Week of May 31 - June 6, 2019

This week on Rhode Island Public television:Last Met-HD Broadcast of the Year

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

Saturday, June 1, 2019, 8:00pm

Sunday, June 2,  2019, 3:00am 

Monday, June 3, 2019, 12:00am

TOSCA

Director David McVicar's production of "Tosca" features Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo; Isabel Leonard hosts.

Length: 150 minutes

Synopsis: https://www.google.com/search?q=tosca+synopsis+met+opera&oq=Tosca+synopsis&aqs=chrome.3.0l6.17808j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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The Met: Live In HD Summer Encores

         
Wednesdays, 7 pm

·      Roméo et Juliette, June 19

·      La Bohème, June 26

·      Il Barbiere di Siviglia, July 10

·      Aida, July 17

https://www.fathomevents.com/series/the-met-live-in-hd-summer-encores?gclid=CjwKCAjw8qjnBRA-EiwAaNvhwNoIxiPs_-wsDGmoy4xZM6G4ygzInriHsjxOkIxL5tPOIx-gtY6rvBoC1p0QAvD_BwE

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

With a few cast changes from last week's broadcast, the "Cav/Pag" double-bill from Genoa will once again be streamed LIVE tomorrow (Thursday). Since last week's broadcast actually came to us as a video-stream, I'm assuming that tomorrow's will as well.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/mascagnis_cavalleria_rusticana_and_leoncavallos_pagliacci_from_genoa/48619/)

Then on Saturday, another LIVE video-stream will be available as Munich's Bavarian State Opera will be showing Gluck's 1767 opera "Alceste."

(preview clip with English subtitles: https://www.staatsoper.de/en/staatsopertv.html?no_cache=1#c13145)

At the same time, BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting an April 2019 performance of Benjamin Britten's "Billy Budd" as presented in London's Royal Opera House.

(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

German Radio brings us a world premiere: Elena Mendoza's "Der Fall Babel" as it was performed on April 26 of this year as part of the Schwetzingen Festival.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Then there's Franz Schreker's "Die Gezeichneten" ("The Stigmatised") (1915) which seems to be enjoying a sort of mini-revival, as several fairly recent productions of this opera will attest. This Saturday you can hear a LIVE performance of the work from Amsterdam on Radio 4 (the Netherlands). Interested listeners should take note of the fact that this is a MATINEE performance, meaning that here in the US it will be available to us in the morning hours on Saturday.

(www.radio4.nl/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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NEWS FROM AROUND

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Attending live concerts increases life expectancy, improves well-being more than yoga, dog-walking, study finds

https://www.wfmt.com/2018/07/23/study-claims-attending-live-concerts-increases-life-expectancy-improves-well-being-more-than-yoga-and-dog-walking/

Is Classical Music Actually Effective in Fighting Crime?

https://www.wqxr.org/story/classical-music-actually-effective-fighting-crime/

This Opera Taught Us We Don't Need Mozart to Pack the House

https://www.wqxr.org/story/what-scott-joplins-treemonisha-teaches-us-about-politics-concert-programming/

It wasn't so easy for Mozart: Aspen Festival's Robert Spano on classical music in America

https://bachtrack.com/interview-robert-spano-aspen-festival-america-month-may-2019

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Live Updates From The Boston Calling Music Festival

https://www.wgbh.org/music/indie/2019/05/24/live-updates-from-the-boston-calling-music-festival

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THE MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON MATINEE IS oN HIATUS UNTIL DECEMBER.  TUNE IN TO WQXR TO HEAR OTHER OPERA COMPANIES PERFORM AT  1:00PM 

  

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

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NO OPERA ON 

WGBH THIS WEEK!

Vice President Mike Pence

Week of May 23 - May 30, 2019

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This week on Rhode Island Public television:Last Met-HD Broadcast of the Year

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

Saturday, May 25, 2019, 8:00pm

Sunday,  May 26,  2019, 3:00am 

Monday, May 27, 2019, 12:00am

Aida

Giuseppe Verdi's Egyptian epic "Aida" features soprano Anna Netrebko and mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili.  

Length: 180 minutes

Synopsis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida

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A Good Death, in Opera and in Theater

What makes for a truly operatic death? May 9, 2019

https://www.wqxr.org/shows/operavore/?gclid=CjwKCAjw5pPnBRBJEiwAULZKvne735xr4STpIWwSwV2udGnmaCA9bLxv_4S2z3BI6Ebi89NZPzJ6PhoCGMUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

The Met's 2018/2019 season may be over, but there is still plenty of opera from various venues, many of which will be available to us on the internet in the next few days.

Beginning tomorrow (Thursday), Radio 3 (RAI) will be broadcasting a LIVE performance from Rome of Prokofiev's dramatic & macabre "Fiery Angel.

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

Then on Friday (May 24), there are actually two LIVE opera broadcasts that are worth noting, one of which is the broadcast from Genoa of the opera world's most popular double-bill -- "Cavalleria Rusticana" & "Pagliacci." This may actually be a video-stream, although the link below does not actually mention that.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/mascagnis_cavalleria_rusticana_and_leocavallos_pagliacci_from_genoa/48502/)

Also on Friday, from Madrid, there's a LIVE broadcast of Puccini's "La Rondine" to be heard on Radio Clasica.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/puccinis_la_rondine_with_mosuc_sloia_tanner_and_pazos_from_madrid/48492/)

Saturday is brimming over with some potentially exciting opera broadcasts. Fans of soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Jonas Kaufmann will, no doubt, be enthused over the fact that Radio 3 (BBC) is broadcasting an April 2019 performance from Covent Garden of Verdi's "La Forza del Destino" featuring the dynamic soprano-tenor duo mentioned above.

(wwwbbc.co.uk/radio3/)

A performance from Helsinki that is taking place this week will also be broadcast on Saturday. The opera: Debussy's beautifully atmospheric "Pelleas & Melisande."

( https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/debussys_pelleas_et_melisande_with_tilling_rusanen_naouri_and_korhonen_from_helsinki/48510/)

There's also some Richard Strauss on tap via ORF, as a LIVE performance from the Vienna State Opera of "Die Frau ohne Schatten" can be heard.

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

There are also 2 operas that one rarely encounters these days. One of them is a comic opera, stylistically somewhat reminiscent of Mozart: Albert Lortzing's "Der Wildschutz" ("The Poachers"), a work that premiered in 1842 and which can now be heard in a LIVE performance from Kassel on German Radio.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Last week, Danish radio gave us a performance of Danish composer August Enna's "Kleopatra" (1893), and are now following through with yet another rare Danish gem: Peter Heise's 1878 "King & Marshall" in its current production from Copenhagen.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/heises_drot_og_marsk_with_reuter_lodahl_henningjensen_and_bundgaard_from_copenhagen/48514/)

On Sunday, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich will be broadcasting a LIVE performance of Gluck's "Alceste" (1767), a video of which is scheduled to be shown on the internet on June 1.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/glucks_alceste_with_roschmann_castronovo_nagy_and_gunther_from_munich/48546/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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NEWS FROM AROUND

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Pavarotti in private: a collection of rare photos of the opera star

https://www.classicfm.com/artists/luciano-pavarotti/pavarotti-young-rare-photos-family/

How a Canadian maestro is trying to make opera 'cooler'

Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been directing ensembles since the age of 18, but a whole new challenge now lies ahead of him. The Canadian conductor is taking over the job of music director at the famed Metropolitan Opera, and he wants to make opera more appealing to a wider audience, particularly young people.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1388860483561?fbclid=IwAR2EKfxzesbyZTb0FkDGsgv7jRvsCWt6F21Dz4wOwBWgqpjR9WS-hG0LkJk

Can listening to classical music help kids keep calm?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/can-listening-to-classical-music-help-kids-keep-calm?fbclid=IwAR3U78LZAS5Aliv1RLQ_Cn4b5HKfabwPsdmO3DU_BXeGwvjpqcEVmQOF730

Interview with Christa Ludwig

(In German; use Google translate)

https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/kulturMontag/1303/kulturMontag/14014126/Interview-mit-Christa-Ludwig/14499344?fbclid=IwAR1uAjuBgWC6DQeEUv-dQgVfJeV2Q6TAjeTMS0VoxMbXKdT3ZjA2gNXI1Jw

Composer Profile: Ruggero Leoncavallo, The Man Behind ‘Pagliacci’

http://operawire.com/composer-profile-ruggero-leoncavallo-the-man-behind-pagliacci/?fbclid=IwAR2F6tH44IgZ7uCdQFpQCsRmpYDaKo6Miu6tDuZMDkldLKfdnlMfapYf6GA

16th International Tchaikovsky Competition Announces Prize in Honor of Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Vocal Jury & Contestants

Vocal Jury Includes Susan Graham, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Edita Gruberova, & Neil Shicoff, Among Others

http://operawire.com/16th-international-tchaikovsky-competition-announces-prize-in-honor-of-dmitri-hvorostovsky-vocal-jury-contestants/?fbclid=IwAR2akyW6_p70G3LwWkkzmUhk4D6EhtjZ3WbiAodSPcookAx_UI8fb9ynv6U

Andrea Chénier review – a singers' evening that won't start a revolution

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/21/andrea-chenier-review-royal-opera-house-london-alagna-radvanovsky?fbclid=IwAR2igIumTxg7LxI1f4cPHt9bkjEWi1SmyFnLMqDVDSodsyvbmTUDFrBhit8

What’s My Line? (1957) With Marian Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw5Chxi09JI&fbclid=IwAR0zfOaKEDkL2107C1PLRGcijbtHrhT0zxevbFP5pXVc_gbGofJivwDB8VY

This elderly composer disrupted an opera by shouting into a megaphone on the front row

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/verdi/news/elderly-composer-disrupts-opera-australia/?fbclid=IwAR0d97_hmNjGFV7aOyno9SrRYpfPCqslOUZJfT5E_tNJ42hdTSbqSFHj1Ts

This painter singing Verdi and Puccini will make you smile and also cry

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/videos/singing-painter/

Someone has placed a pig’s head on a statue of Luciano Pavarotti outside an opera house in Modena, Italy.

http://www.ansa.it/emiliaromagna/notizie/2018/02/02/pavarotti-testa-porchetta-sulla-statua_917372fa-e647-427a-bcc1-5f18e1a69474.html

What’s My Line? (1966) Soprano Leontyne Price

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaDwkS_PMMI&fbclid=IwAR0ECBz6xJXyDOAEpZuHsiyO1ISPpybGsOPZhD_1lndhOa8L9erB-zmF2IU

Game of Thrones: Our 13 Favorite Covers

https://www.kdfc.com/2019/05/game-of-thrones-covers/?fbclid=IwAR25xMr-0ZYLRQcleT-gixVDAbu8SaRBJVkpLkCYQMykNgYttFnjNAX7F5Y

A Musical Murder Mystery…

https://www.kdfc.com/2019/04/a-musical-murder-mystery/

Anita Rachvelishvili - María de Buenos Aires di Astor Piazzolla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In6gQ64Puvg&fbclid=IwAR0KZOAbWA9RfLxevMepihY_7WQ1FWynNDZecAIzSE4rPtEcnEbNF2wMDRU

An Intimate Look At Renee Fleming (1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuRLWG1LCvM

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THE MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON MATINEE is in hiatus until December.  Tune in to WQXR to hear other opera Companies perform at  1:00pm 

  

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

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NO OPERA ON 

WGBH THIS WEEK!

Presidential candidate/Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)