Week of December 31, 2015 - January 7, 2016

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

 Saturday, January 2, 2016, 8:00pm

Sunday, January 3, 2016 3:00am

Monday, January 4, 2016, 12:00am

IL TROVATORE

 Season 10 opens with Verdi's "Il Trovatore," in which long-lost brothers (Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Yonghoon Lee) compete for the affections of the same woman (Anna Netrebko). Dolora Zajick costars as Azucena, the gypsy with a dark secret.

Length: 180 Hear Anna Netrebko sing, 
"Il Trovatore: "D'amor sull'ali rosee."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q043wiL0Qw

DURATION: 3 HRS.

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

SYNOPSIS: http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/Il-Trovatore/

Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov Wed in Vienna 

12/29/15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aipDoXEm-8Q

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WATCH NOW: 

DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY 

LIVE FROM MOSCOW

December 28, 2015 

The great baritone has posted his entire concert of December 27, 2105. Click here to watch–

http://meloman.ru/concert/dmitrij-hvorostovskij/

See more at: (including program translated into English)

http://slippedisc.com/2015/12/watch-now-dmitri-hvorostovsky-live-from-moscow/#sthash.xqPZeY7D.dpuf

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Black Water

Please help Jeremy 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!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/824307483/stage-premiere-jeremy-becks-powerful-opera-black-w

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

The first Saturday of the New Year brings us what will probably be a high-spirited LIVE broadcast from the Met of "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss.

(www.wrti.org/)

Also LIVE -- but from London's Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) -- is a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" with baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the title role.

(www.radio4.nl/)

If the 2 operas listed above are simply not long enough to satisfy one's operatic taste, even though there's no Wagner on hand this weekend, there's always Rossini's grand opera "William Tell" to fill the bill. The performance being broadcast took place in Geneva on September 21 of this year.

(http://sverigesradio.se/p2/)

On December 21, a performance of "The Damnation of Faust" by Hector Berlioz took place in Paris with tenor Jonas Kaufmann singing the title role. One can hear the performance on French Radio this Saturday. On the other hand, one can also watch it (see the YouTube link below), provided one can somehow grasp the concept of Faust embarking upon a mission to Mars !! (I kid you not.)

(audio: www.francemusique.fr/)

(video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxVOBOne1UA)

And for those of you who'd rather spend New Year's Eve listening to a good opera rather than being out-and-about, the Met is offering a FREE live audio-stream tomorrow evening at 6:55 of Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers."

(www.metopera.org/)

Enjoy! -- And have a safe & wonderful New Year !!!

DAVE

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast 

Saturday, January 2, 2016, 1:00 pm.   

Die Fledermaus

by

J. STRAUSS, JR

Levine; Phillips, Crowe, Graham, Spence, Pittas, Szot, Opie

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No opera on

WGBH this week!

Darth Vader

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