Week of September 27 - October 4, 2018

This week on Rhode Island Public television:

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

Saturday, September 29, 2018, 8:00pm

Sunday, September 30, 2018, 3:00am 

Monday, October 1, 2018, 12:00am

Kristine Opolais 

as

Manon Lescaut

Puccini's "Manon Lescaut," about a country girl (Kristine Opolais) who's torn between an impoverished student (Roberto Alagna) who loves her and a rich man (Brindley Sherratt) who wants her to be his mistress.

Length: 150 minutes

Synopsis: https://www.naxos.com/education/opera_libretti.asp?pn=&char=ALL&composer=Puccini&opera=Manon_Lescaut&libretto_file=00_Synopsis.htm

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

Quite a few interesting operatic treats coming up for us in the next few days, starting tomorrow (Thursday) with 2 opera broadcasts that are bound to please most opera fans. One is the LIVE broadcast from Brussels of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" which can be heard on the Belgian radio station Klara.

(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

Or if you prefer something by Verdi instead, there's a LIVE broadcast from Parma of "Macbeth" which can be heard on Radio 3 (RAI).

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

On Friday, the 1st of 2 OperaVision video-streams will be available for our viewing pleasure. It's a LIVE performance from Riga of Wagner's "Flying Dutchman."

(https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/flying-dutchman)

The 2nd video-stream on OperaVision will become available on Sunday (Sept. 30), as Erich Korngold's opera "Die Tote Stadt" (1920) can be seen, as performed in Berlin.

(https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/die-tote-stadt)

Saturday afternoon brings us yet another Mozart opera -- "Cosi fan Tutte" -- which can be heard on NPR in a performance that took place in Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts in 2007.

(www.wrti.org/)

Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" can be heard on Swedish Radio. If the music in this one sounds like a cross between Weber and Wagner, you wouldn't be alone in thinking that, since many musical historians see his operas as a vital link between those 2 more popular composers. The performance being broadcast comes from Lidkoping.

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

At the same time, German Radio is giving us a rare opportunity to hear Czech composer Leopold Kozeluch's 1792 opera "Gustav Vasa" which was performed in Helsinki on March 10 of this year. This is the only Kozeluch opera you'll probably ever hear since most of his more than 400 compositions (!!!) are very rarely performed these days.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Then on Sunday, the OperaVision video-stream of Korngold's "Die Tote Stadt" will be getting some competition from the Bavarian Opera in Munich which is giving us a FREE live video-stream of Wagner's "Die Meistersinger." Since the Korngold opera will be available for months afterwards, the Wagner work may be a wise choice in this instance.

(https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productioninfo/die-meistersinger-von-nuernberg.html)

Then, if you're in the mood for more Verdi, the Met is making available to us a FREE live audio-stream on Tuesday (October 2) at 7:25 pm of "Aida." With a starry cast which includes soprano Anna Netrebko as Aida & mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris, this one's bound to be one you might not want to miss!

(www.metopera.org/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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 NEWS FROM AROUND THE 

WORLD OF MUSIC

This Piano Trio’s Take on a ‘Final Fantasy’ Theme is a Musical Dream

“To Zanarkand” is one of the more popular tunes from video game composer Nobuo Uetmatsu’s oeuvre. One chamber group wanted to see what they could do with it. Sep 26, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/piano-trios-take-final-fantasy-theme-musical-dream

11 Conductors Choose Their Pieces of a Lifetime

"If you only had to conduct one piece for the rest of your life, what would it be?" is a question that conductors would probably want to avoid. But these 11 stepped up to the challenge. Sep 26, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/11-conductors-choose-their-pieces-lifetime

Dmitri Shostakovich Wrote 15 Symphonies. We Ranked Them All

Find out which are Shostakovich's best symphonies. Sep 25, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/dmitri-shostakovich-wrote-15-symphonies-we-ranked-them-all

Review: Epic, Pagan and Sexy... It's Not Cirque du Soleil But the Met's New 'Samson et Dalila'

WQXR's David Patrick Stearns reviews the new Metropolitan Opera production of Saint-Saëns's 'Samson et Dalila.' Sep 25, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/review-samson-and-delilah-metropolitan-opera

Essential Vivaldi Recordings

Here are the must-have Vivaldi recordings. Sep 24, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/essential-vivaldi-recordings

Maria Callas is Back on Tour

Curious to see what the resurrected diva looks and sounds like? Get a glimpse into the technological wonder and tell us what you think. Sep 23, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/maria-callas-back-tour

12 Pieces of Autumn Music That Aren't by Vivaldi

When it comes to locking down an Fall playlist, Vivaldi's "Autumn" is usually the runaway favorite. But let's switch it up and explore some other autumnal offerings from other composers. Sep 22, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/12-pieces-autumn-music-arent-vivaldi

Anna Netrebko’s ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’ To Be Broadcast

http://operawire.com/anna-netrebkos-adriana-lecouvreur-to-be-broadcast/

Metropolitan Opera 2018-19 Review: Samson et Dalila

Roberto Alagna & Elina Garanca Struggle Through Disappointing Production on Opening Night

http://operawire.com/metropolitan-opera-2018-19-review-samson-et-dalila/

Legendary Soprano Montserrat Caballé Hospitalized

http://operawire.com/legendary-soprano-montserrat-caballe-hospitalized/

A Farewell to a Bay Area Institution

It’s nearly time to say goodbye to a Bay Area institution known as Fantasy Recording Studios over in Berkeley.

https://www.kdfc.com/2018/09/fantasy-studios/

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WGBH THIS WEEK!

Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Director of U.S. Department of Justice

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Week of September 20 - September 27, 2018

This week on Rhode Island Public television:

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

Saturday, September 22, 2018, 8:00pm

Sunday, September 23, 2018, 3:00am 

Monday, September 24, 2018, 12:00am

Madama Butterfly

A production of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," about a callous Navy lieutenant (Roberto Alagna) and a Japanese geisha (Kristine Opolais), whom he marries for convenience rather than for love.

Length: 180 minutes

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/synopsiscast/madama-butterfly/

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40 Under 40: A New Generation of Superb Opera Singers

WQXR's Fred Plotkin on opera's rising stars to watch. Sep 12, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/40-under-40-new-generation-superb-opera-singers

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

This coming Friday (September 21), Britten fans can watch the video-stream being presented on OperaVision of "Albert Herring." Although known primarily for his serious operas (for instance, "Peter Grimes" & "Billy Budd"), this particular opera, written soon after "Peter Grimes", represents a rare instance of this British composer venturing into the realm of comic opera -- something which Verdi did on only 2 occasions, as he did in "Il Giorno di Regno" and "Falstaff." The performance to be shown on Friday dates back to July 2015, and the performers are members of the Royal College of Music.

(https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/albert-herring)

Speaking of "Falstaff" -- Saturday afternoon's broadcast from London's Royal Opera is the July 19, 2018 performance of this Verdi work. With Bryn Terfel as Falstaff and Simon Keenlyside as Ford, it's being broadcast on Radio 3 (BBC).

(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

Another Italian opera -- one that was written shortly before Verdi's masterpiece -- is Mascagni's "L'Amico Fritz." As with the Britten and Verdi operas mentioned above, this relatively early piece is a somewhat rare example of Mascagni's comic opera writing. You can hear it this Saturday on NPR, as performed in Philadelphia (2005).

(www.wrti.org/)

A couple of rarely performed 20th century operas also appear on Saturday afternoon's schedule, with Polish Radio bringing us a performance from Warsaw of Karol Szymanowski's one-act opera "Hagith." Although written in 1913, the opera had to wait nearly a decade before it was actually performed, with the "powers-that-be" at the time having a problem with what they referred to as the composer's "homosexual lifestyle." In any case, the work has never been performed with the same regularity as his later opera "King Roger" which many consider to be one of the greatest Polish operas ever written.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/szymanowskis_hagith_with__chodowicz_minkiewicz_lampert_and_machej_from_warsaw/43340/)

Then there's Gosta Nystroem's 1958 opera "Herr Arnes Penningar" which Swedish Radio has on its schedule. The performance being broadcast comes from a Goteborg concert which took place on April 23, 1917.

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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"The dog is coming along nicely."

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 NEWS FROM AROUND THE 

WORLD OF MUSIC

Who Are the Rock Stars of Opera?

https://www.culturesonar.com/who-are-the-rock-stars-of-opera/

The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Expand to Mexico

http://operawire.com/the-metropolitan-opera-national-council-auditions-expand-to-mexico/

Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs Issues Statement On Being Fired From Maryland Lyric Opera

http://operawire.com/elizabeth-blancke-biggs-issues-statement-on-being-fired-from-maryland-lyric-opera/

Frederica von Stade sings "Song to the Moon" ("Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém"), from Antonín Dvořák's opera Rusalka.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwVYFpY3VL4

The Experts’ Concert Guide to Fall 2018

Summer might be over, but concert season is back! Instead of rehashing the usual listings, we turned to some great musicians, composers and writers and asked what they were excited for. Sep 12, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/roads-not-taken-11-conductors-tell-us-what-else-they-might-have-been

The Premiere: Bruckner’s Third Symphony Was Doomed From the Start. Here’s Why.

The premiere of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 was the Murphy’s Law embodied in 19th-century music. But anyone could have seen from the start it would go poorly. Sep 12, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/premiere-bruckners-third-symphony-was-doomed-start-heres-why

Which New York City Concert Hall Are You?

New York City features multiple iconic concert halls. Take our quiz to find out where you should take your next bow! Sep 12, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/which-new-york-city-concert-hall-are-you

Insider Hacks to Help You See Classical Music in NYC for Cheap

Here are some of the greatest hacks for seeing classical music for cheap (and even free) in NYC. Sep 12, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/insider-hacks-help-you-see-classical-music-nyc-cheap

Out The Door: A 9/11 Dedication From Jeff Spurgeon

To commemorate the 17th anniversary of 9/11, WQXR host Jeff Spurgeon prepared some remarks in lieu of his regular "Out-the-Door Dedications." Listen to and read them here. Sep 12, 2018

 Listen 1 min

https://www.wqxr.org/story/out-door-911-dedication-jeff-spurgeon

Roads Not Taken: 11 Conductors Tell Us What Else They Might Have Been

We asked 11 conductors what else they might have been. Sep 11, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/roads-not-taken-11-conductors-tell-us-what-else-they-might-have-been

Jessye Norman’s Greatest Opera Roles

http://operawire.com/jessye-normans-greatest-opera-roles/

Q & A: Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director Erin Helyard On Company’s 2018-19 Season

http://operawire.com/q-a-pinchgut-opera-artistic-director-erin-helyard-on-companys-2018-19-season/

Opera Meets Film: How The ‘Bel Canto’ Film Explores Relationships Between Audience & Artist, Renée Fleming’s Cultural Status

http://operawire.com/opera-meets-film-how-the-bel-canto-film-explores-relationships-between-audience-artist-renee-flemings-cultural-status/

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WGBH THIS WEEK!

Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Week of September 13 - September 20, 2018

This week on Rhode Island Public television:

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

Saturday, September 15, 2018, 8:00pm

Sunday, September 16, 2018, 3:00am 

Monday, September 17, 2018, 12:00am

CENDRILLON  

Massenet’s operatic take on the classic fairy tale Cinderella, starring Joyce DiDonato as the titular heroine and Alice Coote as Prince Charming, alongside Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother and Stephanie Blythe as Madame de la Haltière.

https://www.sherbornma.org/sites/sherbornma/files/uploads/synopsis_of_cendrillon.pdf

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VARDA HADASSAH LEV (née Sherman) died on September 6, 2018. A loving wife and mother, she was also a gifted and passionate pianist, music and Hebrew educator, talented polylot, and patroness of the arts in the grand tradition of the European salon mistress, with a note-perfect knowledge of classical music repertoire and tireless dedication to tikkun olam. She published several memoirs in Hadassah Magazine and the Pakn Treger. Born in Jerusalem in 1932 to Earl Mayo Sherman, and to Anna (née Grossman) Sherman, a pioneering Hebraist and first woman instructor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, she moved with her family to New York City in 1936. She deepened her knowledge of Hebrew and Jewish learning under the tutelage of her parents, and attendance at Camp Massad, which proffered Hebrew and Jewish knowledge to Americans and refugees during and after WWII. She was one of only three girls first to be Bat Mitzvaed in the US. She studied piano and Humanities at the High School of Music and Arts and University of Pennsylvania, and received her M.A. from the Teacher's College at Columbia University. She taught kindergarten in Harlem, New York, enlisting her musical knowledge toward a unique early childhood pedagogy, which she then brought to the Kibbutz Gesher Haziv. While raising her young family in New York City, she honed her musical skills with musical luminaries whom she accompanied or hosted in her home. Upon moving to Providence, she taught traditional Jewish and Israeli music at the Temple Emanuel Hebrew School. She inspired decades' worth of youth in her Hebrew choir and private piano instruction; formed a Klezmer youth band; transposed scores for her students from numerous Hebraicized musicals, and designed and played piano for performances based on Jewish tradition. She enlisted her musical expertise as a board member of the Rhode Island Chamber Music Committee, bringing world-renowned artists to vthe area. A modern-day Mme. de Sévigné, she converted her Victorian home into a musical and cultural salon. Her soirées benefited organizations such as Community MusicWorks, whose illustrious members brought classical music education to children in need. She hosted, accompanied in musical rehearsal, and organized recitals for the Beaux Arts Trio, the Muir String Quartet, the Moscow Male Jewish Choir, the Amadeus Trio, Richard Goode, Joshua Bell, Yitzhak Perlman, and many others. She was also an eshet chayil who opened her artistic salons, celebrations of the Jewish holidays, and Old World kitchen to local and international communities, friends, and the "stranger at the gate;" an engaging raconteuse of refinement but also witand empathy. A valued member of Temple Emanuel for 40 years, she brought to the community her gifts as a lyrical chanter of liturgical trope in many aliyot, pedagogical Hebrew and musical expertise, cultural enrichment lectures, and charity initiatives. She participated in annual Ulpans sponsored by the Jewish Board of Education, and an advanced Hebrew study group performing exegesis of Biblical and contemporary Israeli texts. She also donated and helped curate the Percelay Museum's collection of her brother Ori Sherman's artworks, including magnificent Ketubbot and his illustration of the Aramaic song that ends the Seder, Chad Gadya. She is survived by her husband, Robert Lev, her daughters Leora Lev, Rebecca Murray, and Zoe Shireen Lev, her grandchildren Rachael, Heather, Michael, and Anabelle, and great grandchildren, Masho, Redeit, Avery, and Mya. Published in The Providence Journal from Sept. 7 to Sept. 9, 2018 *** *** …And from another friend, Brett Rutherford: I can add that Varda studied piano with the legendary Raymond Lewenthal, and that she adored Brahms above all other composers. She would stage even impromptu small audiences when one of her pupils was ready to play before "the public" and I heard one 16-year-old prodigy there play the Bach Goldberg variations. String players came to her house to play duos with her, and she continued to have adult piano students until quite recently. Jane Bromberg was one of her students. Varda played matchmaker for a number of young musicians, and many of her home concerts were benefits for them or for groups like Community Musicworks. It is no exaggeration to say that she was the soul of chamber music in Providence. May choirs of angels lead her to her rest.

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

With the opening of the Met's 2018/2019 season still nearly two weeks away (Sept. 24 - Saint-Saens's "Samson & Dalila" with Roberto Alagna and Elina Garanca), opera-lovers can find much to entertain themselves with operatically, thanks to OperaVision which, this Friday (Sept. 14), is bringing us a FREE video-stream of Mozart's "Magic Flute" in a Garsington Opera production that was seen this past summer. Then, in the weeks ahead, there will be videos of Britten's 1947 comic opera "Albert Herring" (Sept. 21), Wagner's "Flying Dutchman" (Sept. 28), & Korngold's "Die Tote Stadt" (Sept. 30), all of them becoming available for several months after their initial showing on the OperaVision website.

(https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/magic-flute)

For those Anna Netrebko fans who may have missed it the first time around, the La Scala opening night performance from last December (12/7/17) of Giordano's "Andrea Chenier" can be heard once again on German Radio, with Ms Netrebko taking on the role of Maddalena.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

ORF (Austria) is, in the meantime, providing us with another opportunity to listen to the July 11, 2018, performance of Richard Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" from this summer's opera festival in Aix-en-Provence.

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

On NPR, it's time for Gounod's "Faust" in a 2003 performance from the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.

(www.wrti.org/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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 NEWS FROM AROUND THE 

WORLD OF MUSIC

A Queenly Start to the SF Opera Season

https://www.kdfc.com/2018/09/a-queenly-start-to-the-sf-opera-season/

KDFC Album of the Week

Daniel Barenboim Leads the Complete Brahms Symphonies

https://www.kdfc.com/2018/09/daniel-barenboim-brahms-symphonies/

KDFC’s Love at First Listen Week | Starting September 24^th

https://www.kdfc.com/2018/08/love/

Alec Baldwin/Christiane Kubrick on Stanley’s Use of Music

https://www.kdfc.com/2018/09/alec-balwdin-christaine-kubrick/

As Fall Fast Approaches, Discover the Poetry in Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”

https://www.kdfc.com/2018/09/autumn-four-seasons-vivaldi/

Wake Up! Here’s a Little Duet for Piccolo and … Alarm Clock

Composer Tilmann Dehnhard has written quite the piece to get you going in the morning. Sep 10, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/wake-heres-little-duet-piccolo-and-alarm-clock

On the Origin of That Iconic Nokia Ringtone

Tárrega’s “Gran Vals” might be best known as the “Nokia Tune,” but how did the company’s sound design team choose it? Sep 6, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/origin-iconic-nokia-ringtone-gran-vals-tarrega

For Two NFL Players, Music Is Just As Important As Gridiron Training

Jason Kelce and Justin Tucker are two active NFL Players and Super Bowl Champions — but music is a big part of their lives, too. Sep 6, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/two-nfl-players-justin-tucker-jason-kelce-music-just-important-gridiron-training

Royal Wedding Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s Summer in the Spotlight

It’s been just over 100 days since the Royal Wedding — which means it’s also a perfect time to check in with show-stealing cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Sep 6, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/royal-wedding-cellist-sheku-kanneh-masons-summer-spotlight

Yuja Wang’s Ultimate Warm-up: Concertos On Demand

Before heading out to crush some Prokofiev with the Berlin Philharmonic, pianist Yuja Wang hyped herself up by playing a few concerto themes on demand. Sep 5, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/yuja-wangs-ultimate-warm-concertos-demand

Top of the Class: Five Student Works by Great Composers

Even the great composers had to start somewhere. Sep 5, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/top-class-five-student-works-great-composers

Musicians Need to Unwind, Too! Here’s a Handful Making the Most of Summer

Didn’t get a chance to get away this summer? Live vicariously through these musicians. Sep 3, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/musicians-need-unwind-too-heres-handful-making-most-summer

LISTEN | New Comma Baroque in the WFMT Levin Performance Studio

Hear a diverse group of works, including a Chicago premiere, in this concert and conversation recorded live at WFMT.

https://www.wfmt.com/2018/09/06/new-comma-baroque/

The True Origins of Gershwin’s “Summertime”

“Summertime” from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess is doubtless one of the one most popular songs in the Great American Songbook. But did you know that neither the tune to “Summertime” nor the lyrics are by George Gershwin?

https://www.wfmt.com/2018/09/10/the-true-origins-of-gershwins-summertime/

Classical music for pumpkin spice season that’s anything but basic

While we all love the classics like the “Autumn” concerto from Vivaldi’s "Four Seasons," here are some works that are a little less… common to cozy up with this fall.

https://www.wfmt.com/2018/08/31/classical-music-for-pumpkin-spice-season-thats-anything-but-basic/

How a Bach Minuet got a Motown Makeover

Bach’s Minuet in G major from the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach is famous enough today that you may have even had it as your cell phone ring tone. One of the most famous arrangements of this Minuet was recorded by the Toys, a girl group from Jamaica, New York, as “A Lover’s Concerto.” The song was a #1 single in the US and reached #5 on the UK Global charts.

https://www.wfmt.com/2018/09/04/how-a-bach-minuet-got-a-motown-makeover/

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