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French operatic tenor and composer
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Awaiting re-discovery: Grétry Richard Coeur-de-lion returning to Versailles for the first time since 1789 proves to be a work of charm and imagination
[…] as Méhul and Cherubini, and provide a real link between opera comique and grand opera. Cherubini would write his own rescue opera, Lodoiska in 1791. It was highly popular and there was a production in Vienna in 1805 which helped inspired Beethoven to write his rescue opera. For his libretto, Beethoven turned to one by Jean Nicolas Bouilly which had originally been written in 1798 as Léonore; ou, L'amour conjugal with music by Pierre Gaveaux who had sung the lead tenor role in the premiere of Cherubini's Lodoiska. And that's not all, Grétry's use of a historical plot, rather than gods and goddesses, is a real pre-cursor of the changes that would happen to French opera in the early 19th century, and Grétry went on to do operas on Peter the Great, and William Tell (intrigued, I am!). And even more intriguingly, if you summarise […]
2017-08-02 03:07:00
[…] costumes by Isabel Gual and lighting by Rubén Conde, plus projections by Natalio Ríos. "La scala di seta" ("The silk ladder") is one of the funniest Rossini one-acters. It was written for Venice´s Teatro San Moisè in 1813 with libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa based on a French text by Planard for an opera by Pierre Gaveaux (1808). Rossini was only 21; his style was already unmistakable, with his famous "crescendo" and the ability to concoct ensembles intercrossing the characters´ bewildered feelings, plus the witty fast pieces and the cantabile ones. I had an early contact with this creation back in 1964 at the Piccola Scala with splendid artists (Bruscantini, Sciutti, Alva, conductor Bartoletti) and I rejoiced to reacquaint myself with it in the […]
2016-07-15 01:27:38
Woman behind bars
At the end of July the Caramoor Festival will present Fidelio, one of my favorite operas and one which has been absent from the Met for over a decade (although it returns next spring.) “Trove Thursday” over the next weeks presents two works deeply connected to Beethoven’s moving masterpiece: first, Ferdinando Paër’s 1804 Leonora ossia L’Amore coniugale conducted by its great champion Peter Maag and featuring Ursula Koszut, Krisztina Laki and Renzo Casellato. Paër (1771-1839) was an extremely prolific composer whose 55 (!) operas premiered all over Europe, but he’s known (if at all) primarily for his Fidelio precursor Leonora, a dramma semiseria which premiered in Dresden where he was composer-in-residence for several years. Leonora was in turn was based on Pierre Gaveaux’s 1798 Léonore ou L’Amour conjugal, one of a number of popular French “rescue operas” in vogue at the time, the best-known being Cherubini’s Lodoïska and Les Deux […]
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