This week's blog will be abbreviated due to a death in the family.
* All links below are live
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109,
and Verizon 478)
MANON
Saturday, August 10 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, August 11 -- 3:00am; Monday, August 12-- 12:00am
MANoN
Soprano Anna Netrebko stars in Jules Massenet's "Manon," about a country girl who, while on her way to a convent, falls for a young man (Piotr Beczala) before succumbing to a promise of a luxurious life offered by a rich nobleman (Christophe Mortagne).
DURATION: 180 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Lovers of Wagner's operas have reason to rejoice this
weekend as THREE of his masterworks can be heard on internet radio this coming
Saturday (August 10). For example, if you'd prefer one of his comparatively
shorter works, you might want to tune in to any NPR station and give a listen
to "The Flying Dutchman" in a performance from Los Angeles Opera
(dated some time in March of this year).
On the other hand, if you're up for a huge blockbuster
of an opera, there's the epic "Die Gotterdammerung" as performed on
July 31 at this summer's Bayreuth Festival. (Rumor has it that this one is best
enjoyed without any of the outrageous visuals, so no problems on internet
radio.)
Or how about "Die Meistersinger" in a
performance from last Friday (August 2) as part of this summer's Salzburg
Festival? (Rumor has it that this one is a feast for both eyes and ears!)
If Wagner does not happen to be what you're in the
mood for this Saturday, why not let good old Giuseppe Verdi come to the rescue?
His relatively early opera "Attila" can be heard on German Radio in a
performance from Berlin (June 19 of this year).
Adventurous listeners, however, might want to check
out the World Premiere of Swedish composer Marie Samuelsson's opera "Joran
Snake Eye" which was heard for the first time on July 29, as part of the
Vadstena Festival.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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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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In Memoriam
Yehuda Lev
January 2, 1927-August 3, 2013
Music lover, Savior
of worlds
“Whoever saves a
life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.”
- Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5;
Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 37a
May
choirs of angels lead you to your rest.
To read about Yehuda Lev, go to:
The Jerusalem Post: Yehuda Lev, US-born journalist and Zionist, dies in Rhode Island
The Jewish Journal, Los Angeles: Yehuda Lev's Self-Written Obituary
The Jewish Journal, Los Angeles: Remembering Yehuda Lev
http://www.jewishjournal.com/
Yehuda Lev, a journalist who smuggled holocaust survivors into Palestine died August 3m 2013
Yehuda Lev, a journalist who smuggled holocaust survivors into Palestine died August 3m 2013
http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2013/08/07/yehuda-leva-journalist-who-smuggled-holocaust-survivors-into-palestine-died-on-august-3-2013/
The Jewish Voice and Herald, Providence, RI: Exodus, 1947
http://www.jfri.org/page.aspx?id=106712
*The Jewish Journal, Los Angeles:Yehuda Lev, Journalist and Columnist
*Haartez, Israel: Yehuda Lev, Journalist Who Smuggled Holocaust Survivors into Palestine, Dies
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.540099
*same obit from JTA as in Jerusalem Post but good pictures
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