This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, March 28, 2015, 8:00pm
Sunday, March 29, 2015 3:00am
Monday, March 30, 2015 12:00am
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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| Christopher Maltman as Figaro; Lawrence Brownlee as Almaviva |
Great Performances at the Met
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
(The Barber of Seville)
(The Barber of Seville)
In Bartlett Sher’s effervescent production of Rossini’s most popular opera, Isabel Leonard is the beautiful and feisty Rosina, who won’t be kept under lock and key. Lawrence Brownlee is her conspiring flame, Almaviva, and Christopher Maltman is the omnipotent barber, Figaro. Michele Mariotti conducts.
Approximate running time 3 hrs. 0 min.
SYNOPSIS:
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| Isabel Leonard as Rosina
To watch Ms. Leonard and Mr. Maltman rehearse, go to
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The Rabbit of Seville
OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Several
internet radio stations this coming Saturday afternoon (March 28) will be
carrying the LIVE broadcast from the Met of Donizetti's "Lucia di
Lammermoor" with tenor Joseph Calleja in the cast, once again singing the
role of Edgardo which he performed a few seasons back in the HD-transmission of
this opera (with Natalie Dessay as Lucia).
If
you happen to be a Mozart enthusiast, you're in luck this weekend with 2
separate broadcasts on the schedule, one of which is a recent performance from
Amsterdam of "The Magic Flute" to be heard on Radio 4 (the
Netherlands).
The
other Mozart work on the schedule is his earlier singspiel "The Abduction
from the Seraglio" in a LIVE performance from Wiesbaden, to be broadcast
on German Radio.
If
you have a soft spot for 19th century Russian opera, you might want to tune in
to ORF (Austria) for an October 25, 2014 performance from the Bolshoi of
Tchaikovsky's "The Maid of Orleans" -- an opera that should probably
be heard as often as his far more popular "Eugene Onegin" (IMO).
From
Swedish Radio: A LIVE performance from Stockholm of Verdi's "Otello."
As is often the case with operas being performed in Sweden these days, on paper
the cast may not look too impressive with many unfamiliar names, but the
quality of their singing is often top-notch.
If
listening to "Otello" on Saturday doesn't satisfy your longing to
hear the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, the Met is coming to the rescue with 2 more
of his operas, FREE & performed LIVE on their website's audio-stream: next
Monday evening at 6:55 pm, there's "Don Carlo" in its 5-act version.
And if you can't wait till then, tomorrow evening (Thursday) there's
"Ernani" with tenor/baritone Placido Domingo singing the role of
Carlo.
Enjoy!
DAVE
P.S.:
From
La Scala, a recent performance of Mozart's "Lucio Silla" (with
Italian subtitles):
A
performance from Brussels of Wolfgang Rihm's 1978 opera "Jakob Lenz"
is now available for streaming, with subtitles available in either French or
Dutch:
You should be able to access the video anytime
within the next few weeks
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May choirs of angels lead you to your rest.
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A320 plane crash: Opera singers Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak among 150 dead
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| Singing "Ulricht" from Mahler's "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNKtYLJiacw |
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http://www.olegbryjak.com/ |
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Mass and Magnificat
March 28-29, 2015
Antonín Dvořák’s Mass in D major, composed in
1887, was an immediate and lasting success in its orchestrated version. The
Singers will perform Dvořák’s original version for chorus and organ, which was
not published until 1963. Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat (1989), for chorus a cappella,
is a gentle, minimalist work that develops unexpected power and presence. Also
on the program are two works of Felix Mendelssohn (Verleih’ uns Frieden and
Hear My Prayer), Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria, Charles Villiers Stanford’s Te Deum
in B-flat, and John Tavener’s Song for Athene, performed as the recessional at
the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 2015 — Central
Congregational Church, Providence
(Directions)
3 p.m. Sunday, Sunday, March 29, 2015 — St
Mary's Church, Bristol (Directions)
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Saturday afternoon radio broadcast March 28, 2015
12:00 pm ET*
12:00 pm ET*
Donizetti's
Lucia di Lammermoor
Benini;
Shagimuratova, Calleja, Salsa, Miles
*Note earlier starting time
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Leonard Nimoy's Boston http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Leonard-Nimoys-Boston-2672/episodes/-52363 |
No opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
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