Week of January 1, 2015 - January 8, 2015

All links are live!

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

Saturday, January 1, 2015, 8:00pm

Sunday, January 2, 2015  3:00am

Monday, January 3, 2015 12:00am

GREAT PERFORMANCES

Don Giovanni 

Don Giovanni

Baritone Mariusz Kwiecien stars as the serial seducer "Don Giovanni," who swaggers his way to eternal damnation in this production of Mozart's 1787 masterpiece, which costars soprano Barbara Frittoli as the fiery Donna Elvira.

DURATION: 180 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

SYNOPSIS: http://www.metopera.org/metopera/season/synopsis/don-giovanni

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Ten Opera-based New Year’s Resolutions

http://www.buzzfeed.com/royaloperahouse/10-opera-based-new-years-resolutions-i4zh

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MET OPERA HD

COMING JANUARY 17!

Lehár’s The Merry Widow—

New Production

January 17, 2015, 12:55 pm ET

U.S. Encore:         Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 6:30 pm local time

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Opera-lovers whose idea of ushering in the New Year may involve some serious (or not-so-serious) opera listening can tune in to the Met's FREE live audio-stream this evening at 6:55 for a performance of Lehar's "The Merry Widow" with soprano Renee Fleming singing the leading role. Or you could wait till the 17th of next month when this same work (& with Ms Fleming in the lead) will be presented as an HD-transmission at area movie theatres. Or you could do both!

(www.metopera.org/)

The Met also has a LIVE performance scheduled for this coming Saturday afternoon (January 3) as they usually do on Saturday afternoons during these bleak winter months. This time around it's Humperdinck's "Hansel & Gretel" which has been known to appeal to adults as well as children. (Of course!)

(www.wrti.org/)

This Saturday also seems to be favorable to those opera buffs who adore the operas of Tchaikovsky, as TWO of his operas will be broadcast. One of them is "The Queen of Spades" which will be broadcast on ORF in a performance from Munich which took place on October 11, 2014.

(http://oe1.orf.at/)

The other opera by Tchaikovsky on Saturday's schedule is one of his less frequently performed works: "The Maid of Orleans." The performance to be heard on Saturday comes to us on Radio 4 (the Netherlands) from the Bolshoi Opera (September 2014).

(www.radio4.nl/)

Keeping the festive spirit going for the coming weekend, French Radio will be presenting Johann Strauss's ever-popular comic opera "Die Fledermaus." It's a performance that took place in Paris this past December 23.

(http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)

Plus, in case you may be about to bemoan the absence of any Italian operas on this Saturday's schedule, you may take solace in knowing that German Radio is broadcasting a performance from Baden-Baden of Bellini's "I Capuleti & I Montecchi" with mezzo Elina Garanca in the trouser role of Rome. The performance itself took place this past November 27.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Happy New Year, everyone!

DAVE

P.S.:

This is something a little different, but fans of Netrebko & Florez may be interested in this YouTube video of a concert performance of Kalman's operetta "The Csardas Princess" as performed last Sunday in Dresden (no subtitles):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTqYn8fEn8

DAVE

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The Met

Saturday afternoon radio broadcast 

Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel

January 3, 2015 1:00 pm ET

Davis; Stober, Rice, Martens, Brubaker, Croft

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