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2022-05-10 06:53:37
Boulevard des Italiens: tenor Benjamin Bernheim explores Paris' long love-affair with French composers
[…] and a very unItalian head voice top not floated at the end. Instead of something well known, Bernheim has chosen something of a rarity by Cherubini, an aria from his 1833 opera Ali Baba. The work's libretto is one of Scribe's collaborations, and the cast for the performance at the opera also used singers who were performing Meyerbeer so that Nadir's Romance, 'C’est de toi, ma Délie, que dépendait mon sort', very much explored Adolph Nourrit's facility with powerful top notes! The music is intriguing, Cherubini writing in a more Romantic style than we usually expect, and Bernheim does it full justice. Next comes another of the Italian post-Verdi school, Pietro Mascagni. His Amica sets a French text and was premiered in Monte Carlo. The opera's mixture of Italian Verismo, French text and some chromatic experimentation in the music meant that it did not have a long shelf-life, even though an […]
2020-12-28 09:36:32
Berlioz and the creation of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice as a 19th century masterpiece
[…] In fact, this standard version of the opera is one that Gluck never knew, and both the opera and the idea of the mezzo-soprano as hero are very much 19th-century creations, the result of a combination of circumstances in 1820s Paris, a story which includes pitch inflation, the composer Berlioz' hero-worship of an unfashionable composer, and a great operatic dynasty, as well as a walk-on role for the painter Eugene Delacroix. Adolphe Nourrit in the title role of Tarare by Antonio Salieri In 1824, the young tenor Adolphe Nourrit (1802-1839) was due to sing the role of Orphée in Gluck's opera Orphée et Eurydice, which was created for the Paris Opera in 1774 with a high-tenor in the role of Orphée. Nourrit had made his operatic debut in 1821 as Pylade in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride (written for the Paris Opera in 1779), and his father was […]
2020-08-27 23:33:00
Sergio Mims: Unison Media: Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres to release 'Amici e Rivali' on Erato, November 13, 2020
[…] except for Barbiere, which was first seen in Rome – have their roots in the San Carlo opera house in Naples. (While Le Siège de Corinthe was in fact written for Paris, it derived from Maometto II, premiered six years earlier at the San Carlo.) Rossini conceived them for specific singers, several of whom became defining forces in musical history: the tenors Andrea Nozzari, Giovanni David, Manuel García, Louis Nourrit and Adolphe Nourrit (a father/son pairing), Giuseppe Ciccimarra and Claudio Bonoldi, and the baritone Luigi Zamboni, who created the role of Figaro. Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee first sang together in 2018 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, where their spectacular program – bristling with stratospheric top notes and cascades of coloratura – included three Rossini duets. As Michael Spyres explains: “Larry and I have known each other […]
2020-04-06 08:33:05
The most successful opera composer of the 19th century? A look at Meyerbeer and his operas
[…] of these elements as it featured a meticulously dramatic action, combining all the arts in the staging, it presented a theme which could be considered as emblematic of modern man (with Robert struggling against Bertram who is unbeknownst to Robert, his satanic father) whilst the score mixed virtuoso singing with a detailed scenario of musical motifs, harmony and orchestration. Eugène Du Faget: costume designs for Meyerbeer's Les HuguenotsJulie Dorus-Gras as Marguerite, Adolphe Nourrit as Raoul, Cornélie Falcon as Valentine Robert le Diable would be followed by Les Huguenots (1836), Le prophète (1849), and L’Africaine (1865) for the Paris Opera, and L’étoile du Nord (1854) and Dinorah (1859) for the Opera Comique. The relatively large gaps are due to a number of factors, partly because Meyerbeer divided his time between Paris and Berlin, though in Berlin censorship and difficulties with his relations with Gaspare Spontini, who was […]
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