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2020-05-09 18:30:50
Meet Marie Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano (Canada), singer for Corona Serenades A native of Quebec City, mezzo-soprano Marie-Annick Béliveau studied violin and oboe before pursuing voice at McGill University with Jan Simons. Having also studied contemporary music with Bruce Mather, she quickly established herself as a leading performer of this repertoire. Her interpretation in 2015 Chants [...]
2020-05-08 08:18:36
Pure escapism: La Bella Habana from the Cuban all-women orchestra, Camerata Romeu
[…] This is clearly a disc not intended to have any sense of gritty realism, here we have high production values, skilled string writing and very fine playing, but the results have such a sense of joy, energy and engagement that the disc cannot help but put a smile on your face and give real delight. La Bella Habana La Bella Cubana - Jose White/arr. Z Rameu Chivo que rompe tambo - Moises Simons/arr A Ramirez Cuan hermosa naturaleza - Publio medina/arr Y Cobo Libertango - Astor Piazzolla/arr Y Cobo Canambu - Eduardo Gamboa Camerata en Guaguanco - Guido Lopez-Gavilan Final Obligado - Carlos Farina Gil y Hamilton - Ricardo Herz La Bella Habana - Guido Lopez-Gavilan/M Romeu/J White Camerata Romeu Zeniada Castro Romeu (conductor) CLL 003 1 CD [37.00] Available to buy and to download. Elsewhere on this blog Veni, Vidi, Vinci: […]
2019-11-02 08:51:31
An artist should be careful not to put themselves in a box: I chat to tenor Leonardo Capalbo about the challenges of singing the title role in Verdi's Don Carlos
[…] rewarding yet completely different. In the end, this does not necessarily make Don Carlos sympathetic, but you see the humanity in him Don Carlos is not a particularly sympathetic character, and Leonardo finds it a problem when people play roles in such a way as to force the hand of the audience to like them, and he has no problem in playing a character which shows dirty aspects of who they are. He found Johan Simons' production at Opera Vlaanderen psychologically powerful, and Don Carlos' almost constant presence on stage, moving between realism and the surreal, enabled them to show lots of different aspects to the character that you might not see in a more traditional production. In the end, this does not necessarily make Don Carlos sympathetic, but you see the humanity in him.For Leonardo, what makes Verdi so magical as a musical dramatist is that he was a […]
2019-10-30 07:27:19
A remarkable reinvention: Verdi's Don Carlos in French in Flanders
Verdi: Don Carlos - the Auto-da-fe scene - Opera Vlaanderen (Photo Annemie Augustijns) Verdi Don Carlos (1886 Modena version, sung in French); Leonardo Capalbo, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Kartal Karagedik, Raehann Bryce-Davis, dir: Johan Simons, cond: Alejo Perez; Opera Vlaanderen at Opera Ghen Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 Oct 2019 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Verdi's final thoughts on his Grand Opera, given in a strikingly modern psychological interpretationHaving given us French Grand Opera at its height, with Peter Konwitschny's striking production of Fromental Halevy's La Juive earlier this year [see my review], Opera Vlaanderen has returned to the form with Verdi's Don Carlos, the Italian composer's final, remarkable engagement with French Grand Opera. But the new production of Don Carlos was also an indication of the possible directions for the company, as one of the dramaturges was Jan Vandenhouwe who is the company's […]
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