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FAUST
Great Performances at the Met
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Saturday, November 30 -- 8pm; Sunday, December 1 -- 3am; Monday, December 22 -- 12:00am
Faust
DURATION: 210 MIN
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A Thanksgiving Aria for You
HANDEL'S MESSIAH IS COMING!
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It is wonderful to see that Villazon has climbed back from that delibilitating and nearly career-ending malady. Welcome back, Rolando! Click on the link for the review with several pictures.
Metropolitan Opera 2013-14 Review - Eugene Onegin: Peter Mattei, Marina Poplavskaya, Rolando Villazon Triumph in Revival
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from Renée Fleming's Facebook page:
Very excited to announce that I will be a part of the
91st Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting on Friday, December 6th in
Washington, D.C. The ceremony’s line-up will feature performances from me,
Aretha Franklin, Joshua Bell, The Avett Brothers, Janelle Monáe, Train, and
more. You can stream the event live at http://www.thenationaltree.org/.
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SAVE THE DATE! At the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport
DECEMBER 7TH AT 1:00PM
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| La Scala, Milano |
LIVE SIMULCAST FROM MILAN:
LA SCALA OPENING NIGHT:
LA TRAVIATA
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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G.F. Handel: Messiah | December 7, 2013
The Providence Singers and the Rhode Island Philharmonic first collaborated for Messiah in December 2007. Seven years later, the December performance of Handel’s masterwork is a growing part of the city’s holiday performance traditions. Francisco Noya conducts, with soloists Martha Guth, soprano; Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Hutchinson, tenor; and Matthew Burns, bass-baritone.
The Providence Singers and the Rhode Island Philharmonic first collaborated for Messiah in December 2007. Seven years later, the December performance of Handel’s masterwork is a growing part of the city’s holiday performance traditions. Francisco Noya conducts, with soloists Martha Guth, soprano; Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Hutchinson, tenor; and Matthew Burns, bass-baritone.
7 p.m. Saturday, December 7, 2013, at The Vets
OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
There's an interesting array of diverse operas on the schedule for this coming Saturday (November 30) on internet radio, with the offering being presented on German Radio easily earning the title of Obscure Opera of the Week: It's "Schahrazade" (1917) by Bernhard Sekles, and it's being broadcast LIVE from Halle. Those opera-lovers who may be interested in checking out this opera had better do it this Saturday, as I have a sneaking suspicion that you won't be seeing it as an HD-transmission from the Met any time soon (although I COULD be wrong, I suppose).
More German operas can be heard as well, one of them being what many people consider to be a 20th century masterpiece: Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" as performed recently in London (the Royal Opera House), with an impressive cast, to be sure, with baritone Simon Keenlyside singing the title role and soprano Karita Mattila as Marie. (This one will be broadcast on Monday afternoon, Dec. 2.)
Wagner's "Die Gotterdammerung" also gets broadcast this weekend. It's on Radio 4 (the Netherlands), and is a LIVE performance from Amsterdam.
If "Die Gotterdammerung" doesn't happen to be one of your favorite Wagner operas, you could listen in to this week's offering on NPR, as an April 2013 performance from Houston Grand Opera is broadcast, the opera in question being "Tristan & Isolde." The soprano in that performance is Nina Stemme.
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Nina Stemme may also be heard in a LIVE performance of "Salome" (by Richard Strauss), via Swedish Radio, direct from Stockholm.
One more LIVE performance this Saturday worth mentioning is the one featured on ORF's schedule: Mozart's "The Magic Flute," as performed by the Vienna State Opera.
"Die Frau ohne Schatten" can be seen LIVE from Munich on Sunday afternoon (Dec. 1). English subtitles are usually available for the video-streams from Munich.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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Parterre Box, an opera blog, is reporting that Anna Netrebko's split with Irwin Schrott is official. The lady is single.
http://parterre.com/2013/11/25/single-lady/comment-page-1/#comments
Set your DVRs for a special
RI Public Television Broadcast
8:00pm, Saturday, December 21st
*SILENT NIGHT - This opera recounts the true story of the World War I Christmas Eve truce. For one magical evening on December 24, 1914, French, German and British soldiers laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration reflecting the peace, fellowship and humanity of the season. Based on the Academy Award-nominated film Joyeux Noel, this two-act production was commissioned by the Minnesota Opera and premiered in November 2012 to national acclaim, including a Pulitzer Prize for Music for composer Kevin Puts. With a libretto by Mark Campbell, "Silent Night" is sung in French, English, German, Italian and Latin with English subtitles.
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COMING--
SATURDAY, December 14, 2013, 12:55pm
Live in HD
FALSTAFF
An undisputed master of Verdi's final comic masterpiece, James Levine conducts Robert Carsen's acclaimed production, the first new Met Falstaff since 1964. Ambrogio Maestri sings the role of the blustery Sir John Falstaff, opposite a marvelous ensemble cast.
and
Watch James Levine and the company rehearse Falstaff
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FINALLY!!
The Met radio broadcast season
begins December 7.
Verdi's Rigoletto
December 7, 2013 12:30 pm ET
Heras-Casado; Yoncheva, Volkova, Polenzani, Hvorostovsky, Kocàn
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK!
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