Week of November 15 - November 22, 2018

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This week on Rhode Island Public television:

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

Saturday, November 17, 2018, 8:00pm

Sunday, November 18, 2018, 3:00am 

Monday, November 19, 2018, 12:00am

Otello

Aleksandrs Antonenko portrays the Moor of Venice in Bartlett Sher's staging of Verdi's "Otello."

Length: 180

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

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WQXR

150 Years After His Death, Rossini Still Means Joy

WQXR's Fred Plotkin on the joys of Rossini, 150 years after the composer's death. Nov 13, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/150-years-after-his-death-rossini-still-means-joy/

New Arrivals on the Opera Bookshelf (And Other Gift Ideas)

Here are the best gifts for the opera lover in your life. Nov 5, 2018

https://www.wqxr.org/story/new-arrivals-opera-bookshelf-and-other-gift-ideas

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

This coming Saturday (November 17), BBC Radio 3 continues its series of broadcasts of Wagner's Ring Cycle, as performed recently at London's Royal Opera House, with a performance of "Siegfried." Soprano Nine Stemme, once again, can be heard in the role of Brunnhilde.

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

There's even more Wagner on tap for this Saturday as Swedish Radio offers a broadcast of "Das Rheingold" as performed in Gothenburg.

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

On German Radio, Gottfried von Einem's "Der Prozess" ("The Trial") (1952) may be heard as it was performed this past August 14 in Salzburg. As the title may suggest to some listeners, this one is based on Kafka's novel.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

In a lighter vein, you can abandon yourselves to the charm of one of Rossini's lesser-known one-act comic operas. This one is "Adina" (1818), and the broadcast is of a performance that took place on August 12 as part of this past summer's annual Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.

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

Then on Sunday, baritone Leo Nucci stars in Verdi's "Nabucco" coming to us LIVE from Paris. Nucci is, in a sense, a baritone equivalent of Placido Domingo, in that he's still singing leading roles after having made his La Scala debut all the way back in 1975!

(www.francemusique.fr/)

At the same time, one of Janacek's most popular operas can be enjoyed, simply by tuning in to OperaVision for a LIVE video-stream from Brno of "The Cunning Little Vixen." 

(https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/cunning-little-vixen)

And on Tuesday (Nov. 20), soprano Patricia Racette can be heard in the title role of this same composer's "Katya Kabanova" as performed LIVE in Barcelona. It is perhaps worth noting that -- unlike "The Cunning Little Vixen" which ends on a note of hope and renewal -- "Katya" is probably the only Janacek opera that ends in total despair!

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/janaceks_katia_kabanova_with_racette_schukoff_teliga_and_aldridge_from_barcelona/44636/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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