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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Anna Bolena
Saturday, August 1st, 8:00pm
Sunday, August 2nd, 3:00am
Monday, August 3rd, 12:00am
Great Performances at the Met
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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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This coming Saturday (August 2), there are
actually TWO performances of Benjamin Britten's "Billy Budd" on the
schedule. German Radio has it, the performance being one that took place in
Berlin just last month (June 6, 2014), while a performance from Los Angeles can
be accessed on NPR, that performance having originally taken place this past
February/March.
Mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch -- seen as Charlotte
in the Met's HD-transmission of Massenet's "Werther" earlier this
year -- takes on the role of Octavian in what is probably the most popular
opera of Richard Strauss: "Der Rosenkavalier." The performance to be
broadcast on Saturday is actually the one that will be performed on Friday
(August 1) as part of this summer's Salzburg Festival.
Every summer -- usually around this time of
the season -- several operas by Rossini are performed in Pesaro (his
birthplace). A performance from LAST summer, however, is on tap on Swedish
Radio. It's the August 10, 2013 performance of his delightful comic opera
"L'Italiana in Algeri."
Enjoy!
DAVE
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Arrivederci,
Carlo Bergonzi
To hear him:
Obituary:
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Labor Struggles at Metropolitan Opera Have a Past
...Now, after three relatively quiet decades, the Met is on the brink of its worst labor crisis in years: Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, is threatening to lock out the company’s orchestra, chorus, stage crews and other workers on Friday, endangering the coming opera season, if they do not agree to new contracts with cuts to their pay and benefits
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2014 Summer Season
The Mikado
by Gilbert and Sullivan
Featuring:
Michael DiMucci, Allison Pohl, Andy Papas, Jason Shealy, Ian Pomerantz,
Arielle Rogers, Christopher Davey, Roselin Osser, Aimee-Rose Willett
Costumes: Everett Hoag
August 8, 9, 10, 2014
Columbus Theatre - 270 Broadway, Providence, RI
Tickets: $35; $60
Available now — Call 401-331-6060 to Order
August 13, 2014
Blithewold Mansion and Gardens - 101 Bristol Ferry Road, Bristol, RI
Tickets: $35
Discount available for Blithewold members
Available now — Call 401-331-6060 to Order
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The Met
Saturday afternoon radio broadcast is
on hiatus until December
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK!
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In Memoriam
“Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.” The Talmud
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