Thank you...

I'm currently nursing a bit of a virus, so as soon as my eyes stop watering I'll have plenty of recordings to watch

Mind you I'll be one of those annoying people who cough and splutter all the way through the performance at the moment

Friday 12 July

Rigoletto live from Aix-en-Provence, Arte, 21:30 CET, 165 min

Last night we had La Rondine...

4.9 deg E, 12.706 H SR 4412.

Next Thursday Tosca...don't know whether it will be the same downlink?

Regards to all,

Good news peoples - Bayreuth`s opening Hollander on 25th July is being broadcast on ARTE on a time-delayed basis later that evening.

Not ARTE, channel is ARD

Indeed so sir, my apologies and thanks!

Saw this at the cinema earlier this evening and really thought it was absolutely terrible apart from Senta...

Tomorrow (Tuesday) France 2 is showing Verdi's "Un Bal Masque" live from the Choregies d'Orange, starts at 21:45 French time.

Don Carlo from Salzburg with Jonas Kaufmann currently on ORF2E

And also on HD ARTE, 19.2 & hotbird, a good few seconds ahead of ORF.

Had a flyer today from Royal Opera House for Live Cinema presentations:
Turandot 17th September 1915 BST
Don Quixote 16th October 1915 BST

Snap... I was just about to post the same. Hopefully we'll pick up the feeds in time.

Saturday 14 September

La traviata

3sat 20:15 CET, 140 min This is the 2005 production with Anna Netrebko and the big clock. If you haven't seen this before, and I resisted for quite a while, it is well worth seeing...

Sunday 15 September

The best of 'Don Giovanni in Stuttgart' HDTV recording of 25/07/2012 from the Stuttgart Opera

SWR 09:00 CET, 90 min, opera

ROH Cinema Feed of "Turandot" on 17th.

It's a fabulous production...saw it last week. Let's hope we can find the feeds in time.

Same here, generally I have more trouble locating the ROH feeds than the Met ones...

I do occasionally go to the pictures to see these but it has to be something I really want to see.

Agreed...the Met. seem to be more generous with their line up time. Fingers crossed.

0.8W 11.472 SR13310 FEC 3/4

24.5W 11.684 SR 13310 FEC 3/4 with French Subs

Test TX

0.8W is never strong for me, but also on:

5W 11592 H 25780

Interesting they are using the same feeds as the last Met Opera broadcast...

Let's hope they use the same downlinks for the whole season.

Splendid production, wonder why Satelliweb did not pick up on any of the transmissions ?

They quite often miss the ROH feeds for some reason and the other night they just seemed swamped with sport feeds...

I was just pleased I didn't have to rescan to find it!

Satelliweb picked up on the Test transmissions at about lunchtime...ran for an hour or so, which is how I found the frequencies,

The next big one and one I'm particularly looking forward too...

From the Met:

Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

October 5, 2013

In addition to the Met Eugene Onegin this saturday, ORF2E on 19E are doing a live broadcast of the opening night of Puccini's "Girl of the West" from Vienna State Opera at 7.15 PM BST, with Jonas Kauffman as Ramirrez and Nina Stemme as the girl in question. For me Stemme / Kauffman / Fanciulla win out over Netrebko / Kwiecien / Onegin, although I would love to see both! Incidentally from the end of October, Vienna State Opera are going to be live screening selected operas over the internet in HD, rather as Munich State Opera currently do.

Anybody know what sort of production La Fanciulla is likely to be? Wienner Staatsoper seem to be keeping it under wraps. On their website there are pictures of all their other productions - but not La Faciulla.