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 

  

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NO OPERA ON 

WGBH THIS WEEK!

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