Great Performances at the Met
Met HD
at a theater near you*
Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut
Soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Roberto
Alagna join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. Opolais sings the title
role of the country girl who transforms herself into a Parisian temptress,
while Alagna is the dashing student who desperately woos her. Director Richard
Eyre places the action in occupied France in a film noir setting. “Desperate
passion” is the phrase Puccini himself used to describe the opera that
confirmed his position as the preeminent Italian opera composer of his day. Met
Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads the stirring score.
Message from Kristine Opalais:
https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/videos/10156697025375533/*Read the column to the right for instructions
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
*all links are live
*all links are live
Saturday, March 5, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, March 6, 2016 3:00am
Monday, March 7, 2016, 12:00am
The Merry Widow
Tony Award winner Susan Stroman helmed and
choreographed this production of Franz Lehár's "The Merry Widow,"
which features a fresh translation from Jeremy Sams. Renée Fleming stars as a
wealthy widow who's wooed by an old flame (Nathan Gunn), but for reasons that
may not have much to do with love.
Length: 130
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News from Around the World of Music
How a Diva Trains for Opera’s Ironman
Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky trains like a pro athlete
to sing Donizetti’s three Tudor queens at the Met this season
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Amid Tension, Met and James Levine Mull Last Bow
By MICHAEL COOPER
FEB. 13, 2016
Fabio Luisi’s Future Looks Bright, Wherever It Is
By ZACHARY WOOLFE
FEB. 4, 2016
Have We Been Playing Gershwin Wrong for 70
Years?
By
MICHAEL COOPER
MARCH
1, 2016
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WQXR
Sarasota Opera: Parma on the Gulf of Mexico
Monday, February 29, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
Operavore's Fred Plotkin visits Sarasota, Florida and
reports on its rich culture and opera music scene.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
This coming Saturday (March 5), many opera
fans will be flocking to area movie theatres for the LIVE HD-transmission from
the Met of Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" featuring soprano Kristine
Opolais and tenor Roberto Alagna in the 2 leading roles. The audio of this
performance can also be accessed by tuning in to various internet radio
stations.
If you're a Wagner fan, you have 2 choices for
your Saturday afternoon listening, one of which is the February 27, 2016
performance from Stockholm of his final opera "Parsifal." This one
comes to us via Swedish Radio.
While "Parsifal" is generally
regarded as one of Wagner's greatest works, his 2nd opera -- "Das
Liebesverbot" (based on Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure") --
is rarely encountered. (It doesn't help that Wagner himself didn't much care
for it.) In any case, a recent performance of this work can be heard on Radio 4
(the Netherlands), since the Teatro Real (Madrid) has mounted a new production
of this opera this season.
In case you've always wondered what Benjamin
Godard's 1890 opera "Dante" sounded like (assuming you'd even heard
that such a work existed), you'll undoubtedly want to listen to RAI (Italy) for
a transmission of the Munich performance of this opera which took place on
January 31 of this year. Or you could simply check it out any time you want on
YouTube (audio only) which someone was kind enough to upload.
(Radio broadcast: www.radio3.rai.it/)
(YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8yaOf894sk)
There's also yesterday's performance from the
Vienna State Opera of Gounod's "Romeo & Juliette" to be heard on
ORF this Saturday. Fans of tenor Juan Diego Florez will no doubt be delighted
to hear him in his assumption of the role of Romeo.
For something completely different, French
Radio is broadcasting the November 15, 2015 performance from Vienna of
"Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena" (premiered in 1719) by one
Francesco Batolomeo Conti.
And thanks to the generosity of the Met in
supplying us with FREE live audio-streams (in addition to their weekly Saturday
afternoon broadcasts), interested listeners have a chance to tune in to a
performance of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" this Friday evening (March
4) at 7:25 pm.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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This weekend!
The British Are Coming!
From Sumer Is
Icumen In in the mid-13th century to music written just now, British
composers have offered choruses memorable material. The Singers offers a
sampling of British choral music from the 20th and 21st centuries, including
works from Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi, Charles Parry, John Rutter,
Paul Mealor, and Karl Jenkins.
Click on these links: About the concert | Tickets
Click on these links: About the concert | Tickets
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5, Immaculate Conception,
Cranston
3 p.m. Sunday, March 6, St. Mary’s Church, Bristol
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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!
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast
radio broadcast
Saturday, March 5, 2016, 1:00 pm.
Manon Lescaut
PUCCINI
Luisi; Opolais, Alagna, Cavalletti, Sherratt
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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