This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, October 29, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, October 30, 2016 3:00am
Monday, October 31, 2016, 12:00am
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET
The Merry Widow
Tony Award winner Susan
Stroman helmed and choreographed this production of Franz Lehár's "The
Merry Widow," which features a fresh translation from Jeremy Sams. Renée
Fleming stars as a wealthy widow who's wooed by an old flame (Nathan Gunn), but
for reasons that may not have much to do with love.
Length: 150 minutes|
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WQXR
For ‘William Tell’ Nerds, The Met Does (Reasonably)
Well by Rossini's Epic
Wednesday,
October 19, 2016
By David
Patrick Stearns
David Patrick
Stearns reviews the new William Tell production at the Met Opera and says that
there is much that Rossini's massive epic has to offer, especially at the end.
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1956,
Paris, Charles Aznavour, singer, in the street
Singular Voices: Charles Aznavour
Wednesday,
October 19, 2016
By Fred
Plotkin
Fred Plotkin
continues his series called Singular Voices sharing his thoughts after a recent
New York performance by French multi-lingual singer Charles Aznavour.
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In
conversation with Luca Pisaroni: back to Milan with his La Scala debut
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Alice
Bloch’s review in the Seattle Gay News, of Hansel and Gretel at Seattle Opera:
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Justice
Ginsburg Will Make Her Operatic Debut — Sort Of
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English
National Opera appoints new music director
Conductor Martyn Brabbins will take up the post
immediately
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How can
we increase diversity in classical music?
Jeremy
Pound attends Radio 3's Diversity and Inclusion in Composition conference in
Manchester
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Einojuhani
Rautavaara (1928-2016)
Leading
Finnish composer dies at the age of 87
http://www.classical-music.com/news/einojuhani-rautavaara-1928-2016
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Skip to the End! Don Giovanni Review
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Skip to the End! Don Giovanni Review
By Naomi Graber
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Among the interesting items that opera fans may want to
check out this coming weekend, the LIVE free audio-stream from the Met on
Friday evening (at 7:25) may take pride of place, especially if you
happen to be a fan of soprano Karita Mattila. In seasons past, she was
acclaimed for her searing and dramatic portrayal of the role of Jenufa in
Janacek's opera of the same name. This time around, she takes on the arguably
even more dramatic role of Jenufa's foster-mother (Kostelnicka).
Fans of tenor Juan Diego Florez can hear him in a role he
performed at the Met not too long ago: that of Giacomo (a.k.a.Uberto) in
Rossini's "La Donna del Lago." On ORF (Austria) this Saturday he
is featured in a performance from this past summer's Rossini Festival in Pesaro
(August 8, 2016).
(http://oe1.orf.at/)
(http://oe1.orf.at/)
Performed just this last summer in Santa Fe, Samuel Barber's
"Vanessa" gets yet another performance. On Saturday it
comes to us LIVE from Berlin and can be heard on German Radio.
If you've ever wondered if there happened to be another
opera (besides "Samson & Dalila" by Saint-Saens) in which the
entire cast is killed at the end of the opera (!!), why not check out this
Saturday's LIVE performance on Radio 3 (BBC)? The work is Felicien
David's four-act grand operaAmong the interesting items that opera fans may want to check out this coming weekend, the LIVE free audio-stream from the Met on Friday evening (at 7:25) may take pride of place, especially if you happen to be a fan of soprano Karita Mattila. In seasons past, she was acclaimed for her searing and dramatic portrayal of the role of Jenufa in Janacek's opera of the same name. This time around, she takes on the arguably even more dramatic role of Jenufa's foster-mother (Kostelnicka).
Fans of tenor Juan Diego Florez can hear him in a role he performed at the Met not too long ago: that of Giacomo (a.k.a.Uberto) in Rossini's "La Donna del Lago." On ORF (Austria) this Saturday he is featured in a performance from this past summer's Rossini Festival in Pesaro (August 8, 2016).
Performed just this last summer in Santa Fe, Samuel Barber's "Vanessa" gets yet another performance. On Saturday it comes to us LIVE from Berlin and can be heard on German Radio.
If you've ever wondered if there happened to be another opera (besides "Samson & Dalila" by Saint-Saens) in which the entire cast is killed at the end of the opera (!!), why not check out this Saturday's LIVE performance on Radio 3 (BBC)? The work is Felicien David's four-act grand opera "Herculanum,” and is being performed at this year's Wexford Festival. The biggest challenge facing the production team in Wexford may possibly be their depiction of the devastating eruption of Mt. Vesuvius at the end of the opera, a spectacle which supposedly wowed the audience at the opera's premiere in Paris in 1859.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast will return on December 3 with 'Manon Lescaut.'
radio broadcast will return on December 3 with 'Manon Lescaut.'
Watch this space. Enjoy the haitus!
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Beloved brother
Manuel Joseph Pegueros, Jr
July 19, 1955 – October 19,
2016
May choirs of angels lead
you to your rest
Opera Now
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
