October 10 is Giuseppe Verdi's 200th
Birthday
Thank you, Maestro!
*All links below are live
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109,
and Verizon 478)
LE COMTE ORY
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Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, October 12~ 8pm; Sunday, October 13 ~ 3am; Monday, October 14 ~ 12am
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LE COMTE ORY
Rossini's comic "Le Comte Ory" stars Juan Diego Flórez in the title role, a count who competes with his page (Joyce DiDonato) in a trouser role) for the hand of a lonely countess (Diana Damrau).
DURATION:
150 MIN.
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
TIME
Fine Arts
Coming Soon: ‘Breaking Bad’ The Opera
By Charlotte Alter @charlottealter
Oct. 08, 2013
A New York-based symphony House announced plans Monday to develop an opera based on an episode of Breaking Bad.
One World Symphony said the opera would hinge on “Ozymandias,” the third-to-last episode of the hit show. Artistic director Sung Jin Hong wrote on the opera’s website that he still wants suggestions about content and approach. “At this very moment, the details of Breaking Bad — Ozymandias (2014) may not be confirmed, but I hope to explore the question that the drama obsessively and hauntingly asked: ‘are we all breaking bad?’”
Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/08/coming-soon-breaking-bad-the-opera/#ixzz2hFRUlmPc
A New York-based symphony House announced plans Monday to develop an opera based on an episode of Breaking Bad.
One World Symphony said the opera would hinge on “Ozymandias,” the third-to-last episode of the hit show. Artistic director Sung Jin Hong wrote on the opera’s website that he still wants suggestions about content and approach. “At this very moment, the details of Breaking Bad — Ozymandias (2014) may not be confirmed, but I hope to explore the question that the drama obsessively and hauntingly asked: ‘are we all breaking bad?’”
Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/08/coming-soon-breaking-bad-the-opera/#ixzz2hFRUlmPc
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NY's Met Opera to Premiere Golijov Work in 2018-19
NEW YORK October 9, 2013 (AP)
The Metropolitan Opera has commissioned an adaptation of the Euripides play "Iphigenia in Aulis" from composer Osvaldo Golijov and intends to give the long-delayed work its world premiere during the 2018-19 season.
The company originally announced a Golijov commission six years ago in collaboration with the English National Opera and said it tentatively was slated to open in London in 2010.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Anthony Minghella was to write the libretto, and the work was titled "Daedalus," but Minghella died the following year.
By 2010, the project had been pushed back to 2014-15 and was to have focused on the relationship between science and religion.
In addition, the Met said Tuesday it is adding composers Matthew Aucoin, David T. Little, and Joshua Schmid to develop new operas in its joint program with the Lincoln Center Theater. Nico Muhly's "Two Boys" will be the first work from the program to reach the Met when it opens Oct. 21, two years after its premiere at the ENO.
The Met also announced two company premieres of contemporary works.
John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer" will open in 2014-15 in a co-production with the ENO. David Robertson will conduct.
A new Robert Lepage staging of Kaija Saariaho's "L'Amour de Loin" bows in 2016-17 and will be conducted by Susanna Malkki. Saariaho will be the first female composer whose work is heard at the Met since Ethel Smyth's "Der Wald" was performed in 1903. The Met had planned to stage Messiaen's "Saint Francois d'Assise" under Lepage's direction that season but said it deferred when the New York Philharmonic wanted to produce the work. The Met replaced it with "L'Amour," which had been planned for a later season.
Adams' opera was given its world premiere in 1991 and Saariaho's in 2000.
The Met also formally announced it had joined with the Royal Opera and the Salzburg Festival to commission Thomas Ades' "The Exterminating Angel," based on the Luis Bunuel film. It will premiere at Salzburg in 2015, go to London in the spring of 2017 and open at the Met that fall.
NEW YORK October 9, 2013 (AP)
The Metropolitan Opera has commissioned an adaptation of the Euripides play "Iphigenia in Aulis" from composer Osvaldo Golijov and intends to give the long-delayed work its world premiere during the 2018-19 season.
The company originally announced a Golijov commission six years ago in collaboration with the English National Opera and said it tentatively was slated to open in London in 2010.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Anthony Minghella was to write the libretto, and the work was titled "Daedalus," but Minghella died the following year.
By 2010, the project had been pushed back to 2014-15 and was to have focused on the relationship between science and religion.
In addition, the Met said Tuesday it is adding composers Matthew Aucoin, David T. Little, and Joshua Schmid to develop new operas in its joint program with the Lincoln Center Theater. Nico Muhly's "Two Boys" will be the first work from the program to reach the Met when it opens Oct. 21, two years after its premiere at the ENO.
The Met also announced two company premieres of contemporary works.
John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer" will open in 2014-15 in a co-production with the ENO. David Robertson will conduct.
A new Robert Lepage staging of Kaija Saariaho's "L'Amour de Loin" bows in 2016-17 and will be conducted by Susanna Malkki. Saariaho will be the first female composer whose work is heard at the Met since Ethel Smyth's "Der Wald" was performed in 1903. The Met had planned to stage Messiaen's "Saint Francois d'Assise" under Lepage's direction that season but said it deferred when the New York Philharmonic wanted to produce the work. The Met replaced it with "L'Amour," which had been planned for a later season.
Adams' opera was given its world premiere in 1991 and Saariaho's in 2000.
The Met also formally announced it had joined with the Royal Opera and the Salzburg Festival to commission Thomas Ades' "The Exterminating Angel," based on the Luis Bunuel film. It will premiere at Salzburg in 2015, go to London in the spring of 2017 and open at the Met that fall.
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Saturday, November 30, 2013, 7:30 PM, Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul in Providence and Sunday, December 8, 2013, 3:00 PM, Saint Joseph's Church, Newport
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SAVE THE DATE! At the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport
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| La Scala, Milano |
LIVE SIMULCAST: LA SCALA OPENING NIGHT FROM MILAN: LA TRAVIATA ON DECEMBER 7TH AT 1:00PM
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| Diana Damrau |
OVERVIEW:
La Scala officially inaugurates its opera season with an opening night regarded as the European cultural event of the year. This year, La Scala presents Verdi’s beloved work La Traviata, broadcast live! Opening night in Milan is always December 7th. This year it is a Saturday. The opera will shown on our big screen as it is being performed in Milan.
Performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Starring Diana Damrau, Giuseppina Piunti, Mara Zampieri
Conducted by Daniele Gatti
Staging and sets by Dmitri Tcherniakov
New Teatro alla Scala production
December 7, 2013 1:00pm
Running Time: 2 hours 40 minutes intermission included
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
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Some interesting articles
Deborah Voigt: A Soprano Braving the Shoals, Like a Stoical Isolde
http://nyti.ms/GDkBnQ
Eugene Onegin (Met HD) with Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and Mariusz Kwiecień (in title role) is on Youtube
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNxCYow8Rs4&feature=youtube_gdata
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO1ioMg3-B8
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYeOjliMrDI
On Sunday, 6 October, Rolando co-hosted the ECHO Klassik Awards 2013. He was also honored with the 2013 Best Solo Recording Award (Arias/Recital) for his album Villazón Verdi. — ECHO Klassik 2013 (8 photos)
http://www.echoklassik.de/en/klassik-preistraeger-2013/
Listen to James Conlon on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
http://blog.metoperafamily.org/?p=254
TWO BOYS has its Met premiere in less than two weeks
http://twoboys.metoperafamily.org/
Susanna Phillips Graces Vanity Fair For MET Return
http://operafresh.blogspot.com/2013/10/susanna-phillips-graces-vanity-fair-for.html?m=1
The Frenzied Last-Act Effort to Save City Opera
http://nyti.ms/GDk8Tk
http://nyti.ms/GDkBnQ
Eugene Onegin (Met HD) with Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and Mariusz Kwiecień (in title role) is on Youtube
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNxCYow8Rs4&feature=youtube_gdata
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO1ioMg3-B8
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYeOjliMrDI
On Sunday, 6 October, Rolando co-hosted the ECHO Klassik Awards 2013. He was also honored with the 2013 Best Solo Recording Award (Arias/Recital) for his album Villazón Verdi. — ECHO Klassik 2013 (8 photos)
http://www.echoklassik.de/en/klassik-preistraeger-2013/
Listen to James Conlon on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
http://blog.metoperafamily.org/?p=254
TWO BOYS has its Met premiere in less than two weeks
http://twoboys.metoperafamily.org/
Susanna Phillips Graces Vanity Fair For MET Return
http://operafresh.blogspot.com/2013/10/susanna-phillips-graces-vanity-fair-for.html?m=1
The Frenzied Last-Act Effort to Save City Opera
http://nyti.ms/GDk8Tk
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This coming Saturday (October 12) looks like yet another big day for Wagner enthusiasts, with NPR broadcasting "Lohengrin" and TWO stations broadcasting two separate performances of "Tristan & Isolde."
The "Lohengrin" performance is part of NPR's series of broadcasts from the San Francisco Opera's 2012/2013 season, with this particular opera having been mounted a year ago (October 2012).
(www/wrti.org/)
September 28 marks the date of the recent performance of "Tristan & Isolde" which is being offered this weekend on Radio 4 (the Netherlands). It's a broadcast stemming from the Dutch opera company Reiseopera in Enschede.
(www.radio4.nl/)
At the same time, the Belgian station Klara is airing a recent performance of this same opera, this one having taken place in Antwerp as part of the Flemish Opera's 2013/2014 season.
(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)
Another opera of Wagnerian length (though not by Wagner) appears on French Radio's schedule, as Rossini's "William Tell" can be heard, as it was performed this past August in Pesaro as part of this past summer's Rossini Festival. Word is out that the opera was performed absolutely COMPLETE (i.e., with BOTH ballet sequences intact); word is also out that a DVD release is scheduled for (possibly) later this year. With superstar tenor Juan Diego Florez singing the treacherously difficult role of Arnold, diehard Rossini-lovers (and Florez fans, no doubt) will not be deterred by the extreme length of the opera (over 4 hours !!!).
(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)
Finally, an opera of more "reasonable" length -- Verdi's "Falstaff" -- can be heard on Swedish Radio, this particular broadcast being that of a performance that took place this past January 15 at La Scala. Bass-baritone Ambrogio Maestri sings the title role, as he will be doing later this season when the Met televises this same opera as one of its scheduled HD-transmission presentations.
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)
Also, the Met is generously offering TWO free broadcasts this coming week on their LIVE audiostream. On Friday (Oct. 11) you can listen to the premiere performance this season of Benjamin Britten's "Midsummer Night's Dream" -- followed on Monday evening (Oct. 14) by Bellini's "Norma" with soprano Sondra Radvanovsky singing the title role in that one. According to the "buzz" on the internet, Radvanovsky is probably THE Norma of the Century (so far).
(www.metopera.org/)
Enjoy!
DAVE
The "Lohengrin" performance is part of NPR's series of broadcasts from the San Francisco Opera's 2012/2013 season, with this particular opera having been mounted a year ago (October 2012).
(www/wrti.org/)
September 28 marks the date of the recent performance of "Tristan & Isolde" which is being offered this weekend on Radio 4 (the Netherlands). It's a broadcast stemming from the Dutch opera company Reiseopera in Enschede.
(www.radio4.nl/)
At the same time, the Belgian station Klara is airing a recent performance of this same opera, this one having taken place in Antwerp as part of the Flemish Opera's 2013/2014 season.
(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)
Another opera of Wagnerian length (though not by Wagner) appears on French Radio's schedule, as Rossini's "William Tell" can be heard, as it was performed this past August in Pesaro as part of this past summer's Rossini Festival. Word is out that the opera was performed absolutely COMPLETE (i.e., with BOTH ballet sequences intact); word is also out that a DVD release is scheduled for (possibly) later this year. With superstar tenor Juan Diego Florez singing the treacherously difficult role of Arnold, diehard Rossini-lovers (and Florez fans, no doubt) will not be deterred by the extreme length of the opera (over 4 hours !!!).
(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)
Finally, an opera of more "reasonable" length -- Verdi's "Falstaff" -- can be heard on Swedish Radio, this particular broadcast being that of a performance that took place this past January 15 at La Scala. Bass-baritone Ambrogio Maestri sings the title role, as he will be doing later this season when the Met televises this same opera as one of its scheduled HD-transmission presentations.
(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)
Also, the Met is generously offering TWO free broadcasts this coming week on their LIVE audiostream. On Friday (Oct. 11) you can listen to the premiere performance this season of Benjamin Britten's "Midsummer Night's Dream" -- followed on Monday evening (Oct. 14) by Bellini's "Norma" with soprano Sondra Radvanovsky singing the title role in that one. According to the "buzz" on the internet, Radvanovsky is probably THE Norma of the Century (so far).
(www.metopera.org/)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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BLO's 2013/2014 Season
Single tickets are now on sale for Boston Lyric Opera's 2013/2014 Season of all-new productions, including the season opening world premiere new English adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute. This season BLO welcomes an international lineup featuring Sarah Coburn, John Tessier, Emily Hindrichs, Morris Robinson, Caroline Worra, Nadine Sierra, and Music Director David Angus.
Join us for a thrilling season by securing your seats today! Tickets may be purchased online at www.citicenter.org, by phone at 1-866-348-9738, or by visiting the Citi Center box office at the Wang Theatre located at 265 Tremont Street.
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The Met radio broadcast season is
over for now...
check this space the first week
of December.
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK!
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