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AUDIENCE: Wallis 150,000 Giunta. This month, the mezzo sings Ti! any in Adams’s I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky for her Rome debut. TOTAL WALLIS GIUNTA’S MEZZO boasts then come back down again, a silvery top and a hearty mid- Mozart is non-relenting passag- CIRCULATION: range, both deployed with crisp gio singing. So for me, it’s a chal- diction in an ever-growing reper- lenge. It’s a good challenge.” toire of modern and classic roles. Alongside traditional gems, In November, she makes her Giunta likes to sing twentieth- German debut as Cherubino at and twenty-fi rst-century music. 100,000 Oper Leipzig, where her other In April, her fi rst Naxos recording assignments through June are was released — a new song suite Rossini’s Angelina, Siébel in Faust for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, and even a Valkyrie. A July debut Silent Film Heroines, by William in Frankfurt, as Mercédès in Perry. She has also sung world Carmen, follows. premieres in Canada by Dean FREQUENCY: An alum of the Met’s Linde- Burry and Andrew Ager, as well mann Program, which she com- as R. Murray Schafer’s Children’s pleted in 2013, the Canadian Crusade, in which “the audience began her studies in Ottawa and and the performers were all just Monthly Toronto, where her fi rst under- mingling around willy-nilly in a grad assignments were quintes- warehouse, and the scenes in the sential soprano roles — Mozart’s show would evolve organically Queen of the Night and Susanna. out of the crowd. It was one of Now, she says, “I have high notes, the most inspiring things I’ve ever but I can’t live there. It’s not that been a part of. And it was opera.” I have a bad technique and I’m Because of the “unbelievable” MALE/FEMALE: actually a soprano in hiding. The expanding defi nition of opera, most colorful part of my voice is Giunta never worries about the the middle. So if anyone ever says future of her art form. “I think to me, ‘I think you’re a soprano,’ I it’s very easy to say it’s bad right 52/48 say, ‘Well, yes, I am. A mezzo-so- now and the future is precarious, prano is just a different kind of so- but when in history has there not prano, and that’s the kind I am.’” been some sword hanging over Mozart continues to hold an the head of opera? Whether it’s important place in Giunta’s rep- a war, or a great depression, or ertoire. “I am very, very satisfi ed an industrial revolution, there’s MEDIAN AGE: singing Mozart operas, but I have always something. So we say now to work harder — as opposed to it’s worse than it’s ever been, but Britten or Rossini, which tends we don’t know. We didn’t live a MAKEUP MALIK AND HAIR: AFFAN 56 to lie pretty low and then go up, hundred years ago!” GUTTER CREDIT !" OPERA NEWS ! SEPTEMBER !"#$ Photograph by DARIO ACOSTA SEPTEMBER !"#$ ! OPERA NEWS !#
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Diana Damrau brings transparent THERE ARE SINGERS who captivate Spoiler Alerts Surprise beauty and brainpower to everything she sings. us with their pure vocal beauty, and there are singers who overwhelm us Everyone knows the story of the guy who shot an Showstopper Next month, the German soprano returns to apple that was sitting atop somebody’s head. Fewer with their heart and generosity. Then know the full legend of the archer, a political rebel Tell and the romantic hero, Arnold, San Francisco Opera as Lucia di Lammermoor. there are those whose keen intelli- who helped to unite Switzerland in the fourteenth represent, respectively, the opera’s gence, revealed from one stage mo- century. Though the opera is based on an 1804 play by central concerns — political and In December, she sings the Hindu princess Operapedia: romantic freedom. Their fi rst duet, Schiller, the story originated hundreds of years earlier. ment to another, is what we remem- “Arresta.… Quali Sguardi” (or, en Leïla in the Met’s fi rst production of Bizet’s ber most. They may have beautiful Tell’s folk-hero popularity was renewed at the turn of the nineteenth century, in part as a result of post- français, “Où vas-tu?… Quel transport Pêcheurs de Perles in a century. voices too, but it is their uncanny Napoleonic patriotism. The opera advocates putting t’agite?”) makes the confl ict plain, as ability to illuminate their roles, both politics fi rst, arguing that all else follows. Unlike, say, Arnold worries about his forbidden powerfully and subtly, that lingers. Bellini’s Norma, who selfi shly uses politics for her own love for the evil governor’s daughter and Tell urges him to join the rebellion. Some of the smartest stage perform- romantic ends and winds up dead, Arnold forswears William Tell. love for duty, and Tell does what’s right for his country The shifting musical styles across ers of the past few decades include before his family; in the end, they both get everything Hit Tune nine minutes evoke the rhythms of Hildegard Behrens, Régine Crespin, Henry Stewart knocks the top o! Rossini’s they want and live happily ever after. conversation. When Woody Allen used Elisabeth Söderström, Lauren Fla- underperformed masterpiece. The emotional and symphonic it in Match Point, while Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Johansson nigan, Jon Vickers, Thomas Allen, four-part overture is far better known and more often pro- French kiss at the Royal Opera House, Simon Keenlyside and Gerald Finley. GUILLAUME TELL by GIOACHINO ROSSINI grammed than the opera itself. he stripped it of its political meaning, It’s best known for the brassy, merely making use of its romance. galloping fi nale, “March of the Something Swiss Soldiers,” made iconic for whole generations as the Completely theme for The Lone Ranger; thereafter, it became every First Performances Reactions Di! erent unimaginative music editor’s go-to for chase scenes — or, in “I must admit that the whole the case of Stanley Kubrick’s PRINCESS piece is rendered with un- Clockwork Orange, a fast- questionable superiority, such motion sexual encounter with verve as Rossini had not yet multiple partners. shown,” Berlioz wrote, “and that the William Tell overture is a work of immense talent In Pop that resembles nothing so Culture much as genius.” History has generally agreed, but there While the fi nale may be have also been detractors, the most famous seg- The Performance including a character in the ment of the overture, it We Wish We’d Seen hardboiled novelist James features several other M. Cain’s Serenade, who tells well-known parts, includ- “It was the greatest triumph of another, “The William Tell ing a mournful prelude Overture is the worst piece for sonorous strings. It the sort that I had ever seen at of music ever written.… the Opéra,” wrote Berlioz in 1837 scapes populated with ethereal was inventively arranged There’s no music in it of any for horns for the 1935 of tenor Gilbert Duprez’s per- electronics and organic instrumen- The Basics kind.” The interlocutor more (Burroughs), Images Getty y/© Walt Disney short “The formance in Paris as Arnold, in tal dissonances. This month, Maz- or less agrees — even though Band Concert,” in which The beat writer William which the singer sang his high zoli’s Song from the Uproar, about The work, written in French, its second season, the Met he spends the next several conductor Mickey Mouse S. Burroughs attempted notes from the chest, which he The expert Swiss bowman pages championing Rossini! tries to prevent a fl ute- Two of the most compelling compo- the radical life of Isabelle Eberhardt, of the title overthrows an had its premiere in Paris on performed Tell in German his own William Tell in a was the fi rst to do. Berlioz de- August 3, 1829; an Italian (as was the company’s (Mario Lanza played the playing Donald Duck Mexico City apartment scribed it like it was the Beatles sitional voices to have emerged from plays at LA Opera, and she’s cur- Austrian tyrant, in part character in the 1956 fi lm version, Guglielmo Tell, made custom at the time) for from interrupting his in 1951, eight years at Shea Stadium, the crowd Brooklyn in recent years are Missy rently at work on an opera adapta- by shooting an apple off its debut in 1831 and quickly the work’s house debut in adaptation, which had hardly ensemble’s performance before he published Mazzoli and Corey Dargel, who each tion of Lars Von Trier’s Breaking his own son’s head. anything to do with the 1937 of the overture, from the going so crazy you couldn’t even became more popular. In November 1884. Tell was fi rst Naked Lunch. Burroughs, hear the music, and he com- the Waves performed in New York in homoerotic source novel.) Ranz des Vaches (with drunk, asked his wife, present their own brands of modern for Opera Philadelphia, pared its extraordinariness to the vocal music that are equally at home planned for 2016. Dargel moved to another language — English! its instantly recognizable Joan, also drunk, to melody, aurally synony- French premiere of Beethoven’s in the opera house, the concert Austin, Texas, in 2015 after releas- — in 1831. The opera is often balance a glass on her truncated, because it contains mous with waking up) to head, then stood about Fifth (you know, just one of the hall and the performance-art space. ing his latest album of songs, OK It’s Time and Place Götterdämmerung amounts the Storm. Mickey’s nine feet away and fi red greatest pieces of music ever). Dargel composes delicate song- Not OK; he’s currently developing of music; its length — as well mere performance of the his pistol. (Burroughs “Art cannot, must not, venture cycles that express their preoccupa- a new music-theater piece called The Rossini was a popular and prolifi c composer, writing thirty-nine as changing tastes and other latter generates a town- was a gun nut, armed any further,” he wrote. destroying tornado. By Brian Kellow tions (anxiety, illness, technology) Three Christs. OPERA NEWS spoke operas in less than twenty years, most of them hits, including Il factors that condemned Ros- more often than not.) He Barbiere di Siviglia. William Tell is his magnum opus, a dramatically sini’s noncomic works to ob- missed the glass by a few PHOTOGRAPHED BY DARIO ACOSTA IN NEW YORK with deadpan vocal style and an with both composers this summer. profound work of music and theater, and something of a career- scurity until the 1960s — has inches, instead hitting intricate chamber accompaniment. capping fi nal statement — it was his last opera, though he lived contributed to its rareness, his wife in the forehead. Top and skirt by HALSTON HERITAGEtShoes by STUART WEITZMAN Mazzoli’s palette is wider and more PHOTOGRAPHED BY almost another four decades and wrote some songs, piano music especially in the past eighty She died, and he fl ed the Where It Is This Season Pendant necklace, ring and earrings by BULGARItMakeup and hair by AFFAN MALIK overtly dramatic, revealing an inter- DARIO ACOSTA IN NEW YORK and religious works while su! ering from manic depression, obesity, years: it’s been seen at the country; in absentia, he Clothes styled by BRANDY KRAFT YOU T HS emphysema and chronic gonorrhea. The reasons for his retire- Met only thirty-one times, was convicted of man- Following a controversial production at Covent Garden this summer, Tell est in strong female characters at ment still divide historians. In 1868, he died, after two surgeries the last time in 1931, around slaughter and sentenced opens the season this month in Geneva, suggesting that the Swiss shaftsman’s the center of expansive sonic land- for colorectal cancer left him with a fatal infection. the time it also fell out of the to two years, which he story still resonates there. No more productions are scheduled until March, © akg-images/De Agostini Picture Lib./M. Nascimento (Tell statue); © age fotostock Spain, S.L./Alamy (Rossini); S.L./Alamy Spain, fotostock © age statue); (Tell Nascimento Lib./M. Picture Agostini © akg-images/De (Lanza) Bros/Photofest Warner © ! Du by Photo ), Ranger ( Lone ABC/Photofest ); © Concert ( Band Pictures/Photofest Disney Walt © D i Adam Wasserman speaks to cutting-edge composers Missy Mazzoli and Corey Dargel. Parisian repertory. ) Point ( Match archive/Alamy AF © (Duprez), Archives News Opera never served. when the Germans undertake it in Hamburg. This opera deserves more!
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