LA SCALA OPENING NIGHT:
LIVE SIMULCAST FROM MILAN:
LA TRAVIATA
At the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7TH
at 12:00 Noon
at 12:00 Noon
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| La Scala, Milano |
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 12:00pm
Running Time: 210 minutes
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
ernania
Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, December 7 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, December 8 -- 3:00am; Monday, December 9 -- 12:00am
Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, December 7 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, December 8 -- 3:00am; Monday, December 9 -- 12:00am
Ernani
A production of Verdi's "Ernani," about a maiden (Angela Meade) who is romantically pursued by her uncle (Ferruccio Furlanetto), the Spanish king (Dmitri Hvorostovsky) and a bandit (Marcello Giordani).
DURATION: 150 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
RICCO'S FINAL
HANDEL'S MESSIAH
OF THE SEASON
- 3 pm -
December 8 in Newport
St, Joseph's Church, 5 Mann AVE., Newport, RI
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from Renée Fleming's Facebook page:
Very excited to announce that I will be a part of the 91st Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting on Friday, December 6th in Washington, D.C. The ceremony’s line-up will feature performances from me, Aretha Franklin, Joshua Bell, The Avett Brothers, Janelle Monáe, Train, and more. You can stream the event live athttp://www.thenationaltree.org/.
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G.F. Handel: Messiah | December 7, 2013
The Providence Singers and the Rhode Island Philharmonic first collaborated for Messiah in December 2007. Seven years later, the December performance of Handel’s masterwork is a growing part of the city’s holiday performance traditions. Francisco Noya conducts, with soloists Martha Guth, soprano; Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Hutchinson, tenor; and Matthew Burns, bass-baritone.
The Providence Singers and the Rhode Island Philharmonic first collaborated for Messiah in December 2007. Seven years later, the December performance of Handel’s masterwork is a growing part of the city’s holiday performance traditions. Francisco Noya conducts, with soloists Martha Guth, soprano; Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Hutchinson, tenor; and Matthew Burns, bass-baritone.
7 p.m. Saturday, December 7, 2013, at The Vets
OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Many internet radio stations this Saturday (December 7)
will be carrying the first broadcast of the season from the Met, the opera
being Verdi's "Rigoletto" starring baritone Dimitri Hvorstovsky, and
with tenor Matthew Polenzani as the Duke.
Other internet radio stations, on the other hand, have scheduled
La Scala's opening night performance for broadcast. (This, of course, is
audio-only, although various movie theatres will be televising the
performance.) It's another popular Verdi opera, this one being "La
Traviata." The all-star cast includes soprano Diana Damrau as Violetta,
tenor Piotr Beczala as Alfredo, and baritone Zeljko Lucic as Germont.
Naturally, Verdi enthusiasts will be torn between this broadcast and the
"Rigoletto" broadcast listed above.
On the other hand, as we all know, not every single opera-goer
is a Verdi fanatic. Contemporary opera composer Philip Glass, for instance, has
his share of admirers as well, and so, it is with great pleasure, no doubt,
that his fans will be tuning in to Radio 4 (the Netherlands) to hear his latest
opera -- "The Perfect American" -- in its world premiere performance
which took place this past February 1 in Madrid. "The Perfect
American" of the title, incidentally, refers to none other than Walt
Disney (!!!), although the opera itself does not strictly adhere to factual
events in the man's life.
If "Rigoletto" and "Traviata" being
broadcast at the same time may be frustrating to many Verdi-lovers, there DOES
happen to be a FREE live audio-stream scheduled for this Friday evening
at 7:55, when the Met brings us this season's premiere performance of
"Falstaff" which, as many of you already know, is scheduled for a
LIVE HD-transmission the Saturday after this one (= December 14).
And, in case you missed an earlier FREE live audio-stream, the
Met is offering yet another performance of "Der Rosenkavalier" by
Richard Strauss, this one scheduled for Tuesday evening (December 10)
at 6:55.
Enjoy!
DAVE
Set your DVRs for a special
RI Public Television Broadcast
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
8:00pm, Saturday, December 21st
SILENT NIGHT - This opera recounts the true story of the World War I Christmas Eve truce. For one magical evening on December 24, 1914, French, German and British soldiers laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration reflecting the peace, fellowship and humanity of the season. Based on the Academy Award-nominated film Joyeux Noel, this two-act production was commissioned by the Minnesota Opera and premiered in November 2012 to national acclaim, including a Pulitzer Prize for Music for composer Kevin Puts. With a libretto by Mark Campbell, "Silent Night" is sung in French, English, German, Italian and Latin with English subtitles.
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COMING--
SATURDAY, December 14, 2013, 12:55pm
Live in HD
FALSTAFF
An undisputed master of Verdi's final comic masterpiece, James Levine conducts Robert Carsen's acclaimed production, the first new Met Falstaff since 1964. Ambrogio Maestri sings the role of the blustery Sir John Falstaff, opposite a marvelous ensemble cast.
and
Watch James Levine and the company rehearse Falstaff
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FINALLY!!
The Met radio broadcast season
begins December 7.
Verdi's Rigoletto
December 7, 2013 12:30 pm ET
Heras-Casado; Yoncheva, Volkova, Polenzani, Hvorostovsky, Kocàn
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK!
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