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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The KDFC Guide to Opera: The Essential Top 5 of Opera
Classical Music Through an Autistic Lens
Metropolitan Opera fetes Placido Domingo Golden Anniversary
Two Major Met Opera Arrivals, Just 15 Hours Apart
How LYRIC TENORS could and should sound! (Jerry Hadley)
Metropolitan Opera Preview: Dialogues des Carmélites
Francis Poulenc's dark opera combines
religion, politics and history to devastating effect.
Music for Everyone
Every week thousands of people
descend on the Rhode Island Philharmonic’s Music School in East Providence
Soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick, Who Had Two Double-Lung
Transplants, Has Died
Aida Garifullina Out of Met Opera’s ‘Werther’
4 New Operas in 4 Months? Only in Berlin
Lorenzo Viotti Is Dutch National Opera’s Next Chief
Conductor
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.
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| 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.
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NO OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
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