This Saturday, December 15, 2018
La Traviata
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This week on Rhode Island Public television:
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, December 15, 2018, 8:00pm
Sunday, December 16, 2018, 3:00am
Monday, December 17, 2018, 12:00am
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| Matthew Polenzani (Nemorino) and Pretty Yende (Adina) |
L'Elisir d'Amore
Pretty Yende
and Matthew Polenzani star in Bartlett Sher's production of Gaetano Donizetti's
"L'Elisir d'Amore," a comic opera in two acts about a
charming landowner and the hapless peasant who falls in love with her
Length: 150 minutes
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| Matthew Polenzani as Nemorino |
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WQXR
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D’AGUANNO
Beginning on
Friday (Dec. 14), those of you with a particular fondness for Verdi's "La
Traviata" will be totally enraptured, as 3 separate LIVE broadcasts of
this ever-popular opera will be broadcast. First off, on Friday, Radio 3 (RAI)
is bringing us a performance of the work from Turin. Then on Saturday, as many
of you already know, there's the LIVE HD-transmission from the Met, featuring
soprano Diana Damrau as Violetta and tenor Juan Diego Florez as Alfredo -- a
performance that can also be heard on several internet radio stations.Then on
Sunday, French Radio will be broadcasting a LIVE performance from Paris of this
same opera.
(Turin: www.radio3.rai.it/)
(Met: www.wrti.org/)
(Paris: www.francemusique.fr/)
Czech
composer Leos Janacek, however, comes in 2nd, with only 2 of his operas being
broadcast, both on Saturday afternoon. His final opera -- "From the House
of the Dead" (based on Dostoyevsky) -- can be heard on the Belgian station
Klara in a performance from Brussels, while the earlier "Katya
Kabanova" appears on Radio 3 (RAI), as performed in Naples. If you happen
to be a Janacek fan(atic), you might want to choose "From the House of the
Dead" since "Katya" will be given a FREE video-stream on
Thursday of next week (Dec. 20), via OperaVision. Interestingly enough, while
"From the House of the Dead" sounds rather ominous and depressing, it
DOES end on a note of hope -- which is more than can be said for
"Katya" which ends in complete and total despair! (You might want to
have a handkerchief ready for that one.)
("From
the House of the Dead" -- http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)
("Katya
Kabanova" -- www.radio3.rai.it/)
Also on
Saturday, there's the comparatively upbeat (=happy ending)
"Euryanthe" (1823) by Weber which can be heard on ORF (Austria) in a
LIVE performance from Vienna.
Also of
interest: Frederick Delius's "A Village Romeo & Juliet"
(premiered in 1907) can be heard on Radio 4 (the Netherlands), as performed in
Amsterdam.
Then on
Sunday, how about some opera from Switzerland? Othmar Schoeck's "Das
Schloss Durande" (premiered in 1943) can be heard in a rare performance
from Bern that took place earlier this year on May 31.
And if
that's not enough opera to whet one's appetite, on Friday evening at 7:55, the
Met's FREE live audio-stream features Verdi's "Otello" with soprano
Sonya Yoncheva as Desdemona.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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THE
MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 1:00pm
RADIO BROADCAST, DECEMBER 15, 2018
Verdi's
La Traviata
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NO OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
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