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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 24, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, October 25, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, October 26, 2015 @ 12:00am
La Donna del Lago
Rossini's "La Donna del Lago," about the daughter (Joyce DiDonato) of a nobleman (Oren Gradus) who has promised her hand to a highlander chief (John Osborn), though her heart belongs to a commoner (Daniela Barcellona, in a trouser role).
Length: 180
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The Los Angeles Times
Placido Domingo recovering 'satisfactorily'
from surgery
The New York Times
Review: ‘Tosca’ Returns to Metropolitan
Opera With a Rotating Lineup
By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIMOCT. 18, 2015
How many sopranos does it take to turn in a
revival of “Tosca”?
Four, it seems. Also four conductors, two
leading tenors and four baritones to share the role of the baddie.
Sneak Peek at Upcoming Opera About Robert
Moses and Jane Jacobs
Monday, October 19, 2015
By Brian Wise
The battle between Robert Moses and Jane
Jacobs over the future of New York City will soon be the subject of an opera.
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Giotto as an Operatic Inspiration
Friday, October 16, 2015
By Fred Plotkin
"What Bach is to music, Giotto is to
Renaissance art and all that followed," writes Fred Plotkin in this
appreciation of his dramatic paintings.
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Review: Eric Owens Opens Philharmonic
Residency with Uneven 'Footsteps'
Thursday, October 15, 2015
By David Patrick Stearns
The genial, celebrated bass-baritone Eric
Owens opened a year-long Philharmonic residency with "Great African
American Singers and Their Legacy."
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Placido Domingo to Miss Four Met Opera
Performances to Have Surgery
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
By WQXR Staff
Placido Domingo will miss four performances
conducting Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in order to have gallbladder
surgery.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
On Saturday (October 24), fans of tenor Juan Diego Florez
will have a rare opportunity to hear him in a recent (September 2015)
performance from London's Royal Opera House as Orphee in the 1774 French
version of Gluck's masterpiece "Orphee & Eurydice."
On French Radio, there's a performance from Paris of Handel's
"Theodora" (1750) which, strictly speaking, may be considered to be
an oratorio rather than an opera. The performance being broadcast took place
last Friday (October 16).
Another work that might be considered to be more oratorio than
opera -- Vivaldi's "Juditha Triumphans" (c. 1717) -- can be heard on
RAI Radio 3, as it was performed in Venice on June 27 of this year.
If your operatic tastes veer more towards works of the 19th
century, you might want to tune in to German Radio for a broadcast of
Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades" which was performed in Rome this past June
16.
On the other hand, if you'd prefer 21st century opera, you'll
probably jump at the chance to hear Marco Tutino's latest opera -- "La
Ciociara" (or "Two Women") -- which was given its world premiere
this past June in San Francisco. If the English title of this brand-new
opera sounds familiar, you wouldn't be surprised to learn that the opera is
based on the same story that was portrayed in the Sophia Loren film from 1960,
you might be surprised to discover that Tutino's musical idiom is basically a
conservative one.
Two other offerings are worth mentioning, notable the free LIVE
video of Verdi's "Aida" (from Turin) which can be viewed here:
Also, on Monday evening at 7:25 pm, the Met's
free LIVE audio-stream will be Puccini's "Turandot" with tenor
Marcelo Alvarez taking on the role of the Unknown Prince (Calaf).
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast season starts again
radio broadcast season starts again
December 5.
(Oh, how will I wait until December??)
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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