Week of September 17 - September 24, 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, September 19, 2015 @ 8:00pm

Sunday, September 20, 2015 @ 3:00am

Monday, September 21, 2015 @ 12:00am  

Great Performances at the Met

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

The Mastersinger of Nurnberg  

Soprano Annette Dasch stars as the goldsmith's daughter whose hand can be had for a song in Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg." Tenor Johan Botha costars as the visiting knight who falls in love with her at first sight. James Levine conducts.

Length: 300

Approximate running time 5 hrs. 0 min.

SYNOPSIS:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/21/guide-wagner-die-meistersinger-nurnberg

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When Opera Singers Work the Worship Circuit

Monday, September 14, 2015 - 02:00 PM

By Fred Plotkin

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/when-opera-singers-work-worship-circuit/

For Opera Lovers, London Beckons with Creative Energy

Wednesday, September 09, 2015

By Fred Plotkin

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/opera-lovers-london-beckons-creative-engergy/

The Eternal Appeal of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'

Monday, August 10, 2015

By Fred Plotkin

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/eternal-appeal-mozarts-magic-flute/

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

The Met's 2015/2016 season kicks off this coming Monday evening at 6:25 with a performance of Verdi's "Otello" which will be available as a FREE live audio-stream. Tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko (recently seen in HD as Don Jose in Bizet's "Carmen") takes on the title role.

(www.metopera.org/)

Before that, however, there's plenty of opera -- something for everybody, in fact -- scheduled for broadcast on Saturday (September 19). On BBC Radio 3, it's Gilbert & Sullivan time with a transmission of the August 23, 2015 performance of "HMS Pinafore" (Scottish Opera).

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

Comic opera of a decidedly different sort comes to us via Radio 4 (the Netherlands) with a LIVE performance from Amsterdam of one of Richard Strauss's most popular works: "Der Rosenkavalier."

(www.radio4.nl/)

In a far more serious vein, however, there's Giovanni Simone Mayr's 1813 opera "Medea in Corinto" as performed this past July 30 in Martina Franca. As many of you know, Mayr was the teacher of Gaetano Donizetti and wrote about 70 operas of his own!

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

About 20 years after the Mayr work alluded to above, Heinrich Marschner's "Hans Heiling" hit the stages in Germany & elsewhere. Sometimes known as having had a direct influence upon the music of the young Richard Wagner, this particular opera was performed in Vienna last Sunday, and it is this performance that ORF will be broadcasting on Saturday.

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

Fans of soprano Patricia Racette will no doubt be interested in hearing her on NPR in a September 2014 performance from San Francisco of Carlisle Floyd's "Susannah" (1955) in which Ms Racette sings the title role.

(www.wrti.org/)

And -- last but certainly not least -- Swedish Radio has a world premiere scheduled for Saturday afternoon. It's a LIVE performance from Goteborg of Swedish composer Hans Gefor's brand-new opera "Notorious" which deals with the same plot & events as portrayed in Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film of the same name. Unfortunately, both Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant have passed on, but we do have soprano Nina Stemme available to sing the starring female role. Ms Stemme, as many of you know, will be singing the role of Turandot later in this season in the Met's upcoming HD-transmission of Puccini's masterpiece.

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

Enjoy!

DAVE

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast season starts again 

December 5.   

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!