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(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 10, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, September 11, 2016 3:00am
Monday, September 12, 2016, 12:00am
Great Performances at the Met
Roberto Devereux
Donizetti's
"Roberto Devereux," in which Elizabeth I (Sondra Radvanovsky) signs
the death warrant for the nobleman (Matthew Polenzani) she loves when he's
accused of treason, not because he's guilty but because of spite: he loves another.
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News from Around the World of Music
Cracking a Glass Ceiling With the Maestro’s Baton
Women are
increasingly taking over a stubbornly male preserve in front of orchestras.
BY MICHAEL
COOPER
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Opera Santa
Barbara Names New Director
Kostis Protopapas Takes Over as Artistic Director at
OSB
Tuesday,
August 11, 2015
by CHARLES
DONELAN
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THE FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS STORY
Directed by:
Ralf Pleger
Germany | 93
minutes
Florence
Foster Jenkins is known as “the worst singer of all time”, yet she is a cult
figure whose recordings still outsell many contemporary singers. Opera
superstar Joyce DiDonato, making her cinematic debut interprets the flamboyant
“queen of dissonance” in this vivid impression of the conflict between inner
delusion and external reality.
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Calendar and
Tickets
Singers at Carnegie Hall
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WQXR
The Presidential Candidates’ Silence About the Arts
Wednesday,
August 31, 2016
By Fred
Plotkin
As we get
closer to the 2016 presidential election, Fred Plotkin investigates the
candidates' stance — or lack thereof — on funding for the arts.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Continuing
their series of broadcasts from the San Francisco Opera's 2015/2016 season, NPR
brings us an October 2015 performance of Mozart's ever-popular "Magic
Flute."
Nicolo
Piccinni's rarely performed opera from 1781 -- "Iphigenie en Tauride"
(lyric tragedy in 4 acts) -- can be heard on German Radio. This opera, which
was premiered just 2 years after Gluck's more famous opera of the same name,
was performed in Nurnberg on July 18 of this year, and it is this performance
that is being aired on Saturday.
If
you were asked to name an opera in which one of the characters is transformed
into a tree at the end of the work, you would probably cite Richard Strauss's
"Daphne" as a prime example. However, in 1902 (several decades before
"Daphne" saw the light of day), Rimsky-Korsakov gave us his one-act
opera "Kashchey the Immortal" in which the evil Princess is magically
turned into a weeping willow while the two young lovers enter a world of light,
love, & springtime! (Sounds like a happy ending!) In any case, this opera
can be heard on Swedish Radio this Saturday; unfortunately, the station's
website is being quite secretive regarding when & where this performance
took place.
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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Opera Now
The most influential opera magazine in the world
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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