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2020-05-11 06:37:04
'I have my habits, my fixations if you like ... without them I can't get any of my effects right': the first Carmen, exploring the performance of Célestine Galli-Marié
Célestine Galli-Marié as Bizet's Carmen (Photo Nadar) What should Carmen sound like? This is a question that has long fascinated me; as Bizet's opera was taken over by grand opera mezzo-sopranos (and sopranos) during the early 20th century was something lost in terms of its original performance tradition? What, in fact, do we know about the performance of the first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié, who sang the role from 1875 to 1890? There is no recording of Galli-Marié in the role, if you want an early French mezzo-soprano singing it then you have to jump to Emma Calvé, 20 years Galli-Marié's junior and a rather grander singer (Calvé work at the Paris Opera, Galli-Marié at the Opéra-Comique). You can catch her interpretation of the Seguidille on YouTube (recorded in 1902, with piano accompaniment). Bizet's Carmen was written for the Opéra-Comique, a company which had a […]
2011-12-27 00:32:00
DECEMBER 27 today in classical music history
1696 (26th?)FP of Bononcini's opera Il Trionfo di Camilla at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. 1723 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 64 Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget on the 3rd Day of Christmas as part of Bach's first annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1723-24. 1724 FP of Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 133 Ich freue mich in dir on the 3rd Day of Christmas as part of Bach's second annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1724-25. 1725 FP of Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 151 Süsser Trost, mein Jesus kömmt on the 3rd Day of Christmas as part of Bach's third annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1725-27. 1734 FP of Bach's Herrscher der Himmels, erhöre das Lallen third of the six part Christmas Oratorio S. 248, in Leipzig. 1765 Birth of English soprano Elizabeth Billington in London. Died […]
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