Week of October 1 - October 8, 2015

All links are live!

MET-HD Simulcasts return!

This Saturday,

October 3, 2015

1:00pm

at a movie theater near you. 

(See column on right.)

Yonghoon Lee
is
Manrico

Verdi’s

Il Trovatore

Anna Netrebko 

is
Leonora

Welcome back to Dmitri Hvorostovsky!!

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered in the 2008–09 season. This revival stars four extraordinary singers—Anna Newtrebko, Dolora Zajick, Lee Yonghoon, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.

Expected Running time: 2 hours, 45 minutes 

https://www.metopera.org/uploadedFiles/TROVATORE.HD.synopsis.DATES.pdf

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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, October 3, 2015 @ 8:00pm

Sunday, October 4, 2015 @ 3:00am

Monday, October 5, 2015 @ 12:00am  

Les Contes d'Hoffman

Offenbach's

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

The magnetic tenor Vittorio Grigolo takes on the tortured poet and unwitting adventurer of the title of Offenbach’s operatic masterpiece, in the Met’s wild, kaleidoscopic production. Hibla Gerzmava, Erin Morley, and Christine Rice sing the three heroines—each an idealized embodiment of some aspect of Hoffmann’s desire. Thomas Hampson portrays the shadowy Four Villains, and Yves Abel conducts the sparkling score.

DURATION: 210 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

SYNOPSIS: HTTP://WWW.METOPERA.ORG/METOPERA/HISTORY/STORIES/SYNOPSIS.ASPX?CUSTOMID=15

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Ailing Baritone Showered with Roses at Metropolitan Opera Return

Monday, September 28, 2015

By WQXR Staff

Amid emotional scenes, audience and musicians at the Metropolitan Opera House welcomed back Dmitri Hvorostovsky as he takes a pause from treatment for a brain tumor.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/ailing-baritone-showered-roses-metropolitan-opera-return/

Q&A: Sondra Radvanovsky on Tackling Opera's Triple Crown

Saturday, September 26, 2015

By Brian Wise

This season, Radvanovsky is expected to become the first singer in Met history to sing all three of Gaetano Donizetti's Tudor queens.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/sondra-radvanovsky-triple-crown/

The Advantages of Sundays at the Opera

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

By Fred Plotkin

Sunday matinees, if marketed and priced intelligently, might lure back some of the suburban and outer-borough audiences that the Met Opera has lost, writes Fred Plotkin.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/advantages-sundays-opera/

Esa-Pekka Salonen on How Composers Evoke a Sense of Place

Monday, September 28, 2015 - 04:00 PM

By Fred Plotkin

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/esa-pekka-salonen-composers-evoke-sense-place/

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

A LIVE broadcast of Rameau's opera-ballet "Platee" (1745) from Paris comes to us on French Radio this coming Saturday (October 3).

(www.francemusique.fr/)

RAI Radio 3 has a May 23, 3015 performance on the agenda of Bernstein's operetta "Candide" (1956), as performed in Florence.

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

The Belgian station Klara will be broadcasting a recent performance of Wagner's "Tannhauser" from the Flemish Opera in Ghent.

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

And in case you missed it the first time around, Lithuanian composer Onute Narbutaite's "Cornet" -- in its world premiere performance in Vilnius on February 21, 2014 -- gets another airing on Swedish Radio this Saturday.

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

Enjoy!

DAVE

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast season starts again 

December 5.   

(Oh, how will I wait until December??)

Here's the line-up for the Met's 2015/2016 season of Saturday matinee performances being broadcast on the radio:

Dec. 5 - Puccini: BOHEME (Frittoli, Vargas)

Dec. 12 - Verdi: RIGOLETTO (Lucic, Sierra, Beczala)

Dec. 19 - Rossini: DONNA DEL LAGO (DiDonato, Barcellona, Brownlee)

Dec. 26 - Rossini: BARBER OF SEVILLE (Madore, 

Leonard, Stayton)

Jan. 2 - J.Strauss: FLEDERMAUS (Spence, Phillips, Crowe)

Jan. 9 - Donizetti: ANNA BOLENA (Radvanovsky, Barton, Costello, Abdrazakov)

Jan. 16 - Bizet: PEARL FISHERS (Damrau, Polenzani, Kwiecien)

Jan. 23 - Wagner: TANNHAUSER (Botha, Westbroek, DeYoung)

Jan. 30 - Puccini: TURANDOT (Goerke, Berti, Hartig)

Feb. 6 - Mascagni: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Urmana, Lee)

             Leoncavallo: PAGLIACCI (Alagna, Frittoli)

Feb. 13 - Verdi: TROVATORE (Giordani, Meade, Zajick, Hvorostovsky)

Feb. 20 - Donizetti: MARIA STUARDA (Radvanovsky, 

Heever, Albelo)

Feb. 27 - Berg: LULU (Petersen, Reuter, Groves, Graham)

March 5 - Puccini: MANON LESCAUT (Opolais, Kaufmann)

March 12 - Donizetti: DON PASQUALE (Maestri, Buratto, Camarena)

March 19 - Donizetti: L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Grigolo, Kurzak, Corbelli)

March 26 - Mozart: MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Petrenko, Hartig, Willis-Sorensen)

April 2 - Puccini: MADAME BUTTERFLY (Opolais, Alagna)

April 9 - Verdi: SIMON BOCCANEGRA (Domingo)

April 16 - Donizetti: ROBERTO DEVEREUX (Polenzani, Radvanovsky, Garanca)

April 23 - Verdi: OTELLO (Antonenko, Gerzmava, Lucic)

April 30 - R.Strauss: ELEKTRA (Stemme, Pieczonka, Meier)

May 7 - Mozart: ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO (Shugimuratova, Appleby, Kim)

Of course, some of these will also receive simultaneous HD-transmissions at local movie theatres.

 Plus, there will be numerous free LIVE audio-streams of most of these operas, broadcast mid-week.

2 items of interest have been announced on the website of the Bavarian State Opera (Munich) as being video-streamed for free:

 Sunday, Nov. 15 - Boito: MEFISTOFELE (Pape, Calleja, Opolais)

Saturday, Dec. 12 - Prokofiev: FIERY ANGEL (Herlitzius, Nikitin)

(full schedule to be announced in September)

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No opera on 
WGBH this week!