Week of October 4 - October 11, 2018

Season Opener!

Met-HD

This Saturday, October 6, 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

Aida

(Order your tickets today! This one routinely sells out.)

Soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as her formidable rival Amneris.

Radamès hopes to command his army. He is in love with Aida, the Ethiopian slave of Princess Amneris, the king's daughter, and he believes that victory in the war would enable him to free her and marry her. But Amneris loves Radamès, and when the three meet, she jealously senses his feelings for Aida.

Synopsis:https://www.metopera.org/discover/synopses/aida/

Duration: 3 hrs 36 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 10, 2018, 8:00pm

Sunday, October 11, 2018, 3:00am 

Monday, October 12, 2018, 12:00am

Semiramide

The Rossini opera stars Angela Meade as Queen Semiramide and Elizabeth DeShong as Arsace, the queen's fiancé and her own son. Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov and Ryan Speedo Green complete the cast. Maurizio Benini conducts.

Synopsis:

https://www.metopera.org/user-information/synopses-archive/semiramide

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WQXR

Opera Never on a Sunday? Not at the Met!

https://www.wqxr.org/story/opera-never-sunday-not-met

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

As many opera fans probably know already, this coming Saturday (October 6) marks the beginning of the Met's series of LIVE HD-transmissions to be shown in select area movie theatres. Soprano Anna Netrebko will be singing the title role in Verdi's "Aida" in this one. And even if, for some reason, you can't make it for this one, the Met has scheduled 2 more HD-transmissions this month, with Saint-Saens's "Samson & Dalila" on Oct. 20, and Puccini's "Girl of the Golden West" on Oct. 27.

In the meantime, however, you can begin your own opera-fest tomorrow (Thursday) when CultureBox brings us a LIVE video-stream from the Paris Opera of Meyerbeer's blockbuster of an opera "Les Huguenots." 

(https://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/opera-classique/opera/les-huguenots-de-meyerbeer-par-andreas-kriegenburg-279543)

Also on the internet tomorrow, you can listen to the 1st of 3 broadcasts from Madrid on Radio Clasica. Tenor Piotr Beczala takes on the title role in Gounod's "Faust." Then on Friday, this same internet radio station brings us the Madrid performance of Beethoven's "Fidelio" which is followed on Saturday with a broadcast of Mozart's "Lucio Silla."

(http://www.rtve.es/radio/radioclasica/programacion/)

Plus, there are at least 3 items of interest on Saturday for those opera fans who may not be headed over to a movie theatre for the Met's "Aida." One of these would be the LIVE broadcast on Radio 3 (RAI) of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" which is being performed in Bologna.

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

Also on Saturday, there's Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" as performed in 2008 at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, which can be heard on NPR. Soprano Angela Meade sings the title role in this one.

(www.wrti.org/)

And for opera fans who enjoy 21st century operas, you won't want to miss the world premiere of Jonas S. Bohlin's opera "Tristessa" which is being performed in Stockholm and can be heard on Swedish Radio.

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

Enjoy!

DAVE

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 NEWS FROM AROUND THE 

WORLD OF MUSIC

 Next week...

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LOOK FOR THE

MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON

 RADIO BROADCAST TO RESUME NEXT AUTUMN.

   

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

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NO OPERA ON

WGBH THIS WEEK!