Happy Independence Day!
This week on Rhode Island Public television:
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, July 6, 2019, 8:00pm
Sunday, July 7, 2019, 3:00am
Monday, July 8, 2019, 12:00am
Norma
The blazing title role of Bellini’s Norma has been a star-making vehicle for some of opera’s most beloved sopranos, so when Sondra Radvanovsky first took on the part at the Met in 2013, it marked a new chapter of her career. She returned four years later to reprise her riveting portrayal, this time opening the 2017–18 season in an evocative new production by Sir David McVicar. Captured live in HD, her performance is nothing less than a tour-de-force, combining dramatic commitment with true bel canto singing—Radvanovsky balances the role’s powerful intensity with moments of delicate lyricism. As Adalgisa, the young priestess torn between love and duty, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato delivers an interpretation imbued with great emotional nuance. Tenor Joseph Calleja is the aggressive Roman proconsul Pollione, with Matthew Rose as Norma’s father, the warrior Oroveso. Leading the Met Orchestra and Chorus, maestro Carlo Rizzi draws out the vibrant color of Bellini’s masterful score.
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The Rhode Island Civic Chorale &
Orchestra is pleased and excited to announce that Dr. Joshua W. Rohde has
accepted the position of Music Director.
Providence,
RI, June 26, 2019
Joshua Rohde
is the Director of Choral Activities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where
he conducts all four of the university’s choral ensembles – Men’s Glee Club,
Women’s Alden Voices, Festival Chorus, and the Chamber Choir. Joshua is also
the Music Director of the Quincy Choral Society and an active professional
cellist throughout the Boston area. His previous experience includes work at Boston
University’s Marsh Chapel, the Harvard University Choruses, the University of
Birmingham (UK), and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus (UK). He
has prepared choruses to sing for conductors such as Harry Christophers, Andris
Nelsons, and JohnStorgårds. As a cello soloist,
he has played cello concertos with orchestras including Elgar, Haydn,
Boccherini, and Shostakovich, and regularly works as a continuo cellist playing
the choral-orchestral works of Bach.
Joshua Rohde
has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting and a Master of Sacred
Music in Choral Conducting degree from Boston University, a Master of Arts in
Choral Conducting from the
University of Birmingham (UK), and a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance
from the University of Minnesota, where he also earned a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering.
“The RICCO
Search Committee undertook a rigorous process to find the candidate who would
build on our history and traditions, and we are delighted to have found Joshua
Rohde,” commented Mary Tafuri
Ross, RICCO President-elect. In addition to an examination of qualifications
and interviews, the final candidates conducted singer rehearsal so that the singers could contribute to deciding on
the Music Director.
Dr. Rohde is
the fifth Music Director in RICCO’s 62-year history, following Dr. Edward Markward,
who was awarded the honorary title of Conductor Laureate by the corporation.
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The Met: Live In HD Summer Encores
Wednesdays, 7 pm
· 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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THIS SUNDAY, July 7, 2013
WGBH 2 at 1:00PM
Great Performances at the Met
La Fille du Régiment
Watch
Donizetti's romantic comedy about a budding military relationship starring
Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena in a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks.
Special guest Kathleen Turner makes her Met debut. Enrique Mazzola conducts.
Broadcast
In: English
Duration: 2
hrs. 27 min.
7 Scene-Stealing Performances in the Comic Opera “La Fille du Régiment”
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D’AGUANNO
There are
actually 4 opera videos lined up on the internet schedule during the next few
days. (You could say "5" since a 21st century opera was given a LIVE
video-stream yesterday & is still available -- more on that later).
Two of the
operas coming up in LIVE video-streams are a couple of Mozart's best! First on
Thursday (for those not doing anything special for the Fourth of July, I
guess), you can watch a LIVE performance of "The Marriage of Figaro"
from this year's Armel Opera Festival. Then on Saturday, from this same
festival, there's a LIVE video-stream of "Don Giovanni."
("Figaro"- https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/mozarts_le_nozze_di_figaro_with_pataki_kaszei_fodor_kendi_and_mester_from_vienna/49426/)
("Giovanni" - https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/mozarts_don_giovanni_with_rodriguez_regalado_dai_panela_and_van_arsdale_from_budapest/49428/)
("Giovanni" - https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/mozarts_don_giovanni_with_rodriguez_regalado_dai_panela_and_van_arsdale_from_budapest/49428/)
On Saturday
afternoon, OperaVision will be presenting a video-stream from Madrid of Verdi's
"Il Trovatore" which will be available for several months afterwards.
At the same
time, from Munich, there's a LIVE video-stream of "Salome" (Richard
Strauss) as performed with the same cast that was heard in last week's audio
broadcast.
Aside from
the video presentations listed above, yet another Mozart opera appears on the
schedule on Saturday. It's a performance from Vienna that took place this past
February. The opera: "Idomeneo."
On Radio 3
(RAI), there's a rarity to be heard. Most opera-goers are familiar with Ruggero
Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" but may not have ever heard his final opera
"Edipo Re" which, as the title indicates, is based on the Sophocles
tragedy "Oedipus Rex." As the Sophocles play is quite concentrated,
so is Leoncavallo's opera which is actually shorter in length than
"Pagliacci" and is possibly even more dramatic than that famous work.
The performance to be heard took place in Pisa on March 1st of this year.
As mentioned
in the opening paragraph, the LIVE video-stream from yesterday (also from the
Armel Opera Festival) is still available. If you're interested in 21st century
opera, you'll probably enjoy this one: Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason"s
2017 opera "Brothers" -- sung in English.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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Remembering Franco Zeffirelli
(1923–2019)
Fred Plotkin honors Zeffirelli's life and work, from his time at the Met to his time in Italian parliament. Jun 17, 2019
https://www.wqxr.org/story/remembering-franco-zeffirelli-19232019/
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NEWS FROM AROUND
THE WORLD OF MUSIC
Must-See Classical Concerts This July
Notable performances in and out of
town this month. Jun 27, 2019
San Francisco Opera
Romeo and Juliet Are Heading to the Ballpark
30,000 Opera Lovers Gather at Oracle Park
Renée Fleming | Greatest Soprano Arias Of All Time |
Classic FM
Met Opera’s Float and Chorus Photos at 2019 Pride Day in
NYC
For the first time in its
history The Metropolitan Opera has a float in NYC's #PrideMarch! It's especially exciting that it
coincides with both the #WorldPride celebration and the 50th
Anniversary of the #Stonewall Riots, a seminal moment in the
gay civil rights movement. The chorus and the entire #MetOperaFamily has always been supportive of
our LGBTQ members, but it's powerful (and fun) to share it with the world!
Stonewall Goes to the Opera: Why? How? Do They Still
Throw Things?
Investigating the choice of opera as
the medium to dramatize the emotions of the 1969 uprising. Jun 25, 2019
In Memoriam: Lewis Cullman
The San Francisco Opera's first
simulcast in 2006 drew about 8,000 spectators. Since moving to the ballpark the
following year, the audience has grown each year, now up to 30,000!
Find out
more about this year's Opera at the Ballpark...
From 2010—infuriating but
distracting, if you need a distraction
How I fell out of love with opera
Writer Robert Thicknesse has long
been an evangelist for opera, the most maligned of art forms. But, he's
beginning to wonder, what's the point of it all? Has he been defending the
indefensible?
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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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OPERA ON
WGBH THIS WEEK!
"La Fille du Régiment"
"La Fille du Régiment"
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