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From Harald en Italie to Le prophète in New York: 2024 Bard Summerscape focuses on Berlioz and his world
Fisher Center at Bard College (Photo: Peter Aaron '68/Esto) The Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in the Hudson Valley, New York City, presents an annual Summerscape festival and this year there are eight weeks of opera, theatre, dance and a music festival from 20 June to 18 August 2024. The theme of the music festival is Berlioz and His World. Alongside wide-ranging concerts of music by Berlioz and his contemporaries, there is a rare staging of Meyerbeer's Le prophète (26 July to 4 August) directed by Christian Räth, with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein and featuring Robert Watson (Siegmund in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of Die Walküre at the Staatsoper, Berlin) in the title role plus Jennifer Feinstein as Fidès. Meyerbeer's Le prophète featured at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918 as a vehicle for Enrico Caruso, and returned in 1977 with James McCracken and Marilyn Horne, since then I […]
2018-07-18 12:12:00
[…] more typical adventures in classical antiquity. Les Arts Florissantes combine the well-known "Quel doux concerts" from Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (1733) (which Christie conducted at Glyndebourne), with "Quelle voix suspend mes alarmes" from Hercules mourant (1761) by Antoine Dauvergne. This latter is lyrical yet elegaic, the strings in the orchestra sweeping gracefully decorated by woodwinds. Religion allegory and comedy ! The miniature Cantate rein de tout (the Cantata of Nothing at all" by Nicholas Racot de Grandval pits mock elegance with wit. The singer duets with flutes "Quoi!" she shouts then bursts into laughter and changes her tune (literally) into dance accompanied by bells like the bells on the shoes of a folk dancer. The strings attempt to restore decorum but to no avail. "Aimiez-vous!" the singer cries and the orchestra wells up forceful chords. Frilly ntrills and a short sharp ending "Rien de tout!" More high spirits […]
2018-03-01 08:25:00
Next to Beethoven, Louise Farrenc
There's a plethora of terrific concerts on 8 March, International Women's Day. Actually we're splendidly spoilt for choice this year! In the Barbican's offering, Laurence Equilbey conducts her own Insula Orchestra - resident at La Seine Musicale in Paris - in the UK premiere of the Symphony No.3 by Louise Farrenc (1804-1875), with Beethoven's Triple Concerto in the first half starring Natalie Clein (cello), Alice Sara Ott (piano) and Alexandra Conunova (violin). I asked Laurence why she's putting Farrenc side by side with Beethoven, and plenty more besides... Equilbey in action Your London concert is on International Women’s Day. This annual event has gained prominence at an extraordinary speed over the past few years. Why do you think it’s important to mark it? There is definitely a greater appetite from audiences to hear music from female composers of the past than there has been previously, and when […]
2013-04-11 02:40:38
The boy friend
For more than 25 years since its US debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the French early-music group Les Arts Florissants has been visiting the New York area at least once every season. Since its life-changing Atys first arrived in 1989 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (where the Lully returned one last time in 2011), LAF has presented works there which have challenged many perceptions about 17th and 18th century opera. So acolytes of William Christie and his remarkable musicians and singers and—one might hope—scads of new fans are eagerly anticipating the four-performance run of Charpentier’s David et Jonathas opening on April 17 at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House. Marc-Antoine Charpentier—no, not the one who wrote “Depuis le jour” (that’s Gustave)—was born in Paris in 1643 and lived and composed there his entire life except for a life-changing trip to Italy in the late […]
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