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 8, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, December 9, 2015 @ 3:00am
Monday, December 10, 2015 @ 12:00am
Prince Igor
Prince Igor comes to the Met for the first time in 100 years, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and starring bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov in the monumental title role.
Duration: 4 hrs. 30 min.
Duration: 4 hrs. 30 min.
For Harry Potter fans
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Music, Paris and Belief in Reason
Monday, November 30, 2015
By Fred
Plotkin
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TED-Ed
Originals
How playing an
instrument benefits your brain -
Anita Collins
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Happy birthday,
MARIA CALLAS
(1923-1977)
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| Renata Scotto, left; Maria Callas, right |
A repost of Renata Scotto's quote
about Maria Callas, on the latter's birthday, with the group's indulgence.
Whenever I start reading it, even as well as I know it, I persist to the end.
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"Listen
to me, everyone speak about Callas. But I know Callas. I know Callas before she
was Callas. She was fat and she had this vociaccia — you know what a vociaccia
is? You go kill a cat and record its scream. She had this bad skin. And she had
this rich husband. We laugh at her, you know that?
"And then, I sat in
on a rehearsal with Maestro Serafin. You know, it was PARSIFAL and I was
supposed to see if I do one of the flowers. I didn't. And she sing that music.
In Italian of course. And he tell her this and he tell her that, and little by
little this voice had all the nature in it — the forest and the magic castle
and hatred that is love. And little by little she not fat with bad skin and
rich-husband-asleep-in-the-corner; she witch who burn you by standing there!
"Maestro Serafin he
say to me afterwards, you know now something about PARSIFAL. I say, 'No, Maestro,
I know much more. I know how to study. And I know that we are more than voices.
We are spirit. We are god when we sing, if we mean it.'
"Oh yes, they will
go on about Tebaldi this and Freni that. Beautiful, beautiful voices, amazing.
They work hard. They sincere. They suffer. They more talented than Maria, sure.
But she was the genius. 'Genius' come from 'genio' — spirit. And that make her
more than all of us. So I learn from that. Don't let them take from you because
you are something they don't expect. Work and fight and work and give, and
maybe once in a while you are good."
(Acknowledgement
to Albert Innaurato, who conducted the interview.)
"Habanera" (from Bizet's Carmen"
O Mio Babbino Caro
La Mamma Morta
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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.
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ANNA NETREBKO
sings
"Ebben! Ne andro lontana"
from
Catalani's "La Wally"
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This coming
Saturday (December 5) marks the beginning of the Met's 2015/2016 radio
broadcast series, & many opera-lovers will, no doubt, be looking forward to
the LIVE performance on many internet radio stations of Puccini's "La
Boheme" with soprano Barbara Frittoli and tenor Ramon Vargas as (respectively)
Mimi and Rodolfo.
Fans of
contemporary opera, on the other hand, might be more interested in the world
premiere of "Morgen & Abend" ("Morning & Evening")
by Georg Friedrich Haas, which was performed last month at London's Royal Opera
House. The broadcast will also be available for your listening enjoyment for
about a week following on BBC Radio 3's website.
German
Radio is making available once again the recent performance from Bayreuth of
Wagner's "Siegfried" which took place this past July 30.
On French
Radio, there's a recent performance of Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore"
from Paris and featuring tenor Roberto Alagna as Nemorino. You can listen to iton
Saturday, or you can check out the various non-professional videos several
opera-goers have uploaded to YouTube, comprised of extended excerpts and scenes
from several different performances of the work.
(audio: www.francemusique.fr/)
Why not
kick-start your opera-listening weekend with the LIVE performance of Verdi's
"Rigoletto" (from Florence) which RAI's Radio 3 is broadcasting on
Friday?
Enjoy!
DAVE
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.
PUCCINI'S
La Bohème
Carignani; Frittoli, Martínez, Vargas, Molnar,
Lavrov, Van Horn, Del Carlo
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
"He who must not be named"
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