Week of June 13 - June 20, 2019

This week on Rhode Island Public television:

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

Saturday, June 15, 2019, 8:00pm

Sunday, June 16,  2019, 3:00am 

Monday, June 17, 2019, 12:00am

Manon Lescaut

Puccini's adaptation of the classic novel about a free-spirited country girl features Kristine Opolais and Roberto Alagna.

Length: 150 minutes

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/discover/synopses/manon-lescaut/

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Manon Lescaut

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The Met: Live In HD Summer Encores

         
Wednesdays, 7 pm

·      Roméo et Juliette, June 19  <-- font="">

·      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

On Friday (June 14), we have another opera coming to us on the internet from Genoa: It's Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and (once again) chances are that it will be a LIVE video-stream.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/puccinis_madama_butterfly_with_leva_pop_lupinacci_leung_and_antonucci_from_genoa/48926/)

Then on Saturday, fans of tenor Juan Diego Florez may be excited over the prospect of hearing him take on the leading tenor role in Massenet's "Manon" for the first time in his career. ORF (Austria) is broadcasting the June 9th performance of this opera, direct from the Vienna State Opera.

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

The Belgian station Klara has scheduled the broadcast of a performance from last month of Wagner's "Tristan & Isolde" in a production from Brussels. You also have the option of actually watching the performance as well. (See the video link below.)

(audio only: http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

(video link: https://www.lamonnaie.be/en/streaming/1399-tristan-und-isolde)

Detlev Glanert's newest opera (out of a total of eleven!) can be heard on German Radio on Saturday. It's the world premiere of his opera "Oceane" as performed in Berlin on May 17th of this year. (See also the video link if you'd like to watch this opera's official trailer.)

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

(video trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nCj4_PUDT8)

Finally, on Sunday, we have a rare opportunity of hearing "La Clemenza di Tito" -- that is, "rare" in the sense that this is Gluck's version of the opera which premiered in 1752, about 4 decades before Mozart's far more famous work. The performance being broadcast actually took place in Leverkusen on November 3, 2013.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/glucks_la_clemenza_di_tito_with_trost_aikin_milanesi_and_ezenarro_from_leverkusen/48964/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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Why Do I Sing?

https://www.wqxr.org/story/why-do-i-sing/

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NEWS FROM AROUND

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

The Relevance, Love and Future of Opera and How It Changed Over the Years

Interview with two art journalists: America’s expert Fred Plotkin and Barbara Rett, Vienna’s foremost Art Journalist and TV Presenter.

https://www.lavocedinewyork.com/en/arts/2019/06/04/the-relevance-love-and-future-of-opera-and-how-it-changed-over-the-years/

Musical Love Letters: Dedications By LGBT Composers

To mark 50 years since those history-changing events, we’ve decided to compile a special playlist of musical dedications by LGBT composers in honor of Pride. Jun 7, 2019

https://www.wqxr.org/story/musical-love-letters-dedications-lgbt-composers/

Strauss's Ideal Birthday: How Would The Composer Spend His 155th?

A walk in Central Park, a trip to The Met and, of course, just a little composition  Jun 6, 2019

https://www.wqxr.org/story/strausss-ideal-birthday-how-would-composer-spend-his-155th/

Central City Opera To Present Bilingual Family Opera

The work in question is “En Mis Palabras / In My Own Words,” which was commissioned by the company back in 2005. It follows the story of a 15-year-old Latina who struggles with assimilating into American culture and leaving behind her Latino roots.

https://operawire.com/central-city-opera-to-present-bilingual-family-opera/

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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!

Angry Soprano Anna Netrebko