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CHAN 10347(2) Wide cover 10/21/05 2:05 PM Page 1 Prokofiev CHANDOS CHAN 10347(2) CHAN 10347 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 1:11 pm Page 2 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891–1953) Peter Joslin Collection Peter premiere recording in English The Love for Three Oranges An opera in four acts and a prologue. Libretto by the composer, for Vsevolod Meyerhold’s adaptation of L’amore delle tre melarance by Carlo Gozzi English version by Tom Stoppard A production by Opera Australia recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in February 2005 Opera Australia Chorus Michael Black chorus master Francis Greep assistant chorus master Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra Stephen Mould assistant conductor Aubrey Murphy concert master Richard Hickox Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev 3 CHAN 10347 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 1:11 pm Page 4 The King of Clubs....................................................................................................................Bruce Martin bass The Prince, his son..........................................................................................................John Mac Master tenor Clarissa, niece of the King......................................................................................Deborah Humble contralto Branco Gaica Leandro, the Prime Minister...............................................................................Teddy Tahu Rhodes baritone Truffaldino, who makes people laugh........................................................................William Ferguson tenor Pantaloon, the King’s confidant.....................................................................................Warwick Fyfe baritone Chelio, a sorcerer, the King’s protector ...................................................................................Jud Arthur bass Fata Morgana, a sorceress, Leandro’s protector .......................................Elizabeth Whitehouse soprano Linetta Wendy Dawn Thompson contralto Nicoletta} the Princesses in the oranges.............................................Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano Ninetta Ali McGregor soprano The Cook ..............................................................................................................................Arend Baumann bass Farfarello, a demon........................................................................................................Richard Alexander bass Smeraldina, a slave.........................................................................................Catherine Carby mezzo-soprano Master of Ceremonies...............................................................................................Graeme Macfarlane tenor Herald.............................................................................................................................................Tim DuFore bass Eccentrics, Tragedians, Comics, Lyrics, Empty Heads, Doctors, Little Devils, Courtiers, Monsters, Drunkards, Guards, Servants and Soldiers Elizabeth Whitehouse as Fata Morgana with the Little Devils 4 CHAN 10347 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 1:11 pm Page 6 Opera Australia Chorus Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra Soprano Mezzo Tenor Bass Concert master Aubrey Murphy Georgia Bassingthwaighte Susan Barber Mario Alafaci Peter Axford Associate concert master Sun Yi Chloris Bath Caroline Clack Dean Bassett Christopher Bath Deputy concert master Huy-Nguyen Bui Annabelle Chaffey Jane Dunstan David Foley Geoffrey Crook Rachael Cunningham Mary-Ann Fraser Scott Hannigan Didier Frédéric Violin Cello Clarinet Trombone Elizabeth Ellis Joanne Goodman Juan Jackson Thomas Hamilton Mark Fitzpatrick Acting Principal Second Zoltan Szabo Peter Jenkin Gregory van der Struik Adele Johnston Vanessa Lewis Jin Tea Kim David King Tony Gault* Eszter Mikes-Liu* Richard Rourke* Brett Favell* Marjory McKay Ke-Lu Ma David Lewis Xiaoming Lan Bodgan Bobocea* Henry Urbanavicius** Terrence Stirzaker William Farmer Katrina Sheppeard Lynette Murray Kent Maddock Jeffrey Lock Adrian Keating* Pierre Emery Dawn Walsh Sandra Oldis Kent McIntosh Shane Lowrencev Virginia Blunt Andrew Hines Bass clarinet Bass trombone Lisa Cooper Yolanda Lorenzato Thomas Moran Jonathan McCauley Rachel Easton Margaret Iddison Euan Huggett Matthew Walker Leah Thomas Caroline Vercoe Bernard Wheaton Robert Mitchell Yu-Qing Rebecca Irwin Elizabeth Neville Penelope Mills Linda Barcan Sean Andrews James Payne Marek Kruszynski Bassoon Tuba Andrew Nicholson Peter McKenna Samuel Podjarski Double-bass Douglas Eyre Carolyn Johns Warren Fisher Clifford Plumpton Daniel Rosenbaum Brett Berthold Lorinda McNeill* Max Naguit Rohan Thatcher Robert Sek Andrew Meisel* Matthew Ockenden** Percussion Jaroslaw Talar Edmund Bastian Bruce Cotterill Catalin Ungureanu Jennifer Penno French horn Darryl Turner* Rachel Westwood Andrew Bain Roger Jonsson Flute Anton Schroeder* Timpani Leigh Middenway Elizabeth Pring Saul Lewis David Clarence Airena Nakamura Amanda Hollins* Victoria Chatterley Allan Watson* Matthew Watson Carolyn Harris Lisa Wynne-Allen Harp Viola Piccolo Trumpet Jane Rosenson Benedict Hames Diane Berger Bruce Hellmers Virginia Comerford* Gregory Carr* David Dixon Oboe James Blunt Magdalena Kruszynska Conall McClure Brian Evans Amanda Murphy Mark Bruwel Peter Wiseman Marilyn Wilson Cor anglais italics denotes Principal * denotes Associate Principal Andrew Malec ** denotes Deputy Principal/Section Soloist 6 7 CHAN 10347 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 1:11 pm Page 8 COMPACT DISC ONE Time Page Time Page Prologue Scene 2 1 ‘What we want is genuine tragedy!’ 3:57 42 10 ‘For your delight, I present first, this!’ 1:58 59 Tragedians Truffaldino 11 ‘Who are you? What do you want here?’ 3:04 60 Act I 22:44 Leandro Scene 1 12 ‘Who is this woman?’ 5:11 61 2 ‘Oh, poor boy! Tell me the worst. What are his chances?’ 3:53 44 Truffaldino King 13 ‘I want an apple, or a banana… perhaps a cherry…’ 5:43 63 3 ‘Don’t worry… don’t worry…’ 3:29 46 Prince Pantaloon TT 49:34 4 ‘Leandro, please lay on a sort of royal variety show.’ 1:21 48 King COMPACT DISC TWO Scene 2 Act III 38:56 5 ‘It’s Chelio!’ 3:44 50 Scene 1 Eccentrics 1 ‘Farfarello! Farfarello!’ 4:56 67 6 ‘The best-laid plans of mice and men can meet frustration.’ 5:17 52 Chelio Leandro 2 ‘Wind has died. We must be in Orange country’ 4:04 68 7 ‘Who’s that?’ 4:57 54 Prince Leandro Scene 2 Act II 22:53 3 ‘We’re here.’ 1:55 70 Scene 1 Prince 8 ‘Howzat?!’ 3:59 55 4 ‘Fee-fi-fo-fum! I heard a noise. Where’s my ladle?’ 5:52 72 Truffaldino Cook 9 ‘Here they come… ain’t it grand? It’s beginning, so hurry, hurry!’ 2:55 57 Truffaldino 8 9 CHAN 10347 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 1:11 pm Page 10 Time Page Scene 3 5 ‘We’ve lost our following wind, no wonder that we’re getting nowhere!’ 3:48 74 Prince 6 ‘Where did the girl come from?’ 5:15 75 Branco Gaica Truffaldino 7 ‘We’re alone, at last, my marmalade, my dessert, my true love’ 8:06 77 Prince 8 ‘Smeraldina… with a needle! Fata Morgana! Hey, look out behind you!’ 4:57 80 Eccentrics Act IV 10:56 Scene 1 9 ‘Ah! I’ll get you for this, I’ll get you for this, see if I don’t…!’ 3:17 82 Chelio Scene 2 10 ‘Are you ready?’ 1:31 84 Leandro 11 ‘Would you be Ninetta?’ 3:19 86 Eccentrics 12 ‘Arrest them!’ 2:47 88 Truffaldino, Pantaloon and Master of Ceremonies TT 49:52 Deborah Humble as Clarissa, Catherine Carby as Smeraldina and Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Leandro 10 CHAN 10347 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 1:11 pm Page 12 charm inherent in the fireside tales told to children by And so it would be – but not quite under the their old nurses. Nine more fully scripted ‘fables’ circumstances Prokofiev had envisaged. Less than Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges followed at close intervals until Gozzi, confessing two weeks after that entry he was travelling on the defeat by Goldoni, turned to adapting Golden Age last Trans-Siberian Express to leave Moscow for many Only now, with the very recent publication in Russian Venetian public. It parodied in free style the flatulent, Spanish drama, another vital branch of theatre much years, bound for Vladivostok, Japan, Honolulu and of Prokofiev’s extensive diaries, do we know exactly high-flown theatre of the Abbé Chiari, author of those admired by Meyerhold. finally America – which he reached not as a long-term when the seeds of his Three Oranges were sown. lofty twelve-syllable Martellian verses explicitly The text Meyerhold gave to Prokofiev was not quite emigré but as a short-term seeker after fame and ‘According to my desire to find a subject for a lively mocked in Gozzi’s Oranges (Tom Stoppard’s the Gozzi original. Published in the first, 1913 issue of fortune in the New World. By the time he arrived in opera’, runs the twenty-seven-year-old composer’s translation of Prokofiev’s libretto turns them into Meyerhold’s journal of the same name, this Love for San Francisco that August, he had worked out the entry for 21 April 1918, ‘Meyerhold gave me The ‘Tennysonean funeral odes’), and of Carlo Goldini, the Three Oranges was described as ‘Divertissement. libretto; so when he entered into negotiations with Love for Three Oranges to read.’ By then Vsevolod prosaic dramatist of everyday life. Twelve scenes, prologue, epilogue and three intermezzi. the Chicago Opera Company at the end of Meyerhold, the most innovative Russian theatre If Goldoni has emerged as the true survivor in the Authors K.A. Vogak, Vs.E. Meyerhold and Vl.N. November, and decided that difficulties over brushing director of the age, had been promoting the same theatre, Gozzi’s fiabe teatrali or theatrical fables fed Solovyov’. The new scenario whittled away the old up the vocal score of The Gambler in time for the
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    Noël! Noël! Featuring the Brandenburg Choir Noël! Noël! Featuring the Brandenburg Choir Morgan Balfour (San Francisco) soprano 2019 Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Brandenburg Choir SYDNEY Matthew Manchester Conductor City Recital Hall Paul Dyer AO Artistic Director, Conductor Saturday 14 December 5:00PM Saturday 14 December 7:30PM PROGRAM Wednesday 18 December 5:00PM Mendelssohn Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Wednesday 18 December 7:30PM Anonymous Sonata à 9 Gjeilo Prelude MELBOURNE Eccard Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier Melbourne Recital Centre Crüger Im finstern Stall, o Wunder groβ Saturday 7 December 5:00PM Palestrina ‘Kyrie’ from Missa Gabriel Archangelus Saturday 7 December 7:30PM Arbeau Ding Dong! Merrily on High Handel ‘Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion’ NEWTOWN from Messiah, HWV 56 Friday 6 December 7:00PM Head The Little Road to Bethlehem Gjeilo The Ground PARRAMATTA Tuesday 10 December 7:30PM Vivaldi La Folia, RV 63 Handel Eternal source of light divine, HWV 74 MOSMAN Traditional Deck the Hall Wednesday 11 December 7:00PM Traditional The Coventry Carol WAHROONGA Traditional O Little Town of Bethlehem Thursday 12 December 7:00PM Traditional God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Palmer A Sparkling Christmas WOOLLAHRA Adam O Holy Night Monday 16 December 7:00PM Gruber Stille Nacht Anonymous O Come, All Ye Faithful CHAIRMAN’S 11 Proudly supporting our guest artists. Concert duration is approximately 75 minutes without an interval. Please note concert duration is approximate only and subject to change. We kindly request that you switch off all electronic devices prior to the performance. This concert will be broadcast on ABC Classic on 21 December at 8:00PM NOËL! NOËL! 1 Biography From our Principal Partner: Macquarie Group Paul Dyer Imagination & Connection Paul Dyer is one of Australia’s leading specialists On behalf of Macquarie Group, it is my great pleasure to in period performance.