Week of September 10 - 17, 2015

All links are live!

Great Performances at the Met

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

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

 Saturday, September 12, 2015 @ 8:00pm

Sunday, September 13, 2015 @ 3:00am

Monday, September 14, 2015 @ 12:00am  

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

The Barber of Seville

Christopher Maltman as Figaro; Lawrence Brownlee as Almaviva

Great Performances at the Met

Il Barbiere di Siviglia 

In Bartlett Sher’s effervescent production of Rossini’s most popular opera, Isabel Leonard is the beautiful and feisty Rosina, who won’t be kept under lock and key. Lawrence Brownlee is her conspiring flame, Almaviva, and Christopher Maltman is the omnipotent barber, Figaro. Michele Mariotti conducts.

Approximate running time 3 hrs. 0 min.

SYNOPSIS:

http://www.metopera.org/metopera/season/synopsis/barbiere?customid=6

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Bugs Bunny as "The Barber of Seville"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5Os0VX7qE
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The readers’ guide to lovable new opera

By Anne Midgette August 15  

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2015/08/15/the-readers-guide-to-lovable-new-opera/

Dmitri Hvorostovsky Vows to Sing Through Brain Tumor Ordeal

Wednesday, September 02, 2015

By WQXR Staff

Dmitri Hvorostovsky has vowed to return to the Metropolitan Opera for three scheduled performances of Verdi's Il Trovatore, despite undergoing treatment for a brain tumor.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/dmitri-hvorostovsky-vows-sing-through-brain-tumor-ordeal/

Why Do Contemporary Operas Rarely Get Revivals?

Wednesday, September 02, 2015

By Brian Wise / Naomi Lewin : WQXR Host

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/why-do-contemporary-operas-rarely-get-revivals/

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Steve Jobs, the Opera, Coming to Santa Fe in 2017

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

By Russell Contreras : Associated Press

The Santa Fe Opera announced Wednesday that its latest commission will be based on the technology pioneer.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/steve-jobs-opera-coming-santa-fe-2017/

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Rainer Hersch

The soprano has no idea that her song is being 'translated' behind her back by conductor Rainer Hersch. 

CHECK out Rainer Hersch:

http://www.rainerhersch.com

BUY the concert DVD:

http://amzn.to/1y6bxxs

BUY the solo show CD:

http://amzn.to/1s4nxR1

JOIN his mailing list:

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Among the radio broadcasts scheduled for this coming Saturday (September 12), a LIVE performance from Amsterdam of "Tristan & Isolde" will undoubtedly be of interest to fans of the operas of Richard Wagner. This is a one-time-only concert performance of the work & may be accessed on the internet on Saturday MORNING, this being a matinee performance in the Netherlands.

(www.radio4.nl/)

 

NPR brings us a September 2014 performance of Bellini's "Norma" with soprano Sondra Radvanovsky singing the title role. This is part of NPR's series of broadcasts from the San Francisco Opera's 2014/2015 season.

(www.wrti.org/)

 

A certain number of opera fans may be aware of the fact that Edouard Lalo composed an opera called "Le Roi d'Ys" which gets an occasional airing, usually in either France or Belgium. This time around, however, it's his unfinished opera "La Jacquerie" which is being broadcast on German Radio in a performance from Montpellier which took place this past July 24. (The opera was completed by one Arthur Coquard, based on sketches left behind by Lalo himself.)

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

 

If you'd care to begin your opera-listening a little earlier this weekend, you might want to tune in to Radio 3 (RAI) on Friday (September 11) for a rare opportunity to hear "I Was Looking at the Ceiling & Then I Saw the Sky" by John Adams who wrote the score in 1995 shortly after the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, the effects of which are dealt with in this work. This is a LIVE broadcast from Rome.

(www.radio3.rai.it/)

 

 

Enjoy!

 

DAVE

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast season starts again in November.  Watch this space!

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No opera on 
WGBH this week!

Week of September 3 - September 10, 2015

All links are live!

Great Performances at the Met

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

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

 Saturday, September 5, 2015 @ 8:00pm

Sunday, September 6, 2015 @ 3:00am

Monday, September 7, 2015 @ 12:00am 

Please forgive my mistake last week; Carmen is this week. By now you know that La Donna Del Lago was last week. 

Carmen

Richard Eyre's mesmerizing production of Bizet's steamy melodrama returns with mezzo-soprano

Anita Rachvelishvili singing her signature role of the ill-fated gypsy temptress. Aleksandrs Antonenko plays her desperate lover, the soldier Don Jose, and Ildar Abdrazakov is the swaggering bullfighter Escamillo, who comes between them. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the irresistible score, which features one beloved and instantly recognizable melody after another.

Length: 180 |

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

SYNOPSIS: http://www.metopera.org/uploadedFiles/MetOpera/about_the_met/Met_in_Schools/Educator_Guides/Carmen/Synopsis.pdf - See more at: http://www.metopera.org/Search/?q=synopsis%20-%20carmen#sthash.GS6qFPXj.dpuf

Carmen

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Opera on 
WGBH2 this week!
Sunday, September 2, 1:00pm

Marcelo Alvarez

in

Mascagni:

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

SYNOPSIS: http://www.metopera.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?customid=10

&

Leoncavallo:

PAGLIACCI

SYNOPSIS: http://www.metopera.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?customid=10

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SO—do you want to sing? 

Come audition for RICCO!
TONIGHT

Wednesday, September 2.

AUDITIONS!

New member auditions will take place on Wednesday, September 2nd, at 7:30 PM at Providence Presbyterian Church, 500 Hope St. Providence.  Our Auditions Page has more information.  Click HERE!

http://www.ricco.org/?page_id=81

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Famous composers and their dogs

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/famous-composers-and-their-dogs/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed

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URI OLLI program:

Richard Wagner's Tannhauser

Wagner's treatment of the Tannhauser story was influenced by his sense of a global disillusionment with life and the disgust he was feeling for the trivial sensuousness and hedonism of modern life.  He longed “to find satisfaction in a more elevated and noble element – something pure, chaste and inaccessible”.  Freedom in Tannhauser becomes associated not with the unbridled expression of love – Venusberg and its sexual excess-- but with asceticism.  We will examine the sources of Wagner's libretto, the musical score and Wagner's use of motifs which reaches it summit in later works.  YouTube video clips and allusions to the libretto will be used to support and emphasize our examination of the work.

The course will be offered at the URI OLLI program Tuesday afternoons, 1:30 to 3, .for six consecutive weeks beginning September 8.  It will also be offered at the Circle of Scholars program at Salve Regina College on Thursday mornings, 10  - 12 for five consecutive weeks beginning September 24.  For more information please contact the respective organizations.

Note:  The Metropolitan Opera will present its HD performance of Tannhauser on October 31.

Suggested Reading:  Ernest Newman:  Tannhauser, in “The Wagner Operas”, Princeton University

                                  Press, 1991

                                  Synopsis of Tannhauser at Wikipedia on the net

Louis Mainelli has offered courses on Wagner's operas –Lohengrin, The Ring, Tristan and Isolde and - Parsifal - for the past few years at the URI OLLI program

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Alice Bloch 

reviews the world premiere performance of the one-act opera, “An American Dream” for the Seattle Gay News.

http://sgn.org/sgnnews43_35/page27.cfm

Liane Curtis 

reviews the world premiere at the Santa Fe Opera of Jennifer Higdon’s first opera,

“Cold Mountain.”

http://www.classical-scene.com/?s=Liane+Curtis

The Art of Staying Awake at the Opera

Monday, August 31, 2015 - 12:00 PM

By Fred Plotkin

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/staying-awake-opera/

I fell asleep at Satyagraha. What can I say? --Rosie

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

A couple of Mozart operas are featured this coming Saturday (September 5) on internet radio, one of which is the ever-popular "Marriage of Figaro." This particular broadcast is of a performance by the Flemish Opera (Ghent) that took place last June.

(http://radio.klara.be/radio/10_home.php)

A little less familiar but hardly unknown, his earlier opera "Idomeneo" can be heard on German Radio in a LIVE performance from this year's Stuttgart Music Festival.

(www.dradio.de/dkultur/)

On ORF (Austria) this Saturday, a broadcast of Verdi's "Otello" is on the schedule in a performance from Turin which took place on October 14 of last year.

(http://oe1.orf.at/)

And from the San Francisco Opera: a July 2014 performance of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" with soprano Patricia Racette singing the title role.

(www.wrti.org/)

In the meantime, the 1st video-stream of the season from the Vienna State Opera is available (for purchase) on Friday (September 4); the opera being presented is Verdi's "Rigoletto."

Also, you might want to mark your calendars for the 1st FREE live audio-stream from the Met this season: On Monday, September 21, you can tune in to a performance of Verdi's "Otello."

Enjoy!

DAVE

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky returns to opera stage

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Following a positive round of ongoing treatments, Dmitri Hvorostovsky looks forward to returning to the stage this month for three Read More »

HVOROSTOVSKY.COM

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The Met Saturday afternoon
 radio broadcast season starts again in November.  Watch this space!

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Opera on 
WGBH this week!