LIVE IN HD
Saturday, March 25, 2017, 1:00PM
Encore: Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 6:30PM
at a theater near you--http://www.metopera.org/Season/In-Cinemas/
IDOMENEO
“Here is the Met at its
best. … [James] Levine conducts, drawing a refined and affecting performance
from the great Met orchestra and chorus and an impressive cast” (New York
Times). Matthew Polenzani gives a “poignant, gripping performance” (New York
Times) as the king torn by a rash vow; mezzo-soprano Alice Coote “exudes noble
passion and dignity” (Financial Times) in the trouser role of his son Idamante;
soprano Nadine Sierra sings “with expressivity and tenderness” (New York Times)
as Ilia; and soprano Elza van den Heever “triumphs” (New York Times) as the
volatile Elettra, who loves Idamante to the bounds of madness.
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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, March 25 2017, 8:00PM
Sunday, March 26, 2017, 3:00AM
R. Strauss’s
ELEKTRA
Nina Stemme sings Confrontation Scene:
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.
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Monday, March 27, 2017, 12:00 AM
La Cenerentola
Rossini's
take on the Cinderella fairy tale, stars Joyce DiDonato in the title role and
Juan Diego Flórez as the dashing prince.
Length:
180
Synopsis:
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Composer and Conductor
Anton Coppola at 100: Fortissimo
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
By Fred Plotkin
Composer and conductor
Anton Coppola, uncle of film director Francis, turns one hundred years old
today. Fred Plotkin visited Coppola in his Manhattan apartment recently.
LoftOpera's production
of Rossini's 'Otello.'
Review: LoftOpera's
'Otello' by Rossini Rewards With Three Fine Tenors
Friday, March 17, 2017
By David Patrick
Stearns
David Patrick Stearns
reviews LoftOpera's production of the seldom produced, undervalued opera, in
what is said to be the first New York staging in 40 years.
Naomi Louisa O'Connell in 'Witches, Bitches & Women in Britches.'
6 Irish Opera Singers You Should Know
Friday, March 17, 2017
By Fred Plotkin
Deborah Kelleher, the director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, shares some of her picks for outstanding new Irish singers with Opravore's Fred Plotkin.
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News from Around the World of Music
Trump Proposes Eliminating the Arts and Humanities Endowments
By SOPAN DEB
MARCH 15, 2017
Fiora Corradetti Contino, Opera Maestra, Dies at 91
By SAM ROBERTS
MARCH 15, 2017
Write Me a Concerto: Yo-Yo Ma and Esa-Pekka Salonen on Their New
Work
By ZACHARY WOOLFE
MARCH 13, 2017
Trump Proposes Eliminating the Arts and Humanities Endowments
By SOPAN DEB
MARCH 15, 2017
The Super Mario Brothers theme in the style of a Mozart piano
sonata is genius
26 February 2017, 22:21
Levine and Friends Deliver a Magnificent “Idomeneo” at the Met
03/07/2017 12:00 pm ET
Christa Ludwig raises an eyebrow at Netrebko and overhype by
Clive Paget on March 14, 2017 (6 days ago) http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/christa-ludwig-suggests-anna-netrebko-overhyped#sthash.6fKFKJpP.dpuf
Review: LoftOpera's 'Otello' by Rossini Rewards With Three Fine
Tenors
Friday, March 17, 2017
By David Patrick
Stearns
David Patrick Stearns
reviews LoftOpera's production of the seldom produced, undervalued opera, in
what is said to be the first New York staging in 40 years.
Marin Alsop: Raising the Bar
Monday, March 20, 2017
By Merrin Lazyan
Marin Alsop was once
told “girls don't conduct.” Now, she’s the director of orchestras in Baltimore
and São Paolo and has no plans to slow down.
Violinist Midori Seiler in one of the more unique 'Four
Seasons' performances we've seen.
Watch: Vivaldi's 'Spring' Like You've Never Imagined It
Monday, March 20, 2017
By James Bennett, II
Spring is Here! In
celebration, check out this weird but captivating music video of Spring from
Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" featuring violinist Midori
Seiler.
Yo-Yo Ma featured in a music video of Colin Jacobsen's
composition 'Ascending Bird'
Exclusive Music Video: The Knights' 'Ascending Bird,' Featuring
Yo-Yo Ma
Monday, March 20, 2017
By James Bennett, II
The Knights are
releasing their new album on March 31. Ahead of the release, they have shared
an exclusive first listen of their new work, "Ascending Bird."
Bach at the keyboard
The 20 Essential Bach Recordings
Monday, March 20, 2017
By WQXR Staff
With thousands of Bach
music performances committed to recordings, it's hard to know where to begin.
Here's our list of essential Bach Recordings.
Three from KDFC in San Francisco
· Music and Poetry Meet
in Just Like a Woman
· Stash the Stilettos
·
Einstein was a Gifted Violinist, Relatively Speaking
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
If you happen to be a big fan of the operas of Mozart,
you have 3 of his best works being broadcast over the next few days, the first
one being a broadcast of "The Magic Flute" tomorrow (Thursday). You
can hear it, LIVE from Florence, on Radio 3 (RAI).
Then on Saturday (March 25), there are two Mozart
operas being offered on internet radio, with the Met giving us an opportunity
to hear "Idomeneo" with tenor Matthew Polenzani singing the title
role.
Radio 4 (the Netherlands), on the other hand, is
airing the March 4, 2017 performance of "Don Giovanni" (a Reisopera
production).
Also on the Dutch Radio 4 station, during the morning
hours here in RI, it's a LIVE broadcast from Amsterdam of "Capriccio"
-- the last completed opera by Richard Strauss.
French opera also appears on Saturday's schedule, with
a broadcast on BBC Radio 3 of a recent performance from the Scottish Opera (in
Glasgow) of Debussy's "Pelleas & Melisande" which can be accessed
during the next several days following the broadcast, if you choose to do so.
For fanciers of Italian opera from the 19th century,
you can check out Swedish Radio's LIVE broadcast from Malmo of Ponchielli's
"La Gioconda."
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast
radio broadcast
1 PM
Idomeneo
MOZART
Levine; van den Heever, Sierra, Coote, Polenzani, Opie
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NO OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
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| Gustavo Dudamel, Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic |
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