The new Google/Alphabet arrangement may make it
impossible to continue doing this blog.
I'll see if I
can get things cleared up by next week.
Have a good week!
Rosie
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, August 15, 2015 @ 8:00pm
(ends at 11:30 pm)
Sunday, August 16, 2015 @ 3:00am
(ends at 6:30 am)
Monday, August 17, 2015 @ 12:00am
(ends at 3:30 am)
May he return to good health quickly!
Watch: Opera Singer Performs During His Own
Brain Surgery
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
By
Brian Wise
Joined
by a pianist in the operating room, tenor Ambroz Bajec-Lapajne delivers the
first and last couplets of Schubert's "Gute Nacht" while undergoing
surgery.
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The Eternal Appeal of Mozart's 'The Magic
Flute'
Monday, August 10, 2015
By Fred Plotkin
"The Magic Flute" is a
bread-and-butter opera that audiences seem glad to return to or buy tickets for
if they have never heard it. Fred Plotkin considers its staying power.
Review: Ravishing 'Written on Skin' Delivers
Creepy Violence But to What End?
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
By David Patrick Stearns
George Benjamin's opera Written on Skin
arrived with many international endorsements but Operavore critic David Patrick
Stearns was not among the enraptured at Tuesday's opening.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
The most popular operas are, for the most
part, conspicuous by their absence on internet radio this coming Saturday (August
15). For example, German Radio is presenting Georg Philip Telemann's 1704 opera
"Germanicus" which was believed lost until 45 arias (!!!) were
recently discovered in Frankfurt, Germany. In any case, the performance being
broadcast is one that was heard in Osnabruck on June 20of this year.
Opera fans may be familiar with the operas of
Hector Berlioz, in large part due to the Met's HD-transmissions of "Les
Troyens" and "The Damnation of Faust." In 2003, the Met even
broadcast his earlier opera "Benvenuto Cellini" over the airwaves
with tenor Marcello Giordani in the title role. However, the later opera
"Beatrice & Benedict" (based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado
About Nothing") is a comparative rarity, so the performance on Swedish
Radio of this work is to be welcomed. Sung in Lidkoping, the performance in
question took place last month.
Nearly 25 years ago, the Met offered the world
premiere of John Corigliano's "The Ghosts of Versailles" which was
performed again as recently as this past February, and so, it turns up on NPR
as part of their series of operas from the 2014/2015 season of Los Angeles
Opera. Two of the singers who appeared in the recent HD-transmission of
Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" can be heard in this broadcast: soprano
Patricia Racette as Marie Antoinette and baritone Lucas Meachem as Figaro.
Donizetti enthusiasts will have no need to be
encouraged by me to check out the video on Sunday afternoon of his
opera "Poliuto" in a performance that was taped in Glyndebourne just
last month. (Last Sunday's performance of Britten's "The Rape of
Lucretia" is still available for viewing at this time.)
And if you missed last Monday's broadcast of
Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra" from Pesaro, you can hear it via a YouTube
video which some kind soul uploaded late last night. This same wonderful person
also uploaded videos of tenor Juan Diego Florez's recent concert in Salzburg,
as well as the Bayreuth "Tristan & Isolde" and several other
tantalizing items.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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We can always tell when WGBH is fund-raising!
WGBH2
Sunday, August 16, 2015
9pm
Great Performances
Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages Preview
Enjoy highlights from the career of celebrated
Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007). Watch him perform "Nessun
dorma"; arias from "La Bohème," "Rigoletto," and
"Aida"; "Mamma"; "O Sole Mio"; and duets with
Bono, Eric Clapton, Sting, and Vanessa Williams.
The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast season is over;
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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They were so accommodating and I was truly impressed. It is such a comfortable environment. For a buffet, it was delicious food at event halls in Philadelphia. Alcoholic beverages were also great.
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