Week of March 7 - March 14, 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 9, 2019, 8:00pm

Sunday,  March 10, 2019, 3:00am 

Monday, March 11, 2019, 12:00am

Madama Butterfly

Kristine Opolais plays the title role in Anthony Minghella's 2006 production of "Madama Butterfly," conducted by Karel Mark Chichon.

Length: 180

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/user-information/synopses-archive/madama-butterfly

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WQXR

How Green Is My Ring Cycle?

https://www.wqxr.org/story/how-green-my-ring-cycle-wagner-nibelung-fred-plotkin-operavore-environment/

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/

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

Opera-lovers can jump-start their opera-listening during the next few days by checking out the LIVE broadcast on Thursday (March 7) of "Hamlet" by Ambroise Thomas. Featuring soprano Diana Damrau in the role of Ophelia, this performance comes to us from Barcelona.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/thomas_hamlet_with_alvarez_damrau_teste_and_albelo_from_barcelona/46787/)

Also on Thursday, starting at 7:25 p.m., the FREE live audio-stream being given by the Met this week is of Verdi's "Aida" with soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role.

(www.metopera.org/)

Then on Friday, there are actually 2 opera broadcasts on the schedule. Fans of the music of Donizetti can listen to a LIVE performance from Genoa of his comic opera "Don Pasquale." (This one may actually be available as a video-stream, although the link provided doesn't specifically mention that.)

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/donizettis_don_pasquale_with_irmiter_gatell_fabbian_rancatore_and_conti_from_genoa/46900/)

The other Friday broadcast is on Swedish Radio and brings us what amounts to the world premiere performance of Elfrida Andree's opera "Fritiof's Saga." Although she wrote the opera in 1899, it has never been performed in its entirety (although excerpts have surfaced from time to time), so this performance from Gothenburg is the first COMPLETE performance this opera has ever had.

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

If you were fortunate enough to experience the delightful "Daughter of the Regiment" performance from the Met last Saturday, and are yearning to hear this opera once again, you're in luck: Radio 3 (RAI) will be broadcasting the opera in a LIVE performance from Bologna on Saturday.

(www.radio32.rai.it/)

If you happen to prefer Wagner to Donizetti, there's the LIVE matinee broadcast from the Met of "Das Rheingold" (available on several internet radio stations).

(www.metopera.org/)

On the other hand, if your tastes encompass 21st century works, it's likely you'd want to listen in to the LIVE broadcast from Amsterdam of "Girls of the Golden West" by John Adams. The opera itself received its world premiere performances back in November 2017 in San Francisco.

(www.radio4.nl/)

Then on Sunday, French Radio is broadcasting a January 2019 performance from Paris of Berlioz's monumental "Les Troyens."

(www.francemusique.fr/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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THE MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 

1:00PM  RADIO BROADCAST,  

RICHARD WAGNER’S

Das Rheingold

   

GO TO 

 HTTP://WWW.WQXR.ORG/STREAMS
 THEN CLICK ON WQXR 105.9 FM

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NO OPERA ON 

WGBH THIS WEEK!

Rep.Adam Schiff, Chair of House Intelligence Committee