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2018-05-08 22:08:00
Majesté : grands motets de Lalande, Le Poème Harmonique
Majesté, a new recording by Le Poème Harmonique, led by Vincent Dumestre, of music by Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726) new from Alpha Classics. Le Poème Harmonique are regular visitors to London, appreciated for the variety of their programes. On Friday this week, (11/5) they'll be at St John's Smith Square as part of the London Festival of Baroque, with a programme titled "At the World's Courts". Since the theme of this year's London Baroque Festival is whose theme this year is Treasures from Le grand Siècle their concert will naturally include music from the court of Louis XIV, such as Lully and Charles Tessier, but with typical Le Poème Harmonique flair will focus on the French fascination with turqueries, works evoking Turkey, Arabia, China and beyond. The origins of Orientalism, which would bear fruit with Rameau Les Indes Galantes and much more. This new recording, however, focuses on music Lalande wrote […]
2017-07-31 23:24:36
Babes in arms
Chances are you’ve been wallowing in Wagner all week, and I head up den Grünen Hügel tomorrow for eight days, so it’s time for some attractive and very young singers, coloratura with embellishments, and high notes galore: La fille du regiment from Wiener Staatsoper with Julie Fuchs and John Tessier. If Fuchs’ name sounds familiar she was the Zerlina in the Don Giovanni broadcast from Aix earlier this month. The petite French soprano is at the dawn of a most promising career: coming up are Nanette at the Bastille, La Comtesse in Le Comte Ory at the Opéra Comique, Morgana in Alcina at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Pamina in Hamburg, and Monteverdi’s Poppea in a Calixto Bieto production in Zürich. Canadian tenor Tessier already has 10 Tonios under his belt at Wiener Staatsoper, so he’s popped out at least 90 Donizetti high Cs to go along with those in Il […]
2017-02-04 19:26:30
[…] sparkling Figaro in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, plays Giovanni, a role has previously sung for the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. The Donna Elvira, Miriam Khalil, received high praise for her performance of the role in Against the Grain Theatre’s adaptation of the opera in 2014. Michele Capalbo (Donna Anna), was the Liu in last October’s Turandot, while the young Edmonton soprano Witney Sloane (Zerlina) will be heard in March’s Elektra. Edmonton’s own John Tessier takes the tenor role of Don Ottavio, and of particular interest will be the EO debut of the American bass Erik Anstine as Leporello. He is decidedly an emerging young singer, who has almost exclusively appeared on the opera stage in Europe in the last four years, at the Opernhaus Zürich and the Salzburg Festival. The single exception was an appearance — as Leporello — for Seattle Opera in 2014.
2016-10-16 23:51:05
It’s a dilemma nearly every successful opera singer faces — your career takes off, engagements multiply, and you find you have less and less time for family and home. It is a quandary Canadian tenor John Tessier knows well. He’s sung across the world, from Covent Garden to New Zealand Opera, from Montreal to Vienna, from New York to Buenos Aires. But he and his wife, the soprano Sherry Steele, have four growing children, and there came a point a couple of years ago when he realized that, in soulless hotel rooms and in the quick dash home before flying out again, he really missed his family. So when a full-time teaching post came up at the University of Alberta, Tessier jumped at it. It would inevitably mean curtailing his international singing career, but it would also mean returning home to the city he had left some 20 years before. “After […]
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