Week of August 14 - August 21, 2014

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

satyagraha

 Saturday, August 16, 8:00pm

Sunday, August 17, 3:00am

Monday, August 18, 12:00am

Great Performances at the Met

Satyagraha

A performance of Philip Glass' "Satyagraha," about the early years of Mahatma Gandhi (Richard Croft). The production costars Rachelle Durkin, Alfred Walker and Kim Josephson; and features large-scale puppetry and sets made of corrugated metal.

DURATION: 180 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
Synopsis: http://www.metopera.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?customid=450 

Analysis: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/arts/music/satyagraha-by-philip-glass-at-met-opera-review.html?_r=0

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Are you a teacher or former teacher? If so, we invite you to join Opera Club! Opera Club is a group of teachers that explore our season's operas and help create curriculum ideas for fellow educators to be published on the SF Opera Education website. Only two more Opera Clubs left - join us as we explore Rossini's Cinderella and Puccini's La Boheme. For information contact us at education@sfopera.com.

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Tenor-turned-baritone Placido Domingo can be heard this coming Saturday (August 16) on NPR in a performance of Massenet's "Thais." The opera was performed in Los Angeles this past May and is part of NPR's series of broadcasts from Los Angeles Opera.

(www.wrti.org/)

Music of composer Joseph Martin Kraus, who is sometimes referred to as The Swedish Mozart, can be heard on Saturday, as Swedish Radio airs a performance from Vadstena of his opera "Silverskeppet." The opera is actually one that was put together by conductor Jonas Dominique, who claims to have chosen some of Kraus's best music in assembling this "new" work.

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

Music of Mozart himself can be heard on RAI as a performance from La Scala of his masterpiece "Cosi Fan Tutte" is scheduled to be broadcast, the performance itself originally having taken place on June 21, 2014.

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

One of the best-kept secrets -- even for many opera-lovers -- is the fact that Franz Schubert wrote some beautiful operas, and one of these ("Fierrabras") is being performed this very evening as part of this summer's Salzburg Festival. It will be broadcast on Saturday on ORF.

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

Another opera that is actually being performed today (in Berlin), and then broadcast on Saturday, is Korngold's comic opera "Die Stumme Serenade" ("The Silent Serenade") which was first performed in 1954. Although the work received negative reviews at the time of its premiere, subsequent performances seem to have shown that tastes sometimes change over a period of time.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

Latest news!

I guess I should have mentioned that "Il Trovatore" will be shown LIVE this Friday -- Salzburg Festival performance with Anna Netrebko as Leonora & Placido Domingo as Di Luna.

The page says that it starts at 10 a.m. -- but I'm not sure that that's OUR time (???)

http://www.medici.tv/#!/trovatore-anna-netrebko-placido-domingo-salzburg-festival

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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

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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WGBH Postpones its annual Labor Day Opera Bash!

WGBH's annual Labor Day Opera Bash is missing from its monthly printed schedule. A call to the station revealed that the reason for this omission is that WGBH has changed its fiscal year so that they will now be doing fund-raising during the Labor Day weekend. The Opera Bash has been postponed to a later date in the autumn, probably October or November. We will keep you posted on any developments. In the meantime, please write them a note, encouraging them to make sure they broadcast the opera bash and more opera in general. I'm told that every single letter is read and taken into consideration. This is a link to their website:

http://www.wgbh.org/about/contact.cfm

NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 

THIS WEEK!

Coming in September to WGBH: 

WGBH2    09/14/2014      12:00:00:00 Great Performances at the Met #806: Prince Igor 

Length:03:26:46:00

WGBH2    09/21/2014      12:30:00:00 Great Performances at the Met #807: La Boheme 

Length: 02:26:46:00

WGBH2    09/28/2014      12:30:00:00 Great Performances at the Met #808: Werther

Length: 02:26:46:00 

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