Monthly Archives: May 2009

stevie wonder 2008

Stevie Wonder: Live at Last

Preview of Stevie Wonder: Live at Last

To mark the 50th anniversary of Motown Records, Stevie Wonder: Live at Last captures Grammy Award-winning artist Stevie Wonder in his first concert performance recorded for television Monday, June 1 at 8 p.m. (check local listings) on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances. Presented in 5.1 digital surround ...

Eric Clapton / Steve Winwood

Preview of Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden

Long-time friends and former band mates Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood team up for a once-in-a-lifetime reunion concert in Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden Thursday, May 28 at 8 p.m. (ET) on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances on PBS (check local listings). ...

Act I Scene 1

Act I. Scene 1. Bastard. Thou Nature art my Goddess, to thy law My services are bound, why am I then Deprived of a son's right because I came not In the dull road that custom has prescribed? Why bastard, wherefore base, when I can ...

Credits for Orfeo ed Euridice

Directed by BARBARA WILLIS SWEETE Conductor JAMES LEVINE Production MARK MORRIS Set Designer ALLEN MOYER Costume Designer ISAAC MIZRAHI Lighting Designer JAMES F. INGALLS Choreographer MARK MORRIS Host JOYCE DiDONATO Cast in order of appearance Orfeo STEPHANIE BLYTHE Amor HEIDI GRANT MURPHY Euridice DANIELLE DE ...

GP at the Met
Preview of Orfeo ed Euridice

Stephanie Blythe commands the Met stage as the grieving husband Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice Saturday, May 16 at Noon (ET) on Great Performances at the Met on PBS HD (check local listings). Great Performances at the Met is a presentation of THIRTEEN in ...

Scene 32

Full victory is theirs.  Leir cedes the kingdom to the Gallian King and his daughter.  Leir recognizes at last the nature of Cordella’s love, Perillus’ loyalty, and Mumford’s valor, which made fugitives of Cornwall, Gonorill, Cambria, and Ragan.   He asks for some time to rest, ...

Scene 31

Cornwall and Cambria individually recognize that the day is lost, that the people have turned against them.  Cambria has grown to fear a devil in the other camp who has hounded him mercilessly.  Mumford enters—he is the man—and chases Cambria out the door, admitting that ...

Scene 30

The Gallian King, apparently addressing a group, pledges them no harm if they re-subscribe to Lier, explaining the daughters’ betrayal of their father.  A nobleman says, in effect, you should have told us sooner, and we would not have greeted you with arms.  They will ...

Scene 29

Men and women are on the stage half naked.  The captains come in, swords drawn, looking for the watchmen, whose lack of warning has lost the town to invaders without a fight.  They suspect the truth, the watchmen come in to confirm it in deed ...

Scene 28

The Gallian King comes in with his army, realizing that they have landed with ease, everyone “dead asleep.”  They will wake them up and rout them, half-naked. Scene 27 . . . Directory . . . Scene 29 Scene 28 Enter the King of Gallia ...