This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
*all links are live
Saturday, February 20, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, February 21, 2016 3:00am
Monday, February 22, 2016, 12:00am
Jacques Offenbach's
Les Contes d'Hoffman
Jacques Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffman," about
a poet (Vittorio Grigolo) whose romantic hopes are repeatedly dashed.
Length: 180
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News from Around the World of Music
VIDEO: First Look at Meryl Streep as OpeRA Singer
FLORENCE FOSTER
JENKINS!
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Meryl Streep as American-born opera singer Florence Foster
Jenkins and Hugh Grant as her husband and manager St. Clair
Bayfield
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her? There's a good
reason.)
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WQXR
Analysis: The Metropolitan Opera’s
2016-2017 Season
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
The Metropolitan Opera announced the line-up
for it's 2016-2017 season. Fred Plotkin offers his thoughts on what to love
about it.
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| Kristine Opolais as Manon and Roberto Alagna as des Grieux |
Kristine Opolais as Manon and Roberto Alagna as des
Grieux in Puccini's 'Manon Lescaut'.
Review: Met's WWII-Era 'Manon Lescaut' Offers Mixed
Bag
Saturday, February 13, 2016
By David Patrick Stearns
Roberto Alagna, replacing Jonas Kaufmann, joins
Kristine Opolais in an uneven production of Puccini's 'Manon Lescaut' at the
Metropolitan Opera.
A scene from Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation takes
place at the Vienna State Opera House
The Vienna State Opera: Mission Possible
Friday, February 12, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
How does the Vienna State Opera manage fifty operas
and ten ballets a year at a third of the budget of the Met? Fred Plotkin offers
his thoughts.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky sings the title
role in Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" this coming Saturday (February
20), and the Met's LIVE broadcast of the event can be heard on most internet
radio stations. As many of you know, earlier this season Ms Radvanovsky sang
the role of Anna Bolena (also by Donizetti) and will be singing the role of
Queen Elizabeth in a few weeks in Donizetti's "Roberto Devereux"
(scheduled to receive its HD-transmission on April 16).
The Met also has Puccini's "Madame
Butterfly" scheduled for a FREE live audio-stream on Friday evening (Feb.
19) at 7:25 pm.
Other operas featured on the internet this
Saturday all happen to fall into either the category of
"lesser-known" or "contemporary." As one of the
lesser-known works in a lighter vein, there's Chabrier's "L'Etoile"
which is being performed at London's Royal Opera House. This Saturday you can
tune in to BBC Radio 3 and hear that one.
Also in a lighter vein, on RAI there's a
double-bill of Wolf-Ferrari's "Il Segreto di Susanna" (Susanna's
secret being that she smokes cigarettes!!!) & Roberto Hazon's 1962 opera
"Agenzia Matrimoniale" (otherwise known as "Dating"). Both
operas were performed in Venice on January 23 of this year.
Russian composer Anton Rubinstein wrote more
than 10 operas during his lifetime; yet his 1871 work "The Demon" is
the only one that gets performed at all these days. A couple of concert
performances of this opera were given in Brussels last month, and the Belgian
station Klara is transmitting one of those performances for us this Saturday.
On Swedish Radio, Swedish composer Daniel
Bortz's brand-new opera "Medea" can be heard in a performance that
took place in Stockholm last Saturday (Feb. 13).
One of the works of Dutch-German composer
Konrad Boehmer (who died as recently as 2 years ago) is being broadcast on
German Radio: It's "Sensor" as performed in January 27, 2016 in
Berlin.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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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 20, 2016, 1:00 pm.
Maria Stuarda
DONIZETTI
Frizza; Radvanovsky, van den Heever, Albelo, Carfizzi, Youn
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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