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Opera Star Joyce DiDonato Will Sing National Anthem at Game 7 (October 29, 2014)
Joyce DiDonato at Carnegie Hall on Sunday. She has performed the national anthem before a Royals game at Kauffman Stadium once before, in 2007.Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times
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This week at a theater near you, in Met-HD:
Saturday, November 1, 2014
1:ooPM
She's back!
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| Anita Rachvelishvili |
CARMEN
Richard Eyre’s mesmerizing production of Bizet’s
steamy melodrama returns with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili singing her
signature role of the ill-fated gypsy temptress. Aleksandrs Antonenko plays her
desperate lover, the soldier Don José, and Ildar Abdrazakov is the swaggering
bullfighter, Escamillo, who comes between them. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the
irresistible score, which features one beloved and instantly recognizable
melody after another.
To hear Anita Rachvelishvili sing "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle,"
"L'amour est un oiseau rebelle"
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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, November 1, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 2, 3:00am
Monday, November 3, 12:00am
the enchanted island
"The Enchanted Island," a Jeremy Sams pasticcio about the war between Prospero and Sycorax from "The Tempest" being interrupted by the four lovers from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," whose honeymoon cruise has shipwrecked on the island.
DURATION: 210 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
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Klinghoffer’: the
aftershocks continue
Was the ‘Klinghoffer’ Premiere an ‘Operatic
Kristallnacht’?
Dispatch
from the scene at—and in—Lincoln Center Monday night
By Judith Miller
'Klinghoffer' opera does not glorify
anti-Semitic violence
Raw, uneasy, complicated and messy: Despite its faults, the Met
Opera’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ is simply not the anti-Semitic bogeyman the
protesters make it out to be.
By Brian Schaefer
| Oct. 22, 2014 | 11:17
AM
The
Death of Klinghoffer Opera: Palestinian Propaganda Masquerading as Art
By Carol Greewald
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-death-of-klinghoffer-opera-palestinian-propaganda-masquerading-as-art/
On ‘The Death of Klinghoffer,’ Justice Ginsburg Finds for
the Defense
By JESS BRAVIN
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Rosie’s Corner
The WQXR Blog
reports that there was a dust-up recently when Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas
asked a woman with an eight-year-old to leave a performance because they were distracting the players and the audience. While there was some question over whether he
had ejected them or just asked them to move, the blogger asks for opinions on the
appropriate age to bring children to concerts. http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/conductor-halts-concert-eject-patron-restless-child/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed
I don’t know if Maestro Tilson Thomas was justified in interrupting his performance to eject the mother and child (if he had his back to the audience as most conductors do, it is likely that they were creating some kind of an audible distraction for him to have become aware of it.) On the other hand, the maestro has a reputation for imperiousness. He once threw a handful of cough lozenges at an audience that was coughing excessively.
I don’t know if Maestro Tilson Thomas was justified in interrupting his performance to eject the mother and child (if he had his back to the audience as most conductors do, it is likely that they were creating some kind of an audible distraction for him to have become aware of it.) On the other hand, the maestro has a reputation for imperiousness. He once threw a handful of cough lozenges at an audience that was coughing excessively.
There are different ways to teach children about music. Sadly, nowadays, many schools have lost their music education programs. I started with daily singing using rhythm instruments in first grade and listening to the weekly Standard School Broadcast in school sponsored by Standard Oil of California. http://www.originaloldradio.com/standard_school_broadcast.html
It is a pity that so many children are not exposed to classical music, for I believe it helps with discipline for children to have the opportunity to sing, or play an instrument in a band. Furthermore, studies have shown that children who are engaged in learning an instrument are less likely to get into trouble.
It is a pity that so many children are not exposed to classical music, for I believe it helps with discipline for children to have the opportunity to sing, or play an instrument in a band. Furthermore, studies have shown that children who are engaged in learning an instrument are less likely to get into trouble.
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| Rosie & Kenny c. 1970 |
In the time before cell phones and computers, my daughter--now an avid opera fan-- grew up with older siblings who were string players; her earliest memories are of being babysat by an older brother (who later graduated from Juilliard) endlessly practicing his cello. Family parties before she was old enough to talk included her siblings’ musician friends playing their instruments. At four, she improvised her sister’s violinist’s stance using a rectangular bread board and a pencil. At five, she saw her first opera (Placido Domingo's and Teresa Stratas’s Carmen on screen). Our house had a twelve-foot wall with shelves of phonograph records. There was always music in our house however, most people don’t grow up surrounded by classical music.
Electronic gadgets and social media have made it
possible for us to hear all kinds of music non-stop but we have not solved the
problem of how to optimize classical music education in a time of
belt-tightening. Audiences are graying. Unless we turn this trend around,
classical music will be relegated to a smaller and smaller audience. If people
don’t attend concerts and buy recordings, classical musicians will not be able
to enhance our lives with their audible beauty.
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Sunday, November 2, at 8PM (11 PM ET)
On KDFC
Madame Butterfly by Giacomo
Puccini
Puccini's heartbreaking tale of innocence, betrayal and sacrifice returns in a bold and beautiful production by Jun Kaneko, designer of San Francisco Opera's dazzling production of The Magic Flute (2012). Patricia Racette heads a superb cast including Elizabeth DeShong, Brian Jagde, and Brian Mulligan.
Puccini's heartbreaking tale of innocence, betrayal and sacrifice returns in a bold and beautiful production by Jun Kaneko, designer of San Francisco Opera's dazzling production of The Magic Flute (2012). Patricia Racette heads a superb cast including Elizabeth DeShong, Brian Jagde, and Brian Mulligan.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Thanks to New York
City's Metropolitan Opera Company, there are 3 potentially wonderful operatic
performances being offered for us to enjoy in the coming week. Of the three,
most opera-goers will probably be mainly attracted to the LIVE HD-transmission this
Saturday afternoon (November 1) of Bizet's "Carmen." On the other
hand, the other 2 items are FREE on your computer, the first of which will be
taking place tomorrow evening (October 30) at 7:25, when the
Met's free live audio-stream will carry the premiere performance this season of
Verdi's "Aida." Then, on Monday (November 3), it's Mozart's
"The Magic Flute."
Other Saturday highlights
include the July 14, 2014 performance from London's Royal Opera House of
Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" with none other than Joyce Di Donato once
again singing the title role as she did recently in the
Met's HD-transmission, but with a different supporting cast.
"Ottone in
Villa" -- Antonio Vivaldi's very first opera, premiered in 1713 -- can be
heard on Radio 4 (the Netherlands) in a performance that took place in
Copenhagen on July 31 this past summer.
Besides the Met's
broadcast of "The Magic Flute" taking place next Monday, there's
more Mozart on tap, as French Radio brings to the "airwaves" a
performance from Paris of "The Abduction from the Seraglio." It's a
broadcast of this past Friday evening's performance.
Moving ahead to 21st
century opera, David DiChiera's 2007
opera "Cyrano" (based on you-know-what) comes to us on NPR in its
world premiere performance from Michigan (10/13/07).
The BBC, on the other
hand, is going even farther back than 2007, as "The Egyptian Helen"
by Richard Strauss appears on their schedule for this coming Monday in
a rare recording that was taped in May 1979. Former dramatic soprano Gwyneth
Jones sings the lead role in this one.
Swedish Radio also has a
broadcast from the past on its schedule for this Saturday, the opera in
question being "Samson & Dalila" (by Saint-Saens), and the
performance took place at the Met on April 18, 1987, with tenor Jon
Vickers as Samson, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne as Dalila, & baritone Louis
Quilico as the High Priest -- many people, no doubt, would consider this a
dream cast for this wonderful opera!
Enjoy!
DAVE
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Saturday afternoon radio broadcast
resumes December 6.
Rossini's Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
December 6, 2014 12:00 pm ET
Mariotti; Leonard, Brownlee, Maltman, Muraro, Burchuladze
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