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2022-06-13 10:28:02
On a highly concentrated scale: Verdi's Macbeth at The Grange Festival
Verdi: Macbeth - Gezim Myshketa - The Grange Festival (Photo Simon Annand) Verdi: Macbeth (1865); Judith Howarth, Gezim Myshketa, Jonathan Lemalu, Samuel Sakker, director: Maxine Braham, conductor: Francesco Cilluffo, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; The Grange FestivalReviewed 11 June 2022 (★★★★½) Stunning singing and vivid performances bring out the sense of character in the revised version Verdi's first Shakespearean opera Verdi: Macbeth - Judith Howarth - The Grange Festival (Photo Bodnar Photography) Verdi's Macbeth premiered at the Teatro all Pergola in Florence in 1847. It had a respectable life in Italian houses before Verdi revised it for Paris in 1865 (where it was performed by the Théâtre Lyrique at what is now the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris), but then the work rather languished till the 20th century. This has left the opera with a somewhat complicated history, modern performances tend to focus on the 1865 revision, but miss […]
2022-04-28 00:37:45
[…] Radio Symphony, and Baltimore Symphony orchestras. Forthcoming highlights include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Barcelona Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, and London Philharmonic orchestras, and on tour with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In recital, Sheku has performed at illustrious venues and festivals around the world, including Wigmore Hall London, Edinburgh, Cheltenham, and Aldeburgh Festivals, Zurich Tonhalle, Lucerne Festival, Festival deSaint- Denis, Verbier Festival, Théâtre des Champs Elysées Paris, Teatro delLa Pergola Florence, L’Auditori Barcelona, the Auditorio Nacional Madrid, and Carnegie Hall New York. Current and future seasons include appearances at the Barbican Hall London, Berliner Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Suntory Hall Tokyo, and tours of North America, Italy, South Korea and China. Since his debut in 2017, Sheku has performed every summer at the BBC Proms, including in 2020 when he gave a breath-taking recital performance with his sister, Isata, to an empty auditorium due to […]
2021-11-23 14:02:59
The 33-year old Verdi was taking a risk when he wrote Macbeth for the Teatro delLa Pergola in Florence in 1847. His operas until then had largely been grounded in fact or history, and indulging in the genere fantastico (‘fantastical genre’) had its dangers when at the time it was far from universally loved. In the event, however, the premieres were so warmly received that the Florentines soon awarded Verdi his own gold crown. Macbeth became the composer’s favourite of all of his operas, and in 1865 he revised it to produce a French version. That was less popular at the time, but from the middle of the twentieth century onwards has tended to be the version of choice, though it is usually performed in Italian. Malcolm EGOR ZHURAVSKII, Macduff DAVID JUNGHOON KIM, ROH Macbeth ; © ROH 2021 Ph. Clive Barda Lady Macbeth ANNA PIROZZI, ROH Chorus, ROH Macbeth ; © […]
2020-04-20 07:52:48
I need a subject that is grandiose, impassioned & original: the influence of Meyerbeer & French Grand Opera on the operas of Verdi
'Auto da fe scene' - Verdi: Don Carlos - Michele Pertusi, Sally Matthews, Stephane Degout - Opera de Lyon, 2018(Photo Jean Louis Fernandez) The influence of Giacomo Meyerbeer on the operas of Giuseppe Verdi was significant, an opera like Aida would be unthinkable without French Grand Opera. In this third essay, I look at Verdi's developing relationship with French Grand Opera, how the operas of Meyerbeer fared in Italy and what Verdi thought of Meyerbeer's operas. This is the third, and final, essay in a series which has looked at the development of Meyerbeer's operas, and the complex relationship between Meyerbeer and Wagner.French Grand Opera in Italy Meyerbeer’s final Italian opera, Il crociato in Egitto premiered at La Fenice, Venice in 1824, but it would not be until 1840 when the first of his French Grand Operas was performed in Italy. These were all given in Italian versions with […]
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