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~ALL LINKS ARE LIVE~
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, April 12 -- 8:00pm; Sunday, April 13 -- 3:00am; Monday, April 14 -- 12:00am
Faust
A production of Gounod's "Faust" updates the story to the mid-20th century, with Faust (Jonas Kaufmann) now a nuclear scientist who strikes a deal with the devil (René Pape) in order to win the affections of a young woman (Marina Poplavskaya).
DURATION: 210 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
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COMING in Met HD on April 27, 2014
Così fan tutte
Music Director James Levine makes his long-awaited return
to the Met podium to conduct Mozart’s beloved opera about testing the ties of
love. The cast is filled with youthful Met stars: Susanna Phillips and Isabel
Leonard are the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, Matthew Polenzani and Rodion
Pogossov are their lovers, with Danielle de Niese as the scheming Despina.
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| Maestro James Levine |
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Two stories from the Met this week: It's been a good
news/bad news week--
Soprano Debuts in 2 Met Opera Roles Within Day
Operatic
Drama Swells in Labor Talks at the Met
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Rhode Island Civic Chorale Chamber Choir:
Intimate Songs of the Heart
Sunday, April 27, 2014 3:00 PM, Redwood Library and Athenaeum: 50 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI 02840
Sunday, May 4, 2014 7:00 PM, First Baptist Church in America: 75 North Main Street Providence, RI 02903
Featuring the music of Bolcom, Brahms and Lauridsen
Tickets are $12 at the door. Call (401) 521-5670 to reserve.
Note: tickets will not be sold for the Sunday May 4, 2014 concert.
A free will offering will be taken.
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COMING SOON!
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COMING SOON!
ELIJAH
Felix Mendelssohn’s Masterpiece
Dear Friends,
Please join us on Saturday, May 17, 2014 at 7:30 PM for our next concert at the Cathedral of Sts. Peter & Paul, Providence. We invite you to hear our presentation of Felix Mendelssohn’s masterpiece, Elijah, featuring our chorus, orchestra, four distinguished, internationally acclaimed soloists and members of the Chorus of the Community College of RI, Dr. Joseph Amante, Conductor. Completed in 1846, one year before his untimely death, Mendelssohn had begun work on the oratorio ten years earlier, but it might never have been written except for the close ties he had with the English musical community. He established that relationship in 1829 when, at the age of 20, he visited London as both pianist and composer. The success of his St. Paul, in 1836, prompted Mendelssohn to contemplate another oratorio. In 1845, the director of the Birmingham Music Festival proposed that Mendelssohn write a new oratorio for presentation the following year. Large choral works such as oratorios were staples at the festival. He went to England himself to conduct the work, presented in a quickly written English translation (later revised). The performance provided one of the great triumphs of his career and ensured Elijah’s position as one of the great oratorios of the 19th century. Elijah has no unbroken narrative thread but is, rather, a series of tableaux depicting scenes from the prophet’s life interspersed with prayers or prayer-like meditations. Mendelssohn described the process this way, “With a subject such as Elijah, the dramatic must predominate…and the contemplative, moving aspect…must be conveyed through the words and moods of the characters.” Dramatic scenes, such as God’s appearance to the prophet, provide many of the musical highpoints, and the opportunity to set these events to music was what most attracted Mendelssohn to the subject of Elijah. I will, in future notes leading up to our performance on May 17, comment on various aspects of Mendelssohn’s great oratorio and his religious beliefs, as well as include short bios of our wonderful solo artists: Diana McVey, Soprano; Teresa Buchholz, Mezzo-soprano; Kirk Dougherty, Tenor and Stephen Bryant, Bass-baritone, who portrays the title role.
Stephen Bryant, Elijah
My association with my good friend and colleague, Stephen Bryant, goes back to our graduate school days at the University of Michigan. Since then, Stephen has gone on to have a stellar career as a performer here and abroad and a much sought-after voice teacher. His distinguished career in opera Stephen Bryanthas taken him around the world, with acclaimed performances in the US, Europe and Asia. He has sung with the New York City Opera and the Santa Fe Opera, and with orchestras such as the New York and Japan Philharmonics. He was nominated for a Grammy® in 2009 for "Best Opera Recording" in Tan Dun's Marco Polo. He has performed roles such as Colline in La Bohème, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Figaro in La Nozze di Figaro. Recent concert appearances include Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra; Handel’s Messiah with the Indianapolis Symphony and Pittsburgh Symphony; Mozart’s Requiem with Princeton Pro Musica; and Verdi’s Requiem with the Washington National Opera Orchestra under the auspices of the Defiant Requiem Foundation.
On the opera stage he has appeared in numerous roles with New York City Opera, most recently in productions of A Quiet Place and Intermezzo during the 2010-11 Season. Other opera performances include Mr. Gobineau in The Medium at the Spoleto Festival USA; Robert Gonzales in Stewart Wallace’s Harvey Milk and the Bonze in Madama Butterfly with San Francisco Opera; Capulet in Roméo et Juliette with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Michigan Opera Theatre, Chautauqua Opera, and Toledo Opera; George Milton in Of Mice and Men with Arizona Opera; and Indiana Elliot’s Brother in Thomson’s The Mother of Us All with Santa Fe Opera.
Mr. Bryant holds a Master's degree from the University of Michigan, and is on the voice faculty at William Paterson University.
I hope to see you at our concert on May 17. This will be the RI Civic Chorale & Orchestra’s first performance of Elijah since the spring of 1987. I promise you a spectacular evening!
Yours truly,
Edward
Edward Markward, Music Director
Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra
The Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra
ELIJAH
Edward Markward, Music Director
Diana McVey, Soprano
Teresa Buchholz, Mezzo-soprano
Kirk Dougherty, Tenor
Stephen Bryant, Bass-baritone as Elijah
Members of
Chorus of CCRI
Dr, Joseph Amante, Conductor
Saturday, May 17, 2014
7:30 PM
Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul
Providence, RI
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
New York's Metropolitan Opera has two LIVE opera
broadcasts lined up for opera fans in the days ahead. Actually, the first of
the two takes place this evening at 7:25 with the broadcast of Puccini's
"Madame Butterfly" in their FREE live audio-stream.
This Saturday afternoon (April 12), the LIVE broadcast
from the Met will be Giordano's most famous opera "Andrea Chenier"
with a cast which includes tenor Marcelo Alavrez in the title role, soprano
Patricia Racette as Maddalena, and baritone Zeljko Lucic as Gerard. All three
singers will be familiar to those of us who have been regular patrons of the
Met's HD-transmissions over the past several years.
Another LIVE broadcast -- this one from the Vienna
State Opera via ORF -- is Wagner's "Lohengrin." If you happen to be a
big fan of this particular opera, you might want to consider this broadcast to
be an audio preview of the video which is scheduled to be streamed LIVE on
Friday, April 25, with the same cast. (N.B. The Vienna State Opera charges a
fee for their video-streams.)
Back in 1651, composer Francesco Cavalli made operatic
history with his mythology-inspired opera "La Calisto." It is this
work which will be aired on German radio, the performance itself having been
given in Wiesbaden on March 8 of this year.
(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
Moving ahead nearly 100 years, Rameau's
"Platee" (premiered in 1745) can be heard in a performance from Paris
that took place on March 20, 2014.
For those whose interest in operas might be of a more
recent vintage, there's Shostakovich's wildly dramatic "Lady Macbeth of
the Mtensk District" which the Belgian station Klara has scheduled for
this Saturday. The opera (which many consider to be one of the greatest of the
20th century) was performed recently in Antwerp by the Flemish Opera Company.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met
Saturday afternoon radio broadcast
Giordano's
ANDREA CHENIER
April 12, 2014 1:00 pm ET
Nozeda; Racette, Alvarez, Lucic
Synopsis:
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NO OPERA ON WGBH TV
THIS WEEK!
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