Richard Strauss La mujer silenciosa, Op. 80 Vídeos
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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).
Zweig Hans Hotter Hilde Güden Karl Böhm Richard Strauss Vienna Philharmonic 2011
Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America Die schweigsame Frau, Op. 80, TrV 265, Act II: Ruhe! Hab ich dir gesagt! (Live) · Stefan Zweig Strauss: Die schweigsame Frau, Op. 80, TrV 265 (Live) ℗ 2011 Andromeda Released on: 2011-05-31 Artist: Hans Hotter Artist: Hilde Güden Conductor: Karl Böhm Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Composer: Richard Strauss Lyricist: Stefan Zweig Auto-generated by YouTube.
Richard Strauss Einstein Zweig
(Herr Maestro Richard Strauss conducts Herr Doktor Albert Einstein on the Violin: Salon Gathering in Caputh, Brandenburg, Germany, 1930s.) Greta Warren-Hill: Latest original oil. Strauss and Einstein were never to be found in Caputh (or elsewhere) together at a Salon gathering of writers and musicians, to our knowledge, yet arguably they represented the two most influential architects of Science and Music at that time in Europe. Prolific and gifted to the level of genius, both men achieved an enduring recognition for their specific disciplines internationally and among peers, so it is only fitting that they should have the opportunity, so many years postmortem, to join in an intimate performance of Strauss’ Die schweigsame Frau (Silent Woman), libretto by Stefan Zweig, although it is unclear whether Strauss and Einstein were vocally accompanied: perhaps somewhere next to you, the viewer…someone sang. The frame simulates a hardbound book from the early 1900s with faux leather spine. The images are recessed and held firmly by the framing process (attached through the board backing, but removable if needed. Outside the paintings the artist has crafted simulated page edges. The back of the book is covered in cloth on the edges and has a hanging device affixed that will balance the piece easily.) Down the page you’ll find her most unusual and stirring portrait of Stefan and Lotte Zweig in the moment after their death in Petropolis, Brazil, also for sale and recently reduced. Dimensions are 48 inches X 29 inches with a projection from the wall of 1.5 inches; or, 122cm X 74cm with a projection from the wall of 3.8cm. Included under each canvas in an interior pocket of the frame, is a COA for this original work. Strauss and Einstein, as pictured are offered at $12,018 (USD) and offers are entertained. (Soon to be posted with many images at her site, WarrenHillArt.com. In the interim, if you’d like to communicate with the artist, contact her at •••@•••.)
Richard Strauss Georg Zeppenfeld Kent Nagano
Georg Zeppenfeld, Orquesta del Estado Baviera, Kent Nagano En “La mujer silenciosa” el protagonista, Sir Morosus, un viejo marino adinerado y solterón que no soporta el ruido, resulta engañado por su barbero y su sobrino Henry mediante una farsa en la que lo inducen a elegir como esposa a una joven aparentemente sumisa y callada, Aminta, que en realidad es la mujer del propio Henry. Este pertenece a una compañía itinerante de ópera con la que organiza una falsa ceremonia de matrimonio entre su tío y Aminta, la cual, una vez celebrada la boda, empieza a mostrar una conducta totalmente opuesta a la anterior, la de una mujer descarada y gritona que no muestra el menor respeto hacia las costumbres de su supuesto marido. Cuando el espanto de este lo lleva al borde del suicidio, le descubren el enredo y Sir Morosus da por bien empleado el escarmiento en esta maravillosa aria con la que concluye la ópera.
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