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2024-01-22 07:34:00
Let the dialogue flow: Benjamin Bernheim leads a wonderfully memorable account of Massenet's Werther in Zurich
[…] Audun Iversen as Albert and Valeriy Murga as Le Bailli.Werther has an important Swiss history. Written in 1885, it was rejected by the Opéra Comique in Paris as being too serious. Eventually the work would be premiered in Vienna at the Hofoper in German in 1892. The first performance in the original French was later in 1892 in Geneva, with the first performance in France not happening until 1893 when it was given by the Théâtre Lyrique and it was not until 1903 that the Opéra Comique took the work on.In Zurich, Klaus Grünberg's set consisted of a single wood panelled box with compartments/cupboards that opened to reveal the necessaries for the plot - dinner things, bread, Albert's pistol, an organ for Act Two, an urn with Charlotte's mother's ashes and so on. Costumes (by Silke Willrett) were roughly modern, however no mobile phones and Le Bailli uses a small […]
2022-10-25 17:57:54
Montréal, 25 octobre 2022 – Après avoir fait salle comble lors de sa création en mars dernier, le spectacle Aujourd’hui CALLING YOU sera présenté en reprise par Chants Libres et sa nouvelle directrice artistique Marie-Annick Béliveau le 7 novembre 2022, à l’Agora Hydro-Québec du cœur des sciences de l’UQAM. Dans ce Théâtre Lyrique documentaire pour voix [...]
2022-06-13 10:28:02
On a highly concentrated scale: Verdi's Macbeth at The Grange Festival
Verdi: Macbeth - Gezim Myshketa - The Grange Festival (Photo Simon Annand) Verdi: Macbeth (1865); Judith Howarth, Gezim Myshketa, Jonathan Lemalu, Samuel Sakker, director: Maxine Braham, conductor: Francesco Cilluffo, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; The Grange FestivalReviewed 11 June 2022 (★★★★½) Stunning singing and vivid performances bring out the sense of character in the revised version Verdi's first Shakespearean opera Verdi: Macbeth - Judith Howarth - The Grange Festival (Photo Bodnar Photography) Verdi's Macbeth premiered at the Teatro all Pergola in Florence in 1847. It had a respectable life in Italian houses before Verdi revised it for Paris in 1865 (where it was performed by the Théâtre Lyrique at what is now the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris), but then the work rather languished till the 20th century. This has left the opera with a somewhat complicated history, modern performances tend to focus on the 1865 revision, but miss out […]
2021-02-19 07:00:16
Liszt’s “Les Adieux”: A Fantasy on Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette”
On April 27, 1867, Charles Gounod’s five act opera, Roméo et Juliette, was premiered at Paris’ Théâtre-Lyrique Impérial du Châtelet. The same year, Franz Liszt composed Les Adieux (“The Farewell”), a solo piano work described as “a Rêverie on a motif from Gounod’s opéra Roméo et Juliette.” As the pianist and musicologist Leslie Howard writes, He really uses several motifs from the opera, all concerned with the partings of the lovers: the end of the ...
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