Week of July 2 - July 9, 2015

All links are live!

Happy 

Independence Day!

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

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

 Saturday, July 4, 2015 @ 8:00pm

Sunday, July 5, 2015 @ 3:00am

Monday, July 6, 2015 @ 12:00am 

Great Performances at the Met

Prince

Igor

Ildar Abdrazakov

Borodin's defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years. Dmitri Tcherniakov's new production is a psychological journey through the mind of its conflicted hero, with the founding of the Russian nation as the backdrop. Star bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov takes on the monumental title role, with Gianandrea Noseda conducting.

8:00 – 11:30* pm (Note extended time)

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WQXR Blog

Pride Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Gay Composers

Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 02:00 PM

By WQXR Staff

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/quiz-know-gay-composers/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed

The Washington Post

‘Gratuitous gang-rape’ scene at the Royal Opera House drowned out by boos

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/06/30/a-gratuitous-gang-rape-at-the-royal-opera-house-was-drowned-out-by-the-booing-audience/?tid=sm_fb

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The Met-HD Summer Encores

GIUSEPPE VERDI

La Traviata

HD ENCORE

THIS WEEK!

WED, JUL 08, 2015 7:00 PM

Natalie Dessay

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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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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

  

With this coming Saturday being the Fourth of July, there might not be too many opera fans sitting by their computers listening to any of the various scheduled broadcasts; nonetheless, there are some potentially wonderful performances on tap for interested listeners, one of which is the LIVE broadcast from Verona of Mozart's "Don Giovanni." This can be heard on Radio 3 (RAI).

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

On BBC Radio 3, a performance from the English National Opera is being aired; the opera is Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades" as performed just last month.

(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

From February 11, 2015 comes a performance on ORF of Bellini's "Norma" with soprano Sondra Radvanovsky singing the title role -- quite wonderfully, in fact, as she did at the Met back in 2013.

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

Verdi's "Aida" is on the schedule for Swedish Radio. It's a March 20, 2015 performance from Malmo.

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

NPR concludes its series of broadcasts from Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2014/2015 season with a November 2014 performance of Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess."

(www.wrti.org/)

And this past Monday's performance by the English Touring Opera Company of Donizetti's "L'Assedio di Calais" is now available for viewing (with French subtitles), here:

http://concert.arte.tv/de/lassedio-di-calais-von-donizetti-beim-armel-opera-festival

The Royal Opera House's production of Mozart’s "Don Giovanni" (directed by

Kaspar Holten and starring Christopher Maltman) will be streamed via YouTube on 3 July

at 7 pm BST (2 pm Eastern).  The cast includes Rolando Villazón as Don

Ottavio, Dorothea Röschmann as Donna Elvira, Simon Bailey as Leporello,

Albina Shagimuratova as Donna Anna, Nahuel di Pierro as Masetto and Julia

Lezhneva as Zerlina.  Alain Altinoglu conducts.

You can check out the trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/royaloperahouse

Enjoy -- & have a safe & happy Fourth of July!

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!

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