This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
Saturday, December 19, 2015, 8:00pm
Sunday, December 20, 2015 3:00am
Monday, December 21, 2015, 12:00am
WERTHER - Director Richard Eyre returns to the Met with a new staging of Jules Massenet's tragic romance "Werther," starring Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch in their first Met performances as the brooding poet Werther and his unattainable love, Charlotte. Lisette Oropesa sings the role of Sophie, Charlotte's sister; David Bizic makes his Met debut as Charlotte's fiance, Albert; and Jonathan Summers is Charlotte's father, Le Bailli. Alain Altinoglu conducts the first new Met production of the opera in more than 40 years.
DURATION: 150 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
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A Good Year for New Operas
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
By Fred Plotkin
As 2015 comes to a close, Operavore blogger Fred Plotkin comes to the realization that, in the United States, it was a really good year for new opera.
Sneak Peek: Inside 'The Pearl Fishers' at The Metropolitan Opera
Monday, December 14, 2015
At 7:30 pm on Friday, Dec. 18, watch an exclusive sneak peek inside the Met's first production in a century of Bizet’s rarely performed opera, "The Pearl Fishers."
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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 singer Montserrat Caballe sentenced
for tax fraud - BBC News
BBC
News - December 15, 2015
Spanish
opera singer Montserrat Caballe has been given a six-month suspended prison
sentence.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This
coming Saturday afternoon (December 19), the Met has a LIVE broadcast of
Rossini's "La Donna del Lago" with Joyce Di Donato as Elena, Daniela
Barcellona as Malcolm, and John Osborn as Rodrigo, all of whom sang these same
roles in the HD-transmission from last March. Tenor Lawrence Brownlee, however,
is scheduled to take on the role that was previously sung by Juan Diego Florez.
Yet
another Rossini opera can be heard this week: Specifically, it's his
ever-popular comic opera "The Barber of Seville" which is being
offered tonight at 7:25 p.m. as part of the Met's series of FREE live
audio-streams that are periodically made available to the opera-listening
public.
On
Radio 4 (the Netherlands), there's a matinee performance of what many people
consider to be Denmark's "national opera" -- Carl Nielsen's
"Maskarade" -- as given in a concert performance from Amsterdam. This
being a matinee performance from Europe, interested listeners should check out
Radio 4's website on Saturday morning, as opposed to the usual afternoon hours
for Saturday opera broadcasts.
Aside
from the presentations listed above, there isn't much in the way of LIVE
performances being offered this Saturday. On the other hand, the opening night
performance (12/7/15) from La Scala of Verdi's "Giovanna d'Arco"
("Joan of Arc"), featuring soprano Anna Netrebko, can be heard on
German Radio. There's even a video of this performance available on YouTube
that is certainly worth checking out.
(Audio
only: www.dradio.de/dkultur/)
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast
radio broadcast
Saturday, December 19, 1:00 pm.
1 PM
La Donna del Lago
ROSSINI
Mariotti; DiDonato, Barcellona, Brownlee, Osborn, Gradus
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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| Montserrat Caballe |
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