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CHAN 3000 FRONT.qxd 22/8/07 1:07 pm Page 1 CHAN 3000(2) CHANDOS O PERA IN ENGLISH David Parry PETE MOOES FOUNDATION Puccini TOSCA CHAN 3000(2) BOOK.qxd 22/8/07 1:14 pm Page 2 Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) Tosca AKG An opera in three acts Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou English version by Edmund Tracey Floria Tosca, celebrated opera singer ..............................................................Jane Eaglen soprano Mario Cavaradossi, painter ..........................................................................Dennis O’Neill tenor Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police................................................................Gregory Yurisich baritone Cesare Angelotti, resistance fighter ........................................................................Peter Rose bass Sacristan ....................................................................................................Andrew Shore baritone Spoletta, police agent ........................................................................................John Daszak tenor Sciarrone, Baron Scarpia’s orderly ..............................................Christopher Booth-Jones baritone Jailor ........................................................................................................Ashley Holland baritone A Shepherd Boy ............................................................................................Charbel Michael alto Geoffrey Mitchell Choir The Peter Kay Children’s Choir Giacomo Puccini, c. 1900 -
SYMPHONY #1, “A S (1903-9) Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
presents SYMPHONY #1, “A SEA SYMPHONY” (1903-9) Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Performed by the UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY & COMBINED CHORUS Peter Erös, conductor 7:30 PM March 14, 2008 Meany Theater PROGRAM A Song for All Seas, All Ships On the Beach at night, Alone The Waves The Explorers A SEA SYMPHONY is a remarkably evocative piece of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams for a large choir, soprano and baritone soloists and orchestra. The text is from Walt Whitman’s collection “Leaves of Grass.” This is perfect for Vaughan Williams, encompassing everything from descrip– tions of ships at sea, daring explorers and innovators, introspection on the meaning of progress, the Second Coming, and a transcendent final voyage to the afterlife. Bertrand Russell introduced Vaughan Williams to the poet’s work while they were both undergraduates at Cambridge. The piece is a true choral symphony, where the choir leads the themes and drives the action, rather than merely intoning the words and pro– viding a bit of vocal color; it is more like an oratorio than a symphony. It is Vaughan Williams’ first symphonic work, and such was his lack of confidence in the area that he returned to study under Ravel in Paris for three months before he felt able to complete it. It was premiered in 1910 at the Leeds Festival. There are four movements: “A Song for all Seas, all Ships,” “On the Beach at night, Alone,” “The Waves,” and “The Explorers.” The first is an introduction, dealing with the sea, sailing ships and steamers, sailors and flags. -
"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). -
Una Fanatica Per La Musica Di Mayr 2
Una fanatica per la musica di Mayr? Angelica Catalani and Il fanatico per la musica in London in 1824 Alexander Weatherson No one can really be surprised that the outrageous heroine of Che originali - the fantastic Donna Aristea - who sported the headdress of Cleopatra and the sandals of Sofonisba, who swept on the stage in the robes of Semiramide or of Dido or of Ifigenia should have had such an attraction for Angelica Catalani - that irresistible bête noire of the operatic firmament who has come down to us as the one truly insuperable primadonna of the age of Mayr. A legendary soprano who sang more Semiramide, Didos and Ifigenie than anyone in existence, the one gloriously willful icon in a theatre of posture and change. The ultimate Metastasiasta diva par excellence. She timed her appearances with perfection, and not just for Mayr, it was the French Revolution that did it. No one ever sang so many betrayed or dying queens. Her operatic tastes, like her musical garb, however pessimistically they may have been viewed by generations of vocal purists, reflected the popular events of her day. Her career, like that of Donna Aristea was old hat but indisputably topical. She was a final extravagant flower of the ancien régime like Brigida Banti, Gertrud Elisabeth Mara and Giuseppina Grassini and utterly unlike - for example - Giuditta Pasta or Maria Malibran of the romantic era, with whom she overlapped. But was she a fanatic for the music of Mayr? She cultivated fanaticism it is true, she counted upon fanatics to sustain her career and ran a fanatical train of existance. -
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. -
Mayr's Medea in Corinto at Will Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo
Mayr’s Medea in Corinto at Will Crutchfield’s Teatro Nuovo Charles Jernigan, August 15, 2018 Will Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo gave us the chance to hear some rare operatic repertory performed by virtuoso singers and a virtuoso period orchestra, as I outlined in my review of "The Two Tancredi's." Sandwiched between the two Tancredi performances, we saw an even less well known work, Giovanni Simone Mayr's Medea in Corinto. The son of a village organist, Mayr was born in Bavaria in 1763 and received his earliest musical training there. After an aborted attempt to study canon law in Ingolstadt, he was drawn by his first love, music, to travel to Italy, where he studied mostly in Venice. Once his studies were completed, he settled down in Bergamo, a few miles northeast of Milan, in the foothills of the Alps, where he became the chief musician in the cathedral, Santa Maria Maggiore, and he began his career as an opera composer. Over a career which spanned three decades (1794- 1823) he wrote almost 70 operatic works, most of which premiered in the theaters of northern Italy. He spent the rest of his long life in Bergamo, where he started a charitable organization which offered music lessons to the children of poor parents; one of his first students (and certainly his most famous) was Gaetano Donizetti. Mayr and Donizetti became lifelong friends until the much older Mayr died in 1845, just in time to avoid seeing his star pupil descend into madness and death at an early age from the effects of syphilis. -
Médée Héroïne De L'opéra Italien Au Xixe Siècle
” ...ira pietatem fugat / iramque pietas... ”, ou lorsque, se taisant Hadès, Ilithye n’a de cesse d’enfanter Thanatos : Médée héroïne de l’opéra italien au XIXe siècle Camillo Faverzani To cite this version: Camillo Faverzani. ” ...ira pietatem fugat / iramque pietas... ”, ou lorsque, se taisant Hadès, Ilithye n’a de cesse d’enfanter Thanatos : Médée héroïne de l’opéra italien au XIXe siècle. Cahiers d’Etudes Romanes, Centre aixois d’études romanes, 2013, 1 (27), pp.143-171. hal-01005227 HAL Id: hal-01005227 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01005227 Submitted on 1 Jul 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. « …ira pietatem fugat / iramque pietas... », ou lorsque, se taisant Hadès, Ilithye n’a de cesse d’enfanter Thanatos : Médée héroïne de l’opéra italien au XIXe siècle Camillo FAVERZANI Université Paris VIII Résumé Analyse du traitement du personnage de Médée dans l’opéra italien du XIXe siècle, à savoir à une époque où le romantisme prend le dessus sur un certain classicisme, toujours très enraciné en Italie. Se pose alors la question de la survivance de ce per- sonnage dans trois livrets italiens : Medea in Corinto (1813) de Felice Romani pour Gianni Simone Mayr, Medea (1842) de Benedetto Castiglia pour Giovanni Pacini, Medea (1851) de Salvatore Cammarano pour Saverio Mercadante. -
14 Medea and Mid-Victorian Marriage Legislation
Pre-print of ch.14 Hall & Macintosh (2005), Greek tragedy and the British Theatre. OUP. 14 Medea and Mid-Victorian Marriage Legislation Problematic Medea Euripides’ Medea has penetrated to parts of modernity most mythical figures have not reached. Since she first rolled off the printing presses half a millennium ago, she has inspired hundreds of performances, plays, paintings and operas.1 Medea has murdered her way into a privileged place in the history of the imagination of the West, and can today command huge audiences in the commercial theatre. Yet in Britain, at least, her popularity on the stage is a relatively recent phenomenon. Medea has transcended history partly because she enacts a primal terror universal to human beings: that the mother-figure should intentionally destroy her own children. Yet this dimension of the ancient tragedy was until the twentieth century found so disturbing as largely to prevent unadapted performances. On the British stage it was not until 1907 that Euripides’ Medea was performed, without alteration, in English translation (see Ch. 17). Although Medea’s connection with the British stage goes back to at least the 1560s, when Seneca’s Medea was performed at Cambridge University,2 she only exerted a subterranean influence on Renaissance, Jacobean, and Restoration tragedy.3 It is instructive to contemplate the reaction to Simon Mayr’s opera Medea in Corinto, which caused a stir at the King’s Theatre in London in 1826–8 as a result of the performance of Giuditta Pasta in the title role.4 British audiences were able to tolerate ‘unnatural’ deeds of violence more happily in the opera house (especially if the performances were in Italian) than in the English- speaking theatre. -
Archivio Storico Bergamasco
ARCHIVIO STORICO BERGAMASCO 12 ARCHIVIO STORICO BERGAMASCO ! Rassegna semestrale di storia e cultura . ■ i t t i : 12 . I i ( J ; : > 1 N. 1, Anno VII, 1987 i ■ ! ». > : i ! PIERLUIGI LUBRINA EDITORE i ! Bergamo 1987 Pubblicazione del Centro Studi archivio bergamasco ! via A. Locatelli 62 - 24100 Bergamo i i ! Direttore: Giulio Orazio Bravi 1 Comitato di Redazione: Paolo Berlanda, Sergio Del Bello, Gabriele Laterza, Giorgio Mangini, Gianluca Piccinini, Paolo Pesenti, Susanna Pesenti, Giuseppe Tognon, Andrea Zonca. ; Amministrazione: Pierluigi Lubrina Editore s.r.l., viale Vittorio Emanuele 19 - 24100 Bergamo 1 Abbonamenti: L. 30.000; per l’Estero $ 25; Sostenitore L. 50.000. L’abbonamento può essere sottoscritto negli Uffici della Pierluigi Lubrina Editore, o con l’invio del bollettino di conto corrente postale n. 12664249 intestato all’Editore. (Prezzo del fascicolo singolo L. 18.000). La rivista è semestrale. Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Bergamo n. 3 del 30-1-1981. Direttore Responsabile: Susanna Pesenti Composizione e impaginazione: NOVATYPE - Bergamo Stampa: GRAFITAL » Torre Boldone (Bg) Bergamo - Luglio 1987 . SOMMARIO i Saggi e Testi A. zonca, Polizze d’estimo del comune di Colognola in Val Ca vallina. Anno 1476. 11 G. silini, Note sul reclutamento e le condizioni di lavoro della manodopera nel lanificio loverese nei secoli XV e XVI. 29 G. Appolonia, Giovanni Simone Mayr e le lezioni caritatevoli di musica. ■ 77' G. landini, Domenico Donzelli. Osservazioni sopra un tenore bergamasco. 87 G. laterza, Bergamo cattolica e la guerra di Spagna. Ili Fonti e Strumenti G. alessandretti, Il fondo degli Istituti educativi nell’Archivio di Stato di Bergamo. 125 Rassegna g. -
Grecian Theater in Philadelphia, 1800-1870 Lee Pearcy Bryn Mawr College, [email protected]
Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies and Scholarship 2015 Grecian Theater in Philadelphia, 1800-1870 Lee Pearcy Bryn Mawr College, [email protected] Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/classics_pubs Custom Citation Pearcy, Lee, "Grecian Theater in Philadelphia, 1800-1870," Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas, eds. K. Bosher, F. Macintosh, J. McConnell, P. Rankine. Oxford University Press, 2015. This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. http://repository.brynmawr.edu/classics_pubs/108 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Grecian Theater in Philadelphia, 1800–1870 Oxford Handbooks Online Grecian Theater in Philadelphia, 1800–1870 Lee Pearcy The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas Edited by Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine Print Publication Date: Oct Subject: Classical Studies, Classical Reception 2015 Online Publication Date: Dec DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199661305.013.005 2015 Abstract and Keywords Between the death of President Washington and the Civil War, dramas set in ancient Greece or based on Greek models allowed Philadelphia audiences to simultaneously affirm and subvert their ideas about gender, race, and society. Greek drama on the Philadelphia stage before the 1880s was represented by adaptations, and often adaptations of adaptations, that are far from anything that a twenty-first-century audience would accept as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, or Aristophanes. The reception of Ernst Legouvé’s Médée as both tragic drama and minstrel burlesque and responses to the real-life tragedy of Margaret Garner provide striking examples of receptions divided along the lines of race and class. -
DIDASKALIA Volume 8 (2011)
! ! Didaskalia is an electronic journal dedicated to the study of all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman performance.! ! DIDASKALIA Volume 8 (2011) http://didaskalia.net ISSN 1321-4853 1 ! ! DIDASKALIA 8 (2011) ! About Didaskalia Didaskalia (!"!#$%#&ί#) is the term used since ancient times to describe the work a playwright did to teach his chorus and actors the play. The official records of the dramatic festivals in Athens were the !"!#$%#&ί#". Didaskalia now furthers the scholarship of the ancient performance. Didaskalia is an English-language, online publication about the performance of Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music. We publish peer-reviewed scholarship on performance and reviews of the professional activity of artists and scholars who work on ancient drama. We welcome submissions on any aspect of the field. If you would like your work to be reviewed, please write to [email protected] at least three weeks in advance of the performance date. We also seek interviews with practitioners and opinion pieces. For submission guidelines, go to didaskalia.net. 2011 Staff Editor-in-Chief: Amy R. Cohen [email protected] +1 434 947-8117 Post: Didaskalia Randolph College 2500 Rivermont Avenue Lynchburg, VA 24503 USA Associate Editor: C.W. (Toph) Marshall Assistant Editor: Jay Kardan [email protected] Intern: Gage Stuntz [email protected] Advisory Board Caterina Barone Oliver Taplin John Davidson Peter Toohey Gary Decker J. Michael Walton Mark Griffith David Wiles Mary Hart Paul Woodruff Kenneth Reckford Editorial Board Kathryn Bosher Dan McCaffrey Dorota Dutsch Marianne McDonald Fred Franko Peter Meineck Allison Futrell Paul Menzer Mary-Kay Gamel Tim Moore John Given Nancy Rabinowitz Mike Lippman Brett Rogers Fiona Macintosh John Starks Willie Major Copyright Readers are permitted to save or print any files from Didaskalia as long as there are no alterations made in those files. -
Medea En La Ópera Autor(Es)
Medea en la ópera Autor(es): Morán Rodríguez, Carmen; Pérez Benito, Enrique Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra; Universidad de Valladolid Publicado por: Secretariado de Publicaciones e Intercambio Editorial URL persistente: URI:http://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/32308 DOI: DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-0472-5_8 Accessed : 23-Sep-2021 19:50:29 A navegação consulta e descarregamento dos títulos inseridos nas Bibliotecas Digitais UC Digitalis, UC Pombalina e UC Impactum, pressupõem a aceitação plena e sem reservas dos Termos e Condições de Uso destas Bibliotecas Digitais, disponíveis em https://digitalis.uc.pt/pt-pt/termos. Conforme exposto nos referidos Termos e Condições de Uso, o descarregamento de títulos de acesso restrito requer uma licença válida de autorização devendo o utilizador aceder ao(s) documento(s) a partir de um endereço de IP da instituição detentora da supramencionada licença. Ao utilizador é apenas permitido o descarregamento para uso pessoal, pelo que o emprego do(s) título(s) descarregado(s) para outro fim, designadamente comercial, carece de autorização do respetivo autor ou editor da obra. Na medida em que todas as obras da UC Digitalis se encontram protegidas pelo Código do Direito de Autor e Direitos Conexos e demais legislação aplicável, toda a cópia, parcial ou total, deste documento, nos casos em que é legalmente admitida, deverá conter ou fazer-se acompanhar por este aviso. pombalina.uc.pt digitalis.uc.pt Medea en la ópera CARMEN MORÁN RODRÍGUEZ ENRIQUE P ÉREZ BENITO Universidad de Valladolid EI presente trabajo es un acercamiento, no exhaustivo, a algunas de las manifestaciones musicales operísticas que han tomado como fuente de inspiración el mito de Medea (I).