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[…] created the feel of a larger ensemble. Only occasionally did one feel that lack of sheer numbers.Giordano: Fedora - Dominick Felix, Lorena Paz Nieto - IF Opera (Photo: LAIMA)The whole production made a terrific case for Fedora, showing that with the right director and a sympathetic cast, the work's subtleties can come through. It makes you regret that Giordano did not work with a better librettist.Fun Fact: At the premiere of Sardou's play Fedora in Paris, Sara Bernhardt in the title role wore a soft felt hat...Giordano: FedoraFedora - Sky IngramLoris - Charne RochfordOlga - Lorena Paz NietoDe Siriex - Alexey GusevDésiré - Andrés PresnoDimitri - Rebecca Afonwy JonesGretch - Aidan SmithLorek - Emyr Wyn JonesCirillo/Boroff - Dan D'SouzaSergio/Baron Rouvel - Deominick FelixNicola - Henry Grant KerswellPeasant Boy - Oliver JenkinsLazinski - Mark AustinVladimir - Luke HoweChorus - Lara Marie Muller, Elizabeth Roberts, Annie George, Henry Grant KerswellNever miss out on future posts […]
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2023-06-13 09:50:08
Sarah Bernhardt gets her theatre back
The Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo has decided... The post Sarah Bernhardt gets her theatre back appeared first on Slippedisc.
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2023-03-29 08:36:29
The supreme French actress and international celebrity made... The post The immortal sound of Sarah Bernhardt, 100 years after her death appeared first on Slippedisc.
2021-09-06 07:11:05
The history behind: 17 June 1800 - Puccini's Tosca and Sardou's La Tosca
[…] 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 playwright Victorien Sardou as a vehicle for Sarah Bernhardt. Puccini saw La Tosca at least twice, in Milan and Turin and on 7 May 1889 he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, asking him to get permission for the work to be made into an opera. The path to creating the opera was rocky, Puccini started with librettist Luigi Illica, but Illica was not keen and Sardou disliked Puccini's music! Ricordi eventually transferred the opera to Alberto Franchetti, who started work on it but somehow […]
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