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Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, November 7, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, November 8, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, November 9, 2015 @ 12:00am
L'Elisir d'Amore
Season 7 opens with Gaetano Donizetti's comic
opera "L'Elisir d'Amore," about a peasant (Matthew Polenzani) who wins
the heart of a beautiful farm owner (Anna Netrebko) with the help of a love
potion he purchased from a quack doctor (Ambrogio Maestri).
Length: 150
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NEWS
Soprano Looks to Use a Sport’s Big Stage to
Lift Her Stamina
Susanna Phillips Huntington has performed in
operas all over the world. Now she takes on the challenge of the New York City
Marathon.
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Emmanuel Ceysson Named Principal Harpist of
the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
May 26, 2015 | By Francerocks
Emmanuel Ceysson, principal harpist at the Opéra
National de Paris for the past decade, has won the audition at the Metropolitan
Opera for the seat left vacant by Deborah Hoffman who died in February 2014. He
will start in September, performing one his favorite pieces: Tannhäuser by
Wagner.
[He performed in Saturday’s Tannhäuser.—ed. note]
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A Team Effort Helps Breast Cancer Patient
Celebrate a Night at the Opera
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we
are sharing one patient’s story of celebration during her fight against breast
cancer.
Posted on Oct 29, 2015 in Cancer
KDFC
November 3, 2015: The State of the Arts
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Opera in Cartoons
Justin Moss
The Huffington Post
Opera Lecturer and Expert
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When Dreams and Dreamers Inhabit Opera
Monday, November 02, 2015
By Fred Plotkin
Fresh from a trip to Ireland's Wexford Festival Opera, Blogger Fred
Plotkin writes about the influence of dreams in opera.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
3
offerings from the Met this week will probably interest most opera fans. One of
them comes to us via NPR: a re-broadcast of Puccini's "Tosca" in a
performance that originally took place on April 7, 1962. With stunning
performances from soprano Leontyne Price, tenor Franco Corelli, and baritone
Cornell MacNeil in the three leading roles, you can be sure that this is one
broadcast that fully deserves to be heard over & over again!
The other 2 broadcasts from the Met are LIVE free audio-streams, the first of which can be accessed tomorrow evening (Thursday) at 6:55 pm as the Met brings us the premiere performance this season of Berg's "Lulu" with an excellent cast that will also be featured later this month (Nov. 21) when a LIVE HD-transmission of this opera will be shown in various local movie theatres. If your operatic tastes run in a more traditional vein, however, you might prefer to tune in to the free LIVE audio-stream of Verdi's "Rigoletto" which will be broadcast on Tuesday (Nov. 10).
BBC Radio 3 has scheduled a broadcast of Handel's "Orlando" (from 1733) in a recent performance from Welsh National Opera. As always, the BBC will make this broadcast available for later listening in case you miss it on Saturday.
At one time considered a fairly popular opera, but lately relegated to obscurity, Karl Goldmark's 1875 opera "The Queen of Sheba" received a performance in Freiburg this past April 18, and it is this performance which can be heard on German Radio this Saturday. It's a long opera, but if you're used to the works of Richard Wagner (for instance), you won't have any trouble with this one!
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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