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2023-08-03 09:13:20
On this day in 1829 Gioachino Rossini‘s Guillaume Tell premiered at Salle Le Peletier in Paris.
2020-04-06 08:33:05
The most successful opera composer of the 19th century? A look at Meyerbeer and his operas
[…] muette de Portici (1828), Rossini’s Le comte Ory (1828), Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable (1831), Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots (1831), Auber’s Gustave III (1833, which became the basis for Verdi’s Un ballo in Maschera), Fromenthal Halévy’s La Juive (1835), Gaetano Donizetti’s Dom Sebastien (1843), Meyerbeer’s Le prophète (1849), Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes (1855, based on a libretto 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 […]
2017-09-05 12:50:22
[…] Barber of Seville) La Cenerentola (Cinderella) L’Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) Otello Tancredi La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Guillaume Tell (William Tell) William Tell was originally a drama written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804. The play centers around Swiss marksman William Tell, and shows the Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early fourteenth-century. Rossini wrote a four-part opera with the same name, which premiered at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris on 3rd August 1829. However, after three performances one of the four acts was cut due to the sheer length of the opera (which totaled to about four hours!). As well as this, the casting requirements, set and musical demands has meant that this opera has not been staged in full many times since its conception. The overture is perhaps the most well-known part of the opera, with the last […]
2016-02-25 10:14:08
Every ballet begins with a love story, but Giselle, the tale of the forbidden love affair between the title character, Giselle, and Count Albrecht, is perhaps one of the greatest. First performed by the Ballet du Théâtre de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris, in 1841, Giselle tells the tragic story of Giselle, a sensitive and delicate peasant girl, who dies of a broken heart after discovering her lover, Count Albrecht, is betrothed to the Countess Bathilde. Performed by the Russian State Ballet of Siberia, supported by the Russian State Ballet of Siberia Orchestra, Tuesday night’s performance at the New Oxford Theatre was exemplary ballet: both technically brilliant, and emotionally evocative. The Russian State Ballet of Siberia (RBS) was founded in 1978, by graduates of the choreographic schools of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg. Since their inception, the RBS has gained a reputation for delivering classic […]
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