*all links are live
This Saturday
Live in HD
R. Strauss’s
ELEKTRA
The genius director
Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great
Elektra production, previously presented in Aix and Milan, make it to the stage
of the Met. But his overpowering vision lives on with soprano Nina
Stemme—unmatched today in the heroic female roles of Strauss and Wagner—who
portrays Elektra’s primal quest for vengeance for the murder of her father,
Agamemnon. Legendary mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier is chilling as Elektra’s
fearsome mother, Klytämnestra. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and bass-baritone
Eric Owens are Elektra’s troubled siblings. Chéreau’s musical collaborator
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Strauss’s mighty take on Greek myth.
*at a theater near you
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and
Verizon 478)
Verizon 478)
Saturday, April 30, 2016, 8:00pm
Sunday, May 1, 2016 3:00am
Monday, May 2, 2016, 12:00am
Great Performances at the Met
MACBETH
Star soprano Anna Netrebko delivers
her searing portrayal of Lady Macbeth, the mad and murderous mate of Zeljko
Lucic's doomed Macbeth, for the first time at the Met. Adrian Noble's chilling
production of Verdi's masterful adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy also stars
Joseph Calleja as the noble Macduff and Rene Pape as Banquo. Fabio Luisi
conducts.
Duration: 2 HRS 35 MIN
Marian Anderson to appear on five-dollar bill
Jay Gabler
- April 20, 2016
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| Marian Anderson at home London Express/Getty Images |
The U.S. Treasury has announced new plans for American
currency. Among the figures to be honored on the new currency is singer Marian
Anderson, who will be featured on the five-dollar bill.
Abraham Lincoln will continue to appear on the front
of the five-dollar bill; the reverse will "honor events at the Lincoln
Memorial that helped to shape our history and our democracy and prominent
individuals involved in those events, including Marian Anderson, Eleanor
Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr."
Anderson (1897-1993), an African-American contralto,
was one of the most acclaimed singers in American history. Her repertoire
ranged widely from opera arias and lieder to spirituals and popular songs. On
April 9, 1939, she performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a live
audience of 75,000 and millions more who listened via radio.
Marian Anderson sings at Lincoln Memorial
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Imagine being Lin-Manuel Miranda right now
By Peter Marks April 22, 2016
Review: James Levine Opens Last Run as Metropolitan
Opera Music Director
By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM
APRIL 24, 2016
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WQXR
A Supporting Artist Who Steals the Show
Monday, April 25, 2016
WQXR
By Fred Plotkin
Maria Zifchak, a mezzo-soprano who's shined in character
roles on the Metropolitan Opera stage "is in a class all of her own,"
writes Fred Plotkin.
A Second 'Otello'? The Other Operas Inspired by
Shakespeare
Friday, April 22, 2016
WQXR
By Merrin Lazyan
Certainly you've heard of Verdi's 'Otello' and Gounod's
'Roméo et Juliette', but check out these lesser-known operas based on the same
source material.
A Verdian Season in New York
Thursday, April 21, 2016
By Fred Plotkin
Last week, New York experienced a flurry of events honoring
the composer Giuseppe Verdi. Fred Plotkin, who attended them, considers the
composer's legacy.
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
"Elektra" (by Richard Strauss) will
receive its HD-transmission at local movie theatres this coming Saturday
afternoon (April 30) with soprano Nina Stemme performing the title role. Ms
Stemme, as many of you know, also sang the title role in Puccini's "Turandot"
in an HD-transmission from the Met which took place earlier this season.
(www.wrti.org/)
Another "classic" German opera comes
to us via French Radio this Saturday, this one being Wagner's "Die
Meistersinger" in a performance which took place in Paris earlier this
year (March 25).
(www.francemusique.fr/)
Opera-lovers who may want to get a head-start
on their opera listening can tune in to Radio 3 (RAI) tomorrow (Thursday) for a
LIVE broadcast from Florence of Tchaikovsky's final opera "Iolanta."
(www.radio3.rai.it/)
And those of you who may wish to extend your
opera listening for the weekend have a chance to do so on Monday evening (May
2) when the Met offers yet another in its series of FREE live audio-streams.
It's (once again) Verdi's "Otello" with the same cast that performed
the work last Saturday.
(www.metopera.org/)
In the meantime, there's a FREE video of
yesterday's performance from Avignon of Donizetti's "Lucia di
Lammermoor" (with French subtitles) available till October at this link:
(http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/festivals/operas-de-france/lucia-di-lammermoor-de-donizetti-a-l-opera-grand-avignon-238307)
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met Saturday afternoon
radio broadcast
radio broadcast
Saturday, April 30, 2016, 1:00 pm.
Elektra
R. STRAUSS
Salonen; Stemme, Pieczonka, Meier, Ulrich, Owens
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No opera on
WGBH this week!
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| Retired U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D.-MA) |
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