THIS SATURDAY, October 26, 2013, 12:55pm
Live in HD
For instructions on how to attend HD Simulcasts and Encores, scroll down past the weekly listings to the FAQs.
THE NOSE
William Kentridge stormed the Met with his
inventive production of Shostakovich’s opera, which dazzled opera and art
lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010. Now Paulo Szot reprises his
acclaimed performance of a bureaucrat, whose satirical misadventures in search
of his missing nose are based on Gogol’s comic story. Pavel Smelkov conducts.
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WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109,
and Verizon 478)
Great Performances at the Met
Il Trovatore
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Saturday, October 26 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, October 27 -- 3:00am; Monday, October 28 -- 12:00am
Il Trovatore
A production of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," in which brothers (Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky) compete for the affections of the same woman (Sondra Radvanovsky). Dolora Zajick costars as Azucena, the gypsy with a dark secret.
DURATION: 150 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
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Turandot
The
cinema at the Providence Place Mall is going to be showing
Andrei
Serban’s staging of Puccini’s final opera is a glorious pageant of rich colour,
dance and drama."Turandot"
from the Royal Opera House,
October 27, 1:00pm
October 27, 1:00pm
More
Royal Opera broadcasts?
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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
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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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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This coming
Saturday afternoon (October 26), as many of you may already know,
Shostakovich's satirical opera "The Nose" will be shown in area movie
theatres, as it is performed LIVE from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in
New York City. However, those of you who might be more interested in simply
tuning in to your favorite internet radio station will find some very
interesting items on the schedule.
One of the more
interesting items, IMO, would be NPR's offering, as they dig into the archives
and come up with what looks to be a winner: Verdi's "Luisa Miller" in
a San Francisco Opera performance from 1974, featuring soprano Katia Ricciarelli
in the title role and a young Luciano Pavarotti as Rodolfo, 1974 being a year
which, no doubt, found the tenor in his glorious vocal prime!
Fans of soprano Renee
Fleming might want to tune in to ORF (Austria) for a performance from earlier
this month of "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss, in
which she will be singing the part of the Marschallin, partnered by mezzo
Sophie Koch in the role of Octavian. Ms Koch will appear later this season in
the Met's HD-transmission of Massenet's "Werther" opposite tenor
Jonas Kaufmann.
More
"adventurous" listeners might prefer to listen to an October 13, 2013
performance (from Munich) of Paul Hindemith's "Cardillac" (first
given in 1926). If you look closely at the spelling of the work's title, you
will discover that the opera is indeed NOT about someone's expensive and
luxurious means of transportation!
Wonderful opera music
programming even extends into the beginning of next week, as BBC Radio 3 brings
us an archival performance of their own on Monday afternoon: a 1974
performance of Wagner's early opera "Die Feen" ("The
Fairies"), written when the composer was only 20 years old and, needless
to say, later eclipsed by his far better-known works ("Lohengrin"
etc.). Certainly worth checking out, IMO.
Then on Tuesday evening
(Oct. 29) at 7:55 pm, why not treat yourself to another performance of
Puccini's "Tosca" as the Met offers this season's premiere
performance in a LIVE audio-stream? In the cast: soprano Patricia Racette and
tenor Roberto Alagna!
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met radio broadcast season
begins the first week
of December.
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK!
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