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Grieghallen fredag 7.september kl.22.30 Carl Orff (1895-1982) CARMINA BURANA Profan kantate for soli, kor og orkester Urfremførelse: 8. juni 1937, Frankfurt am Main Julianne Gearhart, sopran Alexander Krawetz, tenor Thomas Mohr, baryton VNOs orkester Anne Randine Øverby, dirigent Carmina Burana er for korsangere et populært verk å fremføre, og i Grieghallen fredag 7.September kl.22.30 vil publikum kunne høre et festivalkor med over 400 sangere fra 7 nasjoner. FESTIVALKOR Bergen Prosjektkor fra Norges Korforbund Hordaland, Bergen Operakor, Bergen Kammerkor Ragazzi, Jentekoret Høyskolen i Bergen, Spania Camerata Lacunensis Portugal Coro Leal da Câmara Sverige Falu Kammarkör, Luleå Kammarkör Latvia The Latvia University choir "Juventus”, Choir Ogre, Choir "Vel“ Russland "Youth and student choir of University DUBNA“, Nevskaya Aquarelle, Boys and young men choir ”Baltika” Sør-Afrika Cenestra Male Choir, ”Alt jeg har skrevet til nå kan kastes. Med Carmina Burana starter mine samlede verk.” (Orff til sin forlegger etter førstegangs-fremføring av Carmina Burana) Carmina Burana – ”Sangene fra Beuren” ble komponert av Carl Orff i 1937. Han tok utgangspunkt i et utvalg av tekstene i tre hoveddeler: 1. Naturen, 2. Vertshuset og 3. Kjærlighet – innrammet av et imponerende åpnings- og avslutningskor der Fortuna, skjebnens gudinne, lovprises og gir stemning av mystikk, lengsel og rituell sang for hele verket. Carmina Burana er morsom, spennende og lett å lytte til. En av grunnene er at verket består av 25 individuelle og korte satser, som gir musikalsk variasjon og driv over det times lange verket. Carmina Burana er også en ypperlig introduksjon til klassisk musikk. Musikken blir også spilt i TV-reklame og i filmer (”Excalibur” og Oliver Stone’s ”The Doors”). BILLETTER: kr.290.- + avgift (grupper min.10 bill./BT-kort) kr.230.- + avgift Billettservice 815 33 133 www.billettservice.no og POSTEN Grieghallens billettkontor 55 21 61 00 Mer info: w w w . g r i e g f e s t i v a l . n o Komediebakken 9, N-5010 Bergen, Norge Tel. +47 55 56 38 65 Fax. +47 55 56 38 66 [email protected] www.griegfestival.no Org.nr. 986 696 059 Kontonr. 5210 05 51446 Medvirkende (eng.info) Julianne Gearhart, soprano Soprano Julianne Gearhart, noted as a voice of “remarkable sweetness and clarity” and a “witty comedienne with agile coloratura”, made her mainstage debut as Helen Niles in the premiere of Marvin David Levy's revised Mourning Becomes Electra at the Seattle Opera in 2003. She returned to Seattle as Zerbinetta for 2004's production of Ariadne auf Naxos, and was acclaimed in last winter’s Opera Now article of up-and- coming young singers.A MacAllister finalist and a winner of the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria, Gearhart recently sang Oscar in Ballo in Maschera for the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Juliette in Romeo et Juliette for Opera Grand Rapids in Michigan, and returned to Seattle twice in 2006: to sing the soprano solos in Orff’s Carmina Burana and Bach’s notoriously difficult Cantata #51 “Jauchzett Gott in Alle Landen” for the Symphony, and to sing Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier with Peter Rose and Carol Van Ness. This season, Gearhart will reprise Zerbinetta for the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv and the Grand Theatre Geneve and make her Italian debut in Cagliari, Sardinia as Blondchen in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Alexander Krawetz, tenor was born in Odessa, and from 1987 – 92 he did his studies at Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Further studies Salzburger Mozarteum until 1994. He has had engagements at several German opera houses as; Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf-Duisburg, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Stadttheater Bonn, Theater Kassel, Komische Oper in Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, and others. His repertoire includes tenor parts in operas by Donizetti, Janacek, Mozart, Puccini, Smetana, R. Strauss, Verdi, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky and others. Thomas Mohr, baryton, received his training at the musical academy of Lübeck, where he gained his diploma and passed his concert examination with distinction. Thomas Mohr has been a free-lance singer since 1997. His widespread activities have led him to many of the most important concert halls of the world and to famous opera houses including the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Zürich opera and the Semper opera in Dresden. The renowned conductors with whom he has worked include Kent Nagano, Antonio Pappano, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Sir Georg Solti and Zubin Mehta. Currently he has achieved a change of vocal category: in the 2005/6 season he made highly successful appearances as Siegmund and Idomeneo, and April 2006 saw his much noted debut as Parsifal in Erfurt. At the moment Thomas Mohr sings Danilo in a new production of the “Merry Widow” at Cologne, in the near future he will be appearing as Eisenstein at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and in 2007 as Max in a new “Freischütz” at Cologne. Since the winter term of 2002/2003 he has been teaching singing as professor in ordinary at the Bremen academy of the arts. Anne Randine Øverby, conductor had her debut in 1985 with Mozart’s Requiem in the Grieg Hall in Bergen. She has conducted numerous operas and vocal symphonic works. She has been conductor and artistic manager of a vast number of the productions of Opera Bergen and West Norwegian Opera. She was artistic manager and conductor for the new production of The Barber of Seville at the State Opera of Prague, for guest performances at Cairo Opera with Porgy and Bess and at Ashkelon Music Festival in Israel with Samson and Delilah. Øverby conducted Ein Deutsches Requiem in The Forbidden City Concert Hall with Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem in Smetana Hall in Prague with Prague Symphony Chamber Orchestra and in Musikerverein Grosser Saal with Amadeus Orchester Wien, The Barber of Seville in New Orleans and Mississippi and world première of Dos Santos’ Santo Antonio dos Portogueses in Rome. Her opera repertoire includes Verdi’s Aïda, Macbeth and Don Carlos, Puccini’s Turandot, La Bohème and Le Villi, Menotti’s The Medium, Mascagnis Cavalleria Rusticana and Donizetti’s l’Elisir d’Amore. Om Carmina Burana Carmina Burana - "Sangene fra Beuren"- en profan kantate for soli, kor og orkester, ble komponert av Carl Orff i 1937. Tekstene er i hovedsak hentet fra ikke-liturgisk latinsk lyrikk, nedskrevet av munkene fra Benedeiktbeuern-klosteret i det 13. århundre (ca. 1280). Tekstene der er på latin, tysk og et blandingsspråk av latin og tysk. Den tyske dialekten tyder på at samlingen ble satt sammen i Bayern. Samlingen inneholder moralsk-satirisk diktning, kjærlighets-diktning, drikkeviser og jule- og påskespill. Diktene kommer under betegnelsen vagantdiktning innen latinsk kunstpoesi. Orff tok utgangspunkt i et utvalg av tekstene og presenterte verket i 3 hoveddeler: 1. Avdeling har titlene "Im Fruehling" (om våren) og "Auf dem Anger" (på grasvollen) der den gryende våren blir skildret i en enkel, økende unison melodi i koret, og deretter blir kjærlighetens overveldende styrke skildret av baryton solo. Så følger en rekke danser og korte korsatser på middelaldertysk som vekker til en allmenn vårfest. 2. Avdeling med tittelen " In taberna" ( i versthuset), blir det teatralske element i verket åpenbart gjennom en rekke parodier: -ved baryton solo, som med overdreven patos skildrer fylliken som ser ut til å ha glemt faren ved sjelens dårlige tilstand - den groteske falsettosangen av en svane (tenor solo) som er blitt stekt og er gjort klar for å bli spist - den fordrukne salmesangen til Abbeden (baryton) fra "narrenes paradis" - og en utsvevende hymne over verdslig glede, sunget av herrestemmer. 3. Avdeling med ”Cour d` Amour" (Sanger om kjærlighet) og "Blanziflor et Helena" (Blanziflor og Helena), sørger for en dramatisk kontrast med å lovprise kjærlighetens gleder og kvaler. Her synger bl. a. baryton solo om elskeren som ved overdreven ettergivenhet i en biljant koluratur, forsøker å gjøre sin frierferd mer forførende - en kokett sang for sopran om en pike som søker å vekke en ung manns begjær - en beilende sang for dobbel kor - og til slutt et kors om med stor intensitet priser Venus. Carmina Burana – "The songs from Beuren" – a profane cantata for soloists, choir and orchestra, was composed by Carl Orff in 1937. The lyrics for Orff's Carmina Burana are mainly taken from non-liturgic, Latin lyrical poetry, put in writing by the monks in the Benedeiktbeuern monastery in the 13th century (approximately 1280). The lyrics in this poetry are in Latin, German and a mixed language of Latin and German. The German dialect indicate that the collection was put together in Bavaria. The collection contains moralistic-satirical poetry, love poems, drinking songs, and Christmas and Easter plays. The poems belong to the movement of Latin artistic poetry which is called vagant poetry.Orff based his composition on a selection of these lyrics and presented the work in 3 main parts: The 1st section contains the titles "Im Fruehling" (In spring) and "Auf dem Anger" (In the meadow), in which the emerging spring is portrayed through a simple, gradually stronger, unisonant melody in the choir, and then love's overpowering strength is described through the baritone solo. The rest of the section contains several dances and short choir movements in medieval German, calling for a public spring feast. The 2nd section is called "In taberna" (At the inn). The theatrical element in the work reveals itself through several parodies: a baritone solo, which in exaggerated pathos depicts the drunken bum who appears to have forgotten the danger of a weak soul; the grotesque falsetto song (tenor solo) from a swan which has been fried and prepared to be eaten; the drunken psalm song from the abbot (baritone) from "the fools' paradise"; and a debauched hymn about secular pleasures, performed by male voices.