Week of March 10 - March 17, 2016

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478) 
 *all links are live

Saturday, March 12, 2016, 8:00pm

Sunday, March 13, 2016 3:00am

Monday, March 14, 2016, 12:00am

Great Performances at the Met

Richard Wagner's

Tannhauser

History, myth, and invention come together in Tannhäuser to create a unique and powerful drama. The title character was a real 13th-century Minnesinger who inspired a legend that Wagner used as the basis for the opera. He notably added the character of Elisabeth, based on the historical Saint Elisabeth of Hungary, wife of the Landgrave of Thuringia. The opera’s score went through several revisions after the original performances, most importantly when Wagner added the Venusberg ballet for the 1861 French premiere. 

- See more at: http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/Tannhauser/#sthash.TavZGVQC.dpuf

Synopsis: http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/Tannhauser/

News from Around the World of Music

Wednesday March 09, 2016  

SF Opera Lab launches in intimate Taube Atrium Theater

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-opera-lab-launches-intimate-taube-atrium-theater/

Leah Crocetto sings Kander and Ebb's "A Quiet Thing"

Leah Crocetto talks about what its like when your dreams come true and sings Kander and Ebb's "A Quiet Thing." "Leah Crocetto Talks Opera & Sings Jazz." 

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-opera-lab-launches-intimate-taube-atrium-theater/

Donizetti's DON PASQUALE.

Check out this video of Javier Camarena singing Ernesto's aria from Act II of the final dress rehearsal. https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/videos/10156721531080533/

In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI          FEB. 13, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/arts/music/manon-lescaut-roberto-alagna-kristine-opolais.html

Great performances vie with sophomoric staging in Met’s “Manon Lescaut”

February 13, 2016 at 12:53 pm

By Eric C. Simpson

http://newyorkclassicalreview.com/2016/02/great-performances-vie-with-sophomoric-staging-in-mets-manon-lescaut/#sthash.ccQjFg3o.dpuf

Work in progress: Met’s Manon Lescaut starring Opolais and Alagna

By Ako Imamura, 14 February 2016

https://bachtrack.com/review-manon-lescaut-opolais-alagna-met-opera-february-2016

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WQXR

When Struggling Songbirds Set Social Media Atwitter

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

By Fred Plotkin

Fred Plotkin shares his advice for younger generation opera singers about social media.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/when-struggling-songbirds-set-social-media-atwitter/

The Metropolitan Opera archivist Robert Tuggle

The Fabric of Memory: Preserving Met Opera History

Friday, March 04, 2016

By Fred Plotkin

Operavore's Fred Plotkin traces the history of the Metropolitan Opera archives and touches upon the importance of preserving institutional memories.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/fabric-memory/

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THIS SATURDAY!

OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

The Met has TWO Donizetti operas on tap for us in the days ahead, one of which is the last comedy he ever wrote -- "Don Pasquale" -- which can be heard this Saturday afternoon on many internet radio stations.

(www.wrti.org/)

You can also hear a LIVE performance tomorrow evening at 7:25 pm of his earlier comic masterpiece: "L'Elisir d'Amore." It's part of the series of FREE audio-streams that the Met provides on a weekly basis during their regular season. (This must be an unofficial "Donizetti Year" at the Met, with the so-called 3-Queens Trilogy also on the Met's schedule this season -- but no "Lucia di Lammermoor." Go figure!)

(www.metopera.org/)

Yet another comic opera appears on the schedule, this one by Offenbach -- "Fantasio" -- a "late" work which he wrote shortly before "The Tales of Hoffmann." The performance to be heard of this rarity took place in Berlin earlier this year (February 13) and can be heard on German Radio.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

For a 20th century work, there's Janacek's "The Makropoulos Case" which is being aired on French Radio in a performance that took place last month in Strasbourg.

(www.francemusique.fr/)

And for an opera that can ALMOST be considered a 21st century work there's "The Three Sisters" (1997) by Peter Eotvos (based on the Chekhov play of the same name). ORF is broadcasting this one in a performance from the Vienna State Opera which took place last Sunday.

(http://oe1.orf.at/)

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!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/824307483/stage-premiere-jeremy-becks-powerful-opera-black-w

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast 

Saturday, March 12, 2016, 1:00 pm.   

Don Pasquale

DONIZETTI

Benini; Buratto, Camarena, Molnar, Maestri

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No opera on

WGBH this week!

Kim Jong Un, North Korean Dictator