Week of June 30 - July 7, 2016

All links are live!

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)  

Saturday, July 2, 2016, 8:00pm

Sunday, July 3, 2016 3:00am

Monday, July 4,  2016, 12:00am

Lulu

Alban Berg's "Lulu," a tragedy about a woman (Marlis Petersen) who ruins the lives of those around her.

Length: 111 minutes

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

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WQXR

When Is an Unfinished Work of Art Incomplete? Part 2

Monday, June 27, 2016

By Fred Plotkin

Fred Plotkin continues his investigation into the nature of unfinished works of arts, including a show at the Met Breuer and two musicals that open this question.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/when-unfinished-work-art-incomplete-part-2/

Elizabeth Caballero sings the title role in New York City Opera's 'Florencia en el Amazonas.'

New York City Opera Spreads Its Wings with 'Florencia'

Thursday, June 23, 2016

By David Patrick Stearns

'Florencia en el Amazonas,' kicks off New York City Opera's Spanish-language series, with a butterfly-themed production. David Patrick Stearns reviews the performance.

Construction work is still ongoing at the Sagrada Familia, but is the Basilica incomplete?

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/new-york-city-opera-spreads-its-wings-florencia/

When Is an Unfinished Work Incomplete?

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

By Fred Plotkin

Are works left unfinished, such as Gaudí's Sagrada Familia or Schubert's Eighth Symphony, still complete in other ways? Fred Plotkin investigates this question.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/when-unfinished-work-incomplete/

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

British composer Iain Bell's new opera "In Parenthesis" has had its world premiere performances in Cardiff (Welsh National Opera), and The Opera Platform is providing us with a FREE video-stream of the work on Friday, July 1. Then on Saturday (July 2) BBC Radio 3 is offering an audio-only broadcast of this same work.

(video link: http://www.theoperaplatform.eu/en/opera/bell-parenthesis)

(audio link: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

On more familiar ground, there's Bizet's "Carmen" on German Radio in a performance from Darmstadt which took place earlier this month (June 4).

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Continuing their series of broadcasts from Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2015/2016 season, NPR is presenting a broadcast of a performance from this past February of Gounod's "Romeo & Juliette."

(www.wrti.org/)

Soprano Diana Damrau seems to have been performing the title role of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" all over the place quite recently, and one of those numerous performances took place in Paris on May 27 of this year. French Radio gives us a chance to hear it this Saturday.

(www.francemusique.fr/)

Enjoy! -- & Have a safe & happy Fourth of July weekend!

DAVE

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast will return in December. 

Watch this space. Enjoy the haitus! 

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No opera on

WGBH this week!

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