Heinrich August Marschner News
German composer
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Heinrich August Marschner)
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2024-03-13 08:05:00
Little short of a revelation: Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset explore Wagner's influences with In the Shadows
[…] the underlying Italian accents but with German language. Spyres makes you wish to hear more, and if you played it to someone blind, then I think they might struggle to pinpoint the composer.Bellini's Norma (1831) needs no introduction, but the influence of Bellini's endless melody on Wagner should not be underestimated. Here were hear Pollione and Flavio's scene, 'Meco all’altar di Venere…Me protegge, me difende'. Spyres turns in a wonderfully heroic performance, ably supported by Julien Henric.Marschner's operas remain underestimated today, but Hans Heiling (1833) was one of the works that greatly influenced Wagner, not least the psychological complexity of the anti-hero. Here we hear Konrad's 'Gönne mir ein Wort der Liebe', a remarkably piece that really does seem to both look back to Beethoven and look forward to early Wagner. Spyres brings a lovely expansiveness to the lines, a feeling of breadth to the paragraphs that links both to the French […]
2022-08-16 14:05:18
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4RAIqV55lQ On this day in 1876 Wagner’s Siegfried premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJApVjvxJE Birthday anniversaries of composers Heinrich August Marschner (1795), Gabriel Pierné (1863) and Jacinto Guerrero (1895); baritone Osie Hawkins (1913); soprano/mezzo-soprano Janis Martin (1939) and soprano Gianna Rolandi (1952). Happy 77th birthday soprano Evelyn Mandac. Happy 71st birthday soprano Sharon Sweet. Happy…
2021-10-01 10:46:09
When Richard Wagner came to write The Ring his inspiration came from the German mythical past, following on from composers such as Weber and Marschner who drew inspiration from German folk tales as a part of an artistic movement aimed at creating a stronger German musical culture (at a time when Germany, as such, did not exist as a country). But Wagner, as was his way, took the concept and ran with it so that The Ring is very much the product of his own imagination and the gap between Wagner's narrative and the original mythic stories allows for significant leeway in interpretation. After Patrice Chereau's centenary Ring Cycle at Bayreuth (1976), which set the opera in Wagner's own period and used the work as a commentary of Wagner's own world, directors have found that the elements of Wagner's opera can be incorporated into a variety of mythic and realistic worlds, his […]
2021-07-11 07:32:29
Dr Bluebeard will see you now: Gothic Opera remakes Bartok's opera and sets it in an Edwardian sanatorium
Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle - Gothic Opera (photo Nick Rutter) Bartok Bluebeard's Castle; Simon Wilding, Alexandra Long, Carmine de Amicis, dir: Julia Mintzer, cond: Thomas Payne; Gothic Opera at Porchester Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 July 2021 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) A radical reinterpretation of Bartok's opera with a striking contemporary dance element and imaginative animations Bartok: Bluebeard's CastleCarmine de Amicis, Simon WildingGothic Opera (photo Nick Rutter) In many ways, Bartok's opera A kékszakállú herceg vára (Duke Bluebeard's Castle) is impossible to stage. Bartok put so much of the action (whether literal or metaphorical) in the wonderful music that a semi-staged, concert performance often works best, allowing the direction to concentrate on the relationship between the Duke and his new wife, Judith. So I was very intrigued when, as a follow-up to their radical staging of Marschner's Der Vampyr, Gothic Opera turned its attention to Bartok's […]
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