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Debussy's Pelléas Et Mélisande
Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande - A discographical survey by Ralph Moore Pelléas et Mélisande is a strange, haunting work, typical of the Symbolist movement in that it hints at truths, desires and aspirations just out of reach, yet allied to a longing for transcendence is a tragic, self-destructive element whereby everybody suffers and comes to grief or, as in the case of the lovers, even dies - yet frequent references to fate and Arkel’s ascribing that doleful outcome to ineluctable destiny, rather than human weakness or failing, suggest that they are drawn, powerless, to destruction like moths to the flame. The central enigma of Mélisande’s origin and identity is never revealed; that riddle is reflected in the wispy, amorphous property of the music itself, just as the text, adapted from Maeterlinck’s play, is vague and allusive, rarely open or direct in its expression of the characters’ velleities. The opera was highly innovative and controversial, a gateway to a new style of modern music which discarded and re-invented operatic conventions in a manner which is still arresting and, for some, still unapproachable. It is a work full of light and shade, sunlit clearings in gloomy forest, foetid dungeons and sea-breezes skimming the battlements, sparkling fountains, sunsets and brooding storms - all vividly depicted in the score. Any francophone Francophile will delight in the nuances of the parlando text. There is no ensemble or choral element beyond the brief sailors’ “Hoé! Hisse hoé!” offstage and only once do voices briefly intertwine, at the climax of the lovers' final duet. -
Offenbach Et L'opéra-Comique
Offenbach et l’opéra-comique Lionel Pons avril 2017 Les rapports de Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) avec le genre opéra-comique relèvent, tout au long de la vie créatrice du compositeur, d’un paradoxe amoureux. La culture lyrique d’Offenbach, son expérience en tant que violoncelliste dans l’orchestre de l’Opéra-Comique, son goût personnel pour ce genre si français, qui ne dissimule pas sa dette envers le dernier tiers du XVIIIe siècle vont nécessairement le pousser à s’intéresser au genre. Le répertoire de François Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834), de Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833), de Nicolò Isouard (1773-1818) lui est tout à fait familier, et quoique d’un esprit particulièrement mordant, il en apprécie le caractère sentimental et la délicatesse de touche. Et presque naturellement, il développe pourtant une conscience claire de ce que réclame impérativement la survie du genre. Offenbach sauveteur de l’opéra-comique ? L’opéra-comique, tel qu’Offenbach le découvre en ce début de XIXe siècle, est l’héritier direct des ouvrages d’André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), de Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729-1817) ou de Nicolas Dalayrac (1753-1809). Le genre est le fruit d’une période transitionnelle (il occupe dans le répertoire français la place chronologique du classicisme viennois outre Rhin, entre le crépuscule baroque et l’affirmation du romantisme), et reflète assez logiquement le goût de l’époque pour une forme de sentimentalité, sensible en France dans toutes les disciplines artistiques entre 1760 et 1789. Les gravures de Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), l’architecture du Hameau de Marie-Antoinette (1783-1876), due à Richard Mique (1728-1794), l’orientation morale de L’autre Tartuffe ou la mère coupable (1792) de Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799), La nouvelle Héloïse (1761) de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) ou Paul et Virginie (1787) d’Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814) portent témoignage de cette tendance esthétique. -
2018 04 21 Houghton Symphony Orchestra
Welcome to La vie est belle —“Life is beautiful!” Tonight we celebrate fun, love, joy, friendship, and laughter, and do so the French way. The first half of our program will feature our stunning vocal faculty at the Greatbatch School of Music. Though all of the pieces feature French text, the settings for these opera numbers span the globe with scenes taking place in Spain (Carmen), France (La fille du regiment), India (Lakmé), Germany (Les contes d’Hoffmann), and Sri Lanka (Les pêcheurs de perles). All of these pieces come from the best of the French opera tradition and are sure to leave you wanting more! The second half of the concert will feature Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, a gem of the 20th century choral-orchestral repertoire. Duruflé’s work was inspired in large part by his predecessor, Gabriel Fauré, another French composer who completed his own Requiem just over 50 years earlier. Duruflé’s work mirrors Fauré’s in many ways including its structure, choice of text, and performing forces. He uses harmonic language that was modern for its time, but infuses it with the ancient liturgical music of Gregorian chant. The work is not in the strata of requiems more casual concert-goers may know such as those of Mozart, Verdi, and Fauré, but for that reason I suspect you will be surprised and delighted by what you hear tonight, perhaps for the first time. I think it contains some of the most beautiful, affective, dramatic, and meaningful music I know. I decided to pair vocal pieces celebrating life with Duruflé’s Requiem— ostensibly a work about death—because the latter is something quite different than more traditional works from the genre of the same name. -
"Gioconda" Rings Up-The Curtain At
Vol. XIX. No. 3 NEW YORK EDITED ~ ~ ....N.O.V.E.M_B_E_R_2_2 ,_19_1_3__ T.en.~! .~Ot.~:_:r.rl_::.: ... "GIOCONDA" RINGS "DON QUICHOTTE"HAS UP- THE CURTAIN AMERICANPREMIERE AT METROPOLITAN Well Performed by Chicago Com pany in Philadelphia- Music A Spirited Performance with Ca in Massenet's Familiar Vein ruso in Good 'Form at Head B ureau of Musical A m erica, of the Cas t~Amato, Destinn Sixt ee nth and Chestn ut Sts., Philadel phia, Novem ber 17. 1913.. and Toscanini at Their Best T HE first real novelty of the local opera Audience Plays Its Own Brilliant season was offered at the Metropolitan Part Brilliantly-Geraldine Far last Saturday afternoon, when Mas senet's "Don Quichotte" had its American rar's Cold Gives Ponchielli a premiere, under the direction of Cleofonte Distinction That Belonged to Campanini, with Vanni Marcoux in the Massenet title role, which he had sung many times in Europe; Hector Dufranne as Sancho W ITH a spirited performance of "Gio- Panza, and Mary Garden as La Belle Dul conda" the Metropolitan Opera cinea. The performance was a genuine Company began its season last M'o;day success. The score is in Massenet's fa night. The occasion was as brilliant as miliar vein: It offers a continuous flow of others that have gone before, and if it is melody, light, sometimes almost inconse quential, and not often of dramatic signifi not difficult to recall premieres of greater cance, but at all times pleasing, of an ele artistic pith and moment it behooves the gance that appeals to the aesthetic sense, chronicler of the august event to record and in all its phases appropriate to the the generally diffused glamor as a matter story, sketched rather briefly by Henri Cain from the voluminous romance of Miguel de of necessary convention, As us~al there Cervantes. -
LEEDSLIEDER+ Friday 2 October – Sunday 4 October 2009 Filling the City with Song!
LEEDSLIEDER+ Friday 2 October – Sunday 4 October 2009 Filling the city with song! Festival Programme 2009 The Grammar School at Leeds inspiring individuals is pleased to support the Leeds Lieder+ Festival Our pupils aren’t just pupils. singers, They’re also actors, musicians, stagehands, light & sound technicians, comedians, , impressionists, producers, graphic artists, playwrightsbox office managers… ...sometimes they even sit exams! www.gsal.org.uk For admissions please call 0113 228 5121 Come along and see for yourself... or email [email protected] OPENING MORNING Saturday 17 October 9am - 12noon LEEDSLIEDER+ Friday 2 October – Sunday 4 October 2009 Biennial Festival of Art Song Artistic Director Julius Drake 3 Lord Harewood Elly Ameling If you, like me, have collected old gramophone records from Dear Friends of Leeds Lieder+ the time you were at school, you will undoubtedly have a large I am sure that you will have a great experience listening to this number of Lieder performances amongst them. Each one year’s rich choice of concerts and classes. It has become a is subtly different from its neighbour and that is part of the certainty! attraction. I know what I miss: alas, circumstances at home prevent me The same will be apparent in the performances which you this time from being with you and from nourishing my soul with will hear under the banner of Leeds Lieder+ and I hope this the music in Leeds. variety continues to give you the same sort of pleasure as Lieder singing always has in the past. I feel pretty sure that it To the musicians and to the audience as well I would like to will and that if you have any luck the memorable will become repeat the words that the old Josef Krips said to me right indistinguishable from the category of ‘great’. -
Music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN Libretto by MYFANWY PIPER After a Story by HENRY JAMES Photo David Jensen
Regent’s Park Theatre and English National Opera present £4 music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN libretto by MYFANWY PIPER after a story by HENRY JAMES Photo David Jensen Developing new creative partnerships enables us to push the boundaries of our artistic programming. We are excited to be working with Daniel Kramer and his team at English National Opera to present this new production of The Turn of the Screw. Some of our Open Air Theatre audience may be experiencing opera for the first time – and we hope that you will continue that journey of discovery with English National Opera in the future; opera audiences intrigued to see this work here, may in turn discover the unique possibilities of theatre outdoors. Our season continues with Shakespeare’s As You Like It directed by Max Webster and, later this summer, Maria Aberg directs the mean, green monster musical, Little Shop of Horrors. Timothy Sheader William Village Artistic Director Executive Director 2 Edward White Benson entertained the writer one One, about the haunting of a child, leaves the group evening in January 1895 and - as James recorded in breathless. “If the child gives the effect another turn of There can’t be many his notebooks - told him after dinner a story he had the screw, what do you say to two children?’ asks one ghost stories that heard from a lady, years before. ‘... Young children man, Douglas, who says that many years previously he owe their origins to (indefinite in number and age) ... left to the care of heard a story too ‘horrible’ to admit of repetition. -
La Chanson De Fortunio (1828-1892)
1/7 Data Livret de : Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908), Hector Crémieux La chanson de Fortunio (1828-1892) Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) Langue : Français Genre ou forme de l’œuvre : Œuvres musicales Date : 1861 Note : Opéra-comique en 1 acte. - Livret de Hector Crémieux et Ludovic Halévy inspiré de la pièce d'Alfred de Musset "Le chandelier" (1835). - 1re représentation : Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes- Parisiens, 5 janvier 1861 Domaines : Musique Détails du contenu (2 ressources dans data.bnf.fr) Voir l'œuvre musicale (2) La chanson de Fortunio : , J. Ch. Hess Arrangement. Piano. La , Jean-Baptiste Arban fantaisie caprice chanson de Fortunio. (1825-1889) (1862) Offenbach, Jacques (1861) data.bnf.fr 2/7 Data Éditions de La chanson de Fortunio (48 ressources dans data.bnf.fr) Partitions (32) Chanson de Fortunio. , C. de Charlemagne, La Chanson de Fortunio , d' , Jacques Offenbach Poésie d' Alfred de Jacques Offenbach Offenbach, (pour musique (1819-1880), L. Girard Musset.... Accomp.t de (1819-1880), Paris : Heugel militaire) par L. Girard (compositeur, 18..-18..), guitare par C. de et C.ie , [s.d.] Paris : Buffet-Crampon , Charlemagne [s.d.] La chanson de Fortunio, , Hector Crémieux Chanson de Fortunio. - [4] opéra-comique en un acte (1828-1892), Ludovic (2000) Halévy (1834-1908), Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), Paris : Heugel , s. d. arrangement : Chanson de , Alfred de Musset La chanson de Fortunio. - [1] Fortunio (1810-1857), Jacques (1976) (1999) Offenbach (1819-1880), Philippe Caillard, Fontenay- Mauvoisin : P. Caillard , 1999 La Chanson de Fortunio, de , Jacques Offenbach Chanson de Fortunio. - [6] J. Offenbach. (1819-1880), Jules Cottin (1903) Transcription pour (1868-1922), Paris : Heugel mandoline et piano par , [1912] Jules Cottin (1912) La Chanson de Fortunio, opérette. -
The Mezzo-Soprano Onstage and Offstage: a Cultural History of the Voice-Type, Singers and Roles in the French Third Republic (1870–1918)
The mezzo-soprano onstage and offstage: a cultural history of the voice-type, singers and roles in the French Third Republic (1870–1918) Emma Higgins Dissertation submitted to Maynooth University in fulfilment for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Maynooth University Music Department October 2015 Head of Department: Professor Christopher Morris Supervisor: Dr Laura Watson 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page number SUMMARY 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 LIST OF FIGURES 5 LIST OF TABLES 5 INTRODUCTION 6 CHAPTER ONE: THE MEZZO-SOPRANO AS A THIRD- 19 REPUBLIC PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN 1.1: Techniques and training 19 1.2: Professional life in the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique 59 CHAPTER TWO: THE MEZZO-SOPRANO ROLE AND ITS 99 RELATIONSHIP WITH THIRD-REPUBLIC SOCIETY 2.1: Bizet’s Carmen and Third-Republic mores 102 2.2: Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila, exoticism, Catholicism and patriotism 132 2.3: Massenet’s Werther, infidelity and maternity 160 CHAPTER THREE: THE MEZZO-SOPRANO AS MUSE 188 3.1: Introduction: the muse/musician concept 188 3.2: Célestine Galli-Marié and Georges Bizet 194 3.3: Marie Delna and Benjamin Godard 221 3.3.1: La Vivandière’s conception and premieres: 1893–95 221 3.3.2: La Vivandière in peace and war: 1895–2013 240 3.4: Lucy Arbell and Jules Massenet 252 3.4.1: Arbell the self-constructed Muse 252 3.4.2: Le procès de Mlle Lucy Arbell – the fight for Cléopâtre and Amadis 268 CONCLUSION 280 BIBLIOGRAPHY 287 APPENDICES 305 2 SUMMARY This dissertation discusses the mezzo-soprano singer and her repertoire in the Parisian Opéra and Opéra-Comique companies between 1870 and 1918. -
Polish Musicians in the Concert Life of Interwar Paris: Short Press Overview and Extensive Bibliographic Guide1
Polish Musicians in the Concert Life of Interwar Paris: Short Press Overview and Extensive Bibliographic Guide1 Renata Suchowiejko ( Jagiellonian University, Kraków) [email protected] The 20-year interwar period was a crucial time for Polish music. After Poland regained independence in 1918, the development of Polish musical culture was supported by government institutions. Infrastructure serving the concert life and the education system considerably improved along with the development of mass media and printing industries. International co-operation also got reinvigorated. New societies, associations and institutions were established to promote Polish culture abroad. And the mobility of musicians considerably increased. At that time the preferred destination of the artists’ rush was Paris. The journeys were taken mostly by young musicians in their twenties or thirties. Amongst them were instrumentalists, singers and directors who wished to improve their performance skills and to try their skills before the public of concert halls. Composers wanted to taste the musical climate of the metropolis and to learn the latest trends in music of that time. They strongly believed that 1. This paper has been prepared within the framework of the research programme Presence of Polish Music and Musicians in the Artistic Life of Interwar Paris, supported from the means of the National Science Centre, Poland, OPUS programme, under contract No. UMO-2016/23/B/ HS2/00895. The final effect of the project is the publication of a study Muzyczny Paryż à la polonaise w okresie międzywojennym. Artyści – Wydarzenia – Konteksty [Musical Paris à la polonaise In the Interwar Period: Artists – Events – Contexts] by Renata Suchowiejko, Kraków, Księgarnia Akademicka, 2020. -
Short Operas for Educational Settings: a Production Guide
SHORT OPERAS FOR EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS A PRODUCTION GUIDE by Jacquelyn Mouritsen Abbott Submitted to the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Doctor of Music Indiana University May 2020 Accepted by the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Music Doctoral Committee Patricia Stiles, Research Director and Chair Gary Arvin Jane Dutton Dale McFadden 10 April 2020 ii Copyright ⃝c 2020 Jacquelyn Mouritsen Abbott iii To my dearest love, Marc – my duet partner in life and in song iv Acknowledgements I am deeply grateful to my research director Patricia Stiles, for her devoted teaching, help, care, and guidance. I have learned so much from you throughout the years and am profoundly grateful for your kindness and your mentorship. I am deeply indebted to Dale McFadden, Gary Arvin, and Jane Dutton—it was a great honor to have you on my committee. I offer sincerest thanks to all of the composers and librettists who sent me scores, librettos, or recordings and who answered my questions and allowed me to use musical examples from their works. These exceptional artists include Dan Shore, Michael Ching, Leanna Kirchoff, Harry Dunstan, Kay Krekow, Milton Granger, Thomas Albert, Bruce Trinkley, John Morrison, Evan Mack, Errollyn Wallen, and Paul Salerni. I also owe a special thank you to ECS publishing for allowing me to use musical examples from Robert Ward’s Roman Fever. Thanks to Pauline Viardot, Jacques Offenbach, and Umberto Giordano for inspiring the musical world for the past 150-plus years. -
Fortunio André Messager
14/15 FORTUNIO ANDRÉ MESSAGER OPÉRA Établissement de la Ville de Saint-Étienne, l’Opéra Théâtre bénéficie du soutien du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication ( Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles ), du Conseil régional Rhône-Alpes et du Conseil général de la Loire À L’OPÉRA THÉÂTRE DANSE MOTIFS COMPAGNIE PARC / PIERRE PONTVIANNE Pierre Pontvianne propose un duo homme-femme avec la délicieuse Marthe Krummenacher, pour mieux expérimenter, croiser, mêler les composantes de chaque personnalité. Cette pièce cherche les fonctions et les instabilités de ce qui motive et dessine le mouvement des corps, de ses motifs... La sensibilité à fleur de peau propre aux précédentes créations de la compagnie sera encore au rendez-vous. THÉÂTRE COPEAU JEUDI 20 ET VENDREDI 21 NOVEMBRE : 20H TARIF : 15 € (ET TARIFS RÉDUITS) 1 OPÉRA DON PASQUALE GAETANO DONIZETTI Don Pasquale s’est mis en tête, malgré son grand âge, de se marier afin de donner une leçon à son neveu Ernesto, l’ingrat refusant l’union qu’il a arrangée pour lui. Sans faillir à l’humour et au brio de l’opera buffa napolitain, Donizetti en accompagne la métamorphose : Don Pasquale annonce l’esprit romantique, truffe la farce de sentiments, étoffe les caractères d’âme et d’humanité. GRAND THÉÂTRE MASSENET MERCREDI 31 DÉCEMBRE : 19H VENDREDI 2 JANVIER : 20H DIMANCHE 4 JANVIER : 15H TARIFS : DE 10 € À 54 € (ET TARIFS RÉDUITS) Retrouvez tout au long de la saison les détails des spectacles (distributions, vidéos...) sur www.operatheatredesaintetienne.fr NOVEMBRE PENSEZ-Y ! SPECTACLE ADAPTÉ PROPOS D’AVANT-SPECTACLE Plusieurs dispositifs sont Une heure avant certaines proposés aux personnes déficientes représentations, retrouvez un(e) visuelles tout au long de la saison. -
A Prima Vista
A PRIMA VISTA a survey of reprints and of recent publications 2011/1 BROEKMANS & VAN POPPEL Van Baerlestraat 92-94 Postbus 75228 1070 AE AMSTERDAM sheet music: + 31 (0)20 679 65 75 CDs: + 31 (0)20 675 16 53 / fax: + 31 (0)20 664 67 59 also on INTERNET: www.broekmans.com e-mail: [email protected] 2 CONTENTS A PRIMA VISTA 2011/1 PAGE HEADING 03 PIANO 2-HANDS 14 PIANO 4-HANDS 15 2 AND MORE PIANOS, HARPSICHORD 16 ORGAN 20 KEYBOARD 21 ACCORDION 22 BANDONEON 1 STRING INSTRUMENT WITHOUT AC COMPANIMENT: 22 VIOLIN SOLO 24 VIOLA SOLO, CELLO SOLO, DOUBLE BASS SOLO, VIOLA DA GAMBA SOLO 1 STRING INSTRUMENT WITH ACCOMPANIMENT, piano unless stated otherwise: 24 VIOLIN with accompaniment 26 VIOLIN PLAY ALONG 27 VIOLA with accompaniment, VIOLA PLAY ALONG 28 CELLO with accompaniment 29 CELLO PLAY ALONG, VIOLA DA GAMBA with accompaniment 29 2 AND MORE STRING INSTRUMENTS WITH AND WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT: 1 WIND INSTRUMENT WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT: 33 FLUTE SOLO, OBOE SOLO, COR ANGLAIS SOLO, CLARINET SOLO, SAXOPHOHNE SOLO, BASSOON SOLO 34 TRUMPET SOLO, HORN SOLO, TROMBONE SOLO, TUBA SOLO 1 WIND INSTRUMENT WITH ACCOMPANIMENT, piano unless stated otherwise: 34 FLUTE with accompaniment 36 FLUTE PLAY ALONG, OBOE with accompaniment 37 OBOE PLAY ALONG, CLARINET with accompaniment 38 CLARINET PLAY ALONG, SAXOPHONE with accompaniment 39 SAXOPHONE PLAY ALONG 40 BASSOON with accompaniment, BASSOON PLAY ALONG 41 TRUMPET with accompaniment 42 TRUMPET PLAY ALONG, HORN with accompaniment 43 HORN PLAY ALONG, TROMBONE with accompaniment, TROMBONE PLAY ALONG 44 TUBA with accompaniment