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2020-11-29 12:52:49
A Life On-Line: Orpheus in suburbia, Paris in the 1920s, Britten and Clyne in Perth,
[…] with its references to empty streets becoming a lament for our own times too. A lovely programme, beautifully sung; next to come in the series is a programme of Brahms and Bruckner motets. [Tenebrae] Also during the week we were able to catch up on Pierre Audi's 2015 production of Handel's Alcina from La Monnaie in Brussels which is currently on Medici.Tv. Featuring Sandrine Piau as Alcina, with Maite Beaumont, Angélique Noldus, Sabina Puértolas, Chloé Briot, Daniel Behle, Giovanni Furlanetto and Les Talens Lyriques conducted by Christophe Rousset, the production was musically strong with superb performances from all concerned. There were cuts but this was quite a long version of the opera, with some dazzling showpieces and a stupendous performance from Piau. Audi's production allowed the singers plenty of leeway to simply perform, though I sometimes found the stage rather busy and the dramatic lighting meant that the stage context […]
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2020-08-23 08:55:51
Soprano files sexual assault complaint against French opera houses
The international French soprano Chloé Briot has written a statement in La Lettre du musicien, saying she wants ‘to put an end to the rule of silence which reigns in the opera.’ Chloé, who has performed at La Monnaie, Dutch National Opera and London’s Southbank Centre, says she was subjected to repeated sexual assaults by […]
2018-07-17 22:08:00
[…] Christopher Purves singing Golaud was superb. His timbre is strong, suggesting the brutishness in Golaud's personality, while also suggesting the terrified frustartion that makes limited nmminds reject what they can't comprehend. Making Goluad sympathetic is quite a feat but Purves pulls it off. John Chest singing Pelléas and Christina Gansch singing Mélisande are good enough though not on the level of some of the greats who do these roles for houses with bigger budgets. Chloé Briot as Yniold wasa tad too womanly to sound like a terrified boy, though Herheim's staging develops the part quite well in relation to Mélisande and to the male/female aspects of the opera, which are often missed. Good, reliable singing in the other parts and chorus. Brindley Sherratt was also very strong, full of character. Arkel isn't so old that he's decrepit : steel still resides within.
2018-07-06 18:11:00
Golaud's big booming Organ : Glyndebourne, Herheim Debussy
[…] of the past on the castle walls. Is Pelléas a prototype artist, who can see what philistines like Golaud cannot see ? Golaud puts Pelléas's eyes out so he "becomes" a blind man. Destruction is Golaud's way of expressingn what he cannot articulate. Listen to the brutal menace in the music. We see Golaud sodomise Yniold. That's what bullies do. They think in power, humiliation and self-gratification. The organ, again.... Herheim uses a soprano (Chloé Briot) in the role, partly because sopranos are easier to cast than trebles, but also because this connects to violence against women in macho society. This is also in the score. In this production the women who come to Mélisande on her death bed look like Victorian maids, but they may well represent ancient female rituals attending birth and death. When Yniold's hat falls off, revealing her long hair (like Mélisande's), we recognise her as […]
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