Met-HD Simulcast March 2, 2013 ~ 12:00 pm ET
*All links below are live
Parsifal
Wagner’s Parsifal -
New Production
Saturday, March 2, 2013, 12 pm ET (
Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent
who finds wisdom in François Girard's new vision for Wagner's final
masterpiece. His fellow Wagnerian luminaries include Katarina Dalayman as the
mysterious Kundry, Peter Mattei as the ailing Amfortas, Evgeny Nikitin as the
wicked Klingsor, and René Pape as the noble knight Gurnemanz. Daniele Gatti
conducts.
"A Parsifal to treasure, elevated to the highest musical level by Daniele Gatti's conducting and the dedication of a dream cast of singing actors... Breathtaking."
(AP)"Kaufmann is in his glory... Handsome and limber, he is a natural onstage. Katarina Dalayman brings a gleaming voice and sultry phrasing to her performance..." (New York Times)
"A Parsifal to treasure, elevated to the highest musical level by Daniele Gatti's conducting and the dedication of a dream cast of singing actors... Breathtaking."
(AP)"Kaufmann is in his glory... Handsome and limber, he is a natural onstage. Katarina Dalayman brings a gleaming voice and sultry phrasing to her performance..." (New York Times)
“Pape pours out
unstinting rich, velvety sound... a deeply felt interpretation... The
revelation of the night is baritone Peter Mattei as Amfortas. When has any
singer so powerfully expressed the suffering of this tormented character while
producing burnished sounds of such breathtaking beauty?"
Synopsis available in English, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
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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
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Saturday, March 2 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, March 3 -- 3:00am; Monday -- March 12:00am
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| Joseph Calleja |
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
A production of Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffmann," about the life, loves and psychological manifestations of the German Romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann (Joseph Calleja). Antonia/Stella: Anna Netrebko. Olympia: Kathleen Kim.
DURATION: 180 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE PARENTS PICKS
Promoting excellence in opera and providing funding through The Opera Foundation for the operatic community
The inaugural international Opera Awards will
take place on Monday 22nd April 2013 at The London Hilton on Park Lane. http://www.operaawards.org/Finalists2013.aspx
You can vote for the "Reader's Choice" award
http://www.operaawards.org/operareadersawards.aspx
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In Memoriam
Beloved mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao lost her brave battle
with cancer February 21, 2013 in SF. She was 46. Here she is with Bonesetter's
Daughter author, Amy Tan.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Zheng-Cao-Beloved-Shanghai-born-singer-dies-4300683.php#src=fb
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American pianist Van Cliburn, whose 1958 triumph at a
Moscow competition impressed world, dies at 78
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/american-pianist-van-cliburn-whose-1958-triumph-at-a-moscow-competition-impressed-world-dies/2013/02/27/8d8a1dec-8100-11e2-a671-0307392de8de_story.html
Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, 89, Towering
Interpreter of the Music of Richard Strauss, Has Died
http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2013/2/News/Wolfgang_Sawallisch.html
San Francisco Symphony Principal oboist William Bennett
San Francisco Symphony Principal oboist William Bennett
Classical KDFC: It is painful to announce that the SF Symphony has
lost a great musician and friend. Principal oboist William Bennett has died
after collapsing onstage during a performance of Richard Strauss Oboe Concerto
last Saturday night at Davies Symphony Hall. He was 56 years old and a symphony
member since 1979. Notes of condolence can be passed though the link below. -
Hoyt
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
The big news for many opera-lovers this week is undoubtedly the
LIVE HD-transmission this Saturday (March 2) of Wagner's "Parsifal"
with tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the title role. Even if you're unable to see it at
one of our local movie theatres, you can at least listen to its audio transmission,
as it is being broadcast on most Internet radio stations as well.
In other news (so to speak), Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra"
is being broadcast on ORF in a performance from the Vienna State Opera from
earlier this month. Singing the title role (as he did a couple of years ago in
the Met's HD-transmission of this opera) is tenor/baritone Placido Domingo.
Those of you who may have been impressed by tenor Bryan Hymel's
brilliant performance earlier this year in "Les Troyens" (Berlioz)
can listen in to the Belgian station Klara, which happens to be offering a
re-broadcast from London's Royal Opera House of Meyerbeer's "Robert le
Diable" with Hymel singing the title role. This was the opera that he was
engaged in singing last December when he was called in to take over the role of
Aeneas in the Berlioz opera. It had been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at that time,
but is certainly worth re-visiting, if only because opportunities to hear
Meyerbeer's melodic score are few & far between. (Note: An exciting broadcast
of the ORIGINAL version of Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine" is
scheduled to be broadcast next weekend. More on that later, as I'm told that
this never-before-heard version of his opera runs a little over 4 hours &
will likely be split up into 2 separate broadcasts!)
For those of you with more "modern" tastes, there's a
performance from Hannover (from Feb. 8) of Trojahn's one-act opera
"Orest" which had received its world premiere back in December 2011
in Amsterdam. The cast for the present performance is totally different, so all
you "Orest" enthusiasts may want to check it out! (In all
seriousness, I heard the 2011 performance & found the opera to be pretty
intense -- although fans of Handel & Mozart might not care for it!)
If you need even MORE opera to listen to when the weekend is
finished, there's always the good old FREE live audio-stream that the Met so
generously provides. On Monday night's schedule (March 4, at 7:25), it's
Zandonai's "Francesca da Rimini" -- Consider it an audio-only preview
of the HD-transmission of this work, scheduled for later in March!
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met radio broadcast,
March 2, 2013 @ 12:00pm
Richard Wagner
PARSIFAL
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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Did you know he
could draw?
Rolando Villazón Toons:
Puccini's La
bohème
http://sinfinimusic.com/uk/watch/2013/02/villazon-toons-la-boheme/
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CHORAL MUSIC
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| Rhode Island Civic Chorus and Orchestra |
Music of Pärt
and Schubert
Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 8 PM
Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul, Providence, RI
30 Fenner Street - Providence, RI 02903
EDWARD MARKWARD
Musical Director
With the Fusion Works Dance Company, Deb Munier, Artistic Director and the Brown University Chorus, Bradley Naylor, Conductor
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| Arvo Pärt |
Arvo Pärt – Te Deum
Franz Schubert- Mass No. 3 in B-Flat Major
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| Franz Schubert |
Soloists in the Schubert will be the winners of the Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra’s 5th Annual Vocal Competition
Rhode Island Civic Chorale and
Orchestra
141 Phenix Ave.
Cranston, RI 02920
(401) 521-5670
Email: info@ricco.org
A
MEDITATION ON THE PASSION OF CHRIST
Maestro
Sergio Militello, Organist
Basilica de Santa Maria del Fiore
Florence, Italy
In
concert with the
Gregorian
Concert Choir
Conducted
by
Reverence
Monsignor Anthony Mancini
Mr.
Philip Faraone, Cathedral Organist
Friday,
March 1st ~ 7pm
Free
Admission ~ Reception to follow in Cathedral Hall
Sponsored by
The Rhode
Island Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
www.riago.org
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Met-HD selections)
Met cuts ticket prices following box office
slump
Mattei takes 'step up' to role in 'Parsifal'
Cairo mourns the tragic death of former Opera
House chairman
Queering Poe: Chicago Opera Theatre goes full-on
gay in 'Usher'
The Operatic Potential Of DSK, A Modern Don
Giovanni
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest
Daycare" (listen for the bit of opera!)
Atom Egoyan opera and Joni Mitchell birthday
concert in Luminato festival
Schleppy Nabucco's: A Catholic School Girl's
Musings on Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera
Go to the Opera Stoned: Seriously. Doooooo it.
Britten ghost story at City Opera
Wolfgang, Is That You?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/arts/music/are-those-pictures-really-mozart.html?_r=1&sf9763040=1&
James Conlon Extends Contract as LA Opera
Music Director Through 2018
What makes people passionate about opera?
Check out Opera News--
Crystal Goblets Set Stage for Whimsy and
Religion
Calleja to sing for presidents
The Secret Garden
A NEW RESOURCE: Read more stories from all over the world on opera
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| Dr. Edward Markward |
RIC Symphony Orchestra with Eric
Ruske, French Horn, and “The Rite of Spring”
18th Annual Samuel & Esther Chester
Performance Award Concert
The RI College Symphony Orchestra will perform
Igor Stravinsky’s iconic “Rite Of Spring” on Monday, March 4, in The Auditorium in Roberts Hall. Written for the
1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company, when the ballet
was first performed, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the
avant-garde nature of the music and the unexpected earthy nature of the
choreography caused a near-riot in the audience. Although designed as a work
for the stage, with specific passages accompanying characters and action, the
music on its own was widely hailed at its concert premiere nearly a year later and
achieved such growing success as a concert piece; it later became recognized as
one of the most influential musical works of the 20th century. Today, it is
considered a repertory work of the symphonic literature. With its many time changes and what are still
to some shocking harmonies, it remains a challenge for most orchestras. It followed on the heels of Stravinsky’s
first two stunning works for the Ballets Russe, “The Firebird” and “Petrushka.” It also marks the first and last time that he
attempted anything on such a grand scale, the orchestration calling for an
extremely large orchestra. This will be
the first time that the RIC Symphony Orchestra has attempted this great
masterpiece.
ERIC RUSKE, one of the premiere French Horn
soloists in the world, joins the Symphony Orchestra for Mozart’s ultra charming
Concerto No. 4 in E-flat Major. Eric
Ruske was named Associate Principal Horn of The Cleveland Orchestra at the age
of 20, and he also toured and recorded extensively during his six-year tenure
as hornist of the Empire Brass Quintet. An active chamber musician, he has
appeared with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Santa Fe Chamber Music
Festival, Evian Festival, Boston Chamber Music Society, and the Festival Pablo
Casals both in Puerto Rico and in France. His numerous arrangements and
transcriptions, including a complete edition of the Mozart Concerti, are now
available from Cimarron Music. In 2012, Albany Records released The Horn of
Eric Ruske, a Box Set that includes two discs of horn concerti with orchestra,
three of music for horn and piano, one disc for solo horn and a disc of chamber
music for horn, violin and piano. Mr. Ruske currently directs the Horn Seminar
at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and is the Professor of Horn at
Boston University. This is Mr. Ruske’s
third appearance with the RIC Symphony and his fourth with conductor Edward
Markward, having appeared together at the Newport Music Festival in July, 1999. Mr. Ruske will present a master class for
French Horn students at noon on Monday March 4 in Nazarian 198.
Opening the program is Gabriel Fauré’s
“Pavanne in F-sharp minor,” Op. 50, composed in 1887. Originally a piano piece,
it is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional chorus. Obtaining
its rhythm from the slow processional Spanish court dance of the same name, the
Pavanne ebbs and flows from a series of harmonic and melodic climaxes,
conjuring a cool, somewhat haunting, Belle Époque elegance. With choreography by Léonide Massine a ballet
version entered the repertoire of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917,
where it was alternatively billed as Las Mininas or Les Jardins
d'Aranjuez. Diaghilev retained a
fondness for the piece, and kept it in the company's repertoire until the end
of his life.
This concert is made possible by an endowment
from Samuel and Esther Chester which partially underwrites the cost of the
soloist and orchestra and allows the concert to be admission-free.
“Samuel and Esther Chester, in a concerned and
generous effort to aid young and talented concert artists from New England,
have agreed to endow The Rhode Island College Foundation with a sum of $50,000
to establish the Chester Performance Award.
The award will help to sponsor either the winner of the Arthur W. Foote
Prize of the Harvard Musical Association or an established artist of
international stature.”
What: Rhode Island College
Symphony Orchestra Concert
When: Monday, March 4, 2013 8 PM
Where: The Auditorium in Roberts Hall
Admission: FREE
French Horn
Master Class with Eric Ruske
Monday, March
4, 2013: 12 PM
Nazarian Center 198
Public invited
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Now playing at the Avon (Providence) and the Jane Pickens Theater (Newport):
Not opera but a movie about elderly opera singers--
Quartet |
| Tom Courtenay and Maggie Smith |
Lifelong friends Wilf and Reggie, together with former colleague Cissy, are residents of Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Every year on Giuseppe Verdi's birthday, the residents unite to give a concert to raise funds for their home. But when Jean Horton, a former grande dame of the opera fallen on hard times, also Reggie's ex-wife, moves into the home to everyone's surprise, the plans for this year's concert start to unravel. As old grudges threaten to undermine past glories and theatrical temperaments play havoc with the rehearsal schedule, it becomes apparent that having four of the finest singers in English operatic history under one roof offers no guarantee that the show will go on.
Director: Dustin Hoffman
Running time: 98 minutes
Screenplay: Ronald Harwood
Cinematography: John de Borman
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