Have you had a chance to check the Xmas schedules yet?

I see CNBC are bringing back opera and ballet for Christmas. They're showing the Tales of Beatrix Potter on Christmas Eve which I might watch as I loved the books as a kid! They have performances on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. I saw the ad when I was watching last night

Here's the link to their schedules: http://www.cnbc.com/id/25098361/

I'm looking forward to Tosca on Saturday (One of my favourites)

Pappano's Essential Tosca Sat. BBCHD 1.35pm
Tosca from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Sat BBCHD 2.35pm

Excellent, thanks...


I saw that was coming up, thanks for the details...

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SUNDAY, 25 DECEMBER

Opera The Mastersingers of Nuremberg in the premiere recording of the Nuremberg State Theatre on 15.10.2011 20:15 BR-Alpha, 265 min

MONDAY, 26 DECEMBER

Opera Don Juan of Austria, 1955 04:40 3Sat, 80 minutes.

Opera Theatre fancy cat tells Titus - A fairy-tale opera Arte 10:00, 80 min

Opera Anna Bolena Vienna State Opera, April 2011 3Sat 20:15, 195 min

Documentation Opera Guide - Is that of Wagner? 3Sat 11:35, 30 min

THURSDAY, 29 DECEMBER

Opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach Arte 21:55, 170 min

All times are in CET

At least I'm living up to my username by providing that info

Did anyone record "Pappano's Essential Tosca"? If so, could they put it on a dvd for me,please?
I live in the UK and would pay for postage costs, etc.

Watching The Tales of Beatrix Potter on CNBC now, getting a bit of culture in me! not sure on the music tho but maybe that's because I'm into pop

CNBC are also showing opera during the New Year weekend, I saw the advert earlier while watching. At least my username still means something

FRIDAY, 06 JANUARY

Concert Gala for the New Year with Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek recording from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on 31/12/2011 09:35 SWR, 60 minutes

SATURDAY, 07 JANUARY

Song Annette Dasch salon "home" 3Sat 22:20, 75 min

And for those who like ballet....

SUNDAY 08 JANUARY

Dance Nutcracker Tchaikovsky's ballet of the Dresden Semper Opera Arte 01:15, 95 min

All times are given in CET

I cannot get HD transmissions at the moment,is there any way I can get Met Opera on Saturday in SD.?

I like the sound of the concert. I hope the wind stays down for it, almost everything I've recorded recently has glitsches in it where the wind has rattled the dish!

I'm afraid not, but if you keep an eye out at B&Q, Aldi, Lidl etc deals on the kits are constantly coming up and you'll easily find an HD box for £60 or less.

As far as I'm aware the next broadcast from the Met is: The Enchanted Island – New Production January 21, 2012, 12:55 pm ET



Touch wood ours has been surviving unscathed, which is more than can be said of our fence...

The wind seems to have done a lot of damage. Sorry about the fence!

My dish is on my flat roof. It's well secured, but the gusts have been so strong they were rattling it and causing lots of momentary reception problems. The downside of living so close to the coast I suppose. There isn't really anything between my dish and the Continent!

Hopefully if everyone's system has survived the weather...

THURSDAY, 19 JANUARY

Opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach Arte 01:00 CET, 175 min

JANUARY 21, 2012

Met Broadcast The Enchanted Island– New Production
12:55 pm ET

no, mine's kaput. Dunno whats wrong but i cant get access to the roof to fix it myself atm damn! lol

Slightly OT

Semperopernball 2012(Dresden),on right now on MDR:
12109 H
27.5
3/4

Will be repeated tomorrow (21-1-12),on 3Sat at 7.15PM (GMT)

Hope you get it fixed soon...

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The Met broadcast should go live shortly!

This is an interesting thread.

I'm surprised that no mention is made of Wagner's "Lohengrin" which was broadcast live on 19.2°E in August - arte by the look of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GbN-k7MHCc

It seems a LOT of the interest outside Germany is on the East coast (New York, Florida) and on the West coast of the USA.

"Lohengrin: Hitler is informed it features a chorus dressed as rats."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Pk4eObNRQ

A bit short notice,but just spotted it on the epg.
BBC2/BBC HD

Documentary:Pappano's essential Tosca
21-1-12 5.30PM(GMT)

It's quite hard to keep track of all the various guides at times and as they aren't all in English things get missed, hence the more eyes the better so welcome to the thread...

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Met feed is now live...

French subtitles on 5W 11592 H 25780

This was on over Christmas, quite an interesting insight...

Are they showing the opera again too?

Sky Arts 2 are also showing an old (~ 1990) "Die Fledermaus" from Covent Garden. I remember watching it when it was on live, one New Year's Eve. It was planned as a farewell to Joan Sutherland, with some special guests, but they clearly didn't want to upstage the main cast.

The solution was clever, in the midle of that opera there's a party scene, usually a ballet. Instead the "guests" at the party were Sutherland, Pavarotti and (I think) Marilyne Horne, who all got to do some party pieces. The main opera cast watched the party, then restarted the show.

It's a very entertaining production in English, translated by John Mortimer of "Rumpole" fame, and with John Sessions as the gaoler. When it was first on I was supposed to go to a New Year's Eve party, but started watching this. My only blank video tape was a 3hour one, and I had to wait until there were only three hours left, pressed record, and dashed out to the party! When I checked the next day, the opera had overrun and I'd missed the last 10 minutes It was ages before I found a copy to watch again.

My local cinema, which shows the Met Opera broadcasts is advertising various other live shows in the next few months. These include the Bolshoi Ballet, Rigoletto from the Royal Opera House, and a couple of plays from the National Theatre. Does anyone know if any of these can be picked up from the satellite transmission?

The ROH's "Faust" came through on;

Atlantic Bird 5W
Fréquence: 11592 - Pol: H - SR: 12890

It was also on Intelsat and Thor if I remember rightly, but the signal on them wasn't strong enough here in NE England

I'm guessing that the same frequencies will be used again, but if there's no joy on any of them, then it's a case of checking out the live feeds and hoping someone spots it.

It's generally only the live broadcasts... Any that are pre recorded and don't seem to appear on the same feeds.

As Annied mentioned they mostly seem to use the same feeds and someone normally spots them when they go live about an hour before the event..