Met-HD
This Saturday, October 27, 2018, 12:55PM
Giacomo Puccini's
La Fanciulla del West
The Girl of
the West
Soprano Eva-Maria
Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the
Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the role of the
outlaw she loves. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov also sings some performances. Baritone
Ε½eljko LuΔiΔ is the vigilante sheriff Jack Rance, and Marco Armiliato conducts.
DURATION: 3 HRS 33 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
Cendrillon
A
storybook kingdom. Pandolfe, a country gentleman, has married Madame de la
Haltière, an imperious countess. She and her daughters, Noémie and Dorothée,
bully Pandolfe’s daughter from his first marriage, Lucette—known as Cendrillon. Joyce DiDonato takes on the title role in director Laurent Pelly's storybook production of Massenet's "Cendrillon."
Duration: 150 minutes
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WQXR
In Parma, There is Much More Than Verdi
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D’AGUANNO
The
"Big News" for a certain number of opera fans is probably "The
Return of Jonas Kaufmann to the Met." Well, in all seriousness, it's good
to have this popular tenor appearing at the Met after an absence of a few
years. Word has it that he's been suffering from a cold this week (oh, no), but
that he sounded wonderful in last night's Sirius broadcast of Puccini's
"La Fanciulla del West" in which he will be appearing in this coming
Saturday afternoon's HD-transmission at select movie theatres. Oh, and soprano
Eva-Marie Westbroek will be singing the lead role in that one!
In
fact, there are 2 more videos scheduled for this Saturday, these 2 being
accessible on our home computers (for those who may wish to give the
"Fanciulla" HD-transmission a pass). One of these LIVE video-streams
is of Saverio Mercadante's 1839 opera "Il Bravo" (a "bravo"
being something like a hired assassin). The performance is coming to us as part
of this year's Wexford Opera Festival which specializes in works that don't get
performed very often, i.e. "Aida" and "La Boheme" won't be
given at this festival any time soon. However, if you should happen to tune in
to the video-stream of Mercadante's opera, you shouldn't be surprised if it
sounds a lot like Donizetti and/or Bellini, with a little "early
Verdi" thrown in. Plot-wise? Although this opera is based on an early
novel by James Fennimore Cooper, the intricacies of the plot are so convoluted
that, compared to this one, the plot of "Il Trovatore" seems a model
of crystal clarity! But (of course) it's the music that counts!
The
other opera video that is coming to us on Saturday is a Prague performance of
Smetana's so-called "festival opera" -- "Libuse" (from
1872). This, being an OperaVision video, can be enjoyed in the weeks ahead,
should you happen to miss it on Saturday.
BBC
Radio 3, on the other hand, is giving us some Wagner, specifically a recent
Royal Opera House performance of "Das Rheingold."
(www.www.b)bc.co.uk/radio3/)
In
a lighter vein, there's Kalman's 1908 operetta "Ein Herbtsmanovern"
("The Gay Hussars") which can be heard on German Radio in a LIVE
performance from Giessen.
And
let's not forget this week's FREE live audio-stream from the Met: tomorrow
evening at 7:25 pm, it's Puccini's "Tosca" with soprano Sondra
Radvanovsky and tenor Joseph Calleja as the two doomed lovers.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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