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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, August 8, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, August 9, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, August 10, 2015 @ 12:00am
Metropolitan Opera Says Its ‘Otello’ Tenor Will Not Wear
Blackface
By MICHAEL
COOPER AUGUST 4, 2015
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| Placido Domingo in earlier days at the Met |
Someone's Cooking at the Opera
Monday, August 03, 2015
By Fred Plotkin
When opera singers or actors are
called on to cook on stage, their job suddenly gets far more complicated –
whether it's frying bacon or cleaning a fish.
Review: Andrea Bocelli Falls
Short on Puccini's 'Turandot'
Sunday, August 02, 2015
By Mike Silverman : Associated
Press
"This is a misguided
undertaking," writes Mike Silverman, "exposing the folly of even the
most expert pop vocalist trying to pose as an opera singer."
The Expo Effect: Why New York
Needs Big Cultural Initiatives
Thursday, July 30, 2015
By Fred Plotkin
New York City desperately needs
to make real its sense of being the most consequential metropolis in the world,
writes Fred Plotkin. This can happen through major arts projects.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Mozart's ever-popular "The Marriage of
Figaro" is featured this coming Saturday (August 8) as the next opera to
be presented in NPR's series of broadcasts from Los Angeles Opera's 2014/2015 season,
this particular performance having taken place in March of this year.
(www.wrti.org/)
The Mozart opera is probably the most popular
of all the operas being presented this weekend, although works like Handel's
"Agrippina" (1710) are indeed performed from time to time. In fact,
"Agrippina" can be heard on Saturday via German Radio in a
performance that took place this past May 15 in Gottingen.
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
The Belgian station Klara delves into the
recorded past and comes up with a 1971 French Radio performance of Reynaldo
Hahn's 1933 operetta "O Mon Bel Inconnu" featuring soprano Lina
Dachary and tenor Michel Hamel. The names of these two singers will be familiar
to French operetta buffs, since back in the 50s, 60s, & 70s they (among others)
recorded a number of works by Offenbach, Lecocq, Messager, and other French
composers from the same era.
(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)
From Swedish Radio comes the world premiere
performance of Mats Larsson Gothe's new opera "Silverfageln"
("Silver Bird") which is the first opera that I know of that is
actually based on the life of Swedish tenor Jussi Bjoerling.
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)
Many classical music buffs are familiar with
the Overture to "La Gazza Ladra" by Rossini, especially since music
from this overture actually pops up in various cartoons many of us watched as
children. But as far as the rest of the opera is concerned, most of it is, by
comparison, unknown. And so, Italian Radio (RAI) brings us the whole opera on
Monday (August 10) in a LIVE performance from Pesaro, followed on Tuesday
(August 11) with a LIVE performance of his earlier comic opera "La
Gazzetta." Both operas are part of this summer's Rossini Opera Festival
held annually in Pesaro.
(www.radio3.rai.it/)
As far as videos are concerned, you might want
to check out the LIVE performance from Glyndebourne of Britten's intense and
dramatic "The Rape of Lucretia" taking place on Sunday (August 9).
(http://www.glyndebourne.com/)
LIVE video-cast from Choregies d'Orange of
Verdi's "Il Trovatore" with tenor Roberto Alagna & soprano Hui He
in leading roles.
http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/festivals/choregies-dorange/il-trovatore-de-verdi-aux-choregies-dorange-2015-224957
I think it'll be available for several months,
just as the recent "Carmen" with Kate Aldrich & Jonas Kaufmann is
still available on that website.
Then on next Sunday (Aug. 9), a live
video-cast from Glyndebourne of Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia"
should be available for viewing, but you might not be able to access it later
on if you should happen to miss it on Sunday.
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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