Week of October 18 - October 25, 2018

Met-HD

This Saturday, October 20, 2018, 12:55PM

Check for encore times; not all locations play the encores

For tickets:

https://www.showcasecinemas.com/theatre/11060/showcase-cinema-de-lux-patriot-place/foxboro/ma?tab=showtimes&filter[day]=2018-10-06&filter[genre]=Musical

Samson et Dalila

When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/discover/synopses/samson-et-dalila/

ESTIMATED RUN TIME

3 HRS 20 MINS

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This week on Rhode Island Public television:

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

Saturday, October 20, 2018, 8:00pm

Sunday, October 21, 2018, 3:00am 

Monday, October 22, 2018, 12:00am

Luisa Miller

Verdi's "Luisa Miller," a tragedy of fatherly love, features Placido Domingo, Sonya Yoncheva and Piotr Beczala.

Length: 150

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/user-information/synopses-archive/luisa-miller

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WQXR

Montserrat Caballé: Ultimate Diva;
Fred Plotkin Remembers

https://www.wqxr.org/story/282121-montserrat-caballe-ultimate-diva/

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

Opera fans have a lot to look forward to this week, starting with Friday's LIVE video-stream from Palermo of one of Verdi's most popular works: "Rigoletto." This is coming to us for FREE, thanks to OperaVision.

(https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/rigoletto-teatro-massimo-palermo)

Also on Friday, you can catch a LIVE performance from Venice of Rossini's "Semiramide" which can be heard on Radio 3 (RAI).

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

Then, at 7:55 pm on Friday evening, the Met is broadcasting a LIVE audio-stream of Nico Muhly's "Marnie." As some of you may already know, it's based on the same story that was made into an Alfred Hitchcock movie back in the 60s and which starred Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery. This operatic version was premiered recently in London and will be given an HD-transmission in a few weeks (Nov. 10). An earlier work by this same composer -- "Two Boys" -- was given at the Met a few years ago, as some of you may recall.

(www.metopera.org/)

On Saturday it's time for the LIVE HD-transmission from the Met of Saint-Saens's "Samson & Dalila" with Roberto Alagna and Elina Garanca in the leading roles. Fans of either of these 2 popular opera singers will not want to miss this one!

Also on Saturday, for those who'd prefer to listen to opera on internet radio instead, you can catch the LIVE broadcast from the Vienna State Opera of Berlioz's "Les Troyens" with Joyce DiDonato taking on the role of Didon and tenor Brandon Jovanovich as Enee.

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

Leos Janacek's "Jenufa" gets a LIVE broadcast from Amsterdam on Radio 4 (the Netherlands).

(www.radio4.nl/)

Plus, on Sunday, French Radio is giving us an opportunity to hear the October 1st performance from Paris of Meyerbeer's "Les Huguenots." This one was scheduled to be given a video-stream earlier this month (October 4), but (in case you tried to watch it) Those-Who-Supposedly-Know-Better decided to block it for us opera fans here in the U.S. Well, hearing it will just have to do for now, although there is "talk" concerning the likelihood of its being eventually made available to all of us in DVD/Blu-Ray format.

(www.francemusique.fr/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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 NEWS FROM AROUND THE 

WORLD OF MUSIC

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LOOK FOR THE

MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON

 RADIO BROADCAST TO RESUME DECEMBER 1

WITH BOITO'S "MEFISTOFELE."

   

GO TO 
 HTTP://WWW.WQXR.ORG/STREAMS
 THEN CLICK ON WQXR 105.9 FM

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NO OPERA ON

WGBH THIS WEEK!

Fabio Luisi
Italian Conductor