All links are live!
(Met Opera Season starts in a few weeks!)
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, September 24, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, September 25, 2016 3:00am
Monday, September 26, 2016, 12:00am
Elektra
Soprano Nina Stemme sings the title role in Richard Strauss' "Elektra," about a princess who seeks revenge on her mother (Waltraud Meier) and her mother's lover (Burkhard Ulrich) for murdering her father.
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WQXR
How Critics Can Help Us Love Opera Even
More
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
Fred Plotkin discusses the changing roles of
opera and art critics over the years and how they can enhance the experience of
going to performances or listening.
Daniela Mack takes her curtain call in the Royal Opera House's
'Barber of Seville.'
Behind the Scenes of Daniela Mack's ROH
Debut
Thursday, September 15, 2016
WQXR
American mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack made her
Covent Garden debut on Sept 13 as Rosina in The Barber of Seville. We spoke to
her about how she got ready for the big day.
Statues, books and other ephemera about Ernest Hemingway are
abundant in Ketchum, Idaho.
The Operatic Ernest Hemingway
Thursday, September 15, 2016
WPSU
By Fred Plotkin
Fred Plotkin travels to Ketchum, Idaho, where
Ernest Hemingway lived and is buried, and considers which of the great author's
works would translate well in opera.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Opera fans who adored the singers who were active at
the Met in the 50s & 60s will probably want to tune in to NPR which this
Saturday (September 24) will be broadcasting a 1956 Met performance of
Puccini's "La Boheme." The star-studded cast for this one includes
Victoria De Los Angeles as Mimi, Jussi Bjoerling as Rodolfo, Robert Merrill as
Marcello, & Lucine Amara as Musetta. Wow!
Other broadcasts scheduled for this Saturday include a
LIVE performance from Goteborg of Mozart's "Idomeneo" which can be
heard on Swedish Radio and which can be accessed for at least a week
afterwards, should you miss listening to it on Saturday.
Radio 4 (the Netherlands) will be airing the recent
(September 10) performance of "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Richard Strauss.
This one is a Reisopera production.
Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva -- who sang the role
of Desdemona in last year's Met HD-transmission of Verdi's "Otello"
& will be seen & heard later this season as Violetta in "La
Traviata" -- performed the title role in Mascagni's "Iris" on
July 26. In case you missed it when it was broadcast back then, ORF (Austria)
has it scheduled for this Saturday.
Then on Monday (September 26) at 4:55 pm, it's the
first FREE live audio-stream from the Met, & (as expected) it's Wagner's
"Tristan & Isolde" with Stuart Skelton & Nina Stemme in the
two leading roles which they will be performing in next month's HD-transmission
as well.
And then on Tuesday (the 27th), Radio 3 (RAI) is
broadcasting a LIVE performance from Florence of Rossini's
"Semiramide."
As far as video performances are concerned, Verdi
enthusiasts may find it hard to resist watching this coming Saturday's
performance from Madrid of Verdi's "Otello" on The Opera Platform.
(Upcoming video presentation on this website include Mozart's "Marriage of
Figaro" on September 27 as well as Schreker's "The Stigmatized"
on October 7.)
As you probably already know, the Met has scheduled a
LIVE HD-transmission on Saturday, October 8, of Wagner's "Tristan &
Isolde" with soprano Nina Stemme as Isolde.
To complicate matters for those of us who are Wagner
enthusiasts, the Bavarian State Opera has scheduled their free LIVE
video-stream on their website of "Die Meistersinger" (with Jonas
Kaufmann as Walther) on the same day & (basically) the same time. This is
the one that was originally supposed to have taken place in July but was
re-scheduled.
The only saving grace I can think of is that the
"Meistersinger" video MIGHT be available for viewing for a few days
after the October 8 live video-stream, as has sometimes been the case with
previous videos from Munich.
Also, the schedule for further upcoming video-streams
from the 2016/2017 season in Munich is supposed to be announced before the end
of this month.
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!
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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