Robert Rounseville News
American opera singer (1914-1974)
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- United States of America
- opera singer, actor
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2019-06-24 09:28:33
Barbara Hannigan returns to Stravinsky's The Rakes Progress, an opera she knows so well as a performer but now coming to it as a director
[…] hand to help, he appears to strike gold at first attempt. However, as the story unfolds one watches him descend into dissolution and madness as the evil presence of Nick Shadow (the Devil in disguise) takes a stranglehold on him. After several misadventures, poor old Tom ends up in Bedlam in the city of London.Receiving its première at Teatro La Fenice, Venice, in September 1951, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf created the role of Anne Trulove and Robert Rounseville that of Tom Rakewell. The opera arrived in Paris in June of the following year at the Opéra-Comique under the baton of André Cluytens while the American première fell to the New York Met in February 1953 conducted by Fritz Reiner.But the noteworthy Glyndebourne Festival Opera production dating from 1975 directed by John Cox with fabulous sets and costumes conceived by David Hockney is the one that slumbers, I should imagine, in the thoughts […]
2019-04-09 06:11:02
Barrie Kosky’s stylish production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide at Komische Opera was carefully crafted and performed by a superb cast
[…] way he encounters a string of hair-raising moments and natural disasters ranging from war to earthquakes and slavery to prostitution. But driven by an invincible optimism, nothing brings him to stray from his belief in the good and love for Cunégonde. Finally, after countless global adventures, he’s reunited with her.First appearing on the Broadway stage in 1953, Candide raised a few prurient eye-brows as to its content. The production featured Max Adrian (Voltaire/Dr Pangloss), Robert Rounseville (Candide) and Barbara Cook (Cunégonde). A box-office disaster, the show folded after 73 performances with the libretto being considered too serious by the critic of the New York Times. How times have changed! The first London production was seen at the Saville Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, in 1959, following out-of-town previews at the New Theatre Oxford and Manchester Opera House. The cast included Laurence Naismith (Voltaire/Dr Pangloss), Denis Quilley (Candide) and Mary Costa (Cunégonde). The […]
2018-05-07 19:06:03
When "Candide," a collaborative product of composer Leonard Bernstein and playwright and memoirist Lillian Hellman, based on a thin fable-novel by Voltaire, the Enlightenment's superstar philosopher-wit, opened in Broadway's Martin Beck Theatre in 1956, it was a bust. The production had the participation of such luminaries as performers Barbara Cook and Robert Rounseville, director Tyrone Guthrie and choreographer Anna Sokolow.
2017-06-13 00:02:31
Let me live by my wits and Trost to my luck
[…] recitatives accompanied by harpsichord. So it’s just a particularly exceptional mid-20th century opera by a Russian-born composer who flourished in France and America inspired by a viewing of the titular paintings and engravings by William Hogarth at a museum in Chicago in 1947. The libretto is by the on-again-off-again couple of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. The premiere, conducted by the composer, was at Teatro La Fenice in 1951 with a cast starring Robert Rounseville, an American tenor known more for musicals and operetta; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, a German soprano with dubious political beliefs; Otakar Kraus, a Prague-born baritone; and Jennie Tourel, a Russian-born Jewish-American mezzo. The opera made its way to Paris in 1952 and the Met the following year in a production under Stravinsky’s supervision led by Fritz Reiner and directed by George Balanchine. The premiere was broadcast (available on Sirius) and stars Eugene Conley, Hilde Güden, Mack […]
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