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2021-09-06 07:11:05
The history behind: 17 June 1800 - Puccini's Tosca and Sardou's La Tosca
Soprano Hariclea Darclée, the first Tosca Have you ever wondered why Cavaradossi, in the middle of Act Two of Puccini's Tosca, suddenly launches into a triumphal aria 'Vittoria, vittoria!' despite having just suffered torture at the hands of Scarpia's minions? You need to follow the libretto pretty closely, something I suspect few people bother to do, to realise that the aria arises directly from the very specific historical context of the opera. Puccini's inspirations for his operas were many and various (and reading his biography the net seems to have been cast remarkably wide with some surprising ones that got away). But many of his ideas came from seeing stage works, so that both Madama Butterfly and La fanciulla del West are based on English-language stage plays by John Belasco (despite Puccini understanding barely any of the spoken English texts). Tosca is based on French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, written in 1887 by […]
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Royal Opera House
2017-06-22 11:38:02
Your Reaction: What did you think of Verdi's Otello?
Jonas Kaufmann in Otello, The Royal Opera © 2017 ROH. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore Honestly which lady doesn't like a bit of bad boy?? Particularly that bad boy is @tenorkaufmann #ROHOtello — Wisdom Hill (@Scarlet2046) June 22, 2017 Great performance of #ROHOtello despite stifling heat. JK magnificent vocally, and @ROHchorus were perfect. Production worked, tho not novel — sakipol (@sakipol) June 21, 2017 @ROHchorus sounding as good as it gets, from the initial storm the commitment is there ????#BraviTutti #ROHOtello — Sebastian (@Sebastian_G_A) June 21, 2017 Maria Agresta and Jonas Kaufmann in Otello, The Royal Opera © 2017 ROH. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore Enjoyed the music & the breeches, not the sets. Desdemona's bedroom was like a White Company ad. (Useful scimitar-holder though). #ROHOtello — Emily@italyheaven (@italyheaven) June 21, 2017 […]
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Royal Opera House
2016-11-15 23:37:00
Your Reaction: What did you think of Les Contes d'Hoffmann in cinemas?
Thomas Hampson in Schlesinger’s Les Contes d'Hoffmann, The Royal Opera © 2016 ROH. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore #ROHhoffmann Lost for words and rung out. What an incredible experience. Brava tutti. — Jan Smith (@JanJancsmith) November 15, 2016 #ROHhoffmann ecstatic performance. Every single voice especially Sonya Yonceva. Diva in waiting. — Pawel Herzyk (@peherzyk) November 15, 2016 Blown away by this exuberant and opulent production. Wednesday will feel so flat in comparison #ROHhoffmann — Angel Pooky (@lace675468) November 15, 2016 Mon dieu the great #diva is alive and well @VittorioGrigolo @sonyayoncheva @TheRoyalOpera astounding, lots of love!! #ROHhoffmann — Sara Correia (@SGCorreia) November 15, 2016 Sofia Fomina, Christophe Mortagne and Vittorio Grigòlo in Schlesinger’s Les Contes d'Hoffmann, The Royal Opera © 2016 ROH. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore #ROHhoffmann Brilliant, exciting, stunningly beautiful production. And magical voices, […]
2016-07-25 18:36:14
When the sun comes out
[…] if they had stepped out of a wisely discarded episode of 1960s vintage Star Trek. Generally considerate to his hard-working singers, Botstein drew loudly vigorous playing from the American Symphony Orchestra but as usual his conducting veered to the bombastic particularly in his full-bore, nearly deafening renditions of the choruses to the sun that begin and end the work. In its early years Iris attracted the greatest singers of the day—the world premiere starred Hariclea Darclée and Fernando De Lucia—but for all its frequently gorgeous music, Illica’s curiously uninvolving libretto must account for why Iris is so infrequently performed, absent from the Met for 85 years. In the quarter-century it was performed there it managed only16 performances, despite casts that included Emma Eames, Lucrezia Bori, Elisabeth Rethberg, Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti and Ezio Pinza. Since then such widely varied divas as Clara Petrella, Magda Olivero, Adriana Maliponte, and […]
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