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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Week of November 26 - December 3, 2015



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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

Great Performances at the Met

 Saturday, November 28 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, November 292015 @ 3:00am
   Monday, November 30, 2015 @ 12:00am  

Renée Fleming stars as


Rusalka


Renée Fleming stars in Dvorák's "Rusalka," about a water sprite who loves a human prince (Piotr Beczala). The cast also includes Dolora Zajickas as the witch Ježibaba; Emily Mageeas as Rusalka's rival; and John Relyea as Rusalka's father.
Length: 180




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Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell: Poetry in Need of Music
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 10:16 AM
By Fred Plotkin



Please help Jeremy J. Beck raise funds for his opera! Reached 20% of fundraising goal already. Every little bit helps!!  

The Center for Contemporary Opera will be producing the stage premiere of his one-act opera, Black Water, at Symphony Space in New York on April 29, 2016 - I am helping to raise funds for this production. Please consider supporting this Kickstarter campaign - We are grateful for your support, and please share this link with others who may be interested - many thanks!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/824307483/stage-premiere-jeremy-becks-powerful-opera-black-w













OPERA ON THE INTERNET 
WITH  
DAVE  D' AGUANNO

There's plenty of interesting opera on tap for us this weekend, although opera-lovers who relish the thought of hearing yet another performance of "Carmen" or "La Boheme" may be somewhat disappointed.

One of the most dramatic and violent operas of the 20th century -- Hans Werner Henze's "The Bassarids" -- can be heard on Friday (November 27) in a LIVE performance from Rome. That's on Radio 3 (RAI).
(www.radio3.rai.it/)

On Saturday (November 28), BBC Radio 3 is giving us a rare opportunity to hear Luigi Rossi's "Orpheus" which premiered in 1647. If you happen to miss it, you can always access the broadcast later next week on the BBC's website.
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

NPR has the opera "Hamlet" on the schedule for Saturday; however, anyone expecting to hear the Ambroise Thomas opera which was done at the Met a few years ago will be in for a surprise, because it's Franco Faccio's "Amleto" which will be heard. Faccio's opera premiered in 1865 and can be heard in a performance that took place in the fall of 2014 in Albuquerque, courtesy of Opera Southwest.
(www.wrti.org/)

Have you ever wondered what the first Croatian opera ever written sounded like? Well, here's your chance on Saturday! Tune in to ORF (Austria) and listen to the May 7, 2015 performance from Zagreb of Vatroslav Lisinski's 1846 opera "Love & Malice."
(http://oe1.orf.at/)

Verdi enthusiasts, have no fear, as his final opera "Falstaff" appears on the schedule of the Belgian station Klara. It's a performance that took place this past August 26 as part of the Lucerne Festival.
(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

Then on Tuesday evening (December 1) at 7:25 pm, the Met's FREE live audio-stream features Puccini's "Tosca."
(www.metopera.org/)

Enjoy -- & Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
 Performed earlier today, from Liege, Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" (with French subtitles):

http://www.operaliege.be/fr/activites/lucia-di-lammermoor-live-web


If you've never heard Annick Massis, here's your chance to see & hear this wonderful soprano!

DAVE

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Not opera exactly


(Held over because I like it!)








The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast season starts again 
December 5.   

(Oh, how will I wait until December??)


This week! In Providence (Saturday evening) and 
Newport (Sunday afternoon)

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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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