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2022-09-05 06:11:50
Giacomo Meyerbeer, born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer, September 5, 1791, in Tasdorf, near Berlin, Germa
2021-12-15 08:18:32
Meyerbeer's first opera, written when he was just 21, is finally available in a modern recording that enables us to begin to appreciate what we've been missing
[…] and support from his family. Having studied with Antonio Salieri and Carl Friedrich Zelter, at the age of 19 in 1810 he went for formal lessons with Abbé Vogler at Darmstadt, where fellow students included Carl Maria von Weber (who would become a friend and supporter), some five years older then Meyerbeer. The time with Vogler was important for Meyerbeer, not only did it provide him with strong musical grounding but on the death of his grandfather, Liebmann Meyer Wulff, Jacob Liebmann Beer started to sign himself Jacob Meyer Beer which would be later Italianised to Giacomo Meyerbeer. Meyerbeer's opera Jephtas Gelübde was written in 1812 as a sort of graduation work following the completion of his study with Vogler. The work's premiere was the source of some friction between Vogler and Meyerbeer's parents and the result was a failure to present the first performance in Berlin where the young composer was […]
2020-04-06 08:33:05
The most successful opera composer of the 19th century? A look at Meyerbeer and his operas
[…] for Donizetti’s incomplete Le duc d’Albe) and Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine (1865). Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable at the Paris Opera (Salle Le Peletier) in 1832 Meyerbeer was born near Berlin to a Jewish family, his father was a wealthy financier and his mother also from a wealthy family. Like Mendelssohn (born 18 years after Meyerbeer) Meyerbeer received a rounded, musical education making his public debut aged 10 playing a Mozart concerto. He was born Jacob Liebmann Beer, and eventually adopted Meyerbeer (at first Meyer Beer) after his grandfather. Unusually, Meyerbeer remained true to his Jewish heritage all his life, and kept his reaction to anti-Jewish sentiment very much to himself, he never publicly reacted to controversy or prejudice over his religion.Wagner's attitude to Meyerbeer is well-known, and we will be examining Meyerbeer's influence of Wagner in a later article. But anti-semitism wasn't just restricted to Wagner, Robert Schumann's reaction to […]
2018-10-04 12:04:00
Le nozze di Figaro, Semperoper Dresden, 30 September 2018
Count Almaviva – Sebastian Wartig Countess Almaviva – Iulia Maria Dan Susanna – Athanasia Zöhrer Figaro – Martin-Jan Nijhof Cherubino – Grace Durham Marcellina – Sabine Brohm Bartolo – Matthias Henneberg Don Basilio – Aaron Pegram Barbarina – Tahnee Niboro Don Curzio – Gerald Hupacj Antonio – Chao Deng Bridesmaids – Beate Apitz, Heike Liebmann Johannes Erath (director) Katrin Connan (set designs) Birgit Wensch (costumes) Noëlle Blancpain (revival director, costumes) Fabio Antoci (lighting) Francis Hüsers (dramaturgy) Dancers Saxon State Opera Chorus (chorus master: Cornelius Volke) Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden Kristiina Poska (conductor) Rarely can an opera house run on full cylinders night in, night out – especially when the night before has entailed a Moses und Aron premiere. One would not necessarily expect a starry Elektraor, indeed, a starry Figaro to follow. If the performative musical side of this Marriage of Figaro rarely scaled the heights, nor was […]
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