Week of January 25 - February 1, 2018

MET-HD

This Saturday, January 27, 2018, 1:00pm

Encores: Wednesday, January 31, Check for times

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/met1718-tosca

TOSCA

Sonya Yoncheva as Tosca

Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has offended and thrilled audiences for more than a century. Critics, for their part, have often had problems with Tosca’s rather grungy subject matter, the directness and intensity of its score, and the crowd-pleasing dramatic opportunities it provides for its lead roles. But these same aspects have also made Tosca one of a handful of iconic works that seem to represent opera in the public imagination.

Synopsis: http://www.metopera.org/user-information/Tosca/

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This week on Rhode Island Public television:

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

Saturday, January  27, 2018, 8:00pm

Sunday, January  28, 2018 3:00am

Monday, January  29, 2018  12:00am

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET

The Pearl Fishers

"Les Pêcheurs de Perles"

A production of Georges Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" ("Les Pêcheurs de Perles"), a sweeping romance about a Hindu priestess (Diana Damrau) pursued by rival pearl divers (Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien).

Length: 150 minutes

The Opera House’: How the New Met Was Born

Fred Plotkin sees a new documentary that tells the story of the evolution and creation of the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in 1966.  Jan 23, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/opera-house-how-new-metropolitan-opera-was-born

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

Of vital interest to many opera-lovers this coming weekend would probably be the LIVE HD-transmission from the Met on Saturday afternoon of Puccini's "Tosca." The work, which can be seen at select movie theaters and heard on several internet radio stations, will feature Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, Vittorio Grigolo as Cavaradossi, and Bryn Terfel as Scarpia.

(www.wrti.org/)

Another Puccini opera will be getting the video treatment this week as Opera Vision presents a performance from Turin of "Turandot." This performance premieres tomorrow (Thursday, January 25) and should be available for several weeks afterwards for one's viewing and listening pleasure.

(https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/turandot)

More Italian opera comes to us on Saturday with a broadcast from Vienna of Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" -- a viable alternative for those opera fans who might prefer to give the Met's "Tosca" a pass. The Donizetti work can be heard on ORF (Austria).

(http://oe1.orf.at/)

Then on Monday evening (Jan. 29) at 7:25 pm, the Met is giving us another chance to hear Roberto Alagna singing the leading tenor roles in both Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" as a free LIVE audio-stream.

(www.metopera.org/)

Finally, while most opera buffs may have some degree of familiarity with Gounod's "Faust" and "Romeo & Juliette" -- how many of us have ever heard a single note of his last completed stage work -- "Le Tribut de Zamora" (1887)? BR Klassik is transmitting a LIVE performance from Munich of this rarely heard 4-act opera on Sunday (Jan. 28). This is probably one's only chance to ever hear this opera since so many of these obscure works seem to sink back into oblivion after an initial revival, only to be replaced on operatic schedules with even more performances of "Carmen" & "La Boheme" & "Don Giovanni" ... which may (or may not) be a good thing, depending on one's preferences, of course!

(https://www.br-klassik.de/programm/radio/ausstrahlung-1284560.html)

Enjoy!

DAVE

THE MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON

RADIO BROADCAST AT

1:00PM ON WQXR

Tosca

 PUCCINI

Villaume; Yoncheva, Grigolo, Lučić, Carfizzi

 

GO TO

 HTTP://WWW.WQXR.ORG/STREAMS

 THEN CLICK ON

 WQXR 105.9 FM

NO OPERA ON

  WGBH THIS WEEK!

Soprano Anna Netrebko