Saturday, November 19, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday,November 20, 2016 3:00am
Monday, November 21, 2016, 12:00am
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET
Cavalleria Rusticana-Pagliacci
Tenor Marcelo Álvarez stars in Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci." In "Cavalleria," he's a former soldier who used another woman to make his ex-fiancée, now married to another man, jealous; and in "Pagliacci," he's a clown whose wife is in love with another man.
Synopsis:http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/Cav-Pag/
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WQXR
Why It's More Difficult Than Ever to Become an Opera Singer
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
Fred Plotkin on the many things opera singers must now do to launch, grow and sustain their careers outside knowledge, artistry and health.
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/why-it-more-difficult-ever-become-opera-singer/
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
Fred Plotkin on the many things opera singers must now do to launch, grow and sustain their careers outside knowledge, artistry and health.
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/why-it-more-difficult-ever-become-opera-singer/
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Review: Kathleen Battle Returns to the Met
Monday, November 14, 2016
By David Patrick Stearns
Kathleen Battle's hyped return to the Metropolitan Opera began 30 minutes late. But once she started, she showed no signs of stopping.
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/review-kathleen-battle-returns-met/
Review: Kathleen Battle Returns to the Met After 22 Years. It Was Worth the Wait.
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The Art of Listening
Thursday, November 10, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
"Most of us hear but not all of us listen," says Operavore's Fred Plotkin. Find out how the skill of active listening can transform your experience with music and much more.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
"Most of us hear but not all of us listen," says Operavore's Fred Plotkin. Find out how the skill of active listening can transform your experience with music and much more.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wows in Opera Debut
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-wows-opera-debut-n683801
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s opera debut brings relevance to WNO
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This coming Saturday (November 19), Radio 4 (the Netherlands) will be broadcasting, direct from Amsterdam, tomorrow night's performance of Handel's "Jephtha" (1751). Strictly speaking, the work is considered an oratorio rather than a full-fledged opera, but the Netherlands Opera is performing it as an opera. It's interesting to note that this was Handel's last oratorio, written when he was dealing with oncoming blindness.
NPR, on the other hand, brings us all the way forward to the present time with a broadcast (from April 2016) of Daniel Schnyder's new opera "Charlie Parker's Yardbird." As performed in Philadelphia, this work features tenor Lawrence Brownlee as saxophonist Charlie Parker, indicating that prospective listeners should probably expect to hear a clear jazz influence in this world premiere piece of music.
Other items of interest include 3 re-broadcasts, two of which stem from this past summer's Bayreuth Festival. On BBC Radio 3, one can listen to Wagner's "Parsifal" while German Radio will be featuring a broadcast of the July 27thperformance of "Die Walkure."
On the other hand, ORF (Austria) is giving interested listeners another chance to hear Saverio Mercadante's "Francesca da Rimini" as performed on July 30 this past summer in Martina Franca. This opera, written in 1831, actually received its world premiere at this summer's festival, never having been performed anywhere else, even during Mercadante's lifetime (as far as we know).
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.'
The drought is almost over!
Watch this space.
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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