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Rousseau Le Devin du Village staged at Versailles
[…] pulse the basis of music. Separate the two and lose the plot. It would be impossible and inadvisable to recreate the full baroque experience, but this production is a glimpse into what might have been. For the rest, we use our imaginations, based on what we've learned. Les Nouveaux Caractères are conducted by Sébastien d'Hérin. The dancers are Le Compagnie d'Eloquents, choreograped by Hubert Hazebrocq. Singers are Caroline Mutel (Colette), Cyrille Dubois (Colin), and Frédéric Caton (Le Devin). Historic staging by Jean-Paul Gousset. It would be impossible to recreate the full baroque experience, but in this staging we get a glimpse into what might have been, from which we can learn the foundations of French style. Please read Reconsidering Rousseau's Le devin du Village : an opera of surprising and valuable paradox by Edward Green (Ars lyrica, 2007) for a more detailed analysis of the score and ideas behind it. […]
2015-11-20 03:30:00
Opera Favourites #1 - French and German
[…] McCracken, Adriana Maliponte, Tom Krause, Colette Boky, Marcia Baldwin, Donald Gramm, Raymond Gibbs, Russell Christopher, Andrea Velis. Metropolitan Opera Chorus and OrchestraLeonard BernsteinDGG 427 440-2 (1973) Jules MassenetWerther Ramón Vargas, Vesselina Kasarova, Christopher Schaldenbrand, Dawn Kotoski, Umberto Chiummo, Christoph Genz, Roman Trekel, Arndis Halla, Frank Bauer. Rundfunkchor Berlin & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester BerlinVladimir JurowskiRCA 74321 58224-2 (1998) Jules MassenetWerther Jerry Hadley, Anne Sofie von Otter, Gérard Théruel, Dawn Upshaw, Jean-Marie Frémeau, Gilles Ragon, Frédéric Caton, Geneviève Marchand. Maîtrise et Orchestre de l'Opéra National de LyonKent Nagano Erato 0630-17790-2 (1995) Jacques Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann Neil Shicoff, Ann Murray, Luciana Serra, Rosalind Plowright, Jessye Norman, José van Dam, Robert Tear, Jocelyne Taillon, Alexander Oliver, Marcel Vanaud, Dale Duesing, Thierry Dran, Kurt Rydl. Orchestre et Choeurs du Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Sylvain Cambreling EMI 7 49641 2 (1986) Jacques Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann Francisco Araiza, Anne Sofie […]
2013-04-18 20:07:01
Boys to men
[…] reduced to a quivering, tortured monster, finally put out of his misery when David stabbed him in self-defense. Having burst onto the scene over ten years ago as Ulisse in the ravishing LAF production of Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ullise in Patria, Croatian tenor Kresimir Spicer returned as the implacable Joabel whose thirst for blood drives him to murder Jonathas, an act normally kept off-stage but which Homoki instead presented with shocking vividness. Basses Frédéric Caton as Achis and Pierre Bessière as a gravely sepulchral Samuel were also splendid. The raising of the ghost of Samuel by the Witch of Endor (La Pythonisse) was the least felicitous directorial choice by Homoki. Into his imagined scenario of the past, the director had invented the figure of Saül’s wife/Jonathas’s mother who dies onstage during one of the mimed sequences. During the opera’s prologue which Homoki provocatively placed instead after Act III, […]
2013-04-03 07:26:10
Enchanted April
[…] Tannhäuser – January 9, 1954: Margaret Harshaw, Astrid Varnay, Ramon Vinay, George London, Jerome Hines, Brian Sullivan, George Szell. I Vespri Siciliani Leo Nucci, Fabio Armiliato, Giacomo Prestia, Daniela Dessi, Dario Russo and Andrea Mastroni star in this Teatro Regio di Parma production of the Verdi opera conducted by Massimo Zanetti and staged by Pier Luigi Pizzi. David et Jonathas Pascal Charbonneau, Ana Quintans, Neal Davis, Frederic Caton, Kresimir Spicer and Dominique Visse star in this Andreas Homoki production of the Charpentier opera with William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants.
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