Week of January 16 - January 23, 2014

This week on WGBH 2
Friday, January 17, 2014, 9:00pm

Eugene Onegin

Fiona Shaw directs Anna Netrebko as Tatiana, and Mariusz Kwiecien as Onegin in Tchaikovsky's masterpiece about a young woman rebuffed by a man she admires.                        
Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/synopsis/eugene-onegin?customid=777
Duration: 3 hours

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

Don Carlo

Episode Information

Program Information

When To Watch

Great Performances at the Met

Saturday, January 18 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, January 19 -- 3:00am; Monday, January 20 -- 12:00am

Don Carlo

Verdi's "Don Carlo," about a Spanish prince (Roberto Alagna) who falls for the French princess (Marina Poplavskaya) he's supposed to marry as part of a Spanish-French peace treaty, only to have his father (Ferruccio Furlanetto) decide to wed her himself.

DURATION: 240 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

synopsis: 

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Several internet radio stations will be broadcasting the LIVE Met performance this Saturday (January 18) of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" with the same singers (Mariusz Kwiecien and Anna Netrebko) taking the leading roles, as they did in the HD-transmission which was shown in several local movie theaters earlier this season.

(www.wrti.org/)

Other operas that can be heard on internet radio this Saturday include Verdi's "I Due Foscari" in a LIVE performance from Vienna. Placido Domingo takes on the role of the elder Foscari (a baritone role) in this particular broadcast.

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

Another Italian opera (of slightly earlier vintage) is Donizetti's "La Favorita" which Swedish Radio has scheduled. The performance being broadcast actually took place nearly a year ago in Paris (February 1, 2013) and stars mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the role of Leonora.

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

Going back even further in time to the year 1710, there's Handel's 3-act opera seria "Agrippina" which the Belgian station Klara is broadcasting, performances of this opera having taken place in Barcelona this past November.

(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

One more LIVE broadcast (this one from Paris) worth mentioning comes to us via French Radio, as a relatively rare opportunity presents itself to hear "Lakme" by Leo Delibes which, as many of you probably know, features the Bell Song as one of its many highlights.

(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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The Marilyn Horne Matinee

Jan. 13-17 at 2 pm on the Operavore Stream

Monday, January 13, 2014 - 01:00 PM

By WQXR Staff

Marilyn Horne at WQXR (Albert Imperato)

This Thursday, Jan. 16, Marilyn Horne, the legendary mezzo-soprano and Operavore show host, celebrates her 80th birthday. In commemoration, the Operavore stream (WQXR) presents one of her signature opera performances every day at 2 pm from Jan. 13-17. On tap are vintage performances of Bellini, Rossini, Handel and Bizet. Below are the selections for Thursday and Friday of the anniversary week. (Sorry I didn’t catch this story in time to give you the full schedule last week.--Rosie) 

Click on: http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/marilyn-horne-matinee/  Then click on LIVE STREAM at the top of the page.

 Horne in 1971 by John Foote

Thursday

 

Georges Bizet: Carmen

 

Carmen – Marilyn Horne

Don Jose – James McCracken

Escamillo – Tom Krause

Micaela – Adriana Maliponte

Frasquita – Colette Boky

Mercedes – Marcia Baldwin

Zuniga – Donald Gramm

Dancaire – Russell Christopher

Remenadado – Andrea Velis

Morales – Raymond Gibbs

 

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Children’s Chorus

The Manhattan Opera Chorus

Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Friday

 

Gioacchino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

 

Figaro – Leo Nucci

Rosina – Marilyn Horne

Dr. Bartolo – Enzo Dara

Don Basilio – Samuel Ramey

Conte d’Almaviva – Paolo Barbacini

Fiorello – Simone Alaimo

Berta – Raquel Pierotti

Un Ufficiale – Silvestro Sammaritano

Ambrogio – Carlo Folcia

 

Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Riccardo Chailly, conductor

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The Met 

Saturday afternoon radio broadcast 

Tchaikovsky's

EUGENE ONEGIN

Saturday, January 18, 2014 1:00 pm ET

Gergiev; Netrebko, Volkova, Beczala, Kwiecien, Tanovitski

(recorded in October 2013)

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It's a good thing there's so much good opera on TV while the Arctic Vortex makes going outside an undesirable option...and now for something a bit lighter because, baby, it's cold outside!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdLdl60EMA

YAY! OPERA ON WGBH TV 

THIS WEEK!