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This week on Rhode Island Public television:
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, April 6, 2019, 8:00pm
Sunday, April 7, 2019, 3:00am
Monday, April 8, 2019, 12:00am
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| Joyce DiDonato and Sondra Radvanovsky |
Norma
The blazing title role of Bellini’s Norma has been a star-making vehicle for some of opera’s most beloved sopranos, so when Sondra Radvanovsky first took on the part at the Met in 2013, it marked a new chapter of her career. She returned four years later to reprise her riveting portrayal, this time opening the 2017–18 season in an evocative new production by Sir David McVicar. Captured live in HD, her performance is nothing less than a tour-de-force, combining dramatic commitment with true bel canto singing—Radvanovsky balances the role’s powerful intensity with moments of delicate lyricism. As Adalgisa, the young priestess torn between love and duty, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato delivers an interpretation imbued with great emotional nuance. Tenor Joseph Calleja is the aggressive Roman proconsul Pollione, with Matthew Rose as Norma’s father, the warrior Oroveso. Leading the Met Orchestra and Chorus, maestro Carlo Rizzi draws out the vibrant color of Bellini’s masterful score.
Length: 180 minutes
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D’AGUANNO
LIVE from
Barcelona tomorrow (Thursday, April 4), it's Ponchielli's most famous work -
"La Gioconda" - which can be heard on Catalunya Musica.
Then on
Saturday, OperaVision brings us a video-stream of "La Juive"
("The Jewess") which is undoubtedly the most famous of the more than
40 operas composed by Fromental Halevy whose daughter, incidentally, became the
wife of Georges Bizet. "La Juive" (like its almost exact contemporary
piece - "Les Huguenots" by Meyerbeer) illustrates the tragic
consequences that often take place when fanatical adherents of
"rival" religions clash. While Meyerbeer's opera presents Catholics
vs. Protestants, Halevy's work focuses on the strife between Catholics &
Jews. Spoiler alert (for those unfamiliar with this opera): The tragic irony in
this one comes at the end when it is revealed that the persecuted Jewish girl
of the title, being put to death, is actually the long-lost daughter of the
(Catholic) Cardinal de Brogni. In any case, the performance being shown comes
to us from last month in Antwerp.
Franz
Schreker's "Die Gezeichneten" ("The Stigmatized") has
become better known in recent years, thanks to various European productions
(even one in Los Angeles not too long ago), and here it is once again, LIVE
from Hannover, broadcast on NDR.
On far more
familiar territory, the Met's Saturday matinee opera this weekend is none other
than Puccini's "Tosca" to be heard on several internet radio
stations.
There's also
another double-bill, with Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" being
paired with Puccini's "Il Tabarro" (rather than its usual companion -
"Pagliacci"). This one was performed in Dresden on March 8 & 10 of
this year.
On Radio 3
(RAI), we get some Verdi, with the February 22, 2019 performance from Naples of
"Un Ballo in Maschera."
Finally, on
Sunday (April 7), French Radio will be broadcasting the March 14, 2019
performance from Toulouse of Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades."
Enjoy!
DAVE
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