Week of May 7 - May 14, 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)

Only
Saturday, 8:00 pm
Monday, 12:00 am

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Soprano Annette Dasch stars as the goldsmith's daughter whose hand can be had for a song in Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg." Tenor Johan Botha costars as the visiting knight who falls in love with her at first sight. James Levine conducts.

Duration: 300 minutes (5 hours) 

Prepare sandwiches...

Synopsis: http://www.metopera.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?customid=61

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

The final LIVE broadcast of the Met's 2014/2015 season will take place this coming Saturday (May 9) with a performance of Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" which can be heard on several internet radio stations.

(www.wrti.org/)

However, the Met is offering one more FREE live broadcast on their website's audio-stream. If you tune in tomorrow evening (Thursday) at7:25, you can hear Lehar's "Merry Widow" with Susan Graham replacing Renee Fleming in the title role.

(www.metopera.org/)

There are, unfortunately, only a few broadcasts (other than the Stravinsky opera from the Met) worth noting on other internet radio stationsthis Saturday, one of them being the broadcast of a recent performance (March 2015) from Lausanne, Switzerland, of Rossini's early opera "Tancredi."

(www.radio4.nl/)

French Radio brings us a June 2014 performance from the Vienna State Opera of Janacek's "The Cunning Little Vixen."

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

On the Belgian station Klara, you can hear once again a performance from Liege of Otto Nicolai's most popular opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The performance being broadcast took place this past February.

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

Enjoy!

DAVE

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The Met 

Saturday afternoon radio broadcast

May  9, 2015 
1:00 pm

Stravinsky's

The Rake's Progress

The last broadcast of the season!
Listen for the new radio season in December. 

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No Opera on 
WGBH this week!