Week of July 16 - July 23, 2015

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Great Performances at the Met

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

 Saturday, July 18, 2015 @ 8:00pm

Sunday, July 19, 2015 @ 3:00am

Monday, July 20, 2015 @ 12:00am 

AND

Opera on WGBH this week!

Sat. Jul 18 at 1:00 AM           WGBH 2

IOLANTA/
BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE

Enjoy an operatic double bill. Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta" features Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala. Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle" features Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko. Valery Gergiev conducts both operas.

SYNOPSIS and REVIEW:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/arts/music/bluebeards-castle-and-iolanta-open-at-the-met.html?_r=0

The Many Trees of Opera

By Fred Plotkin

Friday, July 10, 2015  

  

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/many-trees-opera/

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The Met-HD Summer Encores

GAETANO DONIZETTI

La Fille du Régiment

HD ENCORE

WED, JUL 15, 2015 7:00 PM

Natalie Dessay

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FRANZ LEHÁR

The Merry Widow

HD ENCORE

WED, JUL 22, 2015 7:00 PM

Renee Fleming and Nathan Gunn

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GIUSEPPE VERDI

Aida

HD ENCORE

WED, JUL 29, 2015 7:00 PM

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Cellist's Bow is Damaged in Airport Mishap

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 12:00 PM

By Brian Wise

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/269292-cellists-bow-damaged/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

NPR begins its series of broadcasts of operas that were performed this past season at the Los Angeles Opera with a taped performance from last September of Verdi's "La Traviata." Versatile tenor/baritone Placido Domingo takes on the role of the elder Germont in this particular production.

(www.wrti.org/)

German Radio has a rarity on hand for this coming Saturday: "La Purpura de la Rosa" ("The Blood of the Rose"), a 1701 opera by Tomas Velasco. The performance being broadcast is one that took place in Potsdam on June 23 of this year.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

Moving into opera from the 20th century, there are 2 offerings worth noting, one of which is Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" which was performed in Bologna on December 4, 2014, coming to us via Radio 3 (RAI).

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

The other 20th century work is Janacek's "The Makropulos Case" which can be heard on Swedish Radio in a performance from Brno (November 21, 2014).

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

If you happen to be a Mozart enthusiast, you're "in business" since there are 2 of his operas coming up in the days ahead. On Saturday, there's a broadcast from Munich (May 3, 2015) to be heard on ORF (Austria), the work in question being "La Finta Semplice" ("The Feigned Simpleton") which Mozart wrote when he was all of 12 years old (!!!).

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

Then, on Sunday, Glyndebourne Opera is offering a FREE live video-stream of "The Abduction from the Seraglio." (Later this summer: videos of Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia" & Donizetti's "Poliuto").

(http://www.glyndebourne.com/tickets-and-whats-on/events/2015/die-entfuhrung-aus-dem-serail/#tab-cinema)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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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!