to "an American singer poised on the
edge of a major national and international career.
The foundation started in 1975 shortly after Tucker died at
61. His funeral was on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, where Leonard, 31,
has become a favorite with audiences since her 2007 debut in Gounod's
"Romeo and Juliet."
The New York native, whose mother is from Argentina, will be
honored at the foundation's annual gala concert on Nov. 17 at New York's
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Reviewing Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" at the
Glyndebourne Festival in Scotland, London's Financial Times praised Leonard's
signature role of Cherubino, saying the mezzo playing a young man in love
became "a stage animal with charisma written all over her."
A graduate of the Juilliard School, she's appeared at opera
houses from Chicago and Santa Fe to Vienna, Munich and Paris, and with the
Chicago and Boston symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York
Philharmonic.
She's sung at the famed Salzburg Festival, and later this
year, will perform at Japan's Saito Kinen Festival.
Leonard won the Tucker award just days after making her
debut at Carnegie's Zankel Hall.
from
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The Met-HD production of
GIULIO CESARE
is coming to a theater near you next week, April 27, at noon!
Preview
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
If you happen to be a Wagner enthusiast, you're most
likely going to love what's coming up this Saturday (April 20) on internet
radio. Of primary interest to most opera fans will probably be the LIVE
broadcast from the Met of his opera "Siegfried" with Jay Hunter
Morris in the leading role and with soprano Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde, both
of these singers having sung these same roles when the Met presented this opera
last season as part of its schedule of HD-transmissions.
(www/wrti.org/)
The other Wagnerian opus to heard this Saturday is
none other than the "sequel" to "Siegfried" -- "Die
Gotterdammerung" -- which comes to us over German Radio. The performance
being broadcast was originally heard in Berlin on March 15 of this year.
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
Of particular interest to lovers of French opera --
and particularly those who admire the works of Hector Berlioz -- ORF will be
broadcasting his opera "Beatrice & Benedict" (loosely based on
Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado About Nothing"). It's a LIVE performance
from Vienna.
(http://oe1.orf.at/)
Finally, with the LIVE HD-transmission of Handel's
"Giulio Cesare" coming up on the 27th of this month, the Met is
giving us another chance to tune in, by offering us an audio-only version on
their LIVE free audio-stream. You can catch the performance in question on
Monday evening (April 22) at 6:55 p.m.
(www.metopera.org)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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2013-14 Live in HD
Season Preview
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The Met radio broadcast,
April 20, 2013 @ 11:00pm
Richard Wagner's
SIEGFRIED
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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Some interesting articles
From the Audience to the Stage at the Metropolitan
Opera
SF Opera: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
Upon a Rotating Set, a Shift of Siegmunds in Wagner
Performance:‘Die Walküre’ at the Metropolitan Opera
Wagner and the History of Horns
A Shy Rat Pack, Longer on Volume Than on Vim: George
Gagnidze in the Rat Pack ‘Rigoletto’ at the Met
Rolando Villazón in the European premiere of Elliott
Carter's A Sunbeam's Architecture
Joseph Calleja: Life on the road with top opera singer
Joseph Calleja to sing in Paris
A Fantastical Tale to Set the Ears and Eyes Popping:
‘Sunken Garden’ by the English National Opera
Digital Notes: Spotify’s Global Ambitions
If you are not a Met member, or do
not subscribe to Opera News, you can access it at
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APRIL 29, 2013, 8pm
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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection Symphony,” was, with Symphony No. 8, among Mahler’s most popular and successful works during his lifetime. Preoccupied by visions of his own death and by larger philosophical questions about the purpose of life, Mahler pondered a kind of immortality through artistic achievement.
Mahler himself wrote the text sung by soprano, alto,
and chorus at the end of the fifth movement: “Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen
in heißem Liebesstreben, werd’ ich entschweben zum Licht!” (“With wings that I
won for myself during passionate struggles of love, I shall ascend to the
light!”) He was also struck by “Auferstehen” (“Resurrection”), a hymn by
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, which 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 | More
about the concert | Program notes
Tickets online or at the Philharmonic Box Office
(401-248-7000)
http://www.providencesingers.org/
Concert
& Event Calendar
2012-2013
Season
Saturday,
April 27, 2013
"A
Concert of Italian Songs"
—
Featuring —
Michael
DiMucci
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Friday,
June 14, 2013 — 8:00pm
Saturday,
June 15, 2013 — 8:00pm
Friday,
June 21, 2013 — 8:00pm
Sunday,
June 23, 2013 — 3:00pm
"Pirates
of Penzance
—
Featuring —
Samuel
- Devon Morin, The Pirate King - Ryne Cherry, Fredric - Joshua Collier,
Ruth
- Ana Maria Ugarte, Kate - Arielle Rogers, Edith - Kristen Charpentier,
Mabel
- Julianne Gearhart, Major General Stanley - Andy Papas, The Sergeant - Jason
Shealy
Stage
Director and Choreographer - Nathaniel Merchants • Artistic Director - Rene de
la Garza
The
Columbus Theatre
Broadway
Providence,
RI
Tickets:
$35 and $60 per person
For
tickets please call the Opera Providence Office at 401-331-6060
July
& August 2013
Summer
production of
"Elixir
of Love"
Exact
dates to be determined.
For
additional information on our exciting opera season,
to
purchase tickets, or to contribute to the Annual Appeal, contact:
Opera
Providence
585
Elmgrove Avenue
Providence
RI 02906
401-331-6060
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK!
Our
hearts go out to our neighbors in Boston and we pray for their healing and recovery.
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