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French opera singer (1897-1984)
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2023-10-09 07:22:00
Not quite Massenet the modernist, but his late grand opera Ariane is full of wonderful things and intrigues in the way he weaves 19th and 20th century together
[…] Hollywood spectacular avant le lettre, the scenario encompassing a fight with the Minotaur, a ship on stage in the midst of a storm, and a recreation of the realm of Hades, not to mention the usual grand opera scenes of procession and assembly. After the premiere, an alternative staging was contrived for Nice but the opera was barely seen outside Paris, and its last major revival was at the Paris Opera in 1937 with Georges Thill.The libretto is by the poet Catulle Mendes (who had written the libretto to Debussy's abortive Rodrigue et Chimène) and it expands considerably on the myth. Act One is on Crete, with the fight with the Minotaur, but Ariane has a sister, Phèdre, also in love with Thésée. This comes to a head in Act Two, during a storm at sea, but from then on Mendes adjusts the myth. Like Orpheus, Ariane descends into the […]
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2020-09-09 12:24:43
Last agency standing signs two new singers
HarrisonParrott, which has been hyperactive in Covid while others went to sleep or out of business, has added two young singers to its list. Soprano Alexandra Lowe is a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House. Tenor Valentin Thill has been Artist in Residence at Brussels’ Queen Elisabeth Music […]
2019-12-10 22:00:00
GOUNOD: FAUST GEDDA - HARPER - GHIAUROV - GAVAZZENI - TEATRO COLON 1971
[…] old Teatro Colon, in 1866, that inspired poet Estanislao del Campo´s famous drama "El Fausto Criollo". At the new Teatro Colon, the first perfomance took place in 1914, conducted by Tullio Serafin. It was starred by Alessandro Bonci, Nazareno de Angelis and Linda Canetti. Two years later Ninon Vallin was in charge of the role of Marguerite, a role she sang again in 1921. The role of Faust was sang by great tenors such as Giovanni Martinelli (1921), Georges Thill (1929) and Mario Fillipeschi (1949). As for Mephistopheles, the list is no less spectacular: Marcel Journet (1916, 1918 and 1929), Vanni Marcoux (1919), Adam Didur (1921), Ezio Pinza (1927) and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (1956), besides the aforementioned Boris Christoff. The 1971 season was the 12th season in which Gounod´s opera was included. Up until then, one of the most acclaimed version of Faust had been the one performed in 1949: Tullio Serafin conducted an all-star cast, which included the […]
2017-07-16 17:43:11
Met Opera Round-Up: The Season’s Last Gasp with ‘Guillaume Tell,’ ‘Tristan,’ and ‘The Flying Dutchman’ (Part One)
[…] and sundry forms. Singers from the dawn of recording, the so-called gramophone era, managed to work their way around the hurdles, while others were not as successful. Readers can come to their own conclusions as to which method was best, usually from a personal perspective. Fortunately, there are lots of examples to choose from, mainly from the Golden Age by such splendid artists as Francesco Tamagno, Giovanni Martinelli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Francesco Merli, Mario Filippeschi, Georges Thill, René Verdière, César Vezzani, Hermann Jadlowker, Léon Escalais, and others. Among modern singers, one may thrill to the voices of Luciano Pavarotti, Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus, Chris Merritt, Michael Spyres, John Osborn, and Juan Diego Flórez. What about the title role of Tell? Good question. On the Italian front, baritones as far afield as Giuseppe de Luca, Giuseppe Danise, Gino Bechi, Benvenuto Franci, Tito Gobbi, and Giuseppe Taddei have left some wonderful recorded mementos […]
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