My King Lear was subject to several dropouts although mostly showing 60% signal quality. Did anyone else notice a variable signal? Is my dish inadequate? Was the heavily overcast sky to blame? Or was that just a weaker than average transponder?
(11495V) I agree that modern dress can be off-putting but Simon Russell Beale made up for it!

Sorry, I didn't watch it...

Friday 09 May
Puccini, Gershwin and Massenet in Baden-Baden
Arte 05:20 CET, 45 min, concert

Monday, May 12
Claude - An opera based on Victor Hugo
Arte 00:30 CET, 100 min, opera

Not sure about this one! There's not much else around at the moment as far as I can see though.

Don't forget La Cenerentola from the Met on Saturday

Yes, I remembered this time!

'Live in cinema' Sunday 8 June. Delayed live production from Glyndebourne, had good reviews by the critics last week. Broadcast at 4.30 PM

Also Der Rosenkavalier on 3Sat , Saturday 7 June 20.00 UK time, with Renee Fleming.

Ariade auf Naxos tonight on 3SAT at 7.15 with Renee Fleming from Baden-Baden

Carmen from Arena de Verona. wednesday 25th. 7.15 pm BST. ARTE french and german

Manon Lescaut, from ROH cinema feed...Tuesday 24th, awful production by all accounts.

Thanks for the reminder. Didn't know Manon previously. Enjoyed the music once I found the subtitles, but not the staging and even spotted a friend in the chorus,.

I can't say I liked the production...but the performances were awesome. Pappano is the greatest Puccini conductor, bar none. If you like Manon Lescaut, try The Met 1983? recording, with a young Domingo and the great Renata Scotto

Wed. 25th Carmen from Verona on Arte.

Regards to all,

Die Zauberflote coming up on Wednesday 9th on ARTE at 2015 CET/1915 BST apparently live from the Aix festival. There is a Glyndebourne Don Giovanni advertised for Sunday 6th but it is a recording and may not be broadcast but it appears to be available on line.

[quote=bensgrandad;73543152]Die Zauberflote coming up on Wednesday 9th on ARTE at 2015 CET/1915 BST apparently live from the Aix festival.

20.15 CET on ARTE Germany, but 20.50 CET on ARTE France..Can't both be live!

Saturday, July 19

Orfeo ed Euridice
Baroque theater, Cesky Krumlov, September 2013

3Sat 22:15 CET, 85 min

Came out top in BBC Radio 3`s recent "Building a library" review of this wonderful opera.

I came across the "'Forza" from Munich on Arte this evening too late to post about it, but at the end, the presenter said that the next transmission from the Munich Opera would be "Il Trovatore" on 15th August with Anna Netrebko and Placido Domingo. I've just double checked on the Arte website and it starts at 20.15, presumably that'll be 19.15 British time.

Let's hope it is better than the hideous ugly production of La Forza...the best music Verdi ever wrote...totally destroyed. Bah humbug!

It WAS pretty dire wasn't it?! If all goes according to plan, I'll be in the Munich area when it's on again in April and had been toying with the idea of applying for tickets, but I don't think I could cope with that production.

Yes, a great pity...why do these great artists have to get involved in such awful productions? I was looking forward to Andrea Chenier at ROH, normally David Mc Vicars
productions are brilliant...BUT as yet I can't find out much about it.

Incidentally there is a brilliant Elijah Moshinsky production of La Forza from the Mariensky Theatre, still as far as I know, available on DVD. That in itself says it all.

Regards to all,

[quote=Phil Thomas;
Incidentally there is a brilliant Elijah Moshinsky production of La Forza from the Mariensky Theatre, still as far as I know, available on DVD. That in itself says it all.


Is this the one you mean? There are several complete productions on You-Tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gtkXtQSP6A[/url]

Kind regards

If I have read the programme correctly there is Mozart's Don Giovanni from the Salzburg Festival tomorrow Sunday 3rd at 1930 CET on Austria's Servus TV (Astra 19.2E 11303 H).

If you can follow German, or possibly even if you can't, the programme immediately before could be interesting too, it's all about what goes on behind the scenes of the production.

[quote=wombat66;74038215]
Thanks for the link.
Yes that's the one...I not also the TV direction is by Brian Large ( I worked on his first ever TV Opera...Peter Grimes, which was recorded at Aldeburgh)

Regards to all,

Friday 15th August...Il Trovatore from Salzburg with Domingo and Anna Netrebko.

On Arte and ORD 19.15 UK time

Regards to all,

[quote=Phil Thomas;74142694]Friday 15th August...Il Trovatore from Salzburg with Domingo and Anna Netrebko.

On Arte and ORD 19.15 UK time

As usual, ARTE France will be showing the same programme, but 35 minutes later than the German transmission--- Very handy if you miss the start on German !