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This week on Rhode Island Public television:
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, June 16, 2018, 8:00pm
Sunday, June 17, 2018 3:00am
Monday, June 18, 2018 12:00am
NORMA
A
production of Bellini's "Norma" stars Sondra Radvanovsky as the Druid
priestess, Joyce DiDonato as her rival Adalgisa, and Joseph Calleja as
Pollione. Carlo Rizzi conducts.
Length:
180
Hear What Makes ‘Norma’ the Everest of Opera
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Dr. Edward Markward, Music Director
LAST CHANCE!!
New Singer Auditions for the
RI Civic Chorale and Orchestra
The Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra (RICCO) will hold singer auditions on Wednesday, June 6 and Wednesday, June 13 at Providence Presbyterian Church, 500 Hope Street, Providence, beginning at 7 PM both days. All voices are welcome.
The audition includes a song or aria of the applicant’s choosing (which may be a hymn), voice and range testing, pitch matching, and simple sight reading. Auditions are by appointment, so please call the RICCO office at 401-521-5670 or send an email to info@ricco.org. Lori Maciel is the audition coordinator. The 2018 - 2019 season will include music by Bach, Haydn, Schumann and Dave Brubeck!
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NEWS FROM AROUND THE
WORLD OF MUSIC
Opera Theatre St. Louis' La Traviata Thrills Through the
Final Note
By Sarah
Fenske sarah.fenske@riverfronttimes.com
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Sing for
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touched-up by talented artists. Jun 13, 2018
A Virtuoso in Conversation: Vladimir Horowitz Talks to
Mike Wallace
Watch the
famed pianist in a candid 1977 interview with CBS's Mike Wallace. Jun 13, 2018
Watch John Williams Throw Out the First Pitch at an
Orioles Game
Baltimore’s
MLB club honored the composer / conductor during a pregame ceremony before a
Boston Red Sox matchup. Jun 12, 2018
Ten Landmarks in Keyboard Virtuosity
Ten times
composers re-imagined what was possible on the piano. Jun 12, 2018
Hear the World’s Oldest Piano at The Met Museum
When
Bartolomeo Cristofori built the first piano, he didn’t intend to create an
entirely new instrument. Jun 12, 2018
A Pro on the Move
It’s easy to
find out how to move a piano, but what makes you decide to do it for a living?
Piano mover William Browne shares how he got into the game. Jun 11, 2018
High-Key Weird: 10 Pianists' Awkward Attempts to Show Off
Their Hands
What do
pianists do in front of a camera when they don't have a piano? Jun 11, 2018
Celebrate a Different Side of Strauss Essential Piano
Recordings
Essential Piano Recordings
With so many remarkable piano albums out
there, it can be hard to know where to begin. That's why we did the legwork for
you! Here are our favorites. Jun 11, 2018
Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto Requires a Real Need
for Speed
Even Polish
pianist Josef Hofmann's hands were ultimately too small for Rachmaninoff’s
Piano Concerto No. 3 — a piece dedicated to him that he was never able to play.
Jun 11, 2018
Classical Hero Mary Birnbaum
This month,
WQXR's Classical Hero is stage director Mary Birnbaum. Mary directs and teaches
opera singers May 29, 2018
9 Outdoor Venues We Wish We Were at This Summer
Feast your
eyes on a few of the world's most beautiful — and geologically genius — outdoor
music venues. May 29, 2018
For 2018’s Graduating Conservatory Classes, Some Words of
Advice
This year’s
wisdom from hardened musicians to graduates on how best to navigate their
futures. May 25, 2018
Glide Through Your Week with Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott’s
Performance of ‘The Swan’
The pianist
and cellist partnered up for an album, and recorded one of Saint-SaΓ«ns’s
best-known works. Jun 4, 2018
A Gorgeous Monteverdi in a Stunningly Beautiful Monastery
Watch
Collegium Vocale Gent perform an excerpt from Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’ in a
scenic Tuscan monastery. Jun 1, 2018
Listen to 13-Year-Old Violinist Clara Shen Play Pieces
Old and New
Clara Shen
stepped into the 2018 Menuhin Competition ready to play a number of pieces —
from a 1720 Bach to a 2018 Choi. May 31, 2018
Leonard Bernstein Introduces a Teenage AndrΓ© Watts
During a New
York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert in 1963, Leonard Bernstein showcased a
number of young talents — including a 16-year-old AndrΓ© Watts. May 31, 2018
Must-See Classical Concerts This June
In this
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New York. May 31, 2018
Roads Not Taken: 12 Pianists Tell Us What Else They Might
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12 Pianists Choose the Piece of a Lifetime
A New View of a George Szell Rehearsal
Ifetayo Ali-Landing Performs an Exquisite ‘Song of the
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Meet WQXR’s New Creative Director, Clemency Burton-Hill
What’s Up with All Those Ricola Cough Drops At Carnegie
Hall?
Why We Love Martha Argerich — In One Performance
Eduardo Hubert Teams Up With Martha Argerich for
Piazzolla’s "Oblivion"
Admire the Belcea Quartet’s Masterful Performance of an
Urgent, Tense Shostakovich Piece
Kristine Ciesinski. R.I.P.
Fred Plotkin shared
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D’AGUANNO
This coming
Saturday (June 16), opera fans have a number of interesting broadcasts to
choose from, although operas by Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, and Mozart are rather
conspicuous by their absence. Instead, we have a rare opportunity to listen to
Gasparo Spontini's final opera -- "Agnese von Hohenstaufen" (1829) --
which appears on German Radio's schedule in a performance from Erfurt. This
opera was once "championed" by none other than soprano Montserrat
Caballe, and no wonder, since it sounds something like a cross between
Donizetti & Verdi, although Spontini's distinctive style is a tough one to
categorize (IMO).
A little
Rossini can be added to Saturday afternoon's schedule, as his opera "Mose
in Egitto" can be heard on Radio 3 (RAI) in a LIVE performance from
Naples.
Probably
Weber's most popular opera -- "Der Freischutz" -- comes to us on ORF
(Vienna) in a performance from the Vienna State Opera.
There's also
some Russian opera on hand with a performance from Glasgow of Tchaikovsky's
"Eugene Onegin" via Radio 3 (BBC).
On Radio 4
(the Netherlands), it's Offenbach's "Tales of Hoffmann" as performed
in Amsterdam. (Incidentally, this one can be seen in an upcoming video on
OperaVision on June 28).
In case you
missed it a few months ago, Gounod's final opera "Le Tribut de
Zamora" (as performed in Munich) gets re-broadcast, thanks to Swedish
Radio.
And believe
it or not, another Gounod opera (although NOT either "Faust" or
"Romeo & Juliette") can be seen on YouTube in a performance from
Paris that took place earlier this month. Complete with French subtitles, it's
Gounod's 2nd opera: "La Nonne Sanglante" (1854). Could we somehow be
in the midst of a Gounod revival? If so, could his operas "Sapho"
and/or "Polyeucte" turn up in the months ahead?
Enjoy!
DAVE
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