Week of June 23 - June 30, 2016

This is Sixth Anniversary edition of the 

Opera Lovers of Rhode Island blog.

All links are live!

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

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

Saturday, June 25, 2016, 8:00pm

Sunday, June 26, 2016 3:00am

Monday, June 27,  2016, 12:00am

Tannhauser

A production of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser," in which a minstrel knight (Johan Botha) is torn between a saintly woman (Eva-Maria Westbroek) and the sensual love goddess Venus (Michelle DeYoung).

Synopsis:

http://www.metopera.org/Discover/Synopses/Tannhauser/

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News from Around the World of Music

Michael Fabiano & Ana María Martínez © Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera

VOCAL GRANDEUR: DON CARLO AT SAN FRANCISCO OPERA

2016/06/17· by operatraveller in Live Reviews, Opera review.     

https://operatraveller.com/2016/06/17/2394/

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An American Opera Impresario Takes His Final Bow

June 16, 2016     8:26 AM

by TOM HUIZENGA

http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2016/06/16/481249440/an-american-opera-impresario-takes-his-final-bow

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Listen to the Only Castrato Ever Recorded

Alessandro Moreschi was applauded by crowds with the call "Eviva il coltello" ("Long live the knife!")

http://historybuff.com/listen-to-only-castrato-ever-recorded-GpoPDX7YA8jR

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Bayreuth Ring 2016: TV Broadcast Of Entire Cycle

Written By The Wagnerian on Saturday, 18 June 2016 | 5:31:00 am

http://www.the-wagnerian.com/2016/06/bayreuth-ring-2016-tv-broadcast-of.html

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WQXR

Sketches from the Opera House

Friday, June 17, 2016

WQXR

By Fred Plotkin

A new book featuring drawings of opera singers and houses inspires Fred Plotkin to think about draughtsman, photographers and other artists who've depicted "our favorite art form."

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/sketches-opera-house/

This illustration of José Carreras is from Hank Blaustein's book 'Drawn to Opera.' (Courtesy Hank Blaustein)

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

For the first Saturday of the summer, there are numerous opera broadcasts awaiting us on the internet, one of which is a performance from Paris of Wagner's "Tristan & Isolde." This one can be heard on French Radio, the original performance having taken place on May 21 of this year.

(www.francemusique.fr/)

Over on Italian Radio (RAI), it's Giordano's "Fedora" the premiere of which took place in 1898 and featured none other than Enrico Caruso in the leading tenor role. The performance being broadcast, however, was one that took place in Naples this past May 18.

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

These days Austrian composer Emil von Reznicek may not be very popular, although a bit of the music from his opera "Donna Diana" was once used in the opening credits for the 1950s TV show "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon." Well, another one of his operas -- "Holofernes" (from 1922) -- was performed last month in Bonn, and German Radio has scheduled it for this coming Saturday.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

One of the most popular operas of Richard Strauss -- "Der Rosenkavalier" -- can be heard on NPR, as a taped performance from February can be heard as part of their continuing series of broadcasts from the 2015/2016 season at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote can be heard in this one.

(www.wrti.org/)

If opera with a decidedly more "modern" idiom is to your liking, Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos's 1997 opera "Three Sisters" (based on Anton Chekhov's play) can be heard on BBC Radio 3, as performed last March at the Vienna State Opera.

(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast will return in December. 

Watch this space. Enjoy the haitus! 

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No opera on

WGBH this week!

Peter Dinklage, "Tyrion Lannister" in Game of Thrones