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660268-69 bk Strauss US 30/9/09 15:52 Page 12 Johann 2 CDs Also available: STRAUSS II Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) Buckard • Gylbert • Christensson • Andersson Larsdotter Persson • Meyer • Krawe • Hansson • Holmberg Coro Notturno • Stockholm Strauss Orchestra Mika Eichenholz 8.660227-28 8.660268-69 12 660268-69 bk Strauss US 30/9/09 15:52 Page 2 Mika Eichenholz Johann Strauss II Mika Eichenholz studied conducting under Jorma Panula at the Sibelius (1825-1899) Academy in Helsinki and made his début with the Royal Stockholm Eine Nacht in Venedig Philharmonic Orchestra in 1989. The same year he won first prize at the (One Night in Venice) Swedish competition for conductors. He has frequently been engaged as guest conductor in orchestras in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Israel, the Operetta in Three Acts Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and South Africa, as well as in South America. He has formed a steady relationship with the Kazan State Libretto: F. Zell & R. Genée Opera with which he has toured in Europe with singers from the Bolshoy and The Viennese original version from 1883 in German, without the dialogue Mariinsky Theatre. In 2006 Mika Eichenholz made his début with the Hamburger Symphoniker and was subsequently re-invited for three following productions. During the season 2007-08 he appeared in South Guido, Herzog von Urbino (The Duke) . Daniel Buckard, Tenor America, Scandinavia, Austria, Germany, Russia and Holland, and in 2008/09 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Chamber Caramello (The Duke’s Barber) . Pierre Gylbert / Johan Christensson, Tenors Orchestra, Stockholm Strauss Orchestra, Hamburger Symphoniker, Delaqua (Senator) . Erika Andersson / Anna Larsdotter Persson, Mezzo-sopranos Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Kazan Opera, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, and the Santiago Symphony Orchestra. Barbara (Senator Delaqua’s Wife) . Anna Larsdotter Persson, Mezzo-soprano Annina (Fish-girl) . Merete L. Meyer / Anna-Maria Krawe / Kristina Hansson, Sopranos Ciboletta (Barbara’s Lady’s Maid) . Kristina Hansson, Soprano Pappacoda (Spaghetti-cook and Ciboletta’s Boyfriend) . Henrik Holmberg, Tenor Agricola (Senator’s Wife) . Erika Andersson / Anna Larsdotter Persson, Mezzo-sopranos Coro Notturno (Chorus Master: Elisabet Brander) Stockholm Strauss Orchestra (Leader: Marc Power) Mika Eichenholz 8.660268-69 211 8.660268-69 660268-69 bk Strauss US 30/9/09 15:52 Page 10 Henrik Holmberg CD 1 62:12 CD 2 56:37 The tenor Henrik Holmberg was trained at the University College of Opera in Stockholm 1 Ouvertüre 7:48 Act II (contd.) 15:13 and since then has worked as a freelance opera and concert singer. He has sung rôles such as Larmare in Staden by Sven-David Sandström at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Act I 34:07 1 No. 12 Quartett: Ninana, Ninana 3:20 Emile Zola and Joseph in La vie parisienne by Offenbach at Vasan in Stockholm, Ferrando (Annina [Meyer], Ciboletta [Hansson], in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at Opera på fortet in Karlskrona, Charles Granddanois Jyckov in 2 No. 1 Introduktion: Wenn vom Lido Herzog, Delaqua [Persson]) the newly written opera Ärret by Paula af Malmborg Ward at Vadstena Academy in sacht wieder Kühlung weht 4:41 2 No. 13 Finale 2: Lasset die ander’n nur Vadstena, Hektor in Where the Wild Things Are by Oliver Knussen at NorrlandsOperan in (Chorus, Pappacoda) tanzen da 5:53 Umeå, Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Regina Theatre in Stockholm, 3 No. 2 Lied mit Chor: Frutti di mare 2:34 (Ensemble) Annina [Meyer], Chorus 3 Tisifone in Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Fedra, Joseph Goebbels in the new opera Zarah by ( ) No. 13 Nur ungeniert... 6:00 4 No. 3 Duett: Heiraten ja, das wird mir freu’n 2:57 (Ensemble) Anders Nilsson and Kilian in Weber’s Der Freischütz at the Folkoperan in Stockholm. (Ciboletta, Pappacoda) 5 No. 4 Arie mit Chor: Eviva Caramello, Act III 14:49 des Herzogs Barbier! 3:17 (Caramello [Gylbert], Chorus) 4 No. 14 Introduktion; Karneval ruft uns 6 No. 5 Duett: Annina! Caramello! 3:35 zum Ball 1:16 (Annina [Krawe], Caramello [Gylbert]) (Chorus) Stockholm Strauss-Orkester 7 No. 6a Quartett: Alle maskiert! 2:41 5 No. 15 Lagunen Walzer: Ach, wie so (Annina [Krawe], Ciboletta, Caramello herrlich zu schau’n 3:27 [Gylbert], Pappacoda) (Caramello [Christensson]) No. 6b Melodram [string accompaniment to spoken 6 No. 16 Spottlied: Ein Herzog reich dialogue, both omitted on this recording] und mächtig, ha, ha, ha 3:02 8 No. 7a Finale 1: Hier ward es still 12:12 (Annina [Krawe], Women’s Chorus) (Ensemble) 7 No. 17a Aufzugsmarsch 1:49 9 No. 7a (Ensemble) 2:10 (Orchestra) 8 No. 17b Finale 3: Die Tauben von San Marco 3:48 Act II 20:16 (Ensemble) 9 No. 17b Wie sich’s gebührt 1:28 0 No. 7b Entreact (Orchestra) 1:57 (Ensemble) The Stockholm Strauss Orchestra was founded in 1992 as a non-profit-making organization. Its fifty players are all ! No. 8a Introduktion: members of the Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester (Swedish Radio Symphony Orhestra), Stockholms Filharmoniska Nur ungeniert hier einspaziert* 3:29 Orchestral pieces 26:34 orkester (Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra), Hovkapellet (The Royal Opera House Orchestra) and Folkoperans (Agricola [Persson, Andersson], Herzog, Chorus) orkester (The People’s Opera Orchestra). The Strauss Orchestra is made up, following the original Wiener Johann @ No. 9 Lied: Was mir der Zufall gab 3:41 0 Pappacoda – Polka française, Op. 412 4:23 Strauss-Capelle, of ten first violins, six seconds, four violas, four cellos, three double basses, pairs of flutes, oboes, (Annina [Meyer]) ! Annina – Polka-Mazurka, Op. 415 3:11 clarinets and bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, two timpani, bass drum and harp. The # No. 10 Duett: So sind wir endlich allein 5:32 @ So ängstlich sind wir nicht – Polka schnell, orchestra plays all kinds of music, both popular and classical, from string quartet to symphony orchestra, with a (Annina [Hansson], Herzog) Op. 413 2:27 current repertoire of more than 1200 works by some 120 composers. $ No. 11 Ensemble and Couplets: # Die Tauben von San Marco – Polka française, Solch ein Wirtshaus lob’ich mir! 5:37 Op. 414 3:33 (Caramello [Gylbert], Pappacoda, Chorus) $ Lagunen Walzer, Op. 411 8:02 % Quadrille, Op. 416 4:57 *The original score includes No. 8b (Abgang), which is a repeat of the accompanying string music for 8a, and was intended to be played as the soloists and chorus left the stage at the end of 8a (Nur ungeniert hier einspaziert). This repeat is omitted on this recording. 8.660268-69 10 3 8.660268-69 660268-69 bk Strauss US 30/9/09 15:52 Page 4 Johann Strauss (1825-1899) Anna-Maria Krawe Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) The Swedish soprano Anna-Maria Krawe, from Örebro, started her musical training at After the great success in 1881 of his eighth operetta Der In 1929 Johann Strauss’s music was no longer Vadstena and studied with Britta Johansson and Hans Gertz in Malmö and Susanna lustige Krieg (The Merry War), Strauss wanted a new protected by copyright. Long before this, publishers had Rigacci in Florence. She graduated from the University College of Opera in Stockholm libretto set in Italy with a finale in St Mark’s Square in stopped selling his works in their original versions. A in 2002 and has performed rôles such as Clara and Gustav IV in Werle’s opera Venice. The librettists Camillo Walzel (pseudonym: F. Night in Venice was, like other operettas, arranged by Tintomara, Poppea in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Tatyana in Zell) and Richard Genée presented Strauss with a story Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1923) and presented by the Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème and Donna Elvira in entitled Venetian Nights, set in the mid-eighteenth publisher, A. Cranz, including a piece from the operetta Mozart’s Don Giovanni. century. The story appealed to the composer’s fondness Simplicius, under a new copyright. For more than fifty for practical jokes. The message behind the plot was that years, this altered fuller orchestration by Korngold was men might try to dupe women, but the women will prove nearly the only one performed. The autograph score to be too sharp in the end. Strauss began to compose the currently belongs to Stanford University in the United operetta at once and it became one of his four greatest States. On the first page Strauss has written: “To my successes. Unfortunately, unbeknown to Strauss, the dear brother-in-law, Josef Simon, as a bound stack of story had been copied from a French play, and this toilet-paper. Hope it goes down well!” Kristina Hansson almost created a scandal before the operetta even had its This live recording of Strauss’s Eine Nacht in first performance. Instead, however, Strauss’s first Venedig is taken from the original version (Vienna, In recent years Kristina Hansson has emerged as one of Sweden’s most interesting young theatrical scandal occurred during the actual première. 1883), published in score by Doblinger in 1970. We sopranos. She studied at the University College of Opera in Stockholm and has performed His second wife, Lili, had just left him and was have made, however, a few small cuts in order to allow with many of the world’s leading conductors, including Christoph Rousset, Arnold Östman, living with Franz Steiner, the director for the Theater an the artists to leave the stage during the performance: Adam Fischer, Alessandro De Marchi and René Jacobs. Her repertoire includes Sophie in der Wien, the theatre for which every Strauss operetta, 1) string accompaniment to the dialogue in No 6b; Der Rosenkavalier, Gilda in Rigoletto, and Zdenka in Arabella, Isabella in Sömnkliniken at with the exception of Prinz Methusalem, was written.