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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 […]
2017-08-21 16:08:00
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)ATYS (1676) Opéra en 5 actes Choeur et orchestre " LES ARTS FLORISSANTS"dir: William ChristieHarmonia Mundi HMC 901257.59, [P] 1987Currently out-of-print FLAC, cuesheets, logs, scans, complete booklet Gramophone review by Nicholas Anderson: Atys was Lully's fourth tragedie-lyrique and it was first staged in 1676 by the ''Academie Royale de Musique'' at the King's residence at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Louis XIV is said to have preferred Atys to all other of Lully's operas and his opinion seems to have been widely shared, up to a point, both in and perhaps outside France. Telemann, in a letter to Carl Heinrich Graun once remarked that French airs had replaced the previous vogue for Italian cantatas in Germany. Indeed, Telemann claimed, ''I have known Germans, Englishmen, Russians, Poles and even Jews who knew by heart entire passages from Lully's operas Bellerophon and Atys''. Five […]
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Royal Opera House
2016-11-07 13:22:42
Telling Tales: Why Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann is among the most edited operas in the repertory
The death of Antonia from the end of Act III from the world premiere of Jacques Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann in the Opéra-Comique, Paris, 1881 For the world premiere of Les Contes d’Hoffmann , which began at 8.35pm on 10 February 1881 at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart) in Paris, we lack one significant piece of information: what did Jacques Offenbach , the composer of the opera, think of it? The reason for such a gap in the records is that Offenbach had died four months before, while the work was still in preparation. He had been ill for some time, yet had completed the major part of the opera and even attended a couple of initial rehearsals. But his death delayed the scheduled premiere and allowed for others to make changes on his behalf that may have surprised him. As the curtain rose on Act I and Luther’s tavern, […]
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Royal Opera House
2016-11-07 13:22:42
Telling Tales: Why Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann is among the most debated operas in the repertory
The death of Antonia from the end of Act III from the world premiere of Jacques Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann in the Opéra-Comique, Paris, 1881 For the world premiere of Les Contes d’Hoffmann , which began at 8.35pm on 10 February 1881 at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart) in Paris, we lack one significant piece of information: what did Jacques Offenbach , the composer of the opera, think of it? The reason for such a gap in the records is that Offenbach had died four months before, while the work was still in preparation. He had been ill for some time, yet had completed the major part of the opera and even attended a couple of initial rehearsals. But his death delayed the scheduled premiere and allowed for others to make changes on his behalf that may have surprised him. As the curtain rose on Act I and Luther’s tavern, […]