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2015-11-20 03:30:00
Opera Favourites #1 - French and German
Having dedicated my last post to the summit of musical theatre of all times (the Ring des Nibelungen), it may be now interesting and insightful to alight on a few operas I love dearly, by looking at them from a Wagnerian perspective. Fundamental masterpieces for the stage like the greatest Classical opera (Fidelio) or the greatest Romantic one (Der Freischütz) must always be kept in mind when approaching Wagner, as they provided critical inspiration, both in musical and theatrical terms, to the great Master's aesthetics moulding; down to the singing technique, whereby - for instance - the great Don Ferrando or Kaspar scenes are clearly anticipating of some of Wagner's most powerful villains' characterization. Next to these German milestones, four intense operatic diamonds by Wagner's French contemporaries, who managed to use Wagnerian technique whilst often maintaining structures evolved from the Grand Opéra genre, combined with a supremely French […]
2015-07-13 16:00:39
Crime of “Passion”
Bohuslav Martinu’s The Greek Passion has had a rough life. Written between 1954 and 1957 to his own English libretto based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis (who also wrote Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ), the opera was first approved—then rejected for being too radical—by Covent Garden. Martinu then produced a second, more conservative version of the opera, fundamentally a totally different work which retained only about thirty percent of the original score, which didn’t reach the stage till 1961, two years after the composer’s death. This “Zürich Version” was produced by various major opera companies over the next decades. Ales Brezina, the head of the Bohuslav Martinu Institute in Prague, undertook a complete reconstruction of the original “English Version,” which premiered at the 1999 Bregenzer Festspiele, where it starred Christopher Ventris (as Manolios), Nina Stemme (as Katerina), and Jonas Kaufmann (as Nikolios). For its […]
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