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Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, September 23, 8:00pm
Sunday, September 24, 3:00am
Monday, September 25, 1:00am
Nabucco
James
Levine conducts Verdi's early drama of ancient Babylon, with Placido Domingo as
the title character, Nabucco. Liudmyla Monastyrska sings Abigaille, Nabucco's
willful daughter, with Jamie Barton, Russell Thomas and Dmitri Belosselskiy.
Length:
150
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Most opera fans are
probably setting their sights on the upcoming LIVE broadcast on Monday
(September 25) of the Met's Opening Night performance of Bellini's
"Norma." With an all-star cast featuring Sondra Radvanovsky as Norma,
Joyce DiDonato as Adalgisa, and Joseph Calleja as Pollione, it's bound to be an
exciting evening, and the Met is to be applauded for making the performance
available as part of their FREE live audio-stream.
Other operas coming up in
the next few days include one that was written in 1658, a 21st century world
premiere, and a few others that were composed in-between. The earliest work
happens to be Francesco Cavalli's "Hipermestra" which was performed
at this summer's Glyndebourne Festival. BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting it on
Saturday.
The world premiere
performance is that of Sebastian Fagerlund's brand-new opera "Autumn
Sonata" which is based on the 1978 Ingmar Bergman film of the same name.
This one can actually be SEEN on The Opera Platform in a performance from
Helsinki.
There's also a 20th century
work being offered on Saturday; it's Swedish composer Gosta Nystroem's one-act
opera "Herr Arnes Penningar" ("Herr Arne's Hoard") which
premiered in 1957. Swedish Radio is broadcasting the April 23, 2017 performance
that took place in Goteborg.
NPR continues its series of
broadcasts from the San Francisco Opera's 2016/2017 season with a performance
of Giordano's most popular opera: "Andrea Chenier."
On Sunday, you have your
choice of two Verdi operas, one of which is "Luisa Miller" in a
performance from Munich, the other being a LIVE performance from Rome of
"Un Ballo in Maschera."
(Luisa Miller:
https://www.br-klassik.de/programm/radio/index.html)
(Ballo: www.radio3.rai.it/)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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WQXR
Singular Voices: Maria Callas
Fred Plotkin reflects on the singular voice of Maria
Callas. Sep 15, 2017
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News from Around the World of Music
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"Opera is, first and foremost, a popular art, a more popular
form of theater, and this is because it is emotionally so direct that the basic
human emotions are pin-pointed and magnified way beyond life-size, so that you
can’t miss them; and each emotion comes at you gigantically, in a clear,
direct, uncluttered, full-blown way."
-Leonard #Bernstein
("What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue, December, 1958)
Bernstein at 100: What’s old becomes new, once again
Celebrating 'Lenny:' Leonard Bernstein's centennial
commemorations will be as 'broadband' as he was
Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs?
October 15, 1990
The New York Times
OBITUARY
Leonard Bernstein, 72,
Music's Monarch, Dies
The Voice Must Be Heard
Opera Meets Film: First Love & Heartbreak In ‘Atonement’
& ‘La Bohème’
A Firing and a Question of Race Roil the Oregon Bach Festival
High Tech Meets High Art in a 3-D Opera
Hurricane Harvey Closes Houston’s Opera and Ballet Home for a
Season
Why Do Orchestras Seem to Play Behind the Beat?
You've seen it before: The conductor raises the baton and
brings it down to ... an offbeat orchestra? What's up with that? Sep 19, 2017
5 Arrangements of 'Ave Maria' That Freshen up an Old Classic
Schubert's "Ave Maria" seems to be everywhere.
Which is exactly why we welcome these peaceful, powerful — and sometimes,
unusual — arrangements. Sep 18, 2017
Must Stravinsky Be Both Seen and Heard? Pina Bausch's 'Rite of
Spring' Delivers a Convincing Yes
David Patrick Stearns reviews “The Rite of Spring” as
choreographed by Pina Bausch at Brooklyn Academy of Music and asks whether
Stravinsky must be both seen and heard. Sep 18, 2017
5 Classical Pieces For and About Moms
Which Composer's Ominous Music Is Used in 'The Defenders'?
The bad guys in the new superhero miniseries “The
Defenders” really like Brahms. A lot. Sep 15, 2017
Family Friendly Concerts for the Fall Season
Here is a list of family-friendly concerts for you and
your little ones to enjoy this fall. Sep
15, 2017
'Beauty in the Suffering' — Texas Man Finds Music Amid Harvey's
Destruction
When Aric Harding returned to his flooded Texas home, he
took a moment to play the piano. The video went viral, and launched a
good-willed campaign to get him a new instrument. Sep 15, 2017
Last Night of the Proms Tinged With Themes of Equality
9 Amazing, Stirring and Electrifying Moments from Proms 2017
Proms 2017 featured some amazing and borderline unreal
performances. Here are just a few of our favorites. Sep 14, 2017
Lucille Chung and Alessio Bax Perform a Mozart Piano Sonata for
Four Hands
Recorded live in the WQXR studio, Lucille Chung and
Alessio Bax perform a Mozart sonata for piano four-hands. Sep 14, 2017
Hilary Hahn With Bach, Ives and American Throwbacks
Revisit Hahn's 2011 Tiny Desk concert — and her
Ives-inspired medley. Sep 14, 2017
Composer, Alchemist, Poet and ... Time Traveler Immortal?
The Count of St. Germain is one of history's most
tantalizing enigmas. He may be remembered for those rumors of alchemy and
immortality, but he was a composer, too. Sep 13, 2017
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An early peek at our 46th season
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Baroque Brilliance | Saturday and Sunday, November 11-12, 2017
Baroque masterworks for chorus and orchestra, including: • Purcell’s Come Ye Sons of Art • Handel’s Zadok the Priest and Dettingen Te Deum • Zelenka’s Magnificat. |
Messiah | Saturday, December 16, 2017
Christine Noel conducts the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Providence Singers, and soloists in the eleventh annual performance of Handel’s masterpiece — a fresh reading informed by Baroque performance practice. |
Of Sea and Sky | Saturday and Sunday, March 10-11, 2018
Music inspired by the power and majesty of the natural world, including these and more: • Brahms’ O Schöne Nacht, Spätherbst, Abendlied, and Warum • Elder’s Ballade to the Moon, Sky Sonnet, and Sunrise Carol • Eric Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine Also on the program: The traditional Scottish ballad Loch Lomond and the U.S. Navy Hymn. |
Opera Choruses | Saturday, May 19, 2018
We present a grand and glorious journey through the world of opera, done up in fine formal style as a gala concert to benefit choral performance and education. Count on it: Giuseppe Verdi’s creations will be there for sure, with contributions from Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Antonio Rossini, and a number of their talented friends.
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Chorus
The Metropolitan Opera Announces Chorus Auditions
for the 2018–19 Season
Met Opera Chorus performs Nabucco
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Extra Chorus offer unique and rewarding career opportunities for highly qualified performers. Classically trained professional singers who have been invited to audition should be prepared to sing two operatic arias in different languages from memory. Selections should demonstrate the applicant’s ability to sing lyrically. An accompanist will be provided.
All applicants will be considered for Full Time (Regular) and Extra Chorus positions.
Applicants shall submit via email addressed to ChorusAuditions@metopera.org the following materials:
a cover letter requesting an audition; please indicate your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd audition session preference from the dates below; any union affiliation should be also be listed
a current one-page resume, including a photo/head-shot
an audio clip (MP3 file, no larger than 10 MB) of an operatic aria (no youtube clips or links)
a list of no more than 5 operatic arias, two of which will be selected as your audition pieces
PDF or JPEG copy of current documentation proving the ability to work in the United States.
Auditions will be granted by invitation only, and will be held at the following times:
Session #1 Tuesday, October 31st, 2017 1:45pm to 4:45pm
Session #2 Friday, November 3rd, 2017 2:45pm to 5:45pm
Session #3 Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 2:45pm to 5:45pm
Session #4 Friday, November 17th, 2017 2:45pm to 5:45pm
Applications must be received on or before 12 midnight EST, Friday, September 1st, 2017. Submissions received after this date, regardless of postmark or email transmission time, will not be considered.
Only applicants with current documentation proving the ability to work in the United States will be granted an audition.
Any singer who is offered employment and is not already a member of AGMA (American Guild of Musical Artists) will be required to join AGMA.
All applicants will be notified as to whether an audition has been granted. No audition comments will be shared with the applicant.
Similar information about the auditions may be found by contacting the following:
American Guild of Musical Artists
1430 Broadway 14th Floor
New York, NY 10018
(212) 265-3687
www.musicalartists.org
The Metropolitan Opera
Donald Palumbo, Chorus Master
Steven Losito, Chorus Administrator
Daniel Hoy, Incoming Chorus Administrator effective July 31st, 2017
Lincoln Center
New York, NY 10023
The Metropolitan Opera is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast is on hiatus until
radio broadcast is on hiatus until
December 2.
but You can hear operas from the Royal Opera in Covent Garden, the Chicago Lyric Opera, and other operas around the world at
1:00PM on WQXR
but You can hear operas from the Royal Opera in Covent Garden, the Chicago Lyric Opera, and other operas around the world at
1:00PM on WQXR
Go to: http://www.wqxr.org/streams
Then click on
WQXR 105.9 FM
NO OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
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