Victor Bouchard News
Canadian musician (1926-2011)
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- composer, pianist
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2023-09-30 08:32:00
What is essential is that you have to be passionate about the work: Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis, Don Carlo in the Royal Opera's revival of La Forza del Destino on his clutch of Verdi roles
[…] have to work harder to make it fit. During the 19th century, Verdi was very big in France and many of his Italian operas were translated into French, but the only ones that really work are those that Verdi worked on directly.After his debut in Rigoletto in December, Étienne has a very busy time. He is singing in a new opera with Opéra de Montréal, La Reine-garçon by composer Julien Bilodeau & librettist Michel Marc Bouchard, based on Bouchard's play about Queen Christina of Sweden. Then he does Paolo in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at the Paris Opera, directed by Calixto Bieito, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock with Ludovic Tézier in the title role and Étienne's wife Nicole Car as Amelia, and there is also Sancho Panza in Massenet's Don Quichotte also in Paris, directed by Damiano Michieletto, conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov, with Ildar Abdrazakov and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo sharing the title role. […]
2022-04-26 20:45:33
On Sunday, May 1st at Salle Pierre Mercure, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec will conclude its series of Portraits with Brasier, a concert dedicated to the music of Linda Bouchard. The five pieces on the programme will allow the audience to discover the powerful and colourful musical universe of this Quebec composer with [...]
2022-04-16 04:23:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 16, 2022
[…] member of JTS’s H. L. Miller Cantorial School for nearly 30 years. Gramophone Magazine has praised his “linguistic fluidity and melodic gift,” creating music that “reveals a very personal modernism that...offers great emotional rewards.”The Cassatt String Quartet, which has a long artistic collaboration with Gerald Cohen premiering and recording many of his works, performs Voyagers with clarinetist Narek Arutyunian and Preludes and Debka with trombonist Haim Avitsur.For details, visit https://www.jtsa.edu/event/reaching-for-the-heavens/--Beth Holub, Repeat MediaSMCQ: Brasier - Portrait de Linda BouchardThe Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) concludes its series of portraits of Quebec composers with Linda Bouchard, one of Canada's most prolific composers. “Brasier” will be presented at Salle Pierre-Mercure (in the Université du Québec à Montréal) on Sunday, May 1 at 3 pm.The poetry of natural phenomena:This portrait takes us on a musical journey, punctuated by the poetry of natural phenomena, whose different layers and influences create a singular soundscape. Notes Ms. […]
2022-03-16 18:21:00
Opéra Bastille Images: Agathe Poupeney / OnP Wozzeck – Johan Reuter Drum Major – John Daszak Andres – Tansel Akzeybek Captain – Gerhard Siegel Doctor – Falk Struckmann First Apprentice – Mikhail Timoshenko Second Apprentice – Tobias Westman Fool – Heinz Göhrig Marie – Eva-Maria Westbroek Margret – Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur Soldier – Vincent Morell Actors – Nathalie Baunaure, Fitzgerald Berthon, Andrea Fabi, Manon LheureuxWilliam Kentridge (director)Luc De Wit (co-director)Sabine Theunissen (set designs)Greta Goiris (costumes)Catherine Meyburgh (video)Urs Schönebaum (lighting)Kim Gunning (video operator) Maîtrise des-Hauts-de Seins/Children’s Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris (chorus master: Gaël Darchen), Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris (chorus master: Ching-Lien Wu) Orchestra of the Opéra national de ParisSusanna Mälkki (conductor) Four-and-a-halfyears ago, I saw William Kentridge’s then new Wozzeck at the Salzburg Festival. I found myself somewhat nonplussed by its more distanced, alienating aspects, thinking them better suited […]
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