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A seasonal favorite returns!
This Saturday, December 12, 12:55 pm at a theater near you
Encore: December 13th, 2015, 12:55 pm
Mozart's
The Magic Flute at the Met-HD broadcast
The Met's annual holiday presentation offers
an ideal opportunity for audiences of all ages to celebrate the season. Julie
Taymor's breathtaking and popular production of Mozart's masterpiece, The Magic
Flute, takes the stage in its abridged, English-language version, with Nathan
Gunn as the irrepressible bird-catcher Papageno. This 100-minute show is the
perfect way for the entire family to experience the Met.
(This is not a live simulcast.)
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| Hear Nathan Gunn sing "A Cuddly Wife or Sweetheart" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2NxvM-rIkQ |
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This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Great Performances at the Met
Saturday, December 12, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, December 13, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, December 14, 2015 @ 12:00am
La Boheme
Puccini's "La Bohème," about a
doomed love affair between poet Rodolfo (Vittorio Grigolo) and seamstress Mimi
(Kristine Opolais) in Paris during the 1830s.
Length: 150 minutes
Rosie's note: I have seen many productions of
this opera but this one is my favorite. Grigola is wonderful in the the role of
Rudolfo, and Kristine Opalais is fabulous. Considering that the night before
this performance, she had made her Met debut singing Madama Butterfly, and was
then called in to sing Mimi when the
originally-scheduled soprano became ill, it is an amazing performance.
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| Kristine Opalais |
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Interview with Julie Taymor, director of The Magic Flute
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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.
Wexford Festival Opera: Journey into the
Unknown
Wednesday, December 09, 2015 - 04:00 PM
By Fred Plotkin
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Black Water
Please help Jeremy J. Beck raise funds for his opera! Reached 20% of fundraising goal already. Every little bit helps!!
The Center for Contemporary Opera will be producing the stage premiere of his one-act opera, Black Water, at Symphony Space in New York.
I am helping to raise funds for this production. Please consider supporting this Kickstarter campaign - We are grateful for your support, and please share this link with others who may be interested - many thanks!
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
Those of you who may wish to get a head-start on your
opera-listening this weekend will, no doubt, take delight in the Met's FREE
live audio-stream on Friday evening (Dec. 11) of Rossini's "La Donna
del Lago" featuring virtually the same cast that appeared in last season's
HD-transmission of the work, with tenor Lawrence Brownlee taking on the role of
Giacomo (previously sung by Juan Diego Florez).
Then, on Saturday, there's even more Rossini on tap, with a
recent performance by the Flemish Opera (in Ghent) of "Armida" with
soprano Carmen Romeu singing the title role, as she did at the Rossini Opera
Festival in Pesaro a couple of summers ago.
On ORF (as well as a few other radio stations on the internet),
there's a LIVE performance from Vienna of Britten's "Peter Grimes."
German Radio concludes its series of re-broadcasts from this
past summer's Bayreuth Festival. This Saturday it's Wagner's
"Die Gotterdammerung" in a performance that took place on August 1,
2015.
The 2nd broadcast from the Met this season is of Verdi's
"Rigoletto." The cast includes tenor Piotr Beczala as the Duke and
Zeljko Lucic as Rigoletto, both of whom appeared in the Met's HD-transmission a
couple of seasons ago.
If by next Tuesday (Dec. 15) you still haven't had
your fill of opera, you can always tune in to Radio 3 (RAI) for a LIVE
performance from Bologna of Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore" --an
opera which seems to be springing up all over the globe as of late!
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast is back this
radio broadcast is back this
Saturday, December 5, 1:00 pm.
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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