This week on Rhode Island Public television:
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, February 16, 2019, 8:00pm
Sunday, February 17, 2019, 3:00am
Monday, February 18, 2019, 12:00am
Marnie
Nico Muhly's
musical-dramatic vision about a young woman pursuing a life of crime and
dishonesty; with Isabel Leonard and Christopher Maltman.
Length: 150
minutes
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WQXR
An Analysis of the Metropolitan Opera’s New Season
The
Metropolitan Opera has just announced the repertory and casting for its 2019–20
season, and Fred Plotkin is looking forward to next year with great enthusiasm.
Feb 20, 2019
Andrés Rodríguez: A Life of Service to Opera
An
appreciation of Andrés Rodríguez, who ran Chile’s Teatro Municipal de Santiago
for 34 years. Feb 14, 2019
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D’AGUANNO
On tap in
the next few days: A little Mozart, a little Verdi, a little Puccini (but no
Wagner!), & a few other items -- a mixed bag, to be sure, but certainly
there's something for everyone, starting with the Thursday video-stream from
Riga of a rather unique double-bill. It's Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci"
but, instead of being paired with Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana"
as it usually is, this particular LIVE performance pairs it with Italo
Montemezzi's "L'Incantesimo" ("The Enchantment") -- a
one-act opera that was premiered in 1943. Although Montemezzi's earlier opera
"L'Amore dei Tre Re" is occasionally revived,
"L'Incantesimo" is rarely heard. Written about 50 years later than
the Leoncavallo opera, it inhabits basically the same sound-world. (Think
Puccini, with dashes of Wagner, Debussy, & Richard Strauss thrown into the
mix.) While "Pagliacci" has its tragic, brutal ending, the Montemezzi
work actually ends happily, in the sense that the soprano heroine retreats into
a kind of alternate reality in which winter is magically transformed into
eternal springtime. And as it just so happens, she is accompanied there by her
"true love" who is, of course, a tenor!
Yet another
LIVE video-stream will be presented, this one on Saturday, as the Bavarian
State Opera in Munich brings us a performance of Ernst Krenek's "Karl
V" (1938). Opera-lovers with conservative tastes in music should probably
be forewarned that this one is predominantly an atonal work.
Mozart's
"Idomeneo" is also on Saturday's schedule. This LIVE performance from
Madrid can be heard on Radio Clasica.
On ORF
(Austria), a high-powered cast is featured in a LIVE performance from the Vienna
State Opera of Puccini's "Tosca." Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, tenor
Piotr Beczala, & baritone Thomas Hampson are assigned the task of providing
the expected thrills.
From the
Met, we have Verdi's "Rigoletto" with a cast that includes tenor
Vittorio Grigolo.
Then on
Sunday, some light-hearted Rossini comes to us via Radio 3 (RAI) as his comedy
"L'Italiana in Algeri" can be heard, direct from Venice.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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THE MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON,
1:00PM RADIO BROADCAST, Giuseppi Verdi's Rigoletto
GO TO
HTTP://WWW.WQXR.ORG/STREAMS
THEN CLICK ON WQXR 105.9 FM
THEN CLICK ON WQXR 105.9 FM
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NO OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
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| Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe |
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