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English operatic mezzo-soprano (20th century)
- mezzo-soprano
- United Kingdom
- opera singer
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For the first time on DVD, Walter Braunfels' opera Ulenspiegel is now available. Braunfels's op 23 received its premiere in Stuttgart in November 1913. Two world wars intervened. Braunfels's Ulenspiegel was not performed again until 2011, as part of the Gera Festival. An audio recording is available of that performance, conducted by Jens Tröster. This new DVD comes from the Linz Festival in 2014, and is conducted by Martin Sieghart, known for his recordings with the Bruckner Orchester Linz. Braunfels' Ulenspiegel is based on Uilenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, by Charles de Coster (1867), which Braunfels would have known in the German translation published in 1910. Coster was a child when Belgium became independent from the northern Netherlands. Coster understood the tensions that led to the 1830 revolution. Coster's Ulenspiegel does not follow the Ulenspiegel of medieval tradition, popular throughout northern central Europe. Instead, Coster quite pointedly turns Ulenspiegel […]
2012-04-17 14:00:00
Dallapiccola: Il prigioniero - Dorati (1975)
[…] on three 12-note rows, each with its own symbol—prayer, hope, and freedom. It was Dallapiccola's Jewish wife, Laura Luzzatto, who first suggested that he consider the story La torture par l'espérance from Count Philippe Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Nouveaux contes cruels (1888). That story is more specifically anti-Semitic and centers on the persecution and torture of a rabbi in Saragoza during the Inquisition. Dallapiccola, deciding to fashion his own libretto, borrowed material from Charles de Coster's novel La légende d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak (1868) and replaced the central figure of the rabbi with a Flemish freedom fighter. He added two new characters, those of the Jailer and the Mother, and he simplified the Villiers de l'Isle-Adam story to emphasize a more universal theme: resistance to tyranny. The opera was first staged in Dallapiccola's adopted hometown of Florence in 1950, conducted by the great Hermann Scherchen at the Maggio Musicale […]
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