Week of February 21 - February 28, 2019

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

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

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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

https://www.wqxr.org/story/analysis-metropolitan-operas-2019-2020-season/

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

https://www.wqxr.org/story/andres-rodriguez-life-service-opera/

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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!

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/montemezzis_lincantesimo_and_leoncavallos_i_pagliacci_from_riga/46551/)

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.

(https://www.staatsoper.de/en/staatsopertv.html?no_cache=1#c13145)

Mozart's "Idomeneo" is also on Saturday's schedule. This LIVE performance from Madrid can be heard on Radio Clasica.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/mozarts_idomeneo_with_cutler_portillo_fritsch_and_buratto_from_madrid/46561/)

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.

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

From the Met, we have Verdi's "Rigoletto" with a cast that includes tenor Vittorio Grigolo.

(www.metopera.org/)

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.

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

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

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NO OPERA ON 

WGBH THIS WEEK!

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe

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