Week of October 3 - October 10, 2019

Rest in peace

Jessye Norman

May choirs of angels sing you to your rest.

Died: September 30, 2019 New York City

Born: September 15, 1945, Augusta, GA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/obituaries/jessye-norman-dead.html

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This week on Rhode Island Public television:

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

Saturday, October 5, 2019, 8:00pm

Sunday, October 6,  2019, 3:00am 

Monday, October 7, 2019, 12:00am

L'Elisir d'Amore

Pretty Yende and Matthew Polenzani star in Bartlett Sher's production of Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore," about a humble peasant who falls in love with a beautiful, wealthy landowner, and believes a traveling "doctor" who sells an elixir of love that will make her fall in love with him.

Length: 150 minutes

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/user-information/synopses-archive/lelisir-damore

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

As the 2019/2020 opera season gets underway, the number of interesting items that can be enjoyed on the internet has certainly increased. In fact, tomorrow evening at 7:25, the Met is offering a FREE live audio-stream of Puccini's "Turandot." Interestingly enough, coming up on Monday (October 7), there's yet another LIVE performance of "Turandot" that can be enjoyed, this second broadcast being a LIVE performance from Barcelona.

(Thursday from the Met: www.metopera.org/)

(Monday from Barcelona: https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/puccinis_turandot_with_theorin_de_leon_vinogradov_and_jaho_from_barcelona/50822/)

In fact, tomorrow there are a couple of additional operatic works that are available for our listening enjoyment. One of them is a LIVE performance from Turin of Bizet's "Pearl Fishers" which can be heard on Radio 3 (RAI).

(www.www.radio3.rai.it/)

The other broadcast on Thursday is the world premiere performance of Francesco Filidei's opera "L'Inondation" ("The Flood") which comes to us from Paris on Arte Live Web, which usually indicates a video-stream rather than a regular audio presentation.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/filideis_linondation_with_briot_grappe_nahoun_gardin_and_de_hys_from_paris/51007/)

Saturday afternoon brings us broadcasts of 3 rather obscure works, one of them being one of Verdi's lesser-known operas -- "Il Corsaro" -- which can be heard in an August 24, 2019 performance from Warsaw.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/))

Many opera-lovers are at least somewhat familiar with Dvorak's "Rusalka" (seen at the Met in recent years), but his earlier opera "King & Collier" (1871) is something of a rarity. The September 19, 2019 performance of this comic opera from Prague can be heard on Saturday.

(https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/dvoraks_king_and_collier_with_samek_knezikova_hoza_benci_and_hilscherova_from_prague/50942/)

Franz Schreker's "Die Gezeichneten" ("The Stigmatised") has been revived a few times in recent years, but opera-goers hardly ever come across his earlier opera "Der Ferne Klang" ("The Distant Sound") which he completed in 1912, having worked on it for nearly an entire decade. Swedish Radio will be airing a LIVE performance from Stockholm of this work on Saturday; as it happens, it also will be given on October 19 as a video-stream, courtesy of OperaVision.

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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Tributes and Links to Jessye Norman

Mourning a true diva, Jessye Norman

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/01/mourning-true-diva-jessye-norman/?fbclid=IwAR0HZOR0fckRKlK2HSsCVVmbtJCjP6gzGUuut-BanIXGf7C1t2b7ZXqdhWw

Jessye Norman, Regal American Soprano, Is Dead at 74

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/obituaries/jessye-norman-dead.html

Jessye Norman Was a Diva, in the Best Way

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/arts/music/jessye-norman-dead.html

Jessye Norman death: Tributes paid to ‘inspirational’ Grammy-winning opera star

Barack Obama presented her with the National Medal of Arts in 2009

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/jessye-norman-death-age-cause-opera-soprano-a9127446.html

Remembering Jessye Norman: Eight Extraordinary Recordings

https://thelistenersclub.com/2019/10/02/remembering-jessye-norman-eight-extraordinary-recordings/?fbclid=IwAR3uMQfM_dJWr7Jurz6Q7C9biHuXWs1lgk9xs5t1qDkW0oRsRZis-kPH3OY

Jessye Norman - Samson and Delilah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9t0hMmQHI&fbclid=IwAR3KNBAlhmyl9uD1qtDg9hxbtXt2LM4L6mqUcg5LU3_zkQdDyd9GemLD0GA

Jessye Norman - "Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9680zhMmIqM&fbclid=IwAR2reYPZJC8T1sVPnctyb8KWTy_dXGsTOwPAwtvqggCgFiJ5BwYrzklZc9Q

Jessye Norman - Ave Maria (Schubert)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do5ZmQQM8AE

Jessye Norman + Kathleen Battle 'He's Got The Whole World In His Hand' 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJ3PlU-lKg

Jessye Norman ‘You'll never walk alone’ 2002

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=709TjFmoKAs

Jessye Norman - A Portrait - When I Am Laid In Earth (Purcell)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIAi2XwuWo

Jessye Norman -"The Bohemian girl" - M.W.Balfe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbRYEvZVoag

Jessye Norman - Carmen - Seguidilla - Près des ramparts de Séville

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkADJFzJW28

Jessye Norman - Mozart - E Susanna non vien! Dove sono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGpXiGnJtqA

O hehrstes Wunder! Jessye Norman in Walküre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_g8GXrZPc

Jessye Norman sings "Morgen" by Richard Strauss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQP01pJQA7s

Jessye Norman - Amazing Grace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZKrjJCpdJU

Jessye Norman - He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iBY2XDOyvA

Jessye Norman sings Carmen - Habanera – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-FV1Y198MU

Jessye Norman - Papa, can you hear me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2r6PfPP69Y

Jessye Norman - O Holy Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zYi82AiFk

Jessye Norman sings Panis Angelicus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKWCZIohF0

Jessye Norman - Adeste Fideles

(“Oh come, all ye faithful”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB1zL0eM-zM

Jessye Norman - Silent Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAfX8cn-NCQ

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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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Week of September 26 - October 3, 2019

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This week on Rhode Island Public television:

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

Saturday, September 28, 2019, 8:00pm

Sunday, September 29,  2019, 3:00am 

Monday, September 30, 2019, 12:00am

Rusalka

Kristine Opolais stars in a new production of the opera that first won her international acclaim, Dvořák’s fairy-tale opera about the tragic water nymph Rusalka. Sir Mark Elder conducts Mary Zimmerman’s new staging, which also stars Brandon Jovanovich as the human prince who captures Rusalka’s heart; Katarina Dalayman as Rusalka’s rival, the Foreign Princess; Eric Owens as the Water Sprite, Rusalka’s father; and Jamie Barton as the duplicitous witch Ježibaba.

Length: 180 minutes

Synopsis: https://www.metopera.org/user-information/synopses-archive/rusalka

Jamie Barton as the duplicitous witch Ježibaba

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET

WITH 

DAVE D’AGUANNO

 If you happen to be in the mood for some Mozart, you're in luck, with 2 internet radio broadcasts of 2 of his best-loved operas being scheduled in the coming days. On Friday (September 27), you can listen to a LIVE broadcast from Rome of "Don Giovanni" as transmitted on Radio 3 (RAI), while the "other" Radio 3 (BBC) will be bringing us a July 2019 performance of "The Marriage of Figaro" on Saturday, as heard at the Royal Opera House in London.

("Don Giovanni" - www.radio3.rai.it/)

("Marriage of Figaro" - www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

In addition to the Friday performance of "Don Giovanni," RAI will also be broadcasting on Saturday, offering a June 12, 2019 performance from Turin of Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana."

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

From Vienna, ORF (Austria) will be airing a LIVE broadcast of Dvorak's "Rusalka."

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

At the same time, Swedish Radio has scheduled a LIVE broadcast from Umea of Humperdinck's "Hansel & Gretel."

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

Enjoy!

DAVE 

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NEWS FROM AROUND

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Fab Five

Stars and directors of the Met’s 2019–20 new productions tell us what to expect from these extraordinary theatrical visions.

https://www.metopera.org/user-information/new-production-videos/2019-20-season-new-production-videos/?fbclid=IwAR0_2tHQtnHmvGIN4wEqdEfG_b0GWfTOC5lIScmdxyuPhYBfHyQaRtyYh8M

Why Is American Classical Music So White?

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2019/09/20/762514169/why-is-american-classical-music-so-white?fbclid=IwAR0EKG0pwzOw5c0WRPFqUgDJ5XNdX5IVFXVoVBxz6mQoUniomzBHIwIM3Uo

Performing on Clara Schumann's Own Piano: Four Minutes With Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason

WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon spoke with pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason about performing Clara Schumann on her bicentennial. Sep 13, 2019

 Listen 3 min

https://www.wqxr.org/story/four-minutes-pianist-isata-kanneh-mason/

An Overlooked Sister Imagined in ‘The Other Mozart’

https://www.kdfc.com/culture/the-state-of-the-arts/an-overlooked-sister-imagined-in-the-other-mozart/

Radio / Album of the Week

A Guitarist’s Trip Through Spain and Italy

https://www.kdfc.com/radio/album-of-the-week/sharon-isbin-pacifica-quartet-souvenirs-of-spain-and-italy/

Chapman Challenge: The Story Behind Mozart’s “Bonus” 41st Symphony

https://www.kdfc.com/culture/staff-blog/chapman-challenge-mozart-symphony-jupiter/

California Symphony’s ‘Iconic’ Season Opener

https://www.kdfc.com/culture/the-state-of-the-arts/california-symphonys-iconic-season-opener/

Rachmaninoff’s Overlooked Concerto

https://www.kdfc.com/culture/the-state-of-the-arts/rachmaninoffs-overlooked-concerto/

Plácido Domingo Retires From the Metropolitan Opera

https://operawire.com/placido-domingo-retires-from-the-metropolitan-opera/?fbclid=IwAR2PraPBPnbqvUPgu2JXdPuCt6WH098w1Bej7mQ3NhRHnZngkkf3FyOmaMQ

Met Opera’s Peter Gelb Stands By Plácido Domingo, Questions ‘Veracity’ of Sexual Harassment Allegations

https://operawire.com/met-operas-peter-gelb-stands-by-placido-domingo-questions-veracity-of-sexual-harassment-allegations/?fbclid=IwAR0j4pf8iNO1gHOhvPmIDK-OShHs8oUIqQgjf0MOxE6FnFsiwNRF3EAYv0c

Met Opera Chief: 20 Women's Accusations Against Plácido Domingo 'Not Corroborated'

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/763542627/met-opera-chief-20-womens-accusations-against-pl-cido-domingo-not-corroborated?fbclid=IwAR2PdGoUw-srJ0laCoMsg4xOUuS8ncY1AYKErPiW4g4trMlYqp6yuSdn1I0

Tenors in trouble: Placido Domingo and Vittorio Grigolo

Metropolitan Opera Suspends Vittorio Grigolo

https://operawire.com/metropolitan-opera-suspends-vittorio-grigolo/?fbclid=IwAR3AV1PQPpzT0Zix5SSsLemQVpeklC-t6KTkEbrzxVR-7Y3X9BfZBauTETw

Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo axed from Royal Opera House for ‘onstage grope’

https://amp.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/italian-tenor-vittorio-grigolo-axed-from-royal-opera-house-for-onstage-grope/news-story/fd3d561c35dcf8ffba740919c9b79552?fbclid=IwAR2OeHu9RtL_P4LxgD8VNbVuPzm-v0CN_Oe3nU2TQ_94SONiaXYnsMPA-A8

The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’

It has entertained, and sometimes enraged, generations of audiences. Now the Gershwin classic is opening the Metropolitan Opera’s season.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/arts/music/porgy-bess-gershwin-metropolitan-opera.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Review: Porgy and Bess

Eric Owens, Latonia Moore, Angel Blue Lead A Fantastic Cast In Gershwin Classic On Opening Night

https://operawire.com/metropolitan-opera-2019-20-review-porgy-and-bess/

Opéra National de Paris 2019-20 Review: Madama Butterfly

Robert Wilson’s Production & La Bastille’s Questionable Acoustics Overpower Singers

https://operawire.com/opera-national-de-paris-2019-20-review-madama-butterfly/

New York Philharmonic 2019-20 Review: Kelli O’Hara Sings Barber

https://operawire.com/new-york-philharmonic-2019-20-review-kelli-ohara-sings-barber/

Opéra National de Paris 2019-20 Review: La Traviata

Pretty Yende & Benjamin Bernheim Shine In Simon Stone’s Revelatory Production

https://operawire.com/opera-national-de-paris-2019-20-review-la-traviata/

Antoni Garcia: My Thoughts on Verdi's La Traviata at the Palais Garnier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra3eSGohuig&fbclid=IwAR3AzvjUByKtpSYKDZVq8yi9QpGKiwCK14AmFPuJKCIAJGGGgtESGs7GkCU

Opéra National de Paris 2019-20 Review: I Puritani

Javier Camarena Reigns As The King of Bel Canto

https://operawire.com/opera-national-de-paris-2019-20-review-i-puritani/

Los Angeles Opera 2019-20 Review: La Bohème

Barrie Kosky’s Emphasis on Death Gives Puccini’s Masterpiece New Life

https://operawire.com/los-angeles-opera-2019-review-la-boheme/

Maryland Lyric Opera 2019-20 Review: Il Tabarro / Cavalleria Rusticana

Mark Delevan Triumphs In Both Puccini & Mascagni

https://operawire.com/maryland-lyric-opera-2019-20-review-il-tabarro-cavalleria-rusticana/

Royal Opera House Muscat 2019-20 Review: Carmen

Buoyed By Vibrant Artists, Gianni Quaranta’s Production is Glorious To Behold

https://operawire.com/royal-opera-house-muscat-2019-20-review-carmen/

San Francisco Opera 2019-20 Review: Billy Budd

John Chest Leads A Vibrant Revival Of Britten’s Masterpiece

https://operawire.com/san-francisco-opera-2019-20-review-billy-budd/

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