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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, August 20, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, August 21, 2016 3:00am
Monday, August 22, 2016, 12:00am
Great Performances at the Met
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| Matthew Polenzani |
The Pearl Fishers
Les Pêcheurs de
Perles
A production of Georges Bizet's "The Pearl
Fishers" ("Les Pêcheurs de Perles"), a sweeping romance about a
Hindu priestess (Diana Damrau) pursued by rival pearl divers (Matthew
Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien).
Length: 150
News from Around the World of Music
14 bizarre, perplexing and distressing
performance directions
By
Kyle Macdonald, 26th March 2015, 21:00
A
selection of our favourite composer performance directions, requests and
musings. Just don't ask us to play them.
Meryl Streep Explains Our Fascination with
Florence Foster Jenkins
Quiz: Which Classical Music Era Are You?
App Download: Hannah Lash's 'Concerto for
Harp and Chamber Orchestra'
British Airways stops musician from flying with cello
as 'it didn't have a visa'
Jane Bevan says she was told her cello would need a
USA ESTA visa to travel on the flight
Alexandra Sims
Friday 12 August 2016
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WQXR
Singular Voices: Barbra Streisand
Friday,
August 12, 2016
By
Fred Plotkin
Fred
Plotkin begins a series honoring unique voices from opera and the stage. First
up: Barbra Streisand, who is making a pair of rare appearances at the Barclays
Center.
Everything Sounds Better in Yiddish
Monday,
August 08, 2016
By
Fred Plotkin
A
new production at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene leads Fred Plotkin to
ruminate on the roots of Yiddish theater in New York City and its connections
to opera.
Elza
van der Heever stars as Leonore in Beethoven's 'Fidelio' at Caramoor.
A Recipe for Success on the Opera Stage
Wednesday,
August 03, 2016
By
Fred Plotkin
Julia
Child once said that the key to successful cooking is buying the right
ingredients; likewise in opera, the key to a great performance starts with a
great cast.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Opera lovers
can start their unofficial opera weekend on Friday (August 19) by accessing RAI
Radio 3 for a BBC Proms performance of Janacek's "Makropulos Case."
Soprano Karita Mattila will be singing the role of Emilia Marty, and if you
happen to be a Mattila fan (or a Janacek fan, for that matter), you know that
this singer has in recent years triumphed in the leading soprano roles of Katya
Kabanova and Jenufa, & has even sung the role of Janacek's homicidal
foster-mother (Kostelnicka).
Then on
Saturday (August 20), a rare double-bill turns up on Swedish Radio's schedule
as two eighteenth-century Italian operas get paired up, those two being
Giovanni Paisiello's "Nina" (1789) & Pietro Morandi's
"Comala" (1780). These two operas were performed this summer in
Vadstena, & it is the August 10th performance that is to be broadcast on
Saturday.
An Italian
opera of more recent vintage comes to us on NPR with the San Francisco Opera's
production of Verdi's "Luisa Miller." This one originally was
performed last season in September 2015.
And in case
you missed it not so long ago, Halevy's "La Juive" can be heard on
ORF. This is the recent Munich production that featured Roberto Alagna as
Eleazar and, as I can personally attest, was a definite must-hear performance!
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast will return in December.
radio broadcast will return in December.
Watch this space. Enjoy the haitus!
Opera Now
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
Swimmer Michael Phelps
The Greatest Olympian
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