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Florida Grand Opera gratefully recognizes the following donors who have provided support of its education programs. Study Guide 2012 / 2013 Batchelor MIAMI BEACH Foundation Inc. Dear Friends, Welcome to our exciting 2012-2013 season! Florida Grand Opera is pleased to present the magical world of opera to the diverse audience of © FLORIDA GRAND OPERA © FLORIDA South Florida. We begin our season with a classic Italian production of Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème. We continue with a supernatural singspiel, Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Vincenzo Bellini’s famous opera La sonnam- bula, with music from the bel canto tradition. The main stage season is completed with a timeless opera with Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata. As our RHWIEWSRÁREPI[ILEZIEHHIHERI\XVESTIVEXSSYVWGLIHYPIMRSYV continuing efforts to be able to reach out to a newer and broader range of people in the community; a tango opera María de Buenoa Aires by Ástor Piazzolla. As a part of Florida Grand Opera’s Education Program and Stu- dent Dress Rehearsals, these informative and comprehensive study guides can help students better understand the opera through context and plot. )EGLSJXLIWIWXYH]KYMHIWEVIÁPPIH[MXLLMWXSVMGEPFEGOKVSYRHWWXSV]PMRI structures, a synopsis of the opera as well as a general history of Florida Grand Opera. Through this information, students can assess the plotline of each opera as well as gain an understanding of the why the librettos were written in their fashion. Florida Grand Opera believes that education for the arts is a vital enrich- QIRXXLEXQEOIWWXYHIRXW[IPPVSYRHIHERHLIPTWQEOIXLIMVPMZIWQSVI GYPXYVEPP]JYPÁPPMRK3RFILEPJSJXLI*PSVMHE+VERH3TIVE[ILSTIXLEX A message from these study guides will help students delve further into the opera. -
Male Zwischenfächer Voices and the Baritenor Conundrum Thaddaeus Bourne University of Connecticut - Storrs, [email protected]
University of Connecticut OpenCommons@UConn Doctoral Dissertations University of Connecticut Graduate School 4-15-2018 Male Zwischenfächer Voices and the Baritenor Conundrum Thaddaeus Bourne University of Connecticut - Storrs, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations Recommended Citation Bourne, Thaddaeus, "Male Zwischenfächer Voices and the Baritenor Conundrum" (2018). Doctoral Dissertations. 1779. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/1779 Male Zwischenfächer Voices and the Baritenor Conundrum Thaddaeus James Bourne, DMA University of Connecticut, 2018 This study will examine the Zwischenfach colloquially referred to as the baritenor. A large body of published research exists regarding the physiology of breathing, the acoustics of singing, and solutions for specific vocal faults. There is similarly a growing body of research into the system of voice classification and repertoire assignment. This paper shall reexamine this research in light of baritenor voices. After establishing the general parameters of healthy vocal technique through appoggio, the various tenor, baritone, and bass Fächer will be studied to establish norms of vocal criteria such as range, timbre, tessitura, and registration for each Fach. The study of these Fächer includes examinations of the historical singers for whom the repertoire was created and how those roles are cast by opera companies in modern times. The specific examination of baritenors follows the same format by examining current and -
BAZZINI Complete Opera Transcriptions
95674 BAZZINI Complete Opera Transcriptions Anca Vasile Caraman violin · Alessandro Trebeschi piano Antonio Bazzini 1818-1897 CD1 65’09 CD4 61’30 CD5 53’40 Bellini 4. Fantaisie de Concert Mazzucato and Verdi Weber and Pacini Transcriptions et Paraphrases Op.17 (Il pirata) Op.27 15’08 1. Fantaisie sur plusieurs thêmes Transcriptions et Paraphrases Op.17 1. No.1 – Casta Diva (Norma) 7’59 de l’opéra de Mazzucato 1. No.5 – Act 2 Finale of 2. No.6 – Quartet CD3 58’41 (Esmeralda) Op.8 15’01 Oberon by Weber 7’20 from I Puritani 10’23 Donizetti 2. Fantasia (La traviata) Op.50 15’55 1. Fantaisie dramatique sur 3. Souvenir d’Attila 16’15 Tre fantasie sopra motivi della Saffo 3. Adagio, Variazione e Finale l’air final de 4. Fantasia su temi tratti da di Pacini sopra un tema di Bellini Lucia di Lammeroor Op.10 13’46 I Masnadieri 14’16 2. No.1 11’34 (I Capuleti e Montecchi) 16’30 3. No.2 14’59 4. Souvenir de Transcriptions et Paraphrases Op.17 4. No.3 19’43 Beatrice di Tenda Op.11 16’11 2. No.2 – Variations brillantes 5. Fantaisia Op.40 (La straniera) 14’02 sur plusieurs motifs (La figlia del reggimento) 9’44 CD2 65’16 3. No.3 – Scène et romance Bellini (Lucrezia Borgia) 11’05 Anca Vasile Caraman violin · Alessandro Trebeschi piano 1. Variations brillantes et Finale 4. No.4 – Fantaisie sur la romance (La sonnambula) Op.3 15’37 et un choeur (La favorita) 9’02 2. -
Kenneth E. Querns Langley Doctor of Philosophy
Reconstructing the Tenor ‘Pharyngeal Voice’: a Historical and Practical Investigation Kenneth E. Querns Langley Submitted in partial fulfilment of Doctor of Philosophy in Music 31 October 2019 Page | ii Abstract One of the defining moments of operatic history occurred in April 1837 when upon returning to Paris from study in Italy, Gilbert Duprez (1806–1896) performed the first ‘do di petto’, or high c′′ ‘from the chest’, in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell. However, according to the great pedagogue Manuel Garcia (jr.) (1805–1906) tenors like Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794–1854) and Garcia’s own father, tenor Manuel Garcia (sr.) (1775–1832), had been singing the ‘do di petto’ for some time. A great deal of research has already been done to quantify this great ‘moment’, but I wanted to see if it is possible to define the vocal qualities of the tenor voices other than Duprez’, and to see if perhaps there is a general misunderstanding of their vocal qualities. That investigation led me to the ‘pharyngeal voice’ concept, what the Italians call falsettone. I then wondered if I could not only discover the techniques which allowed them to have such wide ranges, fioritura, pianissimi, superb legato, and what seemed like a ‘do di petto’, but also to reconstruct what amounts to a ‘lost technique’. To accomplish this, I bring my lifelong training as a bel canto tenor and eighteen years of experience as a classical singing teacher to bear in a partially autoethnographic study in which I analyse the most important vocal treatises from Pier Francesco Tosi’s (c. -
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Chapter Four “Un misérable eunuque” He had his Spring contract, his librettist was by his side and he had sympathy galore - no one whatsoever in musical circles in Milan could have been unaware of the Venetian scam,i from now on the guilty pair would be viewed askance by operatic managements throughout the peninsula. The direction of La Scala - only too willing to be supportive - agreed against all their usual caution to a religious heroine to fulfil Pacini’s contractual engagement and Giovanna d’Arco was the result - a saintly martyr bedevilled not just by the familiar occult and heretic foes but by the dilatory behaviour of the librettist in question - Gaetano Barbieri - who confessed that only half his text was actually in hand when rehearsals began in February 1830. Even if the great theatre was not unduly dismayed by the delay that resulted it put the opera and its composer into bad odour with its audience, after excuse after excuse and postponement after postponement of the prima, Pacini was obliged to ask the Chief of Police to impose a measure of calm and it was only at the very last gasp of the season that the curtains parted on his Giovanna and then before a sea of angry faces. The composer was hissed as he took his seat at the cembalo but smiled merely as they were confronted by a genuine novelty: Henriette Méric-Lalande in bed asleep. Her “dream aria” in which the bienheureuse greets her sacred destiny met with murmurs (Italian audiences seldom warmed to devotional intimacies on stage) but her truly seraphic cavatina, immaculately sung, brought them down to earth like a perfect miracle. -
La Filologia Dell
LA FILOLOGIA DELL’OPERA ITALIANA FRA TESTO ED EVENTO Fabrizio Della Seta [email protected] Università di Pavia Philology of the Italian Opera between Text and Event Abstract The paper discusses the guidelines Operatic editions should account on which current critical editions for this temporal dimension, and of operatic music are based, with at the same time offer a text that particular reference to the nine- can be used in today’s theatri- teenth-century Italian opera. The cal practice; lacking this require- basic principle, gradually acquired ment, the economic sustainability by decades of experimentation, is of such editorial enterprises will that the sources, rather than docu- fail. These criteria are illustrated menting the transmission of a text with the example of the edition, in given once and for all, record the progress but already employed for traces of a series of performative performance, of the fi rst opera of events that have occurred in the Vincenzo Bellini, Adelson e Salvini historical life of the work, even (1825). beyond the will of the authors. La musicologia si è posta problemi di critica testuale a partire dalla metà del XIX secolo, quando furono avviate le prime grandi serie di opera omnia.1 Solo all’inizio del Novecento ha però cominciato ad ap- plicare ai testi musicali metodologie scientifi camente fondate; era perciò inevitabile che la neonata fi lologia musicale mutuasse dalle consorelle di tradizione secolare, la classica e la romanza, concetti e metodi fon- damentali, in particolare quelli di ‘intenzione dell’autore’ e di ‘versione d’ultima mano’.2 1 Per un profi lo storico della fi lologia musicale vd. -
Vincenzo Bellini La Vita
VINCENZO BELLINI LA VITA ( Compositore italiano – Catania, 3 XI 1801 – Puteaux, Parigi, 23 IX 1835 ). Primo dei sette figli di Rosario Bellini e Agata Ferlito, il piccolo Vincenzo dimostrò per tempo uno spirito ricettivo, e pertanto già assai prima dell'età scolastica prese lezioni di pianoforte dal padre, e imparò i primi rudimenti scolastici da un prete. Un anonimo, apparentemente competente (ms, nel Museo belliniano di Catania), riferisce che Bellini all'età di cinque anni "suonava il pianoforte degno di ammirazione", e che dimostrava un orecchio e una memoria musicale eccellenti. All'età di sei anni scrisse la sua prima composizione. In musica fu suo maestro, dall'età di sette anni soprattutto il nonno. F. Pastura (cui si rifà la precedente biografia) elenca questa produzione, tuttora conservata in manoscritto, di cui tuttavia solo in minima parte si può stabilire la datazione. Il ragazzino, grazioso e simpatico, era noto in tutta Catania: ben presto si fece sentire non soltanto nelle chiese, come compositore e occasionalmente come organista, ma anche nei salotti aristocratici. Per questi circoli scrisse le sue prime ariette, e probabilmente anche qualche brano strumentale. Nel giugno del 1819, esaurito l’insegnamento musicale del nonno, si recò a Napoli: il comune di Catania gli fornì i mezzi per studiare in quel conservatorio. Sua prima insegnante a Napoli fu G. Furno, e C. Conti lo assisteva come "maestrino". G. Tritto gli diede lezioni di contrappunto (verosimilmente a partire dal 1821); nel 1822 (secondo F. Florimo) Bellini entrò alla scuola del direttore del conservatorio, N. Zingarelli. Agli studi di contrappunto si aggiunsero allora esercitazioni nella composizione di solfeggi. -
Teatro Massimo Bellini
TEATRO MASSIMO BELLINI Sabato 25 luglio 2020 ore 21.30 Teatro Antico Taormina AMERICAN MOVIES Le celeberrime colonne sonore americane. Musiche di E. Morricone, J. Williams, H. Mancini, A. Silvestri. Direttore Carmen Failla Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini Teatro Massimo Bellini & Taoarte Biglietti da € 10 a € 20 A seguire il link per l’acquisto dei biglietti E' possibile l'acquisto dei biglietti presso il botteghino del Teatro Massimo Bellini https://www.vivaticket.com/it/biglietto/american-movies/150403 www.teatromassimobellini.it Mercoledì 29 Luglio ore 21,00 Catania, Cortile Platamone AFFRESCHI SONORI Musiche di G. F. Haendel, S. Prokofiev, O. Respighi Direttore Fabrizio Maria Carminati Piccola Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini A seguire il link per l’acquisto dei biglietti E' possibile l'acquisto dei biglietti presso il botteghino del Teatro Massimo Bellini https://www.vivaticket.com/it/biglietto/cortile-platamone-affreschi-sonori/150167 www.teatromassimobellini.it Giovedì 30 luglio ore 21.30 Teatro Antico Taormina LA TRAVIATA Ritorno all'Opera, in forma di concerto Direttore Fabrizio Maria Carminati Maestro del Coro Luigi Petrozziello Orchestra, Coro e Tecnici del Teatro Massimo Bellini Teatro Massimo Bellini & Taoarte Biglietti da € 15 a € 30 A seguire il link per l’acquisto dei biglietti E' possibile l'acquisto dei biglietti presso il botteghino del Teatro Massimo Bellini https://www.vivaticket.com/it/biglietto/la-traviata/150448 www.teatromassimobellini.it Venerdì 31 Luglio ore 21,00 Catania, Cortile Platamone L’ANIMA DEL -
"Casta Diva" from Bellini's
“Casta Diva” from Bellini's “Norma”--Rosa Ponselle; accompanied by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti (December 31, 1928 and January 30, 1929) Added to the National Registry: 2007 Essay by Judy Tsou (guest post)* Rosa Ponselle “Casta Diva” is the most famous aria of Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma” (1831). It is sung by the title character, a Druidess or priestess of the Gauls, in the first act. The opera takes place in Gaul between 100 and 50 BCE when the Romans were occupiers. The Gauls want Norma to declare war on the Romans, who have been oppressing them. Norma is hesitant to do so because she is secretly in love with Pollione, the Roman proconsul, and with whom she has borne two children. She assuages the people’s anger and convinces them that this is not the right time to revolt. She asserts that the Romans will eventually fall by their own doing, and the Gauls do not need to rise up now. It is at this point that Norma sings “Casta Diva,” a prayer to the moon goddess for peace, and eventually, conquering the Romans. When things between her and Pollione go sour, Norma tries to kill their children but ultimately cannot bring herself to do so. Eventually, she confesses her relationship with Pollione and sacrifices herself on the funeral pyre of her lover. “Norma” was the first of two operas commissioned in 1830 for which Bellini was paid an unprecedented 12,000 lire. “Norma” premiered on December 26, 1831 at La Scala, and the second opera, “Beatrice di Tenda,” premiered in 1833, but in Venice (La Fenice). -
Rethinking Operatic Masculinity: Nicola Tacchinardi's Aria Substitutions and the Heroic Archetype in Early Nineteenth-Century
Cambridge Opera Journal, 32,1,1–26 © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. doi:10.1017/S0954586720000099 Rethinking Operatic Masculinity: Nicola Tacchinardi’s Aria Substitutions and the Heroic Archetype in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy PARKORN WANGPAIBOONKIT* Abstract: This article looks at representations of masculinity in Italian operatic performance in the 1820s and 1830s, with a particular focus on the ways in which male characters were transformed through the practice of aria and scene substitutions. Upon his retirement in 1833, the tenor Nicola Tacchinardi chastised musico performers – women who sang male roles – for their unconvincing portrayal of operatic heroes. Rather than complain about their high-lying voices, he chose to criticise these women’s feminine appearance and idiosyncratic stage behaviours as unmasculine. Tacchinardi’s criteria for gender performance, then, sidestepped embodied vocality and centred on performer appearance and behaviour in specific narrative situations. My study explores how Tacchinardi and his contemporaries employed aria substitution in heroic roles as a means for plot substitution, forgoing arias of dramatic stasis for dynamic scenes that showcase decisive action and augmented narrative significance. In this pre-Duprez milieu, before the onset of predetermined physiology in operatic discourse, male singers across the 1820s achieved an explicitly masculine self- definition not through voice, but as masters of textual control. Aria substitutions in the operas La Sacerdotessa d’Irminsul, La donna del lago and Norma demonstrate how singers established the compo- nents of masculine-heroic conventions through sensitive consideration of dramaturgy. -
Singing Maiden Characters in Romantic Vocal Music, 1800-1850
Heartfelt Love: Singing Maiden Characters in Romantic Vocal Music, 1800-1850 Haiman Liu An exegesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music Victoria University of Wellington 2020 2 Abstract The images of maidens in Italian opera and German lieder from the period 1800-1850 are vivid. In the plots of the operas and the scenes and stories of the lieder almost invariably these characters focus enthusiastically on heartfelt love. This exegesis explores the relationship between the expression of love by unmarried women in selected lieder and opera of the first half of the nineteenth century and performance of these works by the young soprano in the twenty-first century. In the period when these songs and operas were written, performers of lieder would often have been of a similar age to the maiden characters portrayed in the songs, and in the case of Italian opera at the time, the singers who created such roles were usually in their twenties or early thirties. As a young soprano myself, in my study I consider some questions which are relevant for twenty-first century female singers who choose to perform these nineteenth-century portrayals of virgin characters. The figures in the works I have selected to study display a wide variety of personalities, moods and emotions, from the tenacious wild rose in Schubert’s ‘Heidenröslein’, to his passionate Gretchen and the melancholic Amina in Bellini’s La Sonnambula. I consider how the soprano may express the different emotions involved and approach performing young maiden characters such as these, whose experiences of life and status in society may be substantially removed from twenty-first century experiences. -
LE MIE MEMORIE ARTISTICHE Giovanni Pacini
LE MIE MEMORIE ARTISTICHE Giovanni Pacini English translation: Adriaan van der Tang, October 2011 1 2 GIOVANNI PACINI: LE MIE MEMORIE ARTISTICHE PREFACE Pacini’s autobiography Le mie memorie artistiche has been published in several editions. For the present translation the original text has been used, consisting of 148 pages and published in 1865 by G.G. Guidi. In 1872 E. Sinimberghi in Rome published Le mie memorie artistiche di Giovanni Pacini, continuate dall’avvocato Filippo Cicconetti. The edition usually referred to was published in 1875 by Le Monnier in Florence under the title Le mie memorie artistiche: edite ed inedite, edited by Ferdinando Magnani. The first 127 pages contain the complete text of the original edition of 1865 – albeit with a different page numbering – extended with the section ‘inedite’ of 96 pages, containing notes Pacini made after publication of the 1865-edition, beginning with three ‘omissioni’. This 1875- edition covers the years as from 1864 and describes Pacini’s involvement with performances of some of his operas in several minor Italian theatres. His intensive supervision at the first performances in 1867 of Don Diego di Mendoza and Berta di Varnol was described as well, as were the executions of several of his cantatas, among which the cantata Pacini wrote for the unveiling of the Rossini- monument in Pesaro, his oratorios, masses and instrumental works. Furthermore he wrote about the countless initiatives he developed, such as the repatriation of Bellini’s remains to Catania and the erection of a monument in Arezzo in honour of the great poet Guido Monaco, much adored by him.