Week of February 25 - March 3, 2016

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478) 
 *all links are live

Saturday, February 27, 2016, 8:00pm

Sunday, February  28, 2016 3:00am

Monday, February 29, 2016, 12:00am

Giuseppi Verdi's

Otello

Verdi's "Otello," about a Moorish general (Aleksandrs Antonenko) who comes to suspect his wife (Sonya Yoncheva) of infidelity due to seeds of doubt sowed by a treacherous aide (Zeljko Lucic).

Length: 180

SYNOPSIS: www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/Otello/

Otello: "Quando narravi" (Yoncheva, Antonenko) - YouTube Video for Otello Aleksandrs Antonenko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTIxgFhCh6w

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News from Around the World of Music

Jackie Clarkson and her daughter, Patricia Clarkson. Former New Orleans Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson was termed the 'patron saint of opera' by industry magazine Opera News. (Photo by Steven Forster, The Times-Picayune

Jackie Clarkson called 'patron saint of opera' by Opera News magazine

http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2016/02/jackie_clarkson_opera_new_orle.html

Classical Music Podcasts You Need to Hear

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 12:21 PM

WQXR

By John V. Bennett

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/classical-music-podcasts-you-need-to-hear/

TONIGHT!!

Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt Perform Piano Trios

Tune in at 7:30 pm Wednesday for a live broadcast from Carnegie Hall, featuring Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt playing Schumann, Dvořák and Brahms piano trios.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/christian-tetzlaff-tanja-tezlaff-and-lars-vogt-perform-piano-trios/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=carousel&utm_content=item0

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WQXR

'The Shining' Brings the Overlook Hotel to the Opera Stage

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

By David Patrick Stearns

Stephen King's novel, The Shining, has been adapted into an opera that will premiere this spring; David Patrick Stearns previews the production. 

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/shining-brings-overlook-hotel-opera-stage/

June LeBell with Avery Fisher in Avery Fisher Hall, 1981.

Catching Up with June LeBell

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

By Fred Plotkin

Fred Plotkin catches up with June LeBell, who made history as the first female on-air host of a commercial classical radio station at WQXR, where she served for 30 years.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/catching-june-lebell/

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

This coming Saturday afternoon (Feb. 27), the broadcast from the Met is not a LIVE broadcast, but a pre-recorded performance from November 21, 2015, of Berg's "Lulu" with the same performers who appeared in the HD-transmission of the work earlier this season.

(www.wrti.org/)

There is, however, a LIVE broadcast from the Met scheduled for tomorrow evening at 7:25 pm, the opera being Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." This is a FREE audio-stream.

(www.metopera.org/)

Other broadcasts include a rare opportunity to hear Boieldieu's "La Dame Blanche" (1825) which comes to us via German Radio in a performance that took place earlier this month (Feb. 6) in Giessen.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

The opera to be heard this Saturday on ORF (Austria) is "Otello." However, this happens to be a performance of Rossini's opera (rather than Verdi's) which has actually been heard several times over the last few years. This particular performance will be taking place on Friday (Feb. 26), but the actual broadcast is scheduled for the next day.

(http://oe1.orf/)

French Radio, on the other hand, gives us what seems to be considered yet another 20th century masterpiece (besides Berg's "Lulu"): Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk." This was performed earlier this season (January 25) in Lyons. (For those who may be interested, a video of the performance was actually seen in Europe at that time, but so far nothing has turned up on YouTube.)

(www.francemusique.fr/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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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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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast 

Saturday, February 27, 2016, 1:00 pm.   

Lulu

BERG

Koenigs; Petersen, Graham, Brenna, Groves, Reuter, Grundhebe

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No opera on

WGBH this week!