Good news!
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2012/...ch-on-fransat/

Unfortunately the link isn't opening for me, what did it say?

Eutelsat’s subscription-free Fransat platform will start to carry six new HD channels on December 12.

The Fransat platform is broadcast via the Eutelsat 5 West A satellite at 5west



These six new DTT channels broadcast in HD will launch in France on December 12: Chérie 25, HD1, L’Équipe 21, Numéro 23, RMC Découverte and 6Ter.

Aids Gala 2012

On right now

3Sat

11953H
27500
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Oh bother, that's the second year running I've missed it. (Thanks for the heads up though.) It's been really good in the past and I only wish I could understand more of Max Raabe's deadpan deliveries. (From the bits I do follow, it always sounds very clever and very funny.)

Fingers crossed they repeat it and one of us notices in time.

Saturday 01 December

Concert
Festive AIDS Gala 2012
From the Deutsche Oper Berlin, recorded at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 10 November 2012
rbb clock 23:15, 90 min

Thank you! I've set the timer.

Arte on 19E are timetabled to present a live performance of Lohengrin Friday 7 December, 19.15 - 23.20 GMT. I am puzzled because also advertised is live by satellite cinema screening of Lohengrin from La Scala at 15.00 on the same day, conducted by Barenboim, with Pape, Kaufmann, Lucic, Harteros, and Herlitzius. Seems like a surfeit of Lohengrin. However it is one of my favourite operas

Not an opera, I know, but it is of interest since conducted by Harnoncourt and has Marlis Petersen and Gerald Finley singing. 3Sat, 19E, 1st December, 19.15 - 20.50 GMT.

Having checked on various websites, I guess that Arte are showing this as a delayed live, catchup broadcast from La Scala.

I think you are correct, the live performance at La Scala is shown on their web-site as 4PM GMT

Agreed. 16.00 GMT start. The cinema presentation will be 1018 + dolby surround sound versus Arte HD's downscaled 720 and stereo.

A bit cheeky of ARTE, don't you think?

" A musical event broadcast live,"

"Live from the Scala: Lohengrin
(Italy, 2012, 245mn) "

Me too.
Even when he appears on talk shows,he has the audience falling about in laughter,whilst remaining po-faced,as usual.

Jose Carreras Gala 2012

13-12-12
7.15PM(GMT)

Das Erste/Das Erste HD

sounds like a good charity concert, a pity that it clashes with the Nutcracker from ROH, perhaps it will be repeated

Just checked my HDD and I've got it this time. Thanks!

Very pleased your box behaved itself this time, have you enough German to translate any of Max Raabe's comments which seem to have the audience falling about ?

You can catch the repeat on 15-12-12 at 12.30pm,on mdr

Astra 1 (19E)
12109 H
27500
3/4

Advent concert,from Dresden,on right now

ZDF/ZDF HD

19E

11953H
27500
3/4

ZDF HD

11361H
22000
2/3

13E

11054H
27500
5/6

Probably not, my German isn't bad, but the vocabulary he uses is out of my league and you really need more than my normal 60 - 80% comprehension for humour anyway. I get the odd phrase, and I've picked up that in the past he's telling the story of the opera from which the aria comes, but that's about it. If anything makes enough sense when I watch it, I'll post it here, but don't hold your breath!

Just deleted this as it posted itself before I was ready!

OK, I think I've got the intro to the aria from "La Traviata" more or less translated in full. I don't think it's the best one, but it gives you a bit of an idea. Of course you have to imagine the inimitable Max delivering it!

"How nice, when a fulfilling career matches ones personal interests, as it did for Frau Violetta Valery. She is respected by both her colleagues and the customers of her trade as a full time prostitute in a brothel. But then, for the love of Alfredo Germont, a student from the provinces, she hangs up her suspenders. After a while, missing the routine of her former job, she goes back on the game. Alfredo's father Gerard was not too thrilled with this decision. Hear him in this interpretation of the song "Come back soon lad".

Thanks for that, I can now see why the Germans find Max's comments so hilarious, together with his dead-pan delivery. Just wish there were English sub-titles

Thank you for this, I did not want to miss Carreras. I suppose that with Christmas coming up, there are bound to be more clashes of programming