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Met Opera in HD
LIVE PERFORMANCE
SAT, JAN 07, 2017 12:55 PM
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Nabucco
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime collaborator James Levine. Liudmyla Monastyrska is Abigaille, the warrior woman determined to rule empires, and Jamie Barton is the heroic Fenena. Dmitri Belosselskiy is the stentorian voice of the oppressed Hebrew people.
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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET
8:00pm
&
R. Strauss’s
ELEKTRA
The genius director Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra production, previously presented in Aix and Milan, make it to the stage of the Met. But his overpowering vision lives on with soprano Nina Stemme—unmatched today in the heroic female roles of Strauss and Wagner—who portrays Elektra’s primal quest for vengeance for the murder of her father, Agamemnon. Legendary mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier is chilling as Elektra’s fearsome mother, Klytämnestra. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and bass-baritone Eric Owens are Elektra’s troubled siblings. Chéreau’s musical collaborator Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Strauss’s mighty take on Greek myth.
Sunday, January 8, 2017 3:00am
Monday, January 9, 2017, 12:00am
Tchaikovsky's
Iolanta
BLUEBEARD'S
CASTLE
On the heels of her triumphant Met performances as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill, consisting of an enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta) followed by a psychological thriller (Bluebeard’s Castle). Netrebko stars as the beautiful blind girl who experiences love for the first time in Iolanta, while Nadja Michael is the unwitting victim of the diabolical Bluebeard, played by Mikhail Petrenko. Both operas are directed by Mariusz Trelinski, who was inspired by classic noir films of the 1940s. Iolanta also stars Piotr Beczala, and Maestro Valery Gergiev conducts both operas.
Host: Eric Owens
Intermission Content will include:
• Live backstage interview with star soprano Anna Netrebko about singing the title role in the Met’s premiere performances of Iolanta.
• Met General Manager Peter Gelb leads a discussion between acclaimed Polish film and opera director Mariusz Trelinski and the stars of Bluebeard’s Castle.
• A preview of the next transmission in the series, La Donna del Lago on March 14, including an interview with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and tenor Juan Diego Flórez.
DURATION: 3 HRS. 40 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
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WQXR
Review: Metropolitan Opera's New 'Romeo et Juliette'
Sunday, January 01, 2017
By David Patrick Stearns
The Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Romeo et Juliette" at the New Year's Eve opening may be the risk of the season, writes David Patrick Stearns.
Winter Wonders in Opera and Vocal Music for the New Year
Sunday, January 01, 2017
By Fred Plotkin
In early 2017, New York and cities reachable by train or bus offer splendid and diverse options for lovers of the human voice. Here are Fred Plotkin's picks.
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Pretty Yende Performs ‘Una Voce Poco Fa’ on Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ [Video]
Artist of the Week: Sonya Yoncheva One Step Closer to ‘Diva Assoluta’ with ‘Eugene Onegin’
Best of 2016: 11 Singers Who Defied Possibilities and Created the Most Memorable Moments of 2016!
Opera singer Joyce DiDonato inspires Sing Sing prison inmates through song
Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s greatest opera singers, is inspiring maximum-security prison inmates with her voice. Sing Sing is one of the most notorious prisons in the world, and it’s there that DiDonato has broken stereotypes and created a bond with prisoners using classical music theory.
An illuminated visualization of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier
A sonata played on the earliest known surviving piano
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Verdi enthusiasts, as well as many other opera lovers, will certainly want to attend the LIVE HD-transmission this Saturday (January 7) of "Nabucco" with the amazingly versatile and seemingly tireless Placido Domingo in the title role. This, as many of you know, comes to us directly from the Met, and an audio-only broadcast of this same performance can be heard on many internet radio stations.
There's also a bit of Puccini on hand for those of you who might want to stay home and tune in to Radio 3 (RAI) for a broadcast of "La Boheme" as performed in Florence this past November 17.
If your tastes encompass the works of the 20th century, then Berg's "Lulu" may be an option for you on Saturday, with the BBC Radio 3 broadcasting a performance of the work that took place in November 2016 in London (English National Opera).
Also from the 20th century, the penultimate opera by Richard Strauss -- "Liebe der Danae" -- can be heard in a re-broadcast of the July 31, 2016 Salzburg performance. This one comes to us via Swedish Radio.
Then on Monday evening (January 9) at 7:25, the Met's FREE live audio-stream brings us Rossini's "Barber of Seville."
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast
radio broadcast
1 PM
Nabucco
VERDI
Levine; Monastyrska, Barton, Thomas, Domingo, Belosselskiy
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