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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-10-09 21:00:38
Major, Lord, Singers Triumph in Gluck
New England Conservatory’s opera department showcased four of its young stars in Wednesday’s night’s semi-staged version of the full 1779 Paris version of Iphigénie en Tauride. Using the four-act Bärenreiter edition by Gerhard Groll from Christoph Willibald von Gluck’s Collected Works, this large production included a robed chorus of 15 choristers, four scene-chewing leading characters (Iphigenia, her brother-in-disguise Orestes, his friend Pylades, and King Thoas of Tauris) and five additional minor characters, whose staging revolved around the centrally-placed NEC Philharmonia, ably led by Stephen Lord. One of the most well-loved French operas of the Age of Enlightenment, Iphi ran to over 400 performances by the 1820s in Paris alone. It is also the same masterwork that transformed Hector Berlioz into a composer when the young man first heard the work in 1821, with a huge orchestra of 80 players(!); he not only claimed to have gone straight to the Conservatoire […]
2013-03-07 19:08:15
Pierrot Through the Arts: Deburau, Laforgue, Schoenberg and On
Pierrot, the sad clown, with white face and loose white blouse, expressing slowly and subtly and in the absence of and beyond words, emerged in the nineteenth century from his roots in stock comedies and pantomimes to become the embodiment of a certain artistic type, a specific strain of artistic emotion: sensitive, melancholy and solitary, and at once playful and daring in subverting language and suggesting the fraught but still facile and fluctuating nature of gender. The character of Pierrot can be traced back to Molière’s Don Juan, or The Feast with the Statue, first performed in February 1660 at the Palais-Royal theatre in Paris, and with Molière playing the role of Sganarelle. Pierrot is the name of a peasant character who appears in the second act of the play, the fiancé of Charlotte. The Palais-Royal theatre had been established by Cardinal Richelieu, in the east wing of the Palais-Royal, […]
2012-07-15 17:04:43
Bizet: Carmen (highlights) Performed by Leontyne Price (Carmen), Franco Corelli (Don José), Mirella Freni (Micaëla), Robert Merrill (Escamillo) With the Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, (Vienna State Opera Choir), conducted by Herbert von Karajan About two weeks ago, a reader reviewed my post from 2010 about the legendary American singer, Leontyne Price . So… for this reader, and for many others who enjoyed Ms. Price amazing performances, here’s another recording. The Opera, Carmen, by Georges Bizet is a world favorite, and this work has some amazingly beautiful melodies, coupled by an exciting story. I once enjoyed a performance of this work at a theater in Vienna. It was unforgettable. Here are some samples for you: First here are Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli, in Carmen 1963-Final duet, from act 4 And here’s some more: Leontyne Price & Franco Corelli sing ‘Non! tu […]
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