This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Note early starting time:
Saturday, February 6, 2016, 7:00pm
Sunday, February 7, 2016 2:00am
Monday, February 8, 2016, 11:30pm
Richard Wagner's
Die
Meistersinger
von Nürnberg
Meistersinger
von Nürnberg
The Mastersinger of
Nürnberg
Soprano Annette Dasch stars as the goldsmith's daughter
whose hand can be had for a song in Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger
von Nürnberg." Tenor Johan Botha costars as the visiting knight who falls
in love with her at first sight. James Levine conducts.
Length: 300 minutes
Synopsis: http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synposes-Archive/Die-Meistersinger-von-Nurnberg/
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WQXR
Finding Peace
in Salzburg
Monday,
February 01, 2016
By Fred
Plotkin
Ten years
after his first report from Mozart Woche, Fred Plotkin explains what has and
hasn't changed in the city at what can be described as a Mozart bonanza fest.
Lise Lindstrom in the title role of Puccini's
“Turandot.”
The Enigmas of
Turandot
Wednesday,
January 27, 2016
By Fred
Plotkin
Operavore
blogger Fred Plotkin explains the many layers of enigmas within Turandot,
including those in the plot and those in the characters.
LA Opera
Highlights Living Composers in 2016-2017 Season
Tuesday,
January 26, 2016
By David
Patrick Stearns
New original
operas featured in the 2016-2017 season and a three-year composer-in-residence
stint from 25-year-old Matthew Aucoin were announced.
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News from Around the World of Music
Renée Fleming: 'Live cinema is a threat to
opera'
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Opera-lovers who relish the prospect of
hearing performances of Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and
Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" have reason to rejoice, since there are TWO
radio broadcasts of these operas scheduled for this coming Saturday (February
6). One of them is the LIVE broadcast from the Met which can be heard on most
internet radio stations. The other is the broadcast of a performance from
December 2015 that featured tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko as both Turiddu
("Cavalleria") & Canio ("Pagliacci"). The two works
were performed in London's Royal Opera House and will be transmitted via BBC
Radio 3.
(The Met broadcast: www.wrti.org/)
(The London broadcast: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)
An opera by Donizetti's teacher -- Giovanni
Simone Mayr -- is featured on ORF this weekend. The opera in question is
probably the one most often performed these days out of a total of over 60 of
his operas. It's "Medea in Corinto" (1813), and the performance to be
heard is one that took place this past summer (July 30, 2015) in Martina
Franca.
If the operas of Giovanni Simone Mayr are
infrequently performed, those by Siegfried Wagner (the son of You-Know-Who) are
probably even more obscure. Yet, German Radio has scheduled a performance of
Siegfried's 1915 work: "An Allem ist Hutchen Schuld" ("It's All
Hutchen's Fault"), which is the 11th of his approximately 16 operas
composed during his lifetime (not counting a couple that were left incomplete
upon his death). The performance on hand is one that took place in Bochum on
October 18 of last year.
This week's "modern" work is Pascal
Dusapin's "To Be Sung" (from 1994) which was performed just last
month in Brussels.
Last but certainly not least, the Met is
offering yet another in its series of FREE live audio-streams. The one
scheduled for tomorrow evening (Feb. 4) is Bizet's "Pearl Fishers"
with the same male leads seen in the recent HD-transmission of this work
(Matthew Polenzani as Nadir, & Mariusz Kwiecien as Zurga), with the soprano
lead (Leila) now being sung by Amanda Woodbury.
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 6, 2016, 1:00 pm.
Cavalleria Rusticana /
Pagliacci
MASCAGNI / LEONCAVALLO
Luisi; Urmana, Lee, Maestri,
Frittoli, Berti, Gagnidze, Lavrov
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
(This is not an endorsement)
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