Week of September 4 - September 11, 2014

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

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

 Saturday, September 6, 8:00pm

Sunday, September 7, 3:00am

Monday, September 8, 12:00am

Great Performances at the Met

Falstaff

Falstaff

A production of Verdi's "Falstaff," updated to take place in 1950s-era London. The boorish Sir John Falstaff (Ambrogio Maestri) schemes to seduce the wives of two wealthy men in order to pay off his debts.

DURATION: 150 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

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From the Blogs

from WQXR~New York

Why Deals with Unions Won't End Met Opera's Challenges

Wednesday, September 03, 2014 - 03:00 PM

By Brian Wise

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/deals-unions-wont-end-met-operas-challenges/

Planet Opera: Going to the Sources

Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - 09:52 AM

By Fred Plotkin

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/planet-opera-going-sources/

Is There Anything Sound about Sound Design?

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - 05:54 PM

By Fred Plotkin

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/there-anything-sound-about-sound-design/

Listen: Neville Marriner Leads Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Hear how Sir Neville Marriner became the oldest conductor to lead the Proms, in a program with Joshua Bell. Listen to the archived show.

http://www.wqxr.org/story/bbc-proms-neville-marriner-leads-academy-st-martin-fields/

Colorado Symphony Drops Tuxedos, Adds Drinks in the Hall

Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - 05:26 PM

By Brian Wise

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/colorado-symphony-drops-tuxedos-adds-drinks-hall/

'Maestro' or 'Conductor?' Terminology Sparks Critical Spat

Saturday, August 30, 2014 - 03:00 PM

By Brian Wise

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/classical-music-critic-clash-maestros-elitism/

Susanna Mälkki, Fabio Luisi Get New Conducting Gigs

Monday, September 01, 2014 - 07:00 PM

By Brian Wise

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/susanna-malkki-fabio-luisi-get-new-conducting-gigs/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed

Talking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33q87s03h4

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Have a half hour? Sit back, relax and listen to 

Stephen Hough, CBE perform Rachmaninoff’s  

Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini at the Proms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33q87s03h4

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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

Fans of Wagner's relatively early opera "The Flying Dutchman" have their pick of TWO performances to be broadcast this coming Saturday afternoon (September 6). The one on ORF (Austria) is a LIVE broadcast of the work, as performed at the Vienna State Opera and starring Bryn Terfel in the title role. As some of you may recall, Terfel was seen a couple of seasons back in the role of Wotan when the Met transmitted the various operas of Wagner's Ring Cycle. Plus, for those of you who may wish to spend a few dollars, next week's performance (Friday, September 12), with this same cast, will be available for live VIDEO streaming at the Vienna State Opera website. (It may cost close to $20.)

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

The other broadcast of "The Flying Dutchman" is NPR's offering this week as part of their series of broadcasts from San Francisco Opera's 2013/2014 season, the performance being aired having taken place last October/November (no specific date is given).
(www.wrti.org/)

Another German opera -- "Elektra" by Richard Strauss -- turns up on Swedish Radio this weekend, with a performance of the work which was recorded in Umea on August 23 of this year.

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

Last but not least, those of you who may not have watched the video of Schubert's "Fierrabras" last week (& which is still available for free, I believe) might want to tune in to German Radio when the performance of this opera & with the same cast from this summer's Salzburg Festival is broadcast (originally recorded on August 13). I intended to urge interested listeners to check it out since this beautiful opera is seldom performed, but I see that it will be performed in Brussels in January 2015 (with a different cast), & the operas performed in Brussels usually become available for FREE video-streaming on their website -- TWO videos of "Fierrabras" within the space of a few months???

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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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!

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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