Week of May 2 - May 9, 2019

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This week on Rhode Island Public television:

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

Saturday, May 4, 2019, 8:00pm

Sunday,  May 5,  2019, 3:00am 

Monday, May 6, 2019, 12:00am

Marnie

Nico Muhly's musical-dramatic vision about a young woman pursuing a life of crime and dishonesty; with Isabel Leonard and Christopher Maltman.

Length: 150 minutes
Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/discover/synopses/marnie/

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

While Giuseppe Verdi is said to have grappled for many years with the idea of composing an opera based on Shakespeare's "King Lear" (and of course, he DID give us "Macbeth" & "Otello" & "Falstaff"), it wasn't until 1968 that the German composer Aribert Reimann was approached by baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau to compose such a work, and finally, in 1978, Reimann's "Lear" received its world premiere performance. On Thursday (May 2), Reimann's opera can be heard on Radio 3 (RAI) in a LIVE performance from Florence.

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

On Friday evening at 7:25, the Met is offering a FREE live audio-stream of Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites" with Isabel Leonard heading an impressive (mostly) female cast. Surely, this performance will whet one's appetite to attend the LIVE HD-transmission of this work, coming to certain local movie theatres on May 11.

(www.metopera.org/)

Also from the Met will be the usual Saturday matinee broadcast, only this time it's an audio broadcast of the October 6, 2018 performance of Verdi's "Aida" which many of us saw last fall. It can be heard on several internet radio stations.

(www.metopera.org/)

Being broadcast at the same time will be Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" via Radio 4 (the Netherlands). It's the 4/17/19 performance of the work that took place in Liege.

(www.radio4.nl/)

Then on Sunday, French Radio will be airing the April 4th performance from Toulouse of the only opera Paul Dukas gave us: "Ariane & Barbe-Bleue" featuring mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch as Ariane.

(www.francemusique.fr/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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NEWS FROM AROUND

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Notre Dame Organ

Free Download of the Week: Notre-Dame Organ

Olivier Latry is one of the greatest organists in the world. He’s also one of the three main organists at Notre-Dame de Paris.

This week’s free download comes from his newest album Bach to the Future, the last pre-fire recording at Notre Dame.

https://www.kdfc.com/radio/free-download/

The KDFC Guide to Opera: The Essential Top 5 of Opera

https://www.kdfc.com/2019/04/guide-to-opera-top-5-essentials/

Classical Music Through an Autistic Lens

https://www.kdfc.com/2019/04/classical-music-through-an-autistic-lens/

Metropolitan Opera fetes Placido Domingo Golden Anniversary

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/metropolitan-opera-fetes-placido-domingo-golden-anniversary/2019/04/28/7fa15016-6a23-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html?utm_term=.1ff40dfe4172

Two Major Met Opera Arrivals, Just 15 Hours Apart

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/28/arts/music/met-opera-rigoletto-ring-cycle.html?fbclid=IwAR28RNyVvHpjooQZjN3JrQb_lcnbgIdEZ5dva9-DZvFwzBeHQBUljod9s4U

How LYRIC TENORS could and should sound! (Jerry Hadley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ynpmzjKBR8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3-VHonevwr-5yol8QfIA5t8saGjHU2ysizHvMyV6wdvYXsKG7ySvKhjfc

Metropolitan Opera Preview: Dialogues des Carmélites

Francis Poulenc's dark opera combines religion, politics and history to devastating effect.

https://super-conductor.blogspot.com/2019/04/metropolitan-opera-preview-dialogues.html?fbclid=IwAR0zckchO1eirrPFEfcrClTo0ZYFDwkUG1GWIkDBiV2_JsvDB1HOG0ZIe0M

Music for Everyone

Every week thousands of people descend on the Rhode Island Philharmonic’s Music School in East Providence

http://rhodeislandspotlight.org/4.25.2019.music.html?fbclid=IwAR0lxYiHJya4i_arCSFwVk1_8nUwyEVFpt4UoY4Jt9fYAuVcThaQijfgK5Q

Soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick, Who Had Two Double-Lung Transplants, Has Died

https://wosu2.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/soprano-charity-tillemann-dick-who-had-two-double-lung-transplants-has-died?fbclid=IwAR368ccURLhRhp3TWmQ9Lln_6LKRbwPiQLaFlsEIlgppIbHyjbaw6BhdIVI#stream/0

Aida Garifullina Out of Met Opera’s ‘Werther’

http://operawire.com/aida-garifullina-out-of-met-operas-werther/?fbclid=IwAR35-Tbt2YiRhCkRODBUmtZMXqf2xc5r_yyNW51XOpOQucPJZAUqWRc8ATo

4 New Operas in 4 Months? Only in Berlin

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/arts/music/berlin-opera.html?fbclid=IwAR3_BpbF2RLpmP1c4rB9TzvbESWq49hdbU-WeIeHu2CCcm5JliITg0deQtI

Lorenzo Viotti Is Dutch National Opera’s Next Chief Conductor

http://operawire.com/lorenzo-viotti-is-dutch-national-operas-next-chief-conductor/?fbclid=IwAR3jollyZotnJfZKsmsyg0qzZQqv6hWVawnA0wAt4XqAhqtaTp-qoNRUw94

The Castro Theatre Is About to Get the Biggest Organ in the World

This organ transplant comes with seven keyboards, thousands of pipes, and enough buttons to re-create any type of music.

http://www.sfweekly.com/culture/the-castro-theatre-is-about-to-get-the-biggest-organ-in-the-world/

Castro Theater Organ, San Francisco

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THE MET SATURDAY AFTERNOON RADIO BROADCAST is on haitus until December.

In the meantime, tune in to WQXR. which broadcasts live operas from all over the world, including from La Scala (Italy), Gran  Teotro de LICEO (spain);  Covent Garden (England) as well as American stages such as Chicago Lyric Opera, Los Angelles Opera, and San Francisco Opera.

  

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

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NO OPERA ON 

WGBH THIS WEEK!