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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Week of October 6 - October 13, 2016


All links are live!

LIVE IN HD!

Saturday, October 8, 2016
12 N00n
Note early starting time! 

Encore:
Wednesday, October  12, 2016 at 6:30pm
(For theater info, read right column of this blog.)







The Met's  New
Tristan  und Isolde


After the fall of the Roman Empire, English orphan Tristan meets and falls in love with Irish princess Isolde, however she is set to marry Lord Marke, who raised Tristan. While unaware of her identity, he has won her hand in marriage for his lord and future king of the two countries, but now the passion of the two young people causes a rift leading to a devastating battle.  

Duration: 5 hours, 15 minutes


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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)  

Saturday, October 8, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, October 9, 2016 3:00am
Monday, October 10,  2016, 12:00am


GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET

CARMEN

A production of Bizet's "Carmen," starring Anita Rachvelishvili in the title role, a Gypsy girl; Aleksandrs Antonenko as the soldier who loves her; and Ildar Abdrazakov as the bullfighter who comes between them.
Length: 180



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Please check your local WGBH listings.

I have been trying to confirm this time but it may be wrong.


This week on WGBH2
Friday, October 7, 2016, 9 PM
 MACBETH



Star soprano Anna Netrebko delivers her searing portrayal of Lady Macbeth, the mad and murderous mate of Zeljko Lucic's doomed Macbeth, for the first time at the Met. Adrian Noble's chilling production of Verdi's masterful adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy also stars Joseph Calleja as the noble Macduff and Rene Pape as Banquo. Fabio Luisi conducts.

Synopsis: http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synposes-Archive/Macbeth/


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WQXR

In the Footsteps of Wagner: Writing 'Parsifal' in Italy

Tuesday, October 04, 2016

By Fred Plotkin
Fred Plotkin retraces the paths of Wagner as he was writing Parsifal leading him Villa Rufolo where the composer found his inspiration for the operas second half.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/footsteps-richard-wagner-writing-parsifal-italy/


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News from Around the World of Music
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 
WITH  
DAVE  D' AGUANNO

A big weekend coming up for Wagner enthusiasts! To be sure, many will be driving to local movie theatres for the LIVE HD-transmission this Saturday(October 8) of "Tristan & Isolde" as performed at the Met and featuring Stuart Skelton and Nina Stemme as the doomed lovers.

At the same time, there will be a LIVE (free) video-stream from the Bavarian State Opera (Munich) of "Die Meistersinger." Fans of tenor Jonas Kaufmann need to know that he will not be performing this Saturday but is being replaced by Robert Kunzli.
(https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productioninfo/die-meistersinger-von-nuernberg.html)

Another free opera video can be accessed on Friday (October 7) on The Opera Platform, the opera in this case being a March 2015 performance from Lyons of Franz Schreker's "Die Gezeichneten" ("The Stigmatized"), which had its premiere in 1915. It may be of interest to some opera fans to know that, in the first 3 decades of the 20th century, Schreker's operas actually competed in popularity with those of Richard Strauss.
(http://www.theoperaplatform.eu/en/opera/schreker-stigmatised)

A couple of other lesser-known works are also among those which can be enjoyed this weekend. On German Radio, for example, there's Cherubini's comic opera "Les Deux Journees" (1800) in a LIVE performance from Bonn.
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Then on Sunday (October 9), an obscure opera by Camille Saint-Saens -- his 1887 4-act opera "Proserpine" -- can be heard on BR-Klassik.
(https://www.br-klassik.de/programm/radio/ausstrahlung-817762.html)

On far more familiar ground, how about Bizet's "Carmen" in a May 2016 performance from the San Francisco Opera? That's on NPR.
(www.wrti.org/)

And ORF (Austria) brings us the July 6, 2016 performance from London's Royal Opera House of Massenet's "Werther" with Vittorio Grigolo and Joyce DiDonato as the doomed lovers (lots of "doomed lovers" in the world of opera, in case you haven't noticed).
(http://oe1.orf.at/)


Enjoy!


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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast will return in December. 



Watch this space. Enjoy the haitus! 

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Opera Now
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WGBH this week!



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