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German opera singer (1836-1865)
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2018-03-22 15:02:00
Tristan und Isolde, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18 March 2018
[…] Tristan und Isolde. After seventy-seven rehearsals, the intended 1861 Vienna premiere had to be abandoned. A work that had taken less than three years to write took more than double that, as John Deathridge has observed, to ‘overcome prejudice about its viability. … Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Dresden, Hanover, Stuttgart, Prague, and Vienna: in the end none of these opera houses would touch it.’ When Munich finally did, in 1865, Wagner’s Tristan, Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, died after just four performances. Wagner’s foes, political, aesthetic, and ‘moral’, seized on the opportunity to claim, ludicrously, that Tristan, rather than typhus was the agent of death. If audiences today avoid quite such high (melo)drama, more often than not they meet the curse on the other side of Wagner’s melodramatic coin: ‘only mediocre performances can save me! Perfectly good ones will be bound to drive people mad, - I cannot imagine […]
2017-09-02 21:39:45
Met Opera Round-Up: The Season’s Last Gasp — ‘Tristan,’ ‘The Flying Dutchman,’ and the Love of a ‘Good’ Woman (Part Three)
Till “Love-Death” Do Us Part Wagnerian Love Couple: Ludwig & Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld as Tristan and Isolde (1865) Tristan und Isolde, Wagner’s singular and most personal creation, derived from the 12th-century myth of Tristram and Iseult: he, a brash Cornish knight; she, an irate Celtic (or Irish) princess. In most sources cited, the story was undeniably linked to the love affair between Sir Lancelot, a knight of the fabled Round Table, and Queen Guinevere from the old Arthurian legends. In a comparable vein, one of Wagner’s earliest successes, the opera Der fliegende Holländer (known widely as The Flying Dutchman), had at its root a basis in fact as well as in legend. A Dutch ship’s captain by the name of Hendrick Van der Decken (an alias for Barend Fockesz, or Bernard Fokke in some sources), challenged the devil himself by swearing to sail round the Cape of Good Hope, […]
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Royal Opera House
2015-06-23 14:11:36
The Rise and Rise of the Romantic Tenor
[…] . Francesco Tamagno , Verdi’s first Otello , had a still more powerful voice, which critics compared to a trumpet or even a canon. His effortless, rich high notes encouraged Verdi to compose thrilling passages such as Otello’s opening ‘Esultate!’ in Act I. In Germany, Wagner (a great admirer of Guillaume Tell) determined to create a more ‘masculine’ and heroic performance style for his tenors. The first Wagner tenors – Josef Tichatschek , Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Albert Niemann – were renowned for their stamina, committed acting and almost baritonal timbres. Wagner’s writing for these singers led to the evolution of the Heldentenor : a rich-toned, powerful tenor voice with strong middle and bottom registers and full top notes. French singing has always focussed on restraint and grace, so it is not surprising that the lighter lyric tradition remained popular in France, particularly at the Opéra-Comique . Alexandre […]
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Royal Opera House
2014-11-25 19:18:02
5 things you need to know about Tristan und Isolde
[…] the Prelude containing the famous ‘Tristan chord' ). The love music – particularly the extended duet for Tristan and Isolde in Act II, and Isolde’s radiant Transfiguration in Act III – is some of the most intense and sensual in opera, and has inspired many later composers including Benjamin Britten , Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky. A Sensational Premiere Tristan und Isolde was first performed in Munich on 10 June 1865. The first Tristan, Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld , died less than two month later; rumours that this was due to the exertions of singing Tristan fortunately proved false! Although some critics were hostile towards Wagner’s opera, many were very enthusiastic, and the opera soon became part of the core repertory. Tristan und Isolde has been performed regularly by The Royal Opera over the years, with five different productions since 1948. Tristan und Isolde runs 5–21 December 2014. Tickets […]
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