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This week on Rhode Island Public television:
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, April 27, 2019, 8:00pm
Sunday, April 28, 2019, 3:00am
Monday, April 29, 2019, 12:00am
CENDRILLON
Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met, with Joyce DiDonato starring in the title role. She is paired with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as the imperious Madame de la HaltiΓ¨re. Bertrand de Billy conducts Laurent Pelly’s imaginative storybook production.
Duration: 2 hrs. 47 min.
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Unfractured Fairy Tales: ‘Cendrillon’ at the Metropolitan Opera
What truly created opening night success was Laurent Pelly’s production, which brought a theatrical confidence to the stage. The audience devoured it like a meal of desserts. Apr 13, 2018
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Spring
and Summer Opera Blossoms Across America
No matter
where you are this spring and summer, here are the operas to see across the
country. Apr 18, 2019
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D’AGUANNO
This coming
weekend, there's an interesting group of operas to be heard on internet radio
-- and there's even a broadcast of "La Traviata" for those of you who
long to hear it at least one more time!
One of the
operas scheduled for this Saturday (April 27) happens to be one of the most
widely performed opera in the 19th century! Chopin considered it to be a
masterpiece; on the other hand, Mendelssohn despised it. In any case, the opera
in question is Meyerbeer's "Robert le Diable" which (along with
Rossini's "William Tell") ushered in a considerable number of grand
operas after its 1831 premiere. The performance being aired is one that took
place in Brussels earlier this month.
Donizetti's
"La Favorite" -- which, incidentally, happens to be a grand opera,
capitalizing on the popularity of the Meyerbeer work mentioned above -- comes
to us on Radio 3 (RAI), the performance being one that took place on February
24 of this year.
From the
Met, we have the LIVE matinee broadcast of Wagner's "Die
Gotterdammerung." Christine Goerke can be heard singing the role of
Brunnhilde, as she did in previous installments of the Met's Ring Cycle this
season.
Of interest
for those of you who thrive on tragic operas, particularly if they end with the
heroine being murdered or dying of consumption or, in this case, committing
suicide: You can tune in to a recent (February 2019) performance of Janacek's
"Katya Kabanova" which was given this year as part of the Royal Opera
in London's current season.
Then again,
you can wait till Sunday for one of the most famous
heroine-dying-of-consumption operas ever written: Verdi's "La
Traviata" which is being broadcast LIVE from Bologna.
In a lighter
vein, direct from Paris on Sunday afternoon, we have Adolphe Adam's 1836 comic
opera "Le Postillon de Lonjumeau." And yes, this is the same Adolphe
Adam who wrote "O Holy Night" as well as the ballet
"Giselle."
For this
weekend's "opera nobody's ever heard before" you can tune in to BR
Klassik on Sunday afternoon for the March 20, 2019 performance from Munich of
"L'Ancetre" ("The Ancestor") (1905) which happens to be an
opera which Camille Saint-Saens wrote a few decades after "Samson &
Dalila." With recent performances of his operas "Proserpine"
& "The Silver Bell" we may very well be in the midst of a major
Saint-Saens revival. Only time will tell. . .
Enjoy!
DAVE
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NEWS FROM AROUND
THE WORLD OF MUSIC
Hear
the Last Recording of the Notre Dame Organ Before the Fire
Notre-Dame Musicians Rejoice That Cathedral’s Organ Was
Spared
The Passover story revisited from the lens of the U.S.
border
Spring
and Summer Opera Blossoms Across America
No matter
where you are this spring and summer, here are the operas to see across the
country. Apr 18, 2019
How Music Tells the Story in Opera’s Greatest Epic
How To Watch Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala in ‘Adriana
Lecouvreur’ On PBS Great Performances From The Met
Margaret Atwood visits Boston to discuss ‘The Handmaid’s
Tale’ — and for opera’s opening night
Easter Festival Baden-Baden 2019
Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem
RenΓ©e Fleming interviews Yannick Nezet Seguin – Carmen
RenΓ©e Fleming in Conversation (The Royal Opera)
Essential DvoΕΓ‘k Recordings
There are a
lot of great DvoΕΓ‘k recordings out there - here are the essentials. Apr 22,
2019
In the Concert Hall, Clapping is Chaos. That’s Not a Bad
Thing.
A recent
concert at Carnegie Hall exposed the battle between the mind and body. With
regards to clapping, that is. Apr 12, 2019
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THE MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 1:00 PM RADIO BROADCAST
GΓΆtterdΓ€mmerung
GO to HTTP://WWW.WQXR.ORG/STREAMS THEN CLICK ON WQXR 105.9 FM For Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/discover/synopses/gotterdammerung/
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NO OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
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| James R. Clapper,, Jr., Director of National Intelligence (2010–2017) |
