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This week on Rhode Island Public television:
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, January 19, 2019, 8:00pm
Sunday, January 20, 2019, 3:00am
Monday, January 21, 2019, 12:00am
Norma
The blazing
title role of Bellini’s Norma has been a star-making vehicle for some of
opera’s most beloved sopranos, so when Sondra Radvanovsky first took on the
part at the Met in 2013, it marked a new chapter of her career. She returned
four years later to reprise her riveting portrayal, this time opening the
2017–18 season in an evocative new production by Sir David McVicar. Captured
live in HD, her performance is nothing less than a tour-de-force, combining
dramatic commitment with true bel canto singing—Radvanovsky balances the role’s
powerful intensity with moments of delicate lyricism. As Adalgisa, the young
priestess torn between love and duty, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato delivers an
interpretation imbued with great emotional nuance. Tenor Joseph Calleja is the
aggressive Roman proconsul Pollione, with Matthew Rose as Norma’s father, the
warrior Oroveso. Leading the Met Orchestra and Chorus, maestro Carlo Rizzi
draws out the vibrant color of Bellini’s masterful score.
Length: 180 minutes
SYNOPSIS:
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WQXR
The Importance of Paying Close Attention at the OperaWQXR
WQXR's Fred Plotkin on how the joys of opera are in the
details. Jan 11, 2019
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D’AGUANNO
Known
primarily for his piano music and as having once served as Prime Minister of
Poland, Paderewski also wrote an opera -- "Manru" (1900) -- and it is
this work that can be seen on OperaVision this coming Friday (January 18). It's
a Polish National Opera production that was filmed last October.
Then on
Saturday, the Met will be broadcasting a LIVE performance of Debussy's
"Pelleas & Melisande" with Isabel Leonard in the role of
Melisande.
If the
Debussy opera doesn't interest you, there also happens to be some Puccini on
hand so that, as an alternative, you can listen to a LIVE broadcast from
Palermo of his final opera "Turandot."
Or you can
tune in to Catalunya Musica for a LIVE broadcast from Barcelona of his earlier
opera "Madame Butterfly."
There also
happen to be 2 opera broadcasts scheduled for Sunday that may be of interest,
especially for fans of the music of either Handel or Mozart (or both, for that
matter). On French Radio, you can hear a performance from Lyons of Handel's
"Rodelinda" (1725), while BR-Klassik is broadcasting a LIVE performance
of Mozart's unfinished opera "Zaide" (1780). This early work of his
(which is missing its overture and 3rd Act) is being performed in Munich.
("Rodelinda"
- www.francemusique.fr/)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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is “without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet,” according
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NO OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
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| Angry Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein |
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