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2023-10-07 09:09:00
Astonishing that no-one has heard or heard of the work: Ella Marchment on directing Camille Erlanger's L'Aube rouge at Wexford
Camille Erlanger's L'Aube rouge in rehearsal at Wexford Festival Opera This year's Wexford Festival Opera opens on 24 October with the theme, Women & War with operas including Donizetti's Zoraida di Granata, La ciociara by contemporary Italian composer Marco Tutino and L'Aube rouge by the French composer Camille Erlanger. La ciociara is conducted by Francesco Cilluffo, Wexford's principal guest conductor and I chatted to him about the opera earlier this year, see my interview. L'Aube rouge will be directed by Ella Marchment and conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire, and I caught up with Ella, in the midst of rehearsals, to talk about Erlanger and his opera.Ella MarchmentCamille Erlanger (1863-1919) studied the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes, won the Prix de Rome in 1888 and wrote nine operas including the five-act music drama Le Fils de l’étoile, written for the Paris Opéra, where it enjoyed success. Erlanger was Jewish and served as choirmaster of the Synagogue […]
2021-11-02 09:06:07
Anglais - Lisette Oropesa Dazzles as Violetta in La traviata at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata of 1853 is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world today, and the Royal Opera’s current season is putting a special focus on the work. From October 2021 to April 2022 there will be no less than twenty-five performances featuring six different sopranos in the main role of Violetta. The initial run, which ends on 17 November 2021, will see Lisette Oropesa, Kristina Mkhitaryan and Anush Hovhannisyan play the lead, while Angel Blue, Pretty Yende and Hrachuhí Bassénz share the honours next April. Other parts will also be played by several people over the run, while the various performances will be conducted by Antonello Manacorda, Paul Wynne Griffiths, Renato Balsadonna and Giacomo Sagripanti. La Traviata, The Royal Opera ; © 2021 ROH/Photo by Tristam Kenton Based on Alexandre Dumas, Fils’s play La Dame aux camélias, […]
2020-04-16 07:24:40
Handel: works for viola da gamba - Ibrahim Azizi & Masumi Yamamoto give us a flavour of the sort of programme that an 18th century viola da gamba player might have assembled
George Frideric Handel Works for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord; Ibrahim Aziz, Masumi Yamamoto; First Hand Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 15 April 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Spanning works written by Handel, ascribed to him, and arranged by him, as well as arrangements by his contemporaries and by the performers, this disc gives us a sampling of how an 18th century viola da gamba player might have approached Handel's chamber musicThis disc on First Hand Records from viola da gamba player Ibrahim Aziz and harpsichordist Masumi Yamamoto brings together the works that George Frideric Handel wrote for viola da gamba and harpsichord, along with works attributed to him and sonatas arranged from other works. The status of the viola da gamba went through something of a change during the 18th century, going from favoured instrument to something rather old-fashioned. In Italy, this happened quite early […]
2019-12-22 18:21:47
Anglais - Slow Pace but Strong Performances in La traviata at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata of 1853 is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world today. Based on Alexandre Dumas, Fils’s play La Dame aux camélias, it tells of Violetta Valéry who is a famed Parisian courtesan. Beneath her apparently carefree exterior, however, she is suffering from tuberculosis and her world is shaken when she meets Alfredo with whom she falls in love. They run away together and live off the sale of her goods, but one day Alfredo’s father Giorgio Germont appears and begs her to leave him. This is because Alfredo’s behaviour has brought disgrace on his family, which is impacting on the ability of Germont’s daughter to marry and be happy. Despite loving Alfredo deeply, Violetta shows compassion towards the family and agrees. Alfredo, however, does not discover the real reason why Violetta has suddenly walked away, and everything comes to a head when […]
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