Week of April 30 - May 7, 2015

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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)

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET

La Traviata

La Traviata

Soprano Natalie Dessay stars in Willy Decker's stylized production of Verdi's "La Traviata," about a frail courtesan who sacrifices her happiness in order to spare her beloved (Matthew Polenzani) and his family any strife her reputation could cause them.

SEE MORE AIRDATES

Length: 150 

SYNOPSIS: http://www.metopera.org/metopera/season/synopsis/la-traviata?customid=836

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A HYMN TO COAL MINERS WINS THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MUSIC

Interview

Thursday, April 23, 2015

http://www.studio360.org/story/a-hymn-to-coal-miners-wins-the-pulitzer-prize-for-music/

2015 International Opera Awards, Richard Tucker Award Announced

Monday, April 27, 2015 - 01:07 PM

By Brian Wise

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/2015-international-opera-awards-richard-tucker-award-announced/

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

As we near the end of the Met's current radio broadcast season, Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" appears on the schedule for this coming Saturday afternoon (May 2). Tenor Piotr Beczala will be featured in this LIVE performance, along with soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, both of whom appeared in the HD-transmission of this opera a couple of seasons ago.

(www.wrti.org/)

From Berlin: a recent performance of "The Damnation of Faust" by Hector Berlioz, with Joyce Di Donato singing the role of Marguerite (to be heard on Radio 4 - the Netherlands).

(www.radio4.nl/)

For a LIVE performance of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" from the Vienna State Opera, turn to ORF, & you'll be hearing tenor Juan Diego Florez in the role of Ernesto.

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

If Mozart's operas are among your favorites, you actually have two of his masterworks on the schedule this Saturday: "La Clemenza di Tito" can be heard on French Radio in a performance that took place in Paris on December 12 of last year.

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

On the other hand, there's "The Magic Flute" as performed last month in London's Royal Opera House. This one comes to us via the Belgian station Klara.

(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

And if you'd like to "kick-start" your opera-listening this weekend, you may want to check out the Met's FREE live audio-stream on Fridayevening at 7:25 for the premiere performance this season of Stravinsky's 1951 opus "The Rake's Progress."

(www.metopera.org/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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The Met 

Saturday afternoon radio broadcast

May 2, 2015 
1:00 pm

Verdi's

Un Ballo in Maschera

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No Opera on 
WGBH this week!