Week of November 10 - November 17, 2016

All links are live!

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)  

Saturday, November 12, 2016, 8:00pm

Sunday,November 13, 2016 3:00am

Monday, November 14,  2016, 12:00am

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET

La Donna del Lago

Rossini's "La Donna del Lago," about the daughter (Joyce DiDonato) of a nobleman (Oren Gradus) who has promised her hand to a highlander chief (John Osborn), though her heart belongs to a commoner (Daniela Barcellona, in a trouser role).

Length: 180

Synopsis:  http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/Donna-del-Lago/

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WQXR

The Glorious Diversity of African-American Music

Friday, November 04, 2016

By Fred Plotkin

Blogger Fred Plotkin takes a tour of the "stupendous" "Musical Crossroads" exhibit at the The National Museum of African American History and Culture with the exhibit curator. 

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/glorious-diversity-african-american-music/

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News from Around the World of Music

Watch Quartet of Paralyzed Musicians Play Music With Only Their Minds

Photo of the Dayby McKinley Corbley - Oct 31, 2016

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/watch-quartet-paralyzed-musicians-play-music-minds/

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Classical Music Producer Leonid Fleishaker: The Classics Lead Us to See the Colors of Life

By Sharon Kilarski, Epoch Times

November 8, 2016 AT 12:57 PM

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2179003-classical-music-producer-leonid-fleishaker-the-classics-lead-us-to-see-the-colors-of-life/

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Simon Rattle: The Maestro With the Busy Baton

By MICHAEL COOPER

November 6, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/arts/music/simon-rattle-the-maestro-with-the-busy-baton.html

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Review: You Ain’t Never Heard a Baritone Like His

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

November 8, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/arts/music/james-monroe-iglehart-how-the-heck-review.html

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Just Why Does New Music Need Champions?

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

November 4, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/arts/music/just-why-does-new-classical-music-need-champions.html

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

The Met is generously providing us with two free live audio-streams in the next few days. First up is tomorrow night's performance of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and on Monday (November 14) opera fans will have a chance to hear soprano Anna Netrebko in the title role of Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" with tenor Marcelo Alvarez as Des Grieux.

(www.metopera.org/)

Another well-loved opera by Mozart can be heard on Saturday (November 12) as BBC Radio 3 brings us a taped recording of "Cosi fan Tutte" as performed last month at London's Royal Opera House.

(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

Verdi's "La Forza del Destino" appears on the schedule for Swedish Radio this Saturday. The opera, as performed in Geneva on February 5 of this year, is what this station will be broadcasting.

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

Donizetti's delightful "La Fille du Regiment" can be heard on Radio 3 (RAI) in a performance that took place in Palermo on March 13, 2016.

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

And for those of you why may have enjoyed the recent broadcast of Samuel Barber's "Vanessa" that was aired on German Radio (that being a performance that took place in Berlin), you'll have another chance to hear this 20th century work on Radio 4 (the Netherlands), this particular offering being a broadcast of the November 5th performance of the work from this year's Wexford Festival.

(www.radio4.nl/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast will return on December 3 with 'Manon Lescaut.' 

The drought is almost over! 

Watch this space. 

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Opera Now

The most influential opera magazine in the world 

http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/rhinegold-publishing/magazines/opera-now/

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