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Theatre Royal, Glasgow The cool, subdued interiors of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi inspire David McVicar’s fine staging of Debussy’s bleak symbolist opera Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is the quintessential symbolist opera, sharing its aesthetic with painters such as Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau. But for David McVicar’s raptly beautiful new production for Scottish Opera it’s another artist contemporary with Debussy who provides the visual starting point, the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi.The reclusive Hammershøi specialised in subdued colours and quiet, cool interiors, and they are the stuff of Rae Smith’s designs, with costumes that fix the production at the end of the 19th century, when Maeterlinck wrote the play on which Debussy based his libretto. As the opera goes on, the trees of the forest in which Roland Wood’s Golaud first discovers Mélisande (Carolyn Sampson) encroach more and more on the gloomy castle home of the almost blind King Arkel (Alastair […]
2016-01-20 15:00:28
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 You can listen to the Classical Music Almanac Podcast Daily here. Birthdays Ernest Chausson In 1855 Ernest Chausson was born in Paris. Born into an extremely affluent bourgeois family, Ernest Chausson was the sole surviving child of a building contractor who had made his fortune assisting Baron Haussmann in the redevelopment of Paris in the 1850s. To please his father, Chausson studied law and was appointed a barrister for the Court of Appeals, but had little or no interest in the profession. He frequented the Paris salons, where he met celebrities such as Henri Fantin-Latour, Odilon Redon, and Vincent d’Indy. Before deciding on a musical career, he dabbled in writing and drawing. In 1879, at the age of 24, he began attending the composition classes of Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire; Massenet came to regard him as ‘an exceptional person and a true artist’. Chausson […]
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