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2021-12-11 09:31:24
Being able to see Brahms as he was at the time: I chat to Jérémie Rhorer about recording historically informed Brahms with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie
[…] for a certain type of bassoon, which Verdi favoured as well. And similarly Verdi preferred the elegance which came from the use of lower pitch (Jérémie's performances of La Traviata were at a lower pitch than is usual nowadays), whereas the German school favoured the brilliance that came from using a higher pitch. Verdi: La Traviata - Vannina Santoni as Violetta at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in 2018, conductor Jérémie Rhorer (Photo Vincent Pontet) One of the composers that Jérémie does plan to explore is Anton Bruckner. At the beginning of the project, Jérémie felt that you could establish clear lines which run between Mozart and Brahms, between Gluck and Wagner, and he was more dubious about how the music of Mahler and of Bruckner fitted into this. As we have seen, he still feels that way about Mahler, but the ensemble was asked to perform at […]
2021-11-17 10:05:29
Palazzetto Bru Zane's new edition of Offenbach's La Vie parisienne enables us to discover the composer's original intentions for the first time
Offenbach: La Vie parisienne (Photo Vincent Pontet) When Offenbach's La Vie parisienne premiered in 1866 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris, librettist Ludovic Halévy would write "The rehearsals of La Vie parisienne are driving me almost insane". This extremely fraught rehearsal period led to significant changes to the planned opera with much material being jettisoned. Now Offenbach's rehearsal periods were always extremely dynamic, he tended two write too much material and then shape/cut it accordingly. But in this case material was dropped because the cast were better actors than singers. Against all the odds, the result was a success and people rather forgot that La Vie parisienne was intended to be a larger-scale work. Luckily, the survival of a group of rare sources has enabled the reconstruction of Offenbach's putative original version, and this includes 16 numbers which are either new or in a modified version. We now have a full five-act version […]
2019-02-01 20:41:00
Les Troyens, Opéra national de Paris, 28 January 2019
Opéra Bastille Énée (Brandon Jovanovich)Images: Vincent Pontet / Opéra national de Paris Cassandre – Stéphanie d’Oustrac Ascagne – Michèle Losier Hécube – Véronique Gens Énée – Brandon Jovanovich Chorèbe – Stéphane Degout Panthée – Christian Helmer Hector’s Ghost – Thomas Dear Priam – Paata Burchuladze Greek Captain – Jean-Luc Ballestra Soldier – Jean-François Marras Polyxène – Sophie Clasisse Didon – Ekaterina Semenchuk Anna – Aude Extrémo Iopas – Cyrille Dubois Hylas – Bror Magnus Tødenes Narbal – Christian von Horn Mercure, Priest of Pluto – Bernard Arrieta Créuse – Natasha Mashkevich Andromaque – Mathilde Kopytto Astyanax – Emile Gouasdoué Polyxène – Francesca Lo Bue Dmitri Tcherniakov (director, set designs) Elena Zaytseva (costumes) Gleb Filshtinsky (lighting) Tieni Burkhalter (video) Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris (chorus master: José Luis Basso) Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris Philippe Jordan (conductor) […]
2018-11-19 19:25:00
Donnerstag, Opéra Comique, 17 November 2018
Salle Favart Image: Vincent Pontet Michael (tenor) – Damien Bigourdan, Safir Behloul Michael (trumpet) – Henri Deléger Michael (dancer) – Emmanuelle Grach Eva (soprano) – Léa Trommenschlager, Elise Chauvin Eva (basset horn) – Iris Zerdoud Eva (dancer) – Suzanne Meyer Luzifer (bass) – Damien Pass Luzifer (trombone) – Mathieu Adam Luzifer (dancer) – Jamil Attar Michael’s accompanist (piano) – Alphonse Cemin Swallow Clowns (clarinets) – Alice Caubit, Ghislain Roffat Two Youths (saxophones) – Eléonore Brundell Old Woman – Bernadette Le Saché Messanger – Antoine Amariutei Nurses – Maxime Morel, Alphonse Cemin Doctor – Simon Guidicelli Child Michael – Ilion Thierrée Luzifer bass (Damien Pass), Michael tenor (Damien Bigourdan)Image: Stéfan Brion What a year it has been for Karlheinz Stockhausen. The ninety-year-old composer from Sirius seems in this, the year of his ninetieth birthday celebrations, to be as strongly with us as […]
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