CARMINA BURANA

21–24 APRIL 2017

CONCERT PROGRAM ARTISTS Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Conductor Long Yu Soprano Eva Kong Tenor John Longmuir Baritone Warwick Fyfe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Guest Chorus Master Marilyn Phillips National Boys Choir of Australia National Boys Choir Chorus Master Peter Casey

REPERTOIRE Ravel Daphnis and Chloé: Suite No.2

INTERVAL Orff Carmina Burana

Running time 1 hour 50 minutes including 20-minute interval

These performances of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff are given by permission of Hal Leonard Australia Pty. Ltd. exclusive agent for Schott Music Ltd of Mainz. LONG YU EVA KONG CONDUCTOR SOPRANO Long Yu is Artistic Director and Chief Born in Korea, Eva attained her Conductor of the China Philharmonic, Bachelor of Music at Hanyang Music Director of the Shanghai University, South Korea, Symphony Orchestra and of the continuing her studies at Sydney Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and Conservatorium of Music. Principal Guest Conductor of the Hong A member of the Moffat Oxenbould Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. He is Young Artist Program, Eva has also the founding Artistic Director of been the recipient of many awards the Beijing Music Festival, which will including First Prize in the Giacomo celebrate its twentieth year in 2017. Lauri-Volpi International Competition Long Yu conducts leading orchestras (2002). Eva has performed the and opera companies around the roles of Gilda (Rigoletto) for Opera world, including the New York Australia, and Pamina, Gretel, and Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Amina (La Sonnambula) for Pacific Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre Opera. More recently she received a de Paris, Munich Philharmonic, BBC Helpmann Award Nomination and was Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo a Green Room Award Winner for Best Philharmonic. He has created China’s Female in a Supporting Role, for her first orchestral academy in Shanghai 2014 appearance as Madam Mao in - a partnership between the Shanghai Victorian Opera’s Nixon in China. Symphony, the Shanghai Conservatory In 2016, Eva Kong sang Liù (Turandot) and the New York Philharmonic – and for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, has also launched Youth Music Culture Laura (Luisa Miller) and Princess Guangdong, a partnership with Yo-Yo Linetta (The Love for Three Oranges) Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, which for Opera Australia. In concert, Eva will investigate the role of the musician has sung in Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s as a cultural citizen. He has recorded Great Mass in C Minor and Saint for Deutsche Grammophon. Saëns’ Requiem.

3 JOHN LONGMUIR WARWICK FYFE TENOR BARITONE Born in Edinburgh, Scotland John Warwick Fyfe is a Helpmann Award- Longmuir’s operatic studies took place winning Australian singer and Churchill at the Australian Opera Studio. His Fellow. An alumnus of the Victoria awards encompass all of Australia’s College of the Arts, he has since major Eisteddfods and competitions, worked with most major Australian having won the Herald Sun Aria and and New Zealand opera companies the inaugural Joan Sutherland and (notably Opera Australia) and with the Richard Bonynge Bel Canto award, major Australian orchestras, Auckland among others. Philharmonia, Warsaw Symphony and Singapore Symphony Orchestras. In 2011, John was invited to join Opera Australia’s young artists program Warwick Fyfe was recently seen making his debut as Almaviva in The in Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle as Barber of Seville. Since finishing the Alberich, a role for which he won program John has sung all the major a Helpmann Award after the 2013 leggiero repertoire for Opera Australia production. Other awards include the including Tamino in The Magic Bayreuth Scholarship, first prize in Flute. On the concert platform, his the McDonald’s Aria, a Green Room appearances have included Rossini’s Award and the Dame Mabel Brookes Stabat mater with the West Australian Memorial Fellowship. Symphony Orchestra, Carmina Burana Since 2014, Warwick has expanded at Tokyo’s New National Theatre, and his international freelance career, Fauré’s La Naissance de Vénus at the and he has worked with English Konzerthaus Berlin. In 2012 and 2014 Touring Opera, Welsh National he was invited by Richard Bonynge Opera, and in concert not only in to appear at Grimoaldo in concert Australia, but the UK, New Zealand, performances of Handel’s Rodelinda, Singapore and Vietnam. He will the first of which is available as a perform Alberich on his forthcoming commercial recording. first appearances in Japan.

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MAURICE RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé was first presented (1875–1937) at the Théâtre du Châtelet on 8 June 1912, with Pierre Monteux conducting, Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No.2 but it was not a success. However Daybreak its score has become a staple of the Pantomime concert hall where it is usually heard General Dance (Bacchanale) in the form of two suites, or ‘fragments symphoniques’. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus The ballet opens with the idyll in which Daphnis and Chloé fall in love. Chloé is The Russian impresario Sergei abducted by pirates, and three nymphs Diaghilev commissioned many of invoke the god Pan to come to Daphnis’ the orchestral scores which have aid. Now ‘Suite 2’ begins, one of the become modern classics. In 1909, most graphic portrayals of sunrise he brought his Ballets Russes to in the orchestral literature. Imitation Paris, and commissioned Ravel birdsong and the piping of shepherds to write a ballet to a scenario by unite Daphnis with Chloé. In tribute to Michel Fokine based on the tale of Pan, Daphnis and Chloé mime Pan’s Daphnis and Chloé, a romance by courtship of Syrinx, accompanied by the Ancient Greek writer Longus. a florid solo flute (Pantomime). The concluding General Dance represents Ravel lingered over this, one of his the joyful celebration of the lovers and greatest and largest scores, and it was shepherds. not completed until April 1912, shortly Adapted from a note by Gordon Kalton Williams before the scheduled first performance Symphony Australia © 1997/2008 date. Diaghilev had wanted a score The Melbourne Symphony was the first of the Australian which would be important but not state symphony orchestras to perform either of the suites dominant. Ravel, on the other hand, from Daphnis et Chloé, on 4 May 1940 under conductor Antal Dorati. The Orchestra most recently performed Suite felt that his score should be supreme. 2 in February 2015 with Benjamin Northey. He also had contrasting views of Ancient Greece, saying, ‘My intention was to compose a vast musical fresco, in which I was less concerned with archaism than with reproducing faithfully the Greece of my dreams, which is very similar to that imagined and painted by French artists at the end of the 18th century.’

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CARL ORFF Fortune smiled on me when she (1895–1982) put into my hands a Würzburg secondhand books catalogue, in Carmina Burana: cantiones profanae which I found a title that exercised (worldly songs) on me an attraction of magical force: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi Carmina Burana: Latin and German I – Primo Vere songs and poems of a 13th-century Uf dem anger manuscript from Benediktbeuern, II – In Taberna edited by J.A. Schmeller. III – Cours d’amours Orff spoke more truly than he knew: Blanziflor et Helena certainly Carmina Burana (Songs of Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi Beuern) would make his fortune, at least artistically. But its success put Eva Kong soprano much of his subsequent achievement John Longmuir tenor in the shade. Warwick Fyfe baritone Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Orff studied music from an early Chorus age including, significantly, research National Boys Choir of Australia into non-European music. Apart from Carmina Burana, he is best In 1803 a large collection of medieval remembered today for his music- poetry was discovered in the abbey education theories: with Dorothee of Benediktbeuern in Bavaria. Its 320 Günther in 1924 he founded the poems, written on vellum and richly Güntherschule, where the curriculum illustrated with illuminated capital centred on music, gymnastics and letters, represent an anthology dance; out of this evolved the Orff- of styles and languages including Schulwerk, a method of teaching music medieval Latin, Old French and through repetition, improvisation Middle High German. It seems and with a focus on percussion. His that it was compiled in the 13th compositions during this time show century for the court of the Bishop an increasing interest in the use of of Seckau in Austria. The Bishop percussion often with piano (a ‘clean’ must have been, not atypically, a sound derived in part from that of worldly churchman as the collection Stravinsky’s Les Noces), harmony includes examples of religious and which is essentially diatonic but ‘moral’ songs, those of springtime which avoids the goal-directed feel and love as well as drinking songs. of traditional tonal music, and rhythm characterised (again, after Stravinsky) In the mid-1930s the collection came by the use of repeated figurations. to the attention of Carl Orff who later These musical techniques reached remarked: their first realisation in 1931’s Catulli

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Carmina, settings of one of the be swept away by Fate, so the music great Roman poets. Carmina Burana returns to ‘O Fortuna’. As Michael followed a few years later, and was Steinberg has noted, one wouldn’t first performed in Frankfurt in 1937. guess from the music that the last It made an immediate impact. line of the poetry is ‘mecum omnes plangite’ (come, weep with me). Wherever it has been performed, Carmina Burana retains its ability to Abridged from a note by Gordon Kerry © 2006 evoke what Alex Ross calls ‘primitive, The first performance of Carmina burana by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra took place on unreflective enthusiasm’. And that’s 20 November 1957 with the Royal Melbourne partly because of the texts. The Philharmonic Society, Stewart Harvey, Halinka de ‘O Fortuna’ chorus bookends the Tarcsynska and Ian Gosdil. The conductor was Kurt Woess. The Orchestra’s most recent performance, whole work with its mighty choral under Jakub Hrůša, took place in June 2011 with and orchestral forces and implacable Hyeseoung Kwon, Paul McMahon, José Carbó, the Concordis Chamber Choir and the MSO Chorus. rhythms. The body of the work, which uses 23 of the published poems, is divided into three main sections. The first, ‘Springtime’ and ‘On the Meadow’, uses the conventional genres of pastoral poetry: spring returns, the sun warms the earth, forests awaken, and a young person’s thoughts turn to love. But not before a brief spell ‘In the Tavern’, a male- dominated environment in which Orff creates a number of memorable characters such as the Abbot of Cockaigne whose constituents (all the world) are drinkers. None is more memorable though, if only musically, than the Roasting Swan, a high tenor whose lament is for the loss of his whiteness as much as for his imminent consumption. Finally ‘The Court of Love’ takes up the erotic threads of ‘Spring’, contrasting delicacy and robust humour before the soaring soprano solo of ‘Dulcissime’ and ecstatic chorus to ‘Blanziflor and Helena’. The ecstasy will, of course,

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GUEST CHORUS MASTER Cecilia Björkegren ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Kate Bramley Marilyn Phillips Peter Casey Jane Brodie Philip Carmody REPETITEUR Serena Carmel Alexandra Chubaty Tom Griffiths Jill Giese Soren Adkin Phillipa Safey Natasha Godfrey Debbie Griffiths Callum Corbally Joshua Choong CHORUS COORDINATOR Ros Harbison Sue Hawley Tommy De Simone Lucien Fischer Kristine Hensel Lucas D’Costa Jade Leigh Simon D’Costa SOPRANO Helen MacLean Joshua Doan Philippa Allen Christina McCowan Xavier Grindlay Julie Arblaster Rosemary McKelvie Enda Han Aviva Barazani Siobhan Ormandy Nathan Magpanty Eva Butcher Alison Ralph Aidan Maher Veryan Croggon Mair Roberts Hamish McLean Davies Emma Di Maggio Kerry Roulston Ethan McLeod Jessie Eastwood Annie Runnalls Matthias Mullins Catherine Folley Lisa Savige Nhan Nguyen Carolyn Francis Wilma Smith Matthew Risson Camilla Gorman Libby Timcke Alessio Russo Juliana Hassett Jenny Vallins Robin Soeradinata Penny Huggett Henry Smith Naomi Hyndman TENOR Eric Zheng Tania Jacobs James Allen Gwen Kennelly Tony Barnett Catriona Nguyen- Steve Burnett Robertson James Dipnall Karin Otto Lyndon Horsburgh Jodie Paxton Dominic McKenna Natalie Reid Michael Mobach Jo Robin Jean-Francois Ravat Elizabeth Rusli Tim Wright Natalia Salazar Jemima Sim Shu Xian BASS Freja Soininen Maurice Amor Chiara Stebbing Richard Bolitho Elizabeth Tindall Barry Clarke Chloe Toh Peter Clay Vanessa Tunggal Phil Elphinstone Eloise Verbeek Gerard Evans Tara Zamin Andrew Ham ALTO Vern O'Hara Edward Ounapuu Aleksandra Acker Liam Straughan Satu Aho Tom Turnbull Ruth Anderson Maurice Wan Catherine Bickell Maciek Zielinski

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