This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, February 13, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, February 14, 2016 3:00am
Monday, February 15, 2016, 12:00am
Giuseppi Verdi's
Il Trovatore
Season 10 opens with Verdi's "Il Trovatore," in which long-lost brothers (Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Yonghoon Lee) compete for the affections of the same woman (Anna Netrebko). Dolora Zajick costars as Azucena, the gypsy with a dark secret.
Length: 180
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WQXR
Waltzing Through Ball Season in Vienna
Friday, February 05, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
Fred Plotkin attends the Opera Ball held in Vienna this year and describes how checking off this "bucket list" item was a dream come true.
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News from Around the World of Music
Leontyne Price at the White House: Morgen by R. Strauss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_6JMRwppTs
Happy 88th birthday to Leontyne Price!
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/happy-birthday-leontyne-price
Leontyne Price at the White House: Morgen by R. Strauss.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Baritone Dimitri Hvorostovsky can be heard in TWO radio broadcasts this coming Saturday (February 13), one of which is the LIVE broadcast from the Met of Verdi's "Il Trovatore" which also happens to feature Met regulars Angela Meade (soprano), Dolora Zajick (mezzo-soprano), & Marcello Giordani (tenor).
In a performance that originally took place just last month at London's Royal Opera House, Hvorostovsky can also be heard in the title role of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin." This one can be heard on BBC Radio 3, the broadcast being made available all next week as well so that Hvorostovsky fans won't miss this broadcast if they want to opt for the Met broadcast on Saturday.
More Verdi can be heard on Radio 4 (the Netherlands), the opera this week being "Otello." Tenor Jose Cura sings the title role in this performance that took place earlier this month in Barcelona.
Swedish Radio, on the other hand, has a LIVE broadcast from Goteborg of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly." Like the BBC broadcast, this one can be accessed all next week if interested listeners so choose.
There's a really nice "Eugene Onegin" on The Opera Platform, complete with English subtitles.
The performance took place in Berlin on Sunday, January 31.
Tenor Piotr Beczala and mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca are the stars in French Radio's broadcast of Massenet's "Werther." This one took place in Paris on January 26 of this year.
Unfortunately -- for fans of tenor Jonas Kaufmann* -- Met performances of Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" this season will feature tenor Roberto Alagna as a substitute for the ailing Kaufmann. (This would include the upcoming HD-transmission of this opera on March 5). Soprano Kristine Opolais is still in the cast, however, & both she & Alagna can be heard this Friday evening when the Met broadcasts this opera as part of their FREE live audio-stream.
Enjoy!
DAVE
*But Alagna fans are happy; yes, we are ! --Rosie
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Black Water
Please help Jeremy 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.
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!
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast
radio broadcast
Saturday, February 13, 2016, 1:00 pm.
Il Trovatore
VERDI
Armiliato; Meade, Zajick, Giordani, Rodríguez, Youn
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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