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Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (3) - Carmen, 13 July 2017
Images: Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2017 © Patrick Berger / artcompressCarmen (Stéphanie d'Oustrac), Don José (Michael Fabiano), Micaëla (Elsa Dreisig) Grand Théâtre de Provence Carmen – Stéphanie d’Oustrac Don José – Michael Fabiano Micaëla – Elsa Dreisig Escamillo – Michael Todd Simpson Frasquita – Gabrille Philiponet Mercédès – Virginie Verrez Zuniga – Christine Helmer Moralès – Pierre Doyen Le Dancaïre – Guillaume Andrieux Le Remendadao – Mathias Vidal Administrator – Pierre Grammont Dmitri Tcherniakov (director, designs) Elena Zaitseva (costumes)Gleb Filshtinsky (lighting) Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône (chours master: Samuel Coquard) Chœur Aedes (chorus master: Mathieu Romano)Orchestre de ParisPablo Heras-Casado (conductor) Carmen and Don José At last: a Carmen that takes a step back (from the work) and several steps forward (in every other dramaturgical respect). If one wants Carmen straight, as it were, Calixto Bieito’s Franco-era production will do very nicely indeed. As […]
2016-01-27 15:00:20
[…] Ys, is Lalo’s most complex and ambitious creation. (This same legend inspired Claude Debussy to compose his famous piano piece, La cathédrale engloutie.) For many years Le Roi d’Ys was considered unperformable, and it was not staged until 1888, when Lalo was 65 years old. Eight years earlier, he became a member of the Legion of Honour. He died in Paris in 1892, leaving several unfinished works, including his opera La jacquerie, completed by Arthur Coquard. He was interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. 2 Jack Brymer In 1915 Jack Brymer was born in South Shields, England. The Times called him “the leading clarinettist of his generation, perhaps of the century”. He was largely self-taught as a player, and he performed as an amateur before being invited by Sir Thomas Beecham to join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1947. He remained with the orchestra until 1963, two years after […]
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