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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
Saturday, May 23, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, May 24, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, May 25, 2015 @ 12:00am
Saturday, May 23, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, May 24, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, May 25, 2015 @ 12:00am
Offenbach's
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
The magnetic tenor Vittorio Grigolo takes on the tortured poet and unwitting adventurer of the title of Offenbach’s operatic masterpiece, in the Met’s wild, kaleidoscopic production. Hibla Gerzmava, Erin Morley, and Christine Rice sing the three heroines—each an idealized embodiment of some aspect of Hoffmann’s desire. Thomas Hampson portrays the shadowy Four Villains, and Yves Abel conducts the sparkling score.
DURATION: 210 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
Also on
WGBH this week!
Sunday, 1:30pm on WGBH 2
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Good-bye to David Letterman!
Renee Fleming sings the top ten opera lyrics
Have you heard
of…
Yuja Wang wows Vienna with Prokofiev’s concerto No. 2
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(in Russian with English subtitles)
Please click the "captions" button (marked cc or a square icon) on youtube player to see the subtitles.
This 2013 interview was done after the breakup of her relationship with Erwin Schrott. She speaks openly about her life, and is as warm and engaging as ever.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Opera
fans can kick off their upcoming Memorial Day weekend this Saturday (May 23)
with a variety of opera offerings to choose from, one of which is a performance
from last October of "Capriccio" by Richard Strauss and starring
soprano Renee Fleming who's made a name for herself in this opera (among many
others) in the past several years. This particular performance is the first one
of a series of broadcasts on NPR, featuring operas from Lyric Opera of
Chicago's 2014/2015 season.
From
this past April 25, German Radio brings us a performance of Mussorgsky's
"Boris Godunov." It's a production from Darmstadt (Germany).
Also
in the month of April, a series of performances of Halevy's "La
Juive" took place in Antwerp, courtesy of the Flemish Opera. One of these
performances is being broadcast on the Belgian station Klara.
Earlier
this month, the city of Amsterdam saw performances of "Benvenuto
Cellini" by Hector Berlioz. Radio 4 (the Netherlands) will be airing one
of them on Saturday.
Then,
if you happen to be indoors on Memorial Day itself, feel free to listen to BBC
Radio 3 for a broadcast of Gluck's "Orfeo & Eurydice" in a
performance that took place in Glasgow this past February.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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19 life lessons from the world of opera
Got a dilemma at work? Relationship worries?
The great opera composers have an answer for everything. Here are some of the
pearls of wisdom we've picked up from Mozart, Verdi, Wagner et al.
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The Met
Saturday afternoon radio broadcast season is over;
check back here in November.
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Opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
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