Week of March 21 - March 28, 2019

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This week on Rhode Island Public television:

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

Saturday, March 23, 2019, 8:00pm

Sunday,  March 24, 2019, 3:00am 

Monday, March 25, 2019, 12:00am

Luisa Miller

Verdi's "Luisa Miller," a tragedy of fatherly love, features Placido Domingo, Sonya Yoncheva and Piotr Beczala.

Length: 150 minutes 

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/user-information/synopses-archive/luisa-miller

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WQXR

Antonietta Stella, as in Star

An appreciation of soprano Antonietta Stella in honor of her 90th birthday. Mar 14, 2019

https://www.wqxr.org/story/antonietta-stella-star-fred-plotkin-opera/

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

Then on Saturday, there's another French opera coming to us, with the LIVE broadcast from the Met of "Samson & Dalila" by Camille Saint-Saens, featuring tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko and Anita Rachvelishvili in the title roles.

(www.metopera.org/)

A few weeks ago, Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" was paired in Riga with the rarely heard one-act "L'Incantesimo" by Italo Montemezzi. This time around, it gets paired with the expected "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Pietro Mascagni. You can hear a LIVE broadcast of these 2 operas on ORF (Austria), as performed in Vienna with Elina Garanca as Santuzza and Yonghoon Lee as Turiddu in the Mascagni work. The two operas will also be offered as a LIVE video-stream if you're willing to pay what usually amounts to around $16 - $18 in American currency.

(audio: http://oe1.orf.at/)

(video: https://www.staatsoperlive.com/en/live/699/cavalleria-rusticana-pagliacci-2019-03-23/#tab_0)

If German opera is more to your liking, there's the March 17th performance from Brussels of Weber's "Der Freischutz" to be heard on the Belgian radio station Klara.

(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

If you still haven't had your fill of opera when the weekend is over, you're in luck: Monday evening at 6:25, the Met brings us a LIVE audio-stream of Wagner's "Die Walkure."

(www.metopera.org/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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NEWS FROM AROUND 
THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Preview: Concerts to See in NYC This Spring

Here are some of the must-hear concerts this spring — we’re even giving away tickets to some of these on-air today, too, so make sure to tune in for a chance to win! Mar 13, 2019

https://www.wqxr.org/story/preview-must-see-concert-spring-2019/

6 Operas About Regular People To Bring Your ‘Regular’ Friends To

https://www.wqxr.org/story/6-operas-about-regular-people-bring-your-regular-friends/

Did Gustav Mahler Take the A Train?

David Patrick Stearns on Mahler the New Yorker - including when the composer missing his subway stop at 72nd St.  Mar 20, 2019

https://www.wqxr.org/story/gustav-mahler-take-a-train-new-york-philharmonic/

¡Fantástico! Here’s the Earliest Recording of Berlioz’s Drug-Addled Magnum Opus

A new release of Berlioz music by Warner Classics includes an “Early Works” disc, which features the first recording of 'Symphonie Fantastique.' Mar 14, 2019

https://www.wqxr.org/story/berlioz-symphonie-fantastique-earliest-recording/

Italy's La Scala opera house returns $3m Saudi funding

Milan theater decides to refund payment and cancel Saudi partnership after criticism by rights groups and politicians.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/italy-la-scala-opera-house-returns-3m-saudi-funding-190319075359432.html?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c915f6c3ed3f00001633607&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2lHrhymGY-2_ifrsu-qCNyRWUaZoNj7kcLE07xwtqa_MZsZ6gWfsNDk-Y

Elīna Garanča Unveils New Album ‘Sol y Vida’

http://operawire.com/elina-garanca-unveils-new-album-sol-y-vida/?fbclid=IwAR2cXdaZ5o08IX0jEwnTxApAoM_3JT0Vb2wYNVTkOKlr1axmEtnEG9VX__o

Plácido Domingo to Celebrate 50th Anniversary With San Francisco Opera

http://operawire.com/placido-domingo-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary-with-san-francisco-opera/?fbclid=IwAR2INie_-MHFbkyd-9-fULGksiq9Aps_GcB9L5urrfhcFPSSw3PRoIbxB1A

Q & A: Elena Mosuc On Her First ‘Lakmé’ & The Challenges of French Grand Opera

http://operawire.com/q-a-elena-mosuc-on-her-first-lakme-the-challenges-of-french-grand-opera/?fbclid=IwAR35308iUF0rQP_bpXcfH3uR5PIyYHQgv4AKQWSbUpKlUyL_BY-uiGqUGAk

Magdalena Kožená, Michael Spyres & Eric Cutler Hightlight La Monnaie’s 2019-20 Season

http://operawire.com/magdalena-kozena-michael-spyres-eric-cutler-hightlight-la-monnaies-2019-20-season/?fbclid=IwAR0bFgxTkEgoptXL8ig_NcmOrgCrHeZcvp9s0UkRFT8s7iEmK-UmJ6aFvqc

Edita Gruberova Gives Final Performances at The Bayerische Staatsoper

http://operawire.com/edita-gruberova-gives-final-performances-at-the-bayerische-staatsoper/?fbclid=IwAR0gdX7IMAJDWQ1RYtArJI_NkE3pRobiVLj4cl1A-qAdm-cQ1vg7cXe9hFY

Why did Bernstein build West Side Story around 'The Devil's Interval'?

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/bernstein-l/bernstein-west-side-story-tritone/?fbclid=IwAR1dMT9Rrjhi1mCa3cfuD66m5I6f0l_FEepZgzyqewDJSeJvIiKleKslQAE

Iulia Isaev To Make Metropolitan Opera Debut As ‘Tosca’

http://operawire.com/iulia-isaev-to-make-metropolitan-opera-debut-as-tosca/?fbclid=IwAR0PanifV5yX98pEjqwZsitXibgJEu_OSLOlPU58g5Pm8FzuEswIw1YIY5Y

The Sordid Truth behind Degas’s Ballet Dancers

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-sordid-truth-degass-ballet-dancers?fbclid=IwAR0d5B2EKgPS8ko4IvPeq02pY4dvvdzY5YTZ6MxrzmuLBqumbgK7mMBWh_g

Opera Review: The Wasted Generation

The Washington National Opera brings back the Robert Carsen production of Eugene Onegin.

https://super-conductor.blogspot.com/2019/03/opera-review-wasted-youth.html?fbclid=IwAR2bMj8eE_i5HAYp8yko8H2hNLLpg-LOyBiLtceQJsYyYSnReu6UdPyt-rQ

Metropolitan Opera Preview: Die Walküre

The Met revives the most popular chapter of Wagner's Ring.

https://super-conductor.blogspot.com/2019/03/metropolitan-opera-preview-die-walkure.html

A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde.

Christine Goerke nearly quit opera before becoming one of the world’s top dramatic voices. Now she faces her biggest test: Wagner’s “Ring” cycle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/arts/music/christine-goerke-soprano-wagner-ring-met-opera.html?fbclid=IwAR3_gnZRtJXAhfy5eAXa3vUzTiOyF-o-JWipHpd5jmmkQvw3AlXuRoRRLSQ

An oldie but a goody—

Ruth Bader Ginsburg performs in WNO's The Daughter of the Regiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvBdsFWUZrE

Interviews Stage Spotlight

Interview: Mezzo Angela Brower Scales New Heights

American Mezzo on Strauss, Mozart, & Singing At 2,600 Meters Above Sea Level

http://operawire.com/interview-mezzo-angela-brower-scales-new-heights/?fbclid=IwAR1Dmpcxbwo-eA3Tdp3gVtHlErjxq8sx4AMWZwRnC3HD1sVsZxOGzTt6Wi4

Interviews Stage Spotlight

Interview: Contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux on Her Met Debut & Her Mission as a Singer

http://operawire.com/interview-contralto-marie-nicole-lemieux-on-her-met-debut-her-mission-as-a-singer/?fbclid=IwAR0wwSKEm8oWDAix6NYhTLddRgWodqBTqLAreyIwfTHX0cSm6Mv7GjUa-JE

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1:00PM  RADIO BROADCAST 

Saint-Saëns’s

Samson et Dalila

   

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