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All links are live!
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, June 6, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, June 7, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, June 8, 2015 @ 12:00am
otello
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| Johan Botha is Otello |
Verdi’s towering masterpiece, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy, makes its first Live in HD appearance. Semyon Bychkov conducts an extraordinary cast led by Johan Botha in the title role of the jealous Moor of Venice, opposite Renée Fleming in one of her greatest roles, Otello’s innocent wife Desdemona. Falk Struckmann sings Iago, Otello’s disloyal ensign, and Michael Fabiano is the captain Cassio.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=18
Duration: 185 min.
To hear a clip from the October 5, 2012 performance, click on
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| OTELLO Susan Herbert: The Catropolitan Opera |
MUSIC AND VERSE
Three views--
Have Projected Titles Really Been Good For Opera?
Friday, May
29, 2015 - 12:00 PM
By Fred
Plotkin, WQXR Operavore
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/have-projected-titles-really-been-good-opera/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed
Projected Titles Have Helped to Save Opera,
Says Dramaturg
Monday, June 01, 2015 - 05:00 PM
By Brian Wise
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/projected-titles-have-saved-opera-says-dramaturg/ |
| Stephanie Blythe and accompanist, Warren Jones |
Should Vocal Recitalists Stop Providing Printed
Translations of Songs?
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 11:40 AM
By Fred Plotkin
14 conductors eating invisible
food
So, conductors sometimes look like they're
eating stuff. Nachos, sandwiches, cheese and more. Enjoy.
SINGERS MOURN A SUPPORTIVE MET TENOR
June 1, 2015 by norman lebrecht
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
An interesting variety of offerings on the
internet this weekend!
Opera lovers who just can't get enough of
Puccini's "La Boheme" (who can blame them?) will, however, have to
wait till Monday (June 8), but with soprano Anna Netrebko as Mimi and tenor
Joseph Calleja as Rodolfo in a LIVE performance from London's Royal Opera
House, it should certainly be worth the wait!
One of the masterpieces of Danish opera --
Carl Nielsen's "Saul & David" (1902) -- can be heard this
Saturday on ORF. The opera, based on a chapter in the Book of Samuel involving
Saul's jealousy of the young David, comes to us in a performance from
Copenhagen that took place on May 3.
The Belgian station Klara is broadcasting a
recent (May 2015) performance of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale." With
tenor Juan Diego Florez singing the role of Ernesto, the opera was performed to
great acclaim at the Vienna State Opera.
Then there's Donizetti in a serious vein
coming to us on NPR. Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky takes the leading role in
"Anna Bolena" in a December 2014 performance from Lyric Opera of
Chicago. The performance also features tenor Bryan Hymel as Percy and
bass-baritone John Relyea as Henry VIII. As many of you may know, Ms
Radvanovsky will be singing this same role at the Met in the upcoming 2015/1016
season.
Ernest Chausson's intensely dramatic opera
"Le Roi Arthus" (as recently performed in Paris) can be heard on
Radio 4 (the Netherlands) with an all-star cast: baritone Thomas Hampson as
King Arthur, tenor Roberto Alagna as Lancelot, & mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch
as Guinevere. In fact, a FREE video of last night's performance of this work is
soon to become available on Culture Box.
audio: (www.radio4.l/)
This coming Saturday afternoon (June
6), you can watch a free LIVE video performance of Berg's "Lulu"
direct from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. (English subtitles available)
Then on Sunday (June 7), the new
website -- the Opera Platform -- will be offering a free LIVE video performance
of Wagner's "Die Gotterdammerung" from the Vienna State Opera (with
English subtitles available). And this one should be available for viewing for
several weeks afterwards.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met
Saturday afternoon radio broadcast season is over;
check back here in November.
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No Opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
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