All links are live!
The 2015-16 met schedules are here!
The 2015-16 Met Opera Season:
http://www.metopera.org/metopera/season/index.aspx?type=next&sn=st
The 2015-16 MET-HD Schedule:
http://www.metopera.org/metopera/liveinhd/live-in-hd-2015-16-season
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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, February 21, 2015, 8:00pm
Sunday, February 22, 2015 3:00am
Monday, February 23, 2015 12:00am
Great Performances at the Met
Werther
Jonas Kaufmann stars in Richard Eyre's production of Massenet's "Werther," about a poet whose feelings for the fair Charlotte (Sophie Koch) lead him to do the unthinkable, for she has another man on her mind: the honorable Albert (David Bizic).
DURATION: 150 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
WGBH 2
Sunday, February 22,
1:30pm
Great Performances at the Met
Carmen
http://www.metopera.org/metopera/season/synopsis/carmen
A
production of Bizet’s “Carmen,” starring Anita Rachvelishvili in the title
role, a gypsy girl; Aleksandrs Antonenko as the soldier who loves her; and
Ildar Abdrazakov as the bullfighter who comes between them.
http://www.metopera.org/metopera/season/synopsis/carmen
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
On
Saturday afternoon (Feb. 21), the Met's LIVE broadcast of Mozart's
"Don Giovanni" can be heard on most internet radio stations.
More
"adventurous" listeners may want to tune in to some of the other
broadcasts being offered this Saturday. For example, Ernest Reyer's
"Sigurd" -- his most performed opera, believe it or not -- can be
heard on German Radio. It's a performance that took place in Erfurt this past
January 30. It may be worth noting that the plot of this relatively obscure
opera is pretty much the same as that of Wagner's "Siegfried" (Act 3)
and "Die Gotterdammerung" with the title character Sigurd being
simply a variant of the name Siegfried.
Looking
for something even more obscure? How about Gounod's 1877 opera
"Cinq-Mars" which is so seldom performed that no one alive today has
ever heard it (barring one or two arias that sometimes turn up on a few
singers' recital programs)? Well, that situation has been rectified since the
opera was actually performed in its entirety in Munich this past January 25,
and Radio 4 (the Netherlands) is broadcasting that performance.
And if
you missed it last year, Meyerbeer's "Vasco de Gama" (as performed in
Chemnitz) is being re-broadcast on Saturday afternoon. This work is,
in essence, Meyerbeer's final opera "L'Africaine" in its original
form, which includes over an hour's worth of music that was recently discovered
but never actually performed until the performance at hand took place --
bringing the total length of the opera to a Wagnerian (?) four hours-plus!
More
familiar fare is on tap for next Monday (February 23), with BBC Radio
3 bringing us the Royal Opera House performance of Wagner's "The Flying
Dutchman" starring Bryn Terfel. The work is also being televised in movie
theatres throughout Europe, and we can only hope that it will eventually make
its way over to the U.S. at some point in the future.
And
finally (also on Monday), the Met's free LIVE audio-stream is featuring
Bizet's "Carmen" with the same leading two singers -- Elina Garanca
& Roberto Alagna -- who appeared in the HD-transmission of this opera a few
seasons ago.
Enjoy!
DAVE
Handel's
"Alcina" & "Tamerlano" -- yes, both of them! -- will be
available later today for FREE video-streaming.
Both
operas were recently performed in Brussels.
English
subtitles may not be available for either performance.
Here's
the link:
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The Met
The Met
Saturday afternoon radio broadcast
February 21, 2015, 12:30 pm ET
February 21, 2015, 12:30 pm ET
MOZART'S
DON GIOVANNI
Gilbert; van den Heever, Bell, Lindsey, Korchak, Mattei, Pisaroni, Plachetka, Morris
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Opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
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