Week of November 1 - November 8, 2013

OPERA ON WGBH TV 2

THIS FRIDAY, November 1

8pm 

from the San Francisco Opera

MOBY DICK

A San Francisco Opera production of "Moby-Dick," an adaption of the Herman Melville novel by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer. Jay Hunter Morris stars as Captain Ahab, whose obsessive pursuit of a white whale comes with a steep price.

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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

Great Performances at the Met

Anna Bolena

Great Performances at the Met

Saturday, November 2 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, November 3 -- 3:00am; Monday, November 4 -- 12:00am

Anna Bolena

Season 6 opens with Gaetano Donizetti's "Anna Bolena," based on the last days of Anne Boleyn (Anna Netrebko), the second wife of British monarch Henry VIII (Ildar Abdrazakov)

DURATION: 210 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

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Did you see the Met featured on Sunday’s 60 minutes?

In case you didn’t, here it is!

HTTP://WWW.CBSNEWS.COM/VIDEO/WATCH/?ID=50157983N&TAG=API

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handel's MESSIAH IS COMING!

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SAVE THE DATE! At the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport

La Scala, Milano

LIVE SIMULCAST: LA SCALA OPENING NIGHT FROM MILAN: LA TRAVIATA ON DECEMBER 7TH AT 1:00PM

Sung in Italian with English subtitles

Starring Diana Damrau, Giuseppina Piunti, Mara Zampieri

Conducted by Daniele Gatti

Staging and sets by Dmitri Tcherniakov

New Teatro alla Scala production

December 7, 2013   1:00pm

Running Time: 2 hours 40 minutes intermission included

Sung in Italian with  English subtitles

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Two of the three operas that comprise Donizetti's (unofficial) Queens Trilogy can be heard on upcoming internet radio broadcasts, with ORF (Austria) giving us a performance from earlier this month of "Anna Bolena" (a Vienna State Opera production).

(http://oe1.orf.at/)

The other Donizetti work -- "Roberto Devereux" -- can be heard on BBC Radio 3 (on Monday, November 4) in a performance from Welsh National Opera, this one also having taken place earlier this month.

(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

On the other hand, if these two tragic operas do not appeal to you, there are a couple of comic operas (both in Italian) to savor as well. For example, Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri" can be heard on NPR, the first in a series of broadcasts from Houston Grand Opera's 2012/2013 season (this one from last October).

(www.wrti.org/)

Then, on German Radio, coming from the opera company in Stuttgart is an October 20 performance of Verdi's "Falstaff."

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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The Met radio broadcast season

begins the first week

of December. 

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