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From Harald en Italie to Le prophète in New York: 2024 Bard Summerscape focuses on Berlioz and his world
Fisher Center at Bard College (Photo: Peter Aaron '68/Esto) The Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in the Hudson Valley, New York City, presents an annual Summerscape festival and this year there are eight weeks of opera, theatre, dance and a music festival from 20 June to 18 August 2024. The theme of the music festival is Berlioz and His World. Alongside wide-ranging concerts of music by Berlioz and his contemporaries, there is a rare staging of Meyerbeer's Le prophète (26 July to 4 August) directed by Christian Räth, with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein and featuring Robert Watson (Siegmund in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of Die Walküre at the Staatsoper, Berlin) in the title role plus Jennifer Feinstein as Fidès. Meyerbeer's Le prophète featured at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918 as a vehicle for Enrico Caruso, and returned in 1977 with James McCracken and Marilyn Horne, since then I am […]
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[…] the opera. That she was deluded about her late lover Vladimir (killed by Loris just as the opera opens) was made very clear, rendering her revenge all the more poignant. Ingram made Fedora zing, combining elegance and passion, rising superbly both to her declaration of love for Loris in Act Two and the terrific death scene at the end of Act Three.Any tenor singing Loris has big shoes to fill, the first Loris was Enrico Caruso. Charne Rochford brought an intensity of passion to the role from the outset. A relatively short role, Rochford made every moment count, singing with throughout with vibrant emotion and warm tone. He brought off the character's one short aria with style, but it was the progression of passionate emotions that counted right to the final scene when he and Ingram's Fedora goaded each other to the tragic end.Lorena Paz Nieto made a delightful Olga. […]
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2023-07-12 18:31:02
“No more lush outpouring of sound has been heard in our time than the Ponselle voice at its prime.” – Julian Moses (in Guide to American Recordings) When one says, ‘greatest singer of the 20th century’, one thinks of two artistes: Enrico Caruso, as the greatest male singer, and Rosa Ponselle, as the greatest of the women. “So unique was the voice and artistry of Ponselle that in the 20 years of her career at the Metropolitan, she had no […]
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