This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Now broadcasting two or three operas every weekend!
Saturday, February 11, 2017, 8:00 PM
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN
Magnetic tenor Vittorio
Grigolo takes on the tortured poet and unwitting adventurer of the title of
Offenbach's operatic masterpiece, in the Met's wild, kaleidoscopic production.
Hibla Gerzmava, Erin Morley and Christine Rice sing the three heroines - each
an idealized embodiment of some aspect of Hoffmann's desire. Thomas Hampson
portrays the shadowy Four Villains, and Yves Abel conducts the sparkling score
in a Bartlett Sher production.
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Sunday, February 12, 2017, 3:00 AM
WERTHER
Jonas Kaufmann stars in Richard Eyre's production of Massenet's "Werther," about a poet whose feelings for the fair Charlotte (Sophie Koch) lead him to do the unthinkable, for she has another man on her mind: the honorable Albert (David Bizic).
DURATION: 150 MIN
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Monday, February 13, 2017, 12:00 AM
THE PEARL FISHERS
For the first time in a century, the Met stages Bizet's lush,
melodic romance. Diana Damrau leads the cast as Leila, with Matthew Polenzani
and Mariusz Kwiecien as the two pearl fishers whose friendship is tested by
their rivalry for her affections.
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News from Around the World of Music
Dmitri Hvorostovsky returns from hospital:
Best wishes for a full recovery!
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| Queen of the Night |
The Magic Flute Told in Cat GIFs
Geoffrey
Larson | January 24, 2017 |
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Watch: 'Für Elise' Flipped On Its Head
Tuesday,
February 07, 2017
By
James Bennett, II
Musician
and composer Andrew Huang takes the famous Beethoven piano piece and asks what
it sounds like completely inverted.
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Brooklyn Duo plays with select fellows from
Carnegie Hall's Ensemble Connect.
Watch: This Brooklyn
Duo Cover of 'Take On Me' is What You Need
Monday,
February 06, 2017
By
James Bennett, II
Brooklyn
Duo joined the talented young musicians of Carnegie Hall's Ensemble Connect for
a chamber cover of a synth-pop favorite.
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Catalina Cuervo as
Frida Kahlo in Cincinnati Opera's 'Frida'
8 Tchaikovsky References in Pop Culture
Monday,
February 06, 2017
By
James Bennett, II
During
the New York Philharmonic's Tchaikovsky festival, we take a few minutes to look
at the diverse places the composer's music has appeared over the years.
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This Week's Salute to Black History, Feb.
6-10
Monday,
February 06, 2017
By
James Bennett, II
Each
weekday for the month of February, WQXR profiles the work of black creatives
who shaped the history of classical music. Catch it on-air at 1 pm and 7 pm.
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Geoffery Rush as Albert Einstein in Nat
Geo's new TV show Genius.
'Genius'
Superbowl Ad Features Einstein and Classical Lady Gaga
Sunday,
February 05, 2017
By
Mike Rinzel
We
waited for it like we do every year, wondering if the creative agencies behind
the Superbowl ads will find a way to reference classical music. We were not
left waiting.
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'Silent Night', the Pulitzer Prize-winning
opera by Kevin Puts, has its West Coast premiere beginning this weekend at Opera
San Jose
February
7, 2017: The State of the Arts
Opera
San Jose gives the West Coast premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera
Silent Night by Kevin Puts, beginning this Saturday. It retells the story of
the 1914 Christmas Truce that (briefly) interrupted the carnage of World War I.
Music Director Joseph Marcheso says it's based on the French film from 2005,
Joyeux Noel, and keeps a cinematic approach to the story.
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The dancing duo spoke
to the Met’s Matt Dobkin about their return to Carmen
In Conversation: Maria Kowroski and Martin
Harvey
By
David Patrick Stearns
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Jamie Barton wins the
Beverly Sills Award, the Metropolitan Opera’s $50,000 annual prize for a young
singer.
Hear the Singer Who Just Took One of
Opera’s Top Prizes
By
ZACHARY WOOLFE
JAN.
31, 2017
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At the Met, ‘Rusalka’ Serves Up Fishy
Unrealness
By
James Jorden • 02/03/17 2:14pm
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LEONTYNE PRICE: Opera’s Greatest Soprano
Turns 90
by
Photojournalist Lisa Pacino
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Mozart Redesign: the Five Craziest Re-Compositions and
Cadenzas
Geoffrey Larson | January 12, 2017
Geoffrey Larson | January 12, 2017
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Opera More Than Ever: Unusual Works to Discover in
2017-2018
Monday,
February 06, 2017
By Fred
Plotkin
It's the time
of year when opera companies start to announce their new seasons. And there are
plenty of new operas to experience in the next year, writes Fred Plotkin.
Kristine Opolais in the title role and Jamie Barton as
Ježibaba in Dvořák's 'Rusalka.'
The Met's New-Generation 'Rusalka' Meets the Current
Mermaid Zeitgeist
Friday,
February 03, 2017
By David Patrick
Stearns
The
Metropolitan Opera's new production of Dvořák's "Rusalka" had some
significant odds to overcome at its Thursday opening, writes David Patrick
Stearns in his review.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
For those fans
whose operatic tastes happen to be rather conservative, this coming Saturday
(February 11) will offer several tantalizing listening choices. With the Met's
2016/2017 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts in full swing, it's no wonder
that Bizet's "Carmen" should pop up on the schedule. You can access
this Saturday's LIVE performance of Bizet's masterpiece on several internet
radio stations.
If it's
mainstream Italian opera you prefer, Verdi's "Il Trovatore" should do
nicely, and with tenor Roberto Alagna as Manrico + soprano Anna Netrebko as
Leonora, why not? The performance from the Vienna State Opera that took place
last Sunday (Feb. 5) is the one that you can hear on Radio 4 (the Netherlands).
Wagner
enthusiasts will get another chance to hear tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Walther,
when Swedish Radio re-broadcasts the May 16, 2016 performance from Munich of
Wagner's "Die Meistersinger."
Also from
Munich, Radio 3 (RAI) will be airing a LIVE performance on Sunday of Rossini's
"Semiramide" with Joyce DiDonato singing the title role. This one
will be receiving a LIVE video-stream later this month (Sunday, Feb. 26).
If Bellini's
"I Puritani" happens to be one of your favorites, you will actually
be getting TWO performances broadcast of this work in the days ahead. This
Friday evening at 7:25 pm, the Met will be giving us another of its FREE live
audio-streams, with soprano Diana Damrau featured in the role of Elvira.
Then on
Saturday, this same opera gets broadcast on German Radio, this time in a
performance (with a different cast) that took place in Stuttgart last summer
(July 8).
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast
radio broadcast
1 PM
Carmen
BIZET
Fisch; Agresta, Margaine, Aronica, Ketelsen
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NO OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
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