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The history behind: 17 June 1800 - Puccini's Tosca and Sardou's La Tosca
[…] 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 the project got transferred back to Puccini. There is a suggestion that Franchetti was never at ease with the subject matter. But however it happened, Puccini resumed work in 1895 and the opera premiered in 1900 in Rome with Hariclea Darclée, Emilio De Marchi, and Eugenio Giraldoni, conducted by Leopoldo Mugnone. Ricordi had arranged to premiere the work in Rome, rather than at La Scala, Milan, because of […]
2019-03-17 11:47:00
Anglais - An operatic wordsmith: Luca Salsi's excellent La Scala recital
[…] away the Scala cobwebs, the baritone providing granite-like singing wrapped in the veil of Benzi’s chromatic accompaniment. Then with the arrival of the Italian Romantics we were cooking on gas. In "Ave Maria", a lush adaptation of the Overture to Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Salsi brandished heart-on-sleeve verismo passion as he slid richly between large intervals, and the way he fizzled to nothing at the end was impressive. Cilea's "Non ti voglio amar" was wittily done, Franchetti's "Era di maggio" striking for its sense of purity and Leoncavallo's "Era d'Inverno" delivered with a cheeky twinkle in the eye. The best was saved till last. Verdi’s "Non t´accostare all´urna" had that nutty-buttery warmth that makes Salsi such a superlative Verdian, and he was on rousing form in the same composer’s setting of Andrea Maffei's "Brindisi”. Then came a succession of familiar encores. "Nemico della patria" from Andrea Chénier took us back to […]
2016-09-23 09:20:27
Geh such dir die Stars vom vergangenen Jahr!
[…] George London, Giulietta Simionato, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Florence Quivar, Kurt Moll. In first-night casting, at least, the most recent regimes have been in agreement, sticking with the tried and true. Here is just some of what you could have seen, and perhaps did see, on opening night through the years at the Met. 1890: The seven-year-old company dared to open the season with a work little known at the time and even less well known today. Franchetti’s Asrarel, a mystical mash-up of Meyerbeerian, Wagnerian and Italian influences, was said to have had some overseas success. An anonymous New York Times reviewer handled it cautiously: The opera was received with no small favor, but it will have to grow into deep public affection. It is not the kind of work to carry an audience by storm. There is too much thought in it. This brain food may have proved indigestible to […]
2016-09-18 12:37:25
“You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits”
Happy 45th birthday soprano Anna Netrebko. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q043wiL0Qw Born on this day in 1852 poet and librettist Francis Burdett Money-Coutts. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rbpSMD5XC8 Born on this day in 1860 composer Alberto Franchetti. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=7URjY9qzmgM Born on this day in 1893 composer Arthur Benjamin. (none of his operas excerpted on You Tube) //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bllvYME3QtI Born on this day in 1897 composer Pablo Sorozábal. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ULkmrh45R4 Born on this day in 1910 composer Josef Tal. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajUG_wlx0U Born on this day in 1916 tenor József Simándy. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDXr0aIR7uw Born on this day in 1932 mezzo-soprano Maureen Lehane. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK8ajWa-ivc Happy 83rd birthday bass-baritone Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeMWf5CzVM Happy 80th birthday mezzo-soprano Ruth Hesse. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_mB_HjiK2M
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