This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109,
and Verizon 478)
Capriccio
Great Performances at the Met
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Saturday, June 1 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, June 2 -- 3:00am; Monday, June 3-- 12:00am
Capriccio
On opening night of the 2008-09 Met season, Renee Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang the final scene of Strauss's wise and worldly meditation on art and life. Now she performs the entire work, in which the composer explores the essence of opera itself. Joseph Kaiser and Sarah Connolly also star with Andrew Davis conducting.
DURATION: 2 hr., 25 MIN.
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
Joyce DiDonato announces new album title
selected by fans
Master class with Angela Gheorghiu
What Makes a Great Soprano?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0t544MZNhA
What Makes a Great Soprano?
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'Imperfect Harmony': How Singing
With Others Changes Your Life
June 03, 2013 1:00 PM
Imperfect Harmony
Finding Happiness Singing With Others
by Stacy Horn
Paperback, 256 pages purchase
When writer Stacy Horn was 26 years old, she was divorced
and miserable. So she decided to audition for the Choral Society of Grace
Church in New York. Horn made the cut and joined the community choir as a
soprano.
She chronicles her 30 years with the group in a new memoir,
Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness in Singing With Others. She talks with
NPR's Ari Shapiro about how singing made her life more bearable.
Daniel Levitin, psychology professor at McGill University,
and author of This Is Your Brain on Music, joins the conversation to explain
the science of group singing.
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Opera Lovers of RI
Third anniversary!
June 25, 2010, I published my first blog entry. It has been great fun and a tremendous learning experience for me, truly a labor of love. I hope it has been fruitful for you as well. In celebration of this anniversary, three years without missing a single week, I am inviting you to join us for a "Dutch treat" lunch at Asian Palace.
(I wish I could offer to give a free banquet but I don't make any money from the blog and my day job can't subsidize it.)
Come and meet other local opera lovers. I bet we can get the restaurant to play some opera in the background!
Save the date:
Noon, Saturday, June 22, 2013.
Please send me an RSVP; if we get enough people,
we'll reserve the banquet room.
RSVP to me: drpegueros@gmail.com
Asian Palace is very reasonable and has a huge menu that includes Chinese, Thai, and Japanese selections, including a full sushi bar. Keep in mind that they only have the regular menu on weekends, not the lunch menu. The website includes directions: http://www.asianpalacedining.com/
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Stylistically, there's a nice mixture of operas on
this Saturday afternoon's schedule (June 8). For starters, Handel's
"Alcina" hits the "airwaves" on German Radio in a
performance from June 2012 that took place in Halle.
20th century opera fans -- as well as fans of soprano
Renee Fleming -- can rejoice over a performance of Andre Previn's opera
"Streetcar Named Desire" (based on You-Know-What) that took place
this past March in Chicago. With Renee Fleming singing the role of Blanche,
this is one that is fully worthy of one's serious consideration, IMO.
Also from Lyric Opera of Chicago, NPR has a rather
unlikely double-bill for us: the dramatic & tragic "Elektra"
(Richard Strauss) paired with the (mainly) upbeat & delightful "Hansel
& Gretel" (Humperdinck). Both operas were performed in the opera
company's previous season.
There's also some prime Mozart in the offing, with a
broadcast of a recent performance from Brussels of "Cosi fan Tutte."
Then there's "The Pearl Fishers" -- Bizet's
second-best-known opera -- to be heard in a performance that took place in
Amsterdam last September.
No Verdi, you ask? -- Never fear: BBC Radio 3 will be
bringing us the vocalism of Placido Domingo as he takes on yet another baritone
role, this one being the title role of "Nabucco" which was performed
this past April at London's Royal Opera House.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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2013 Summer encores of
Live in HD Broadcasts
Live in HD Broadcasts
2013-14 Live in HD
Season Preview
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Some interesting articles
Music for All: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer
Higdon gives an engaging talk in the Dallas Opera's
Managing the Opera Company of the Future:
In his latest Off the Cuff, The Dallas Opera's
Keith Cerny forecasts what opera will look like 10 years from now.
New York Grand Opera Company Cancels Central
Park Season, Citing Weather
Saturday at the Opera; Massenet's Werther
Why are Opera Fans so Fascinated with James
Levine?
Review: James Levine, Wheelchair-Bound,
Returns from 2-Year Absence
Classical KDFC Blog: Why Do Music Students
Have Higher SAT Scores?
Five Questions with Matthew Polenzani
Alan Gilbert on Lisa Batiashvili and
Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1pQL6lPRUIs
Istanbul Music Festival Cancels Opening
Ceremonies Due to Protests
Richard Wagner, Love Him or Hate Him?
Planet Opera: A San Francisco Treat
History's Most Notorious Lover Emerges in
Theater and Song
Café Concert: Richard and Mika Stoltzman
Spring Awakening: Activity at NYC's Small
Opera Companies
La Scala Scales Back on Productions Due to
Crisis
Verdi in the Greene Space
Joseph Calleja ~ Opera Gala was floating stage
without an Italian night (In
German--Google will translate)
How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/may/29/stravinsky-rite-of-spring?sf13503474=1#ixzz2UgpoohjV
Last Wednesday Stravinsky's Rite of Spring turned 100 years old...how do you think it has shaped music?
Concert and Event Calendar
2012-2013 Season
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
Providence,
R.I. –May 29, 2013 – Opera Providence has come a long way in the last five
years, and their June major season production of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s
comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance, promises to showcase that
progress. Running June 14,15, and 21 at 8:00pm and June 23 at 3:00pm at the recently
restored Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence, the fully staged
performances will feature a highly professional cast working under Nathaniel
Merchant, stage director, and Rene de la Garza, artistic director.
“Five
years ago, you wouldn't have imagined OP putting on something this big, this
beautiful and this professionally sung with showmanship and stagecraft and
heart,” says Robert DeRobbio, president of Opera Providence’s board. “For the
most part this farce is a madcap ballet of Victorian characters, props and set
pieces zipping on, around and off the stage, giving a relentless momentum to
the playfully jabbing social satire. But there are also moments of tenderness,
poignant romance and wry humor.”
The
two-act opera centers on a love story between Frederic, celebrating the end of
his pirate apprenticeship upon reaching the age of 21, and Mabel, the
tender-hearted daughter of the pompous Major-General Stanley. Internationally
acclaimed soprano Julianne Gearhart is the blushing Mabel, wooed by Boston-based
tenor Joshua Collier as the dutiful young Frederic, who believes as a reformed
citizen he must now bring the pirates to justice. As in all good farce, waves
of complications ensue, including a twist in Frederic’s contract and
circumstances that means he must remain with the pirates for another 63 years! Is
his romance doomed?
The
accomplished cast also features bass-baritone Ryne Cherry as the honorably
roguish Pirate King; comic baritone Andy Papas as Major-General Stanley; mezzo-sopranos
Arielle Rogers (Kate) and Kristen Charpentier (Edith) as Mabel’s flirtatious
sisters; and Boston-based contralto Ana Maria Ugarte as the bawdy pirate maid
Ruth.
Tickets
are $35 and $60 per person.
The Columbus Theatre
270 Broadway
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 621-9660
Directions:
Tickets: $35 and $60 per person
For tickets please call the Opera Providence Office at 401-331-60
Information on Opera Providence is also available on the website: www.operaprovidence.org
Information on Opera Providence is also available on the website: www.operaprovidence.org
July and August 2013
Summer production of
"Elixir of Love"
Exact dates to be determined.
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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The Met radio broadcast season is
over for now...
check this space the first week
of December.
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK!
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