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Great Performances at the Met
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, July 25, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, July 26, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, July 27, 2015 @ 12:00am
WERTHER
WERTHER - Director Richard Eyre returns to the Met with a new
staging of Jules Massenet's tragic romance "Werther," starring Jonas
Kaufmann and Sophie Koch in their first Met performances as the brooding poet
Werther and his unattainable love, Charlotte. Lisette Oropesa sings the role of
Sophie, Charlotte's sister; David Bizic makes his Met debut as Charlotte's
fiance, Albert; and Jonathan Summers is Charlotte's father, Le Bailli. Alain
Altinoglu conducts the first new Met production of the opera in more than 40
years.
Epic Conducting Photos
An
attempt to compile the greatest poses, facial expressions, hair, and other
moments caught on camera, in the history of orchestral conducting.
JULY 17, 2015
The Met-HD Summer Encores
FRANZ LEHÁR
The Merry Widow
HD ENCORE
WED, JUL 22, 2015 7:00 PM
Renee Fleming and Nathan Gunn
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Aida
HD ENCORE
WED, JUL 29, 2015 7:00 PM
World's Best Tenors Captured On Film By Johannes Ifkovits
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This coming Saturday (July 25) marks the start of a series of LIVE broadcasts from this summer's Bayreuth Festival. The first opera to be heard is "Tristan & Isolde" (being carried on various internet radio stations). Unfortunately, not all stations' websites are in agreement as to the identity of the soprano who will be singing the role of Isolde! Will it be Evelyn Herlitzius? Or Anja Kampe? Those who are truly interested will have to tune in on Saturday to find out, I guess.
If you happen to be delighted by comic operas like Donizetti's
"Don Pasquale", then you may very well be intrigued by the prospect
of listening to Antonio Cagnoni's "Don Bucefalo" which followed the
Donizetti work by only a few years (1847). Cagnoni's opera can be heard on ORF
in a performance from the Wexford Festival in Ireland this past November.
On the other hand, if you fancy a brand-new 21st century opera
that received its world premiere performance as recently as this past May
10, you'll want to check out the broadcast on German Radio of Austrian composer
Beat Furrer's new opera "La Bianca Notte." The performance to be
heard took place in Hamburg.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast season is over;
radio broadcast season is over;
check back here in November.
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
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