Melbourne Recital Centre & Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in association with Melbourne Festival present

GLORIES OF THE FRENCH BAROQUE Brenda Rae sings Rameau

7.30PM, FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER 2017 BRENDA RAE SOPRANO BENJAMIN BAYL HARPSICHORD/DIRECTOR ANAM ORCHESTRA

‘A constant source of vocal allure with the kind of dramatic instincts that turn a flashy cadenza into an intense character study.’ THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Friday 6 October 2017 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Duration: Two hours including one 20-minute interval.

Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this concert is being presented. PROGRAM JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU Les folies françaises – Suites and Arias from Tragédies en musique, Opéra-ballets and Comédies lyriques

Les Paladins Ouverture très vive – Menuet lent – Air gay Loure – Air très gay ‘Je vole, Amour’ (aria of Argie) Menuet – Contredanse Castor et Pollux Passepieds – Bruit de guerre – Ritournelle tendre ‘Tristes apprêts, pâles flambeaux’ (aria of Télaire) Danse des Démons Platée Rigaudons – Tambourins ‘Formons les plus brillants concerts – Aux langueurs d’Apollon’ (recitative & aria of La Folie) Orage INTERVAL Zoroastre Ouverture – Air léger – Entrée de peuples différents – Air tendre en rondeau – Tambourin ‘Sur nos coeurs épuise tes armes’ (aria of Amélite) Menuet - Air grave - Air vif – Air très vif Les Boréades Prélude ‘Un horizon serein’ (aria of Alphise) Entrée de Polymnie Les Indes galantes Air vif – Air pour l’adoration du Soleil – Contredanse ‘Vaste empire des mers’ (aria of Emilie) Air pour les sauvages – Chaconne ‘Régnez, plaisirs’ (aria of Zima)

1 ABOUT THE MUSIC

‘The past is a foreign country’, wrote L.P. Hartley, and so, for a very long time, were the operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau. For more than 200 years after his death, Rameau’s works were about as remote and mysterious for the average music lover as the planet of Mars is to the modern tourist. In 1956, Cuthbert Girdlestone, Rameau’s first English biographer, wrote, ‘His music enfolds a great wealth of beauty of the highest order which is almost unknown and certainly unexploited’, and for almost the next two decades not much changed. How could such a great composer fall off the map for so long? Rameau’s rebirth finally came during the 1970s, thanks to the curiosity of early music pioneers like Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Jean-François Paillard who disinterred a handful of these unexploited scores and gave them the kiss of life. What began as a tentative trickle has slowly become a steady stream, and audiences can now re-enter a theatrical world lost for two centuries. Rameau’s ‘foreign country’ is looking and sounding less foreign, and that’s a very good thing, because Jean-Philippe Rameau wrote far too much beautiful music for us to ignore him. Rameau was born in Dijon in 1683, the son of an organist, and by 16 was deputising for his father in the loft. He was no star pupil at the Jesuit college he attended, nor did he stand out as a child prodigy, and had he died in his mid-40s we might know him as hardly more than a footnote - albeit an important one - in the chronicle of Western music - as the composer of some attractive keyboard pieces and cantatas, and the author of some forward-thinking treatises on harmony, tuning systems, figured bass, and other such matters that excite musicologists but no one else.

2 But at the age of 49, Rameau did something remarkable: he embarked on a career as an opera composer. Why? We don’t know exactly. To walk into the bear-pit of Parisian opera at a relatively late stage in life must have taken some guts. Perhaps it was the enticement of wealth, for there was serious money to be made. Or perhaps it 30 years he wrote no fewer than was the burning conviction, too 26 works for the stage, some hits, strong to be suppressed, that he some flops. His last, composed could do it better. If so, he was Verdi-like at the age of 79, was vindicated with the success of his Les Boréades, a miracle of lyric first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie. grace and emotional power, that It was a hit, but it also stirred up he never heard performed. a hornet’s nest, for Rameau had We casually call these works for the threatened the supremacy of stage ‘operas’, but in truth they are Jean-Baptiste Lully, long-reigning opéras-ballets, for at least a quarter monarch of French music. For the of a typical Rameau score may be next 20 years, even after Lully’s given over to dance music. Opéra- death, the rival fan clubs, the ballet was, indeed, just the heading Lullistes and the Ramistes, railed for a dizzying list of genres that at each other in opera houses and included tragédie en musique, in print. The Lullistes were offended comédie-ballet, comédie lyrique, by Rameau’s audacious harmonies pastorale-héroique, acte de ballet and imaginative orchestration, and and so on (Polonius, able to reel off the Ramistes equally heated in their all the dramatic genres and defence. Today, we may smile sub-genres to Hamlet, had nothing condescendingly at the antics of on the Parisians.) For the French these warring claques and the theatregoers, the art of the dance invective hurled back and forth, was every bit as important as the but at least they cared. If only art of song, and modern productions audiences today were similarly fired of Rameau can succeed or fail up, let alone engaged. After scoring depending on their producers’ skill his first hit, it was clear that in integrating the choreographic Rameau had been bitten by the element. showbiz bug, for over the next

3 ABOUT THE MUSIC

Viewed dramaturgically, Rameau’s the whole 19th century the ever- operas did not re-invent the wheel. insightful Hector Berlioz was one of For the most part he and his the few great minds to appreciate collaborators stuck to the same the greatness of Rameau, but many mythological and classical subjects considered him eccentric for doing as Lully. Operatic naturalism – so. In 1895 Rameau’s stock finally insofar as such a thing is even took a sharp turn upwards when possible – seems not to have been Camille Saint-Saëns, motivated a concern for Rameau. (Only late partly by nationalistic pride, in life did he confess that, were he commenced the editorship of the to start over, he would follow the first complete edition, but this example of Pergolesi’s La serva laudable project was interrupted padrona.) His achievement was to by the First World War and then take the established themes and sadly abandoned less than a third clothe them in richer, more complete. In 1991 the brilliant French imaginative music. When Rameau’s musicologist Sylvie Bouissou characters soared heavenwards, founded the Société Jean-Philippe they soared higher, and when Rameau, dedicated to publishing they had to trudge down to the a modern critical edition of the underworld, the demons were composer’s entire works. The bigger and scarier. And to top it Sociéte’s honorary committee all off, he seemed to have at his boasts a galaxy of luminaries fingertips an endless supply of including William Christie, John Eliot crackerjack dance tunes, real Gardiner and Philippe Herreweghe, foot-stompers that sounded as if and its team of editors includes they had come straight from the such outstanding scholars as streets and fairgrounds, and in Graham Sadler and Denis Herlin. some cases perhaps did. Their work is still by no means finished, but we already owe them Rameau died in 1764, relatively a lot. Welcome to Melbourne, rich and revered. But when the Monsieur Rameau. Revolution came in 1789 his works – and those of Lully – suffered the Words by Philip Lambert © ANAM Library same merciless fate as the guillotined aristocrats. They were lumped in with the detested Ancien Régime and consigned to the dusty archives. Then came Figaro, and the game was well and truly up for all those gods and goddesses. Through

4 THE TEXTS

Les Paladins comédie lyrique, premiered 12 February 1760

Rameau’s second-last opera was this comedy-fairy tale based on a fable by La Fontaine. The young heroine, Argie, is in love with Atis, a palatin (a warrior of Charlemagne’s court) but is held captive by her wicked guardian Anselme. At the end of the second act she pours out her heart in this delicately scored aria.

Je vole, amour, où tu m’appelles, I fly, love, where you call me, Prête-moi, prête-moi tes ailes. lend me your wings. Quelles sont tes faveurs What are your rewards Pour les amants fidèles? for faithful lovers? Tu brises leurs chaînes cruelles, You break their cruel chains Et tu les enchaînes de fleurs. and you enchain them in flowers.

(librettist unknown)

Castor et Pollux tragédie en musique, premiered 24 October 1737

Castor and Pollux are the heroic twins of classical myth whom the gods transformed into the stars of the Gemini constellation. At the start of the opera, Castor has been killed in battle and Télaïre is in mourning.

Tristes apprêts, pâles flambeaux, Sad apparitions, pale flames, Jour plus affreux que les ténèbres, Day more frightening than darkness, Astres lugubres des tombeaux, Dismal stars of the tombs, Non, je ne verrai plus que vos No – I shall no longer see anything clartés funèbres. other than your funereal beams. Toi, qui vois mon coeur éperdu, You, who see my broken heart, Father Père du Jour! ô Soleil! ô mon Père! of Daylight! Oh, Sun! O, my Father! Je ne veux plus d’un bien que I no longer want the gift of life that Castor a perdu, Castor has lost, Et je renounce à ta lumière. And I renounce the light.

(libretto: Pierre-Joseph-Justin Bernard)

5 THE TEXTS

Platée comédie lyrique, premiered 31 March, 1745

This ribald comedy may be Rameau’s most original creation. Platée is an ugly marsh nymph (played by a tenor), utterly convinced of her own beauty. When the god Jupiter courts Platée as a prank, La Folie tries to warn her not to take him seriously, and sings her the admonitory tale of Apollo and Daphne.

Formons les plus brillants Let’s put on the most brilliant concerts; concerts. Quand Jupiter porte les fers de When Jupiter is enchained by the l’incomparable Platée, peerless Platée, Je veux que les transports de son May the rapture of his ame enchantée, S’expriment par enchanted soul mes chants divers. be expressed by my songs. Admirez tous mon art celebre. Watch now and admire my art - Je fais d’une image funébre une May my songs turn a sad picture alégresse par mes chants. into one of joy. Aux langeurs d’Apollon, Daphné Daphne turned down Apollo’s se refusa. ardent advances. L’Amour sur son tombeau, Upon her tomb, Love put éteignit son flambeau, out the flame and La métamorphosa. transformed her. C’est ainsi que l’Amour de tout Thus has Love always avenged temps s’est vengé: itself. Que l’Amour est cruel, quand il Love is so cruel when it is est outragé! unrequited!

(libretto: Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d’Orville)

6 Zoroastre tragédie en musique, premiered 5 December 1749

Good and evil are personified in this opera by Zoroastre, the great religious reformer of ancient Persia, and the wicked sorcerer Abramane. Both are in love with Amélite. Zoroastre was one of the first operas to imitate Masonic rituals on stage. The aria Aimez vous was sung by Zoroastre in the original 1749 production, but a 1756 revival assigned it to Amélite.

Aimez vous sans cesse. Love without ceasing. L’Amour va lancer tous ses traits; Love will launch herself at you; C’est pour votre Bonheur qu’il vous It’s for your own good that Love lie et vous blesse; traps you and hurts you; Jouissez de votre tendresse Enjoy your tender feelings Dans les bras des Plaisirs, in the arms of Pleasure, dans le sein de la Paix. and in the bosom of Peace. (libretto: Louis de Cahusac)

Les Boréades tragédie en musique and Rameau’s final work.

Although rehearsed at the Paris Opéra in 1763, it was not performed until 1770, after Rameau’s death. Alphise, Queen of Bactria, must wed Boread, one of the descendants of the god of the north wind, but her heart is with Abaris. She decides she would rather abdicate than forego the man she loves. In this aria she compares her anxieties to a storm at sea.

Un orison serain, A clear horizon, le doux calme des airs the calm sweetness of the air, invitent à voguer sur l’onde. tempt us to drift upon the wave. Tout à couple vent gronde, Suddenly the wind turns cold, il amene l’orage, it lashes up the storm and roils et soule les mers. the surging waves. Par l’attrait des biens les plus chers, By the lure of precious things, c’est ainsi que l’amour et l’himen love and marriage lead us astray; nous ègarent; I fear the chains they prepare, je craine les chaines quils and under pretty flowers I see préparant, only fetters. il sous des noeuds de fleurs, je ne vois que des fern. (libretto: Louis de Cahusac)

7 THE TEXTS

Les Indes galantes ballet héroique, premiered 23 August 1735

This lavish entertainment in a prologue and four self-contained acts, took its audience through four exotic locations: a Turkish palace, a Peruvian volcano, a Persian garden and a North American forest. In the first aria, Émilie, who has been abducted and is now the captive of a Turkish pasha, looks out to sea in despair and wonders if her husband will ever rescue her.

La nuit couvre les cieux! Darkness covers the skies! Quel funeste ravage! What dreadful devastation! Vaste empire des mers où triomphe Vast empire of the seas where l’horreur, horror rules, Vous êtes la terrible image You are the terrible image Du trouble de mon coeur. of the trouble in my heart. Des vents impétueux vous éprouvez You endure the violence of the la rage, impetuous winds, D’un juste désespoir j’éprouve la fureur. And I, the fury of just despair. Que ces cris agitent mes sens! Let these cries shake my senses! Moimême je me crois victime de I believe myself a victim of the l’orage. storm. Mais le ciel est touché de leurs périls But heaven is touched by their pressants, pressing perils, Le ciel, le juste ciel calme l’onde et Heaven, the just heaven calms the les vents; wave and the winds; Je souffrois dans le port les I suffered in the harbor the tourments du naufrage. torments of the shipwreck.

In the second aria, Zima, a Native American princess, has been fought over by two European settlers. She turns them both down to marry Adario, a native warrior. The opera finishes with everyone joining in the peace-pipe ceremony.

Régnez Plaisirs et Jeux; triomphez Pleasures and Sports, rule here in dans nos bois. our woods! Nous n’y connaissons que vos lois. We obey only your laws. Tous ce qui blesse la tendresse Anything that hurts tenderness est ignoré dans nos ardeurs. has no place in our affections. La nature qui fit nos coeurs Nature, which made our hearts, Prend soin de les guider sans cesse. always guides them with care. (libretto: Louis Fuzelier)

8 ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Brenda Rae SOPRANO American soprano Brenda Rae is a highly sought after artist who regularly performs in many of the world’s leading opera houses, concert halls, and recital venues. At home in a wide range of repertoire, Brenda has been praised for her ‘tireless, golden Arbor for Messiah. Future projects soprano’ (The Times), ‘dazzling, include debuts with the pinpoint coloratura’ (Opera News), Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera and ‘breathtaking mastery’ of Chicago, the Teatro Real in (Frankfurter Rundschau). Madrid and Oper Zürich as well as Brenda Rae’s current season will returns to the Oper Frankfurt, Santa begin with performances as the Fe Opera and Opera Philadelphia. Queen of the Night in Die Brenda appears on several Zauberflöte on tour in Japan with recordings including Offenbach’s the Bayerische Staatsoper, followed Fantasio (Opera Rara), Lowell by the soprano’s Australian debut in Liebermann’s Little Heaven (Albany this concert of Rameau arias with Records), Strauss’ Ariadne auf the Australian National Academy Naxos and Wagner’s Die Feen (both of Music (ANAM). Further opera on Oehms Classics), Milhaud’s The performances include Aminta in Oresteia of Aeschylus (Naxos; Die schweigsame Frau with the nominated for a Grammy award), Bayerische Staatsoper, Zerbinetta and also on DVD/Blu-ray in in Ariadne auf Naxos with both the Handel’s Rinaldo from Berlin Staatsoper and the Bayerische Glyndebourne (Opus Arte). Brenda Staatsoper and a return to Ms. Rae’s earned an artistic diploma from the home company, the Oper Frankfurt, Juilliard Opera Center, a master’s for Gilda in Rigoletto and Amina in degree from the Juilliard School, La sonnambula. She also returns to and a bachelor’s degree from the Santa Fe for an exciting role debut: University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cunegonde in Candide. In concert Ms. Rae makes her La Scala debut in brendarae.com Christmas Concerts featuring sacred Brenda Rae’s ANAM residency is music by Mozart, and she returns to generously supported by Peter Jopling the University of Michigan in Ann AM QC

9 ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Benjamin Bayl HARPSICHORD/DIRECTOR Benjamin Bayl is co-founder and Principal Guest Conductor of the period-instrument Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (ARCO) and Associate Director of The Hanover Band. Born in Sydney Season. Working extensively in the in 1978, he was the first Australian early music field (both as conductor Organ Scholar of King’s College or directing from the keyboard) Cambridge, and then studied recent and regular collaborations conducting at the Royal Academy include: The Hanover Band, Concerto of Music with Colin Metters and Copenhagen, Concerto Köln, George Hurst. An alumnus of the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, and National Opera Studio, he Warsaw Chamber Opera. became Assistant Conductor to Current and forthcoming season the Budapest Festival Orchestra highlights include concerts with and Iván Fischer in 2006, and was Malaysian Philharmonic and Hong also mentored by and assisted Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Yannick Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano, Nézet-Séguin and Richard Hickox. Orchestra Sinfonia G.Rossini, From 2007-2010 he served as Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Artistic Director to the Bremer Philharmoniker, ARCO, Gabrieli Consort & Paul McCreesh, Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali, and also worked with Fischer and Croatian Baroque Orchestra, a tour the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. of China with The Hanover Band, He recently made his conducting a tour of Europe with B’Rock and debut in the Amsterdam Vocalconsort Berlin, La finta semplice Concertgebouw with Collegium and Lully’s Armide at Warsaw Vocale Gent and Akademie für Chamber Opera, La Clemenza di Tito Alte Musik Berlin, and was at Polish National Opera and Così immediately re-invited to conduct fan tutte at the Cartagena Festival them on a European tour with the in Colombia. music of CPE Bach in the 18/19 benjaminbayl.com

10 ABOUT ANAM The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to the artistic and professional development of the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand. It is a place in which young musicians fulfill their potential as music leaders, distinguished by their skill, imagination and courage, and by their determined contribution to a vibrant music culture. Renowned for its innovation and energy, ANAM is committed to pushing the boundaries of how music is presented and performed. ANAM musicians learn and transform through unique, performance-based training tailored to individual goals and aspirations. Presenting over 180 events each year, in some of the finest venues in Australia, musicians share the stage with their peers and the world’s best artists and educators. Many ANAM Alumni have been recipients of major national and international prizes and awards, and occupy leading positions in ensembles and orchestras in Australia and around the world. For more information visit anam.com.au or call 03 9645 7911

THE ARTISTS

SOPRANO HARPSICHORD/DIRECTOR CONCERTMASTER Brenda Rae Benjamin Bayl Shaun Lee-Chen

ANAM Musicians in alphabetical order

VIOLIN CELLO BASSOON Laura Barton NZ Jonathan Békés NSW Jenna Schijf WA Karla Hanna VIC Principal 2nd Liam Meany NSW Co-Principal Matthew Ventura NSW Pns, C, Pl Natasha Hanna VIC David Moran SA Carol Wang NZ Z, B, IG Daniel Smith QLD Co-Principal Lily Higson-Spence QLD HORN Caleb Wong NSW William Huxtable WA Aidan Gabriels QLD Vicky Zhang NSW Kyla Matsuura-Miller QLD Emily Newham QLD Principal Liam Oborne VIC BASS TRUMPET Mana Ohashi VIC Kinga Janiszewski QLD Samuel Beagley VIC Riley Skevington WA Giovanni Vinci NSW Principal Sarah Henderson NZ Principal Daniel Tagiev guest FLUTE/PICCOLO Sunkyoung Kim guest TIMPANI & PERCUSSION Andrew Baird SA Pl, Z Matthew Horsley guest VIOLA Anna Coe QLD B, IG Scott Weatherson guest Eunise Cheng WA Eliza Shephard NSW Pns, C Rachel Grimwood alumna HARPSICHORD OBOE Alexander MacDonald NZ Adam McMillan QLD Owen Jackson QLD IG Principal Alexander Waite VIC Eve Osborn NSW Pns, C, Pl Mariette Reefman NSW Liam Wooding NZ Ruby Shirres guest CLARINET Eli Vincent QLD Mitchell Jones QLD Magdalenna Krstevska VIC Z

Pns = Principal Les Paladins, C = Principal Castor et Pollux, Pl = Principal Platée Z = Principal Zoroastre, B = Principal Les Boréades, IG = Principal Les Indes galantes

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