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Nostalgia for places one has never seen
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-03-16 16:13:33
Wexford has just announced its 2101 menu: Luigi Cherubini’s Medea (premiered Paris 1859, last seen when?) Jacopo Foroni’s Margherita (premiered Milan, 1848, never recorded) Franco Alfano’s Risurrezione (premiered Turin 1904, awaiting resurrection) Keen to see two out of these three.
2014-05-02 00:26:00
Massenet Thérèse Wexford broadcast
Last year's Wexford Festival Massenet's Thérèse on BBC Radio 3. Claire Seymour reviewed it for Opera Today (link HERE) : "Set in Revolutionary France, during the Terror of 1793-94, Thérèse (1907) is a melodrama which pits public against private, loyalty against love. As with Foroni’s Cristina, the eponymous heroine is based on a historical figure, in this case, Lucille Desmoulins who was executed in 1793, eight days after her husband, Camille. In Jules Claretie’s libretto, Thérèse finds herself torn between her allegiance to her husband, André Thorel - a Girondist and man of the people - and her passion for her aristocratic lover, Armand, Marquis de Clerval, who has fled to escape the Revolution. Thorel, the former childhood companion of Armand (his father was the Marquis’ steward), has purchased the Clerval chateau in order that it may one day be returned to his friend. When Armand reappears, still deeply […]
2013-11-03 13:40:00
Wexford is love because it experiments with operas that are "new" to modern audiences. Some are obscure for good reasons but every now and then a treasue surfaces. Bu this year's discovery sounds like something very special indeed. Jacopo Foroni’s Cristina, Regina di Svezia,(1849(, an opera written for Swedish audiences by an Italian. Please read the report in Opera Today - more informative than anything else anywhere else. This sounds l;ike an opera we need to kmnow about, so it's worth making the effort to find out more. Also reviewed Jules Massanet Thérèse (1907) and La Navarraise. and Nino Rota The Florentine Straw Hat. . Coming up - more on Wozzeck, more on Britten Death in Venice (Aldeburgh), more on Les vêpres sicilennes (HD broadcast tomorrow), Sakari Oramo BBCSO , Julian Anderson at the Wigmore Hall and much more. Keep coming back to this site.
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