That's exciting! Good luck if you're doing it yourself though. I take the coward's way out and get the installers in!

It may come to that yet... But it's now on order!

Apparently my mount needs replacing too... I had a feeling this project would grow!

Anyway I got to thinking, this morning in fact, that I don't even check the ZDF listings any more - they used to be the first ones I looked at

And just to refresh as we are on a new page...

SATURDAY, 23 JULY

Documentary: A Village Opera makes grand entrance in small Leppin rbb 18:32, 28 min – your guess is as good as mine on this! Repeated on Monday 25th July.

Opera: Telemaco ossia L'isola di Circe Schwetzingen Festspiele 2011 SWR 3Sat 20:15, 125 min

FRIDAY, 29 JULY

Opera: Die Frau ohne Schatten re-live, Salzburg Festival 2011 3Sat clock 20:15, 185 min

Thanks Annied for those two...

PS. No Sunday performance on CNBC this week

Things are never straightforward, are they?!

On a different tack, is anyone else interested in the documentaries that crop up from time to time? I've seen excellent ones about composers, artists and training programmes.

The Village Opera one looks interesting, although I suspect it'll be more about how the village pulls together to mount the opera than anything else. (As they've chosen Purcell's King Arthur, that'll suit me very well!)

There should have been a documentary on Arte a few days ago, "The Beauty of the Voice", about a young singers' programme in Zurich. I've just checked it on my HDD and for some reason it was replaced by another programme (ballet) and will now be shown at a later date.

What are they up to? Come to think of it I haven't seen a single opera ad on CNBC for a few weeks now, so I wonder are they slowly giving up on it? Unless that's just for the summer and they're gonna be showing it again in the Autumn.

Saw an ad for opera on CNBC this evening while watching NBC Nightly News, apparently CNBC Performance returns in September. I guess I was right then about them not showing it over the summer.

I occasionally watch them but not being great on languages is a bit of a disadvantage... at least if it's on Arte (French version) my wife can follow it and then explain any of the bits I miss...


At least it is coming back which is good news...

PS. Still hoping to get my dish motor installed this weekend!

Well I guessed they were just taking a break from it for the summer, maybe it gets less viewers than it would in the winter. Good luck with the dish motor installation

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It's been put off as I have had to order another mounting bracket... the one I have on the wall at the moment just isn't sturdy enough.

It is with the link from Cinema Live http://www.cinemalive.com/CustomCont...aspx?ID=482023

Photo with phone http://www.ukit.be/images/SNG/Cinema...R_23072011.JPG

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guest waltz composed by Sir Anthony Hopkins

When is that due to arrive? Guess it made sense to order another one... you need to keep that dish safe!

They say next day delivery but I guess that probably means Tuesday now... fingers crossed!

SATURDAY, 30 JULY

Opera Tales of Hoffmann 3Sat 20:15, 165 min

As usual don't forget the time difference!

Will you have to wait until next weekend to fit it now, or can you wangle some free time during the week?

I'm not into Opera and don't know anything about it but I saw this which you may be interested in - Arte on 14th August Live Richard Wagner's Opera 'Lohengrin' from the Bayereuth Opera house thingy

Hopefully and even more hopefully it won't be pouring with rain...


Thanks Rob...

I'm only guessing but it might be the Bayreuth Festival, where they basically just play the music of Richard Wagner.

That's the one, tell me is that a long festival 'cos I saw something on the news about some Israeli orchestra performing Wagner at that festival tonight

It goes on for about a month, 25th July to 28th August.

There's more about the Israeli orchestra's participation here. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...estra-bayreuth

A few more courtesy of TV Today which arrived this afternoon. (I may have missed some as my eyes start glazing over after a while.)

All times are British times.

Already mentioned, "Tales of Hoffman" on 3Sat 30th July 19.15 - 2200

"Mefistofele" by Boito on ZDFkultur Thur 4th Aug 14.10 - 16.40

Documentary "Domingo, My Greatest Roles" on 3Sat Sat 6h Aug 19.15 - 20.00. (I'm pretty sure I saw this only a few months ago.)

Documentary, Edita Gruberova - the art of bel canto Arte Mon 8th Aug 21.30 - 22.25

Aida am Rhein 2010 live performance from Basel ZDFkultur Thu 11th Aug 20.30 - 23.05. I found more info about it here.
http://opera-cake.blogspot.com/2010/...-at-rhine.html

Completely off topic, but I also noticed Kabel Eins have a new series coming up where 2 workers from Germany swap places with 2 workers abroad. On the second show, 2 taxi drivers from Mumbai swap places with 2 taxi drivers from Bad Tölz. Can't wait to see that one!

Mine did too


save me leafing through it, when is it on??

It starts on Tue 2nd August 19.15 - 20.15 British time. First one is car mechanics from Germany doing a swap with their counterparts in Namibia. There are 4 episodes altogether.

Thanx, and just to prove that I do get TV Today, what do you think of that little, very small football fixtures booklet that came with it glued to page 3?

I used to like Goodbye Deutschland too, you know where German people moved abroad to foreign lands

I'm not into football, so it didn't really mean much to me I'm afraid.

I watched "Goodbye Deutschland" for a while too. In fact I'm not really sure why I stopped. The ones where they moved to unusual countries could be really interesting. I did get a bit suspicious when a couple who'd been on it trying to set up a fashion business in the USA suddenly turned up in "Mieten, Kaufen, Wohnen" though.