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Elizabeth Harwood Kathleen Ferrier Lina Pagliughi Rossini Joan Sutherland Richard Strauss Scottish Opera Covent Garden Scala 1912 1916 1918 1933 1935 1938 1960 1961 1967 1969 1970 1971 1972 1975 1982 1990
~The "Glass Shatterers!" series focuses on sopranos who sustain High F, or sing higher. THE SONGBIRD: Elizabeth Harwood +••.••(...)) was raised in Yorkshire by musical parents / her mother was a professional soprano, Constance Read, and gave Harwood voice lessons. Harwood studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and at the age of 21, she won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship and spent a year in Milan studying with Lina Pagliughi. Her professional debut came as Second Boy in "The Magic Flute" at Glyndebourne in 1960. She became a member of the Sadler's Wells company in 1961 where she sang Manon, Gilda, Rossini's Adele, Konstanze, Countess Rosina, Fiakermilli, and Zerbinetta. After a tour of Australia with Joan Sutherland's company in 1967, Harwood's regular appearances at the Scottish Opera began with Fiordiligi and continued with Sophie, Lucia, Rosalinde, and Eva (her only Wagner role). At Covent Garden in the 1960s and 1970s she sang Fiakermilli, Gilda, Oscar, Donna Elvira, Norina, Arabella, and Manon. For Glyndebourne, she was Fiordiligi, Countess Rosina, and, in 1982, the Marschallin. Appearances abroad included Aix-en-Provence (Donna Elvira in 1967, Galatea in 1969); Salzburg (Konstanze and Fiordiligi in 1970, Countess Rosina in 1972); The Met (Fiordiligi in 1975); and La Scala (Konstanze in 1971). Harwood died of cancer at age 52. This recording of the original 1912 version of Zerbinetta's aria from the BBC, with Norman Del Mar conducting, only exists in poor audio. I have long searched for a better quality file, and even had a contact who works in the audio archives of the BBC search for it there, but to no avail / so for now, this is the best we have. THE MUSIC: Richard Strauss's opera "Ariadne auf Naxos" premiered twice. The first was in 1912 in Stuttgart where it was conceived as a short opera to accompany a new adaption of Moliere's play, "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme." This version was performed in other cities over the next year (Zurich, Munich, Prague, and London), but the play/opera hybrid concept proved ineffective (and way too long at over six hours). Working with his librettist/partner Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Strauss refashioned the opera as a stand-alone work with a newly added prologue, which premiered in this new form to success in Vienna in 1916. This version of the opera was quickly embraced by critics, artists, and the public / it has since been recorded commercially many times and is performed regularly around the world. Only rarely have there been staged or even concert productions of the earlier 1912 version of the opera and there is only one commercial recording. One of the changes Strauss made for the 1916 score was to lower the key and cut or alter about four minutes of music from Zerbinetta's grand aria "Grossmächtige Prinzessin." (In this video, I have roughly marked the three sections of deleted or altered music). Both versions are insane, but this original version is incomprehensibly difficult at nearly 15 minutes in length and with a gruelingly high tessitura, including two High F-sharps. In either version, the scene demands a level of virtuosic musicianship and theatrical flair that is simply unmatched. Zerbinetta is a coloratura soubrette on steroids! In this scene and role, Strauss invented an entirely new musical language to exploit the unique glories of the coloratura soprano voice. He revisited this proprietary mode of highly gymnastic vocalism a few other times afterwards: in the art song "Amor" (1918), with Fiakermilli in "Arabella" (1933), and for Aminta in "Die schweigsame Frau" (1935).
Malin Hartelius Margarethe Bence William Christie Vienna State Opera 1768 1966 1989 1991 1992 1997 2006
THE SONGBIRD: Born in 1966 in Malmo, Malin Hartelius studied music in Vienna with soprano Margarethe Bence. In 1989, she became a member of the Vienna State Opera Studio, appearing as Celia (Lucio Silla) and Papagena. in 1991 she became a member of the Zürich Opera and sang Pamina, Adele, Blonde, and Ännchen. Her Salzburg debut in 1992 was Barbarina; she returned in 1997 as Blonde. In Paris, Hartelius sang "Les Indes galantes" with William Christie, and Servilia and Adele. She was Konstanze in Zurich, Zerlina at Glyndebourne, and Susanna at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Further engagements in leading high soprano roles in prestigious venues in Europe have followed. THE MUSIC: "La finta semplice" K. 51 (46a) is an opera buffa composed in 1768 by a 12-year-old Mozart while he and his father Leopold were spending the year in Vienna. Due to court intrigues it was not performed there, but premiered in Salzburg the following year. After that, it was over 200 years until another staged performance, in Salzburg in 2006. The leading soprano role of Rosina has the exquisite aria, "Amoretti, che ascosi qui siete," that was described by one music critic (rightly, I’d argue) as having a "nobility of utterance" and "achieving the expressive intensity of the later Mozart." Which is certainly the case in this stunning floated rendition by Hartelius.
Schumann Schubert Rouleau Rhodes Jane Rhodes Weber Mado Robin Moussorgski Ambroise Thomas Fourestier Lamoureux Pasdeloup Opéra Marseille Brahms 1970 1965 1960 1959 1955 1923 Concerts Colonne Opéra Comique Palais Garnier
Isabelle Andreani - Ode saphique - Brahms - Club National du Disque CND 1064 enregistre ca 1960 Le 3 juin dernier s’est éteinte à Toulon à l’âge de 95 ans la mezzo-soprano Isabelle Andreani, figure emblématique de Carmen qu’elle a marquée par son interprétation. Née dans le sud de la Corse en 1923, elle est reçue à l’unanimité au concours d’entrée du Conservatoire de Marseille dans la classe de Jeanne Fourestier. Elle est remarquée pour les qualités naturelles de sa voix et ses Prix de chant et d’Art Lyrique. Elle est alors engagée à l’Opéra de Marseille et fait ses débuts sur scène dans Rigoletto où elle tient le rôle de Madeleine, avant de chanter Mignon dans l’œuvre éponyme d’Ambroise Thomas et Charlotte dans Werther. Elle sera par ailleurs Marina dans Boris Godounov de Moussorgski avant de devenir Carmen, son rôle le plus marquant. Poursuivant sa carrière, elle se fait remarquer dans Lakmé dans le rôle de Malika aux côtés de Mado Robin qui lui conseille de se présenter à Paris où elle est engagée suite à une audition. Elle devient titulaire du rôle de Fatime dans Obéron de Weber, puis de celui de Carmen à la salle Favart. Elle incarnera l’héroïne sur de nombreuses scènes, comme à Nancy ou Lyon, mais on retiendra surtout sa participation (en alternance avec Jane Rhodes) en 1959 à la production de Raymond Rouleau qui sera donnée 367 fois au Palais Garnier jusqu'en 1970 et qui connaîtra plus de 450 reprises en deux ans en Europe. La production ira même jusqu’au Japon. Cette production marque l’Histoire de l’Opéra et la carrière d’Isabelle Andreani dont la notoriété explose alors. Elle poursuit sa brillante carrière parisienne dans des registres divers : Le Chevalier à la Rose, Les Indes Galantes, Zoroastre, Cosi fan Tutte, Eugène Oneguine, Dialogues des Carmélites où elle chante le rôle de Mère Marie, entre autres. Outre la scène, elle se distingue également dans l’exercice du récital grâce à sa diction irréprochable, tant dans les mélodies françaises que dans les Lieder de Schubert, Schumann et Brahms. Elle est également soliste à l’ORTF, aux concerts Colonne, Lamoureux et Pasdeloup, et épouse le chef d'orchestre Pierre Cruchon, sous la direction duquel elle enregistre en 1955 un disque consacré aux héroïnes de l'Opéra-Comique Charlotte et Mignon. Toutefois, après la dissolution de la Réunion des théâtres lyriques en 1965, Isabelle Andreani débute une carrière de professeur de chant et d’Art Lyrique. Elle se voit nommée au Conservatoire National d’Aix en Provence puis s’installe à Toulon avec son époux (alors professeur au Conservatoire de Paris et auteur d‘une méthode renommée de hautbois), et devient professeur au Conservatoire de la ville. Après plusieurs mois d’hospitalisation, elle est décédée le 3 juin dernier et c’est un véritable deuil pour l’art lyrique, la ville de Toulon, et le personnage de Carmen qu’elle a tant marqué. Source: (http•••)
Marvis Martin Theodor Guschlbauer 1983
From Act I of Mozart's opera "Mitridate, re di Ponto", here is soprano Marvis Martin singing Ismene's aria with conductor Theodor Guschlbauer and the musicians at the 1983 Aix-en-Provence Festival. And here's a link to my Marvis Martin playlist: (http•••)
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