Week of January 23 - January 30, 2014

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

La Fanciulla del West

Great Performances at the Met

Saturday, January 25 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, January 26 -- 3:00am; Monday, January 27 -- 12:00am

La Fanciulla del West

A production of Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West," about an Old West saloon owner (Deborah Voigt) in a California gold-rush town who'll stop at nothing to get the man (Marcello Giordani) she wants.

DURATION: 150 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

Synopsis: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?customid=393

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How is Renee Fleming Changing the Lyric Opera of Chicago?

Renée Fleming Adds Serious Star Power to the Lyric Opera

Read more at http://michiganavemag.com/the-latest/talk-of-the-town/postings/renee-fleming-adds-serious-star-power-to-the-lyric-opera-of-chicago#EtSWkQEY6lzh3iyu.99

And it's official! Renée Fleming, "The People's Diva," is singing the national anthem at Superbowl 48, outdoors in cold New Jersey! I hope she likes football...

(This article gives links to several performances by Fleming in unusual venues)

Listen: The Unlikely Woman Singing This Year's Super Bowl National Anthem
http://www.policymic.com/articles/79687/listen-the-unlikely-woman-singing-this-year-s-super-bowl-national-anthem

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Many internet stations this Saturday (January 25) have scheduled the LIVE performance from the Met of Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore" with soprano Anna Netrebko reprising her role (Adina) which she performed in last season's HD-transmission. This time around, her tenor partner is Ramon Vargas, and her former partner in real life -- Erwin Schrott -- will be singing the role of Dulcamara.

(www.wrti.org/)

Also from the Met, the season premiere of Dvorak's "Rusalka" can be heard tomorrow evening (Thursday) at 7:25 on their free LIVE audio-stream. Soprano Renee Fleming is scheduled to sing the title role for tomorrow night's performance, just as she is to be appearing in the upcoming HD-transmission of this opera on Saturday, February 8.

(www.metopera.org/)

Of special interest to opera fans who enjoy works written much earlier than either of the above far more popular operas: Francesco Veracini's 3-act opera from 1735 -- "Adriano in Siria" -- can be heard on ORF, as performed in Vienna on January 18 of this year. This is actually the first performance of the work in nearly 300 years!

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

Also, pretty much along the same lines, it's time for Vivaldi's "Catone in Utica" (from 1737) to have its own unique broadcast on internet radio. To be heard on French radio, the performance in question was one that took place in Paris earlier this month (January 10).

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

Enjoy!

Dave

 

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Anna Netrebko: "What Polar Wortex?"

http://parterre.com/2014/01/21/s-podruzkami-po-yagodu-khodit/comment-page-1/#comments

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The Met 

Saturday afternoon radio broadcast 

Donizetti's

L'Elisir d'Amore

Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:00 pm ET

Benini; Netrebko, Vargas, alaimo, Schrott

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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 

THIS WEEK!