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Musica, Teatro, Danza Musik[È] Musica, Teatro, Danza Musikè Musica Teatro Danza Giovani
3^ edizione 2014 musik[è] musica, teatro, danza musik[è] musica, teatro, danza Musikè Musica Teatro Danza Giovani Ideazione e coordinamento Alessandro Zattarin Gruppo di lavoro Mario Giovanni Ingrassia Claudio Ronda Gabriele Vianelli Comunicazione Roberto Fioretto Supervisione Alessandra Veronese Progetto grafico Metropolis ADV Ufficio stampa Studio Pierrepi [è] Musikè Musica Teatro Danza Giovani 1 2 3 4 5 Musica Teatro Musica 12 maggio 2014 ore 21 19 maggio 2014 ore 21 Rovigo, Tempio della Beata Vergine del Soccorso (La Rotonda) Bagnoli di Sopra (PD), Teatro Goldoni ESCLUSIVA NAZIONALE LINA JOB WERTMÜLLER Un’allegra fin de siècle CORO DA CAMERA DELLA FILARMONICA ESTONE in recital Daniel Reuss direttore Testo di Lina Job Wertmüller Musiche di Sergej Rachmaninov Musiche e canzoni di Italo “Lilli” Greco e Lucio Gregoretti Premiato con il Diapason d’or, il Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, il Danish Music Award e il Lina Job Wertmüller voce recitante Grammy Award per la miglior esibizione corale (nel 2007 e nel 2014), l’Estonian Philharmonic Nicoletta Della Corte voce cantante Chamber Choir propone ogni anno tra i 60 e i 70 concerti, divisi tra l’Estonia e l’estero, grazie a uno Francesco Bancalari pianoforte straordinario repertorio che spazia dal canto gregoriano e barocco fino alla musica del ventunesimo secolo, con speciale attenzione alle opere di compositori estoni (Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Erkki-Sven Produzione Promo Music Tüür, Galina Grigoryeva, Toivo Tulev, Tõnu Kõrvits, Helena Tulve). Fondato nel 1981 da Tõnu Kaljuste, ha collaborato con orchestre e direttori di assoluto prestigio (Claudio Abbado, Neeme e Paavo Järvi, Un viaggio attraverso il Novecento, secolo segnato da due guerre mondiali e da brutali dittature, Olari Elts, Andrew Lawrence-King, Roland Böer, Stephen Layton, Marc Minkowski, Christoph Poppen, raccontato con il timbro dissacrante e incontenibile della grande regista Lina Job Wertmüller, qui Sir Colin Davis). -
Bellini's Norma
Bellini’s Norma - A discographical survey by Ralph Moore There are around 130 recordings of Norma in the catalogue of which only ten were made in the studio. The penultimate version of those was made as long as thirty-five years ago, then, after a long gap, Cecilia Bartoli made a new recording between 2011 and 2013 which is really hors concours for reasons which I elaborate in my review below. The comparative scarcity of studio accounts is partially explained by the difficulty of casting the eponymous role, which epitomises bel canto style yet also lends itself to verismo interpretation, requiring a vocalist of supreme ability and versatility. Its challenges have thus been essayed by the greatest sopranos in history, beginning with Giuditta Pasta, who created the role of Norma in 1831. Subsequent famous exponents include Maria Malibran, Jenny Lind and Lilli Lehmann in the nineteenth century, through to Claudia Muzio, Rosa Ponselle and Gina Cigna in the first part of the twentieth. Maria Callas, then Joan Sutherland, dominated the role post-war; both performed it frequently and each made two bench-mark studio recordings. Callas in particular is to this day identified with Norma alongside Tosca; she performed it on stage over eighty times and her interpretation casts a long shadow over. Artists since, such as Gencer, Caballé, Scotto, Sills, and, more recently, Sondra Radvanovsky have had success with it, but none has really challenged the supremacy of Callas and Sutherland. Now that the age of expensive studio opera recordings is largely over in favour of recording live or concert performances, and given that there seemed to be little commercial or artistic rationale for producing another recording to challenge those already in the catalogue, the appearance of the new Bartoli recording was a surprise, but it sought to justify its existence via the claim that it authentically reinstates the integrity of Bellini’s original concept in matters such as voice categories, ornamentation and instrumentation. -
Il Trovatore
Synopsis Act I: The Duel Count di Luna is obsessed with Leonora, a young noblewoman in the queen’s service, who does not return his love. Outside the royal residence, his soldiers keep watch at night. They have heard an unknown troubadour serenading Leonora, and the jealous count is determined to capture and punish him. To keep his troops awake, the captain, Ferrando, recounts the terrible story of a gypsy woman who was burned at the stake years ago for bewitching the count’s infant brother. The gypsy’s daughter then took revenge by kidnapping the boy and throwing him into the flames where her mother had died. The charred skeleton of a baby was discovered there, and di Luna’s father died of grief soon after. The gypsy’s daughter disappeared without a trace, but di Luna has sworn to find her. In the palace gardens, Leonora confides in her companion Ines that she is in love with a mysterious man she met before the outbreak of the war and that he is the troubadour who serenades her each night. After they have left, Count di Luna appears, looking for Leonora. When she hears the troubadour’s song in the darkness, Leonora rushes out to greet her beloved but mistakenly embraces di Luna. The troubadour reveals his true identity: He is Manrico, leader of the partisan rebel forces. Furious, the count challenges him to fight to the death. Act II: The Gypsy During the duel, Manrico overpowered the count, but some instinct stopped him from killing his rival. The war has raged on. -
Deutsche Nationalbibliografie
Deutsche Nationalbibliografie Reihe T Musiktonträgerverzeichnis Monatliches Verzeichnis Jahrgang: 2010 T 05 Stand: 19. Mai 2010 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin) 2010 ISSN 1613-8945 urn:nbn:de:101-ReiheT05_2010-1 2 Hinweise Die Deutsche Nationalbibliografie erfasst eingesandte Pflichtexemplare in Deutschland veröffentlichter Medienwerke, aber auch im Ausland veröffentlichte deutschsprachige Medienwerke, Übersetzungen deutschsprachiger Medienwerke in andere Sprachen und fremdsprachige Medienwerke über Deutschland im Original. Grundlage für die Anzeige ist das Gesetz über die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNBG) vom 22. Juni 2006 (BGBl. I, S. 1338). Monografien und Periodika (Zeitschriften, zeitschriftenartige Reihen und Loseblattausgaben) werden in ihren unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen (z.B. Papierausgabe, Mikroform, Diaserie, AV-Medium, elektronische Offline-Publikationen, Arbeitstransparentsammlung oder Tonträger) angezeigt. Alle verzeichneten Titel enthalten einen Link zur Anzeige im Portalkatalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek und alle vorhandenen URLs z.B. von Inhaltsverzeichnissen sind als Link hinterlegt. Die Titelanzeigen der Musiktonträger in Reihe T sind, wie Katalogisierung, Regeln für Musikalien und Musikton-trä- auf der Sachgruppenübersicht angegeben, entsprechend ger (RAK-Musik)“ unter Einbeziehung der „International der Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation (DDC) gegliedert, wo- Standard Bibliographic Description for Printed Music – bei tiefere Ebenen mit bis zu sechs Stellen berücksichtigt ISBD -
Staged Treasures
Italian opera. Staged treasures. Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini and Gioacchino Rossini © HNH International Ltd CATALOGUE # COMPOSER TITLE FEATURED ARTISTS FORMAT UPC Naxos Itxaro Mentxaka, Sondra Radvanovsky, Silvia Vázquez, Soprano / 2.110270 Arturo Chacon-Cruz, Plácido Domingo, Tenor / Roberto Accurso, DVD ALFANO, Franco Carmelo Corrado Caruso, Rodney Gilfry, Baritone / Juan Jose 7 47313 52705 2 Cyrano de Bergerac (1875–1954) Navarro Bass-baritone / Javier Franco, Nahuel di Pierro, Miguel Sola, Bass / Valencia Regional Government Choir / NBD0005 Valencian Community Orchestra / Patrick Fournillier Blu-ray 7 30099 00056 7 Silvia Dalla Benetta, Soprano / Maxim Mironov, Gheorghe Vlad, Tenor / Luca Dall’Amico, Zong Shi, Bass / Vittorio Prato, Baritone / 8.660417-18 Bianca e Gernando 2 Discs Marina Viotti, Mar Campo, Mezzo-soprano / Poznan Camerata Bach 7 30099 04177 5 Choir / Virtuosi Brunensis / Antonino Fogliani 8.550605 Favourite Soprano Arias Luba Orgonášová, Soprano / Slovak RSO / Will Humburg Disc 0 730099 560528 Maria Callas, Rina Cavallari, Gina Cigna, Rosa Ponselle, Soprano / Irene Minghini-Cattaneo, Ebe Stignani, Mezzo-soprano / Marion Telva, Contralto / Giovanni Breviario, Paolo Caroli, Mario Filippeschi, Francesco Merli, Tenor / Tancredi Pasero, 8.110325-27 Norma [3 Discs] 3 Discs Ezio Pinza, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Bass / Italian Broadcasting Authority Chorus and Orchestra, Turin / Milan La Scala Chorus and 0 636943 132524 Orchestra / New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / BELLINI, Vincenzo Vittorio -
Jessica Pratt
JESSICA PRATT SerenadeVINCENZO SCALERA Serenade from Péchés de vieillesse (?G. Torre) Jules Massenet 1842–1912 Vincenzo Bellini 1801–1835 1 Ouvre tes yeux bleus 2.03 From Sei ariette No.3 from Poème d’Amour (P. Robiquet) 10 No.5 Per pietà, bell’idol mio 2.31 (P. Metastasio) Charles Gounod 1818–1893 11 No.1 Malinconia, ninfa gentile 1.29 2 Sérénade (V. Hugo) 4.07 (I. Pindemonte) Alfred Bachelet 1864–1944 12 La ricordanza (C. Pepoli) 5.25 3 Chère nuit (E. Adenis) 4.38 From Tre ariette (Anon.) Eva Dell’Acqua 1856–1930 13 No.2 Dolente immagine di Fille mia 3.04 4 Villanelle (F. van der Elst) 5.22 14 No.3 Vaga luna che inargenti 2.43 Léo Delibes 1836–1891 Gaetano Donizetti 1797–1848 5 Les Filles de Cadix (A. de Musset) 3.24 15 La zingara (C. Guaita) 3.53 16 Il barcaiolo 2.57 Gioachino Rossini 1792–1868 No.1 from Nuits d’été à Pausilippe 6 La separazione (F. Uccelli) 4.39 (L. Tarantini) 7 Mi lagnerò tacendo 2.32 17 Una lagrima (Preghiera) 4.09 from Péchés de vieillesse (P. Metastasio) from Matinée musicale (Anon.) 8 Addio ai viennesi (Anon.) 4.49 9 La fioraia fiorentina 3.56 62.18 Jessica Pratt soprano Vincenzo Scalera piano 3 Jessica Pratt Hailed by the New York Times as a soprano of ‘gleaming sound, free and easy high notes, agile coloratura runs and lyrical grace’, Jessica Pratt is considered one of today’s foremost interpreters of some of bel canto’s most challenging repertoire. -
Record Series 1121-105.4, W. W. Law Music Collection-Compact Discs, Inventory by Genre
Record Series 1121-105.4, W. W. Law Music Collection-Compact Discs, Inventory by Genre Genre Album title Contributor (s) Date Final Box # Item # Additional Notes Original CD Blues (music) James Cotton Living the Blues James Cotton; Larry McCray; John Primer; Johnny B. Gayden; Brian Jones; Dr. John; Lucky Peterson; Joe Louis Walker 1994 1121-105-242 19 Blues (music) Willie Dixon Willie Dixon; Andy McKaie; Don Snowden 1988 1121-105-249 01 Oversized case; 2 CD box set Blues (music) Cincinnati Blues (1928-1936) Bob Coleman's Cincinnati Jug Band and Associates; Walter Coleman; Bob Coleman no date 1121-105-242 17 Found with CD album in Box #10, Item #28; Case was found separately Blues (music) Willie Dixon, The Big Three Trio Willie Dixon; The Big Three Trio 1990 1121-105-242 18 Blues (music) The Best of Muddy Waters Muddy Waters 1987 1121-105-242 08 Blues (music) The Roots of Robert Johnson Robert Johnson 1990 1121-105-242 07 Blues (music) The Best of Mississippi John Hurt Mississippi John Hurt; Bob Scherl 1987 1121-105-242 06 Blues (music) Bud Powell: Blues for Bouffemont Bud Powell; Alan Bates 1989 1121-105-242 36 Friday, May 11, 2018 Page 1 of 89 Genre Album title Contributor (s) Date Final Box # Item # Additional Notes Original CD Blues (music) Big Bill Broonzy Good Time Tonight Big Bill Broonzy 1990 1121-105-242 04 Blues (music) Bessie Smith The Collection Bessie Smith; John Hammond; Frank Walker 1989 1121-105-242 38 Blues (music) Blind Willie Johnson Praise God I'm Satisfied Blind Willie Johnson 1989 1121-105-242 20 Post-it note was found on the back of this CD case, photocopy made and placed in envelope behind CD. -
Verdi's Simon Boccanegra: a Survey of the Discography
Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra: A survey of the discography by Ralph Moore I think of Simon Boccanegra as something of a connoisseur’s opera, insofar as it surely contains some of Verdi’s most inspired music, yet has from its premiere rightly been criticised for its labyrinthine plot – a caricature of typically operatic complications – and its consequent lack of accessibility for audiences. For that reason, the first version soon fell out of favour after its 1857 premiere, but Verdi, no doubt with justification, thought highly enough of the music to undertake a revision twenty-three years later with the help of Arrigo Boito, and the result, the 1881 version, is the one almost invariably performed today. The most important addition was the Council Chamber Scene; the opera would be much the poorer without it, but Verdi also revised a good deal of the music to render it far more ductile and atmospheric. The opera presents an admixture of personal and political turmoil such as we encounter in other mature operas like Les vêpres siciliennes and Don Carlos, but also capitalises on two archetypal themes very prevalent in Verdi’s operas and to which he frequently returned, both of which prompted the best of his music: the depiction of a loving but tortured father-daughter relationship of the kind we also see in Luisa Miller, Rigoletto and Aida and his concern for statesmanship, as exhibited in the appeals for peace, patriotism and brotherhood, rallying calls stretching right back to his earliest operas, such as Nabucco, I Lombardi, Attila and La battaglia di Legnano. -
Book Sheet Pediconi
Beatrice Pediconi 9’/ Unlimited Title: Beatrice Pediconi. 9’/ Unlimited Contributions by: Lucio Gregoretti, Momoko Kuroda, Andrew Lerwill Publisher: Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna Year: 2013 Dimension: 15,5 x 12,5 x 3 cm Language: Italian / English Price: 35 € The book can be also purchased on the website: www.danilomontanari.com This artist's book, which has been designed by Beatrice Pediconi for her exhibition at Collezione Maramotti, looks like a real object: a polaroid-size box recalling one of the artist's preferred media. The box/cover stores inside a series of leporello folders reproducing the Polaroid shots and a selection of frames from the video 9’/ Unlimited. The artist's book also includes a haiku composition by Japanese poet Momoko Kuroda, a mysterious chemical formula by Anglo-American researcher Andrew Lerwill and a music score by composer Lucio Gregoretti, the outcome of their fruitful collaboration with the artist and their free and personal interpretation of some essential components of Beatrice Pediconi's project, mutually knit together and interlocked: the haiku for the original idea of the project; the chemical formula for the processing experimentation of materials in water, and the musical composition as a potential sound score on the visual rhythm of the video. Short biographies Beatrice Pediconi was born in Rome, in 1972, and studied in both Rome and Paris. In 2010 she moved to New York, where she currently lives and works. Her studies in architecture led her to a passion for architectural photography, in which she was active in the years immediately following the attainment of her degree. -
Il Trovatore
Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore CONDUCTOR Opera in four parts Marco Armiliato Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano and Leone PRODUCTION Emanuele Bardare, based on the play El Trovador David McVicar by Antonio García Gutierrez SET DESIGNER Charles Edwards Saturday, April 30, 2011, 1:00–3:45 pm COSTUME DESIGNER Brigitte Reiffenstuel Last time this season LIGHTING DESIGNED BY Jennifer Tipton The production of Il Trovatore was made CHOREOGRAPHER possible by a generous gift from Leah Hausman The Annenberg Foundation. STAGE DIRECTOR Paula Williams The revival of this production is made possible by a gift from The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation. GENERAL MANAGER Peter Gelb MUSIC DIRECTOR Il Trovatore is a co-production with Lyric Opera of James Levine Chicago and San Francisco Opera. 2010–11 Season The 625th Metropolitan Opera performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore Conductor This performance Marco Armiliato is being broadcast live over The in order of vocal appearance Toll Brothers– Metropolitan Ferrando Opera Stefan Kocán International Radio Network, Inez sponsored by Maria Zifchak Toll Brothers, America’s luxury Leonora homebuilder®, Sondra Radvanovsky* with generous long-term Count di Luna support from Dmitri Hvorostovsky The Annenberg Manrico Foundation, the Marcelo Álvarez Vincent A. Stabile Endowment for Azucena Broadcast Media, Dolora Zajick and contributions from listeners A Gypsy worldwide. Robert Maher This performance is A Messenger also being broadcast Raymond Aparentado live on Metropolitan Opera Radio on Ruiz SIRIUS channel 78 Eduardo Valdes and XM channel 79. Saturday, April 30, 2011, 1:00–3:45 pm This performance is dedicated to Dr. Agnes Varis in grateful recognition of her generosity to the Metropolitan Opera as a member of the Council for Artistic Excellence. -
Parola Scenica: Towards Realism in Italian Opera Etdhendrik Johannes Paulus Du Plessis
Parola Scenica: Towards Realism in Italian Opera ETDHendrik Johannes Paulus du Plessis A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD by Thesis Abstract This thesis attempts to describe the emergence of a realistic writing style in nine- teenth-century Italian opera of which Giuseppe Verdi was the primary architect. Frequently reinforced by a realistic musico-linguistic device that Verdi would call parola scenica, the object of this realism is a musical syntax in which nei- ther the dramatic intent of the text nor the purely musical intent overwhelms the other. For Verdi the dramatically effective depiction of a ‘slice of a particular life’—a realist theatrical notion—is more important than the mere mimetic description of the words in musical terms—a romantic theatrical notion in line with opera seria. Besides studying the device of parola scenica in Verdi’s work, I also attempt to cast light on its impact on the output of his peers and successors. Likewise, this study investigates how the device, by definition texted, impacts on the orchestra as a means of realist narrative. My work is directed at explaining how these changes in mood of thought were instrumental in effecting the gradual replacement of the bel canto singing style typical of the opera seria of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, by the school of thought of verismo, as exemplified by Verdi’s experiments. Besides the work of Verdi and the early nineteenth-cen- tury Italian operatic Romanticists, I touch also briefly on the œuvres of Puccini, ETDGiordano and the other veristi. -
Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera
Verdi’s Un ballo in Maschera - A survey of the studio and selected live recordings by Ralph Moore Given the popularity of Un ballo in maschera, it is surprising how relatively few studio recordings it has received: only a dozen, considered below. I have added to those, for their worth and interest, five live radio broadcasts and two recordings of live performances. The most recent was recorded twenty-five years ago. I have excluded any not sung in Italian. It is performed and recorded under two guises: its original version, narrating the assassination of Gustavus III of Sweden and, recast to avoid the spectacle of a monarch being assassinated on stage, its adaptation under pressure from the Roman censors to a new location in Boston, Massachusetts, with the characters’ names changed accordingly; thus Gustavus rather absurdly becomes Riccardo, Earl of Warwick, governor of Boston during the British colonial period. Modern stage productions tend to revert to the Swedish setting but the only recordings below to do so are Karajan’s in 1989 and the live production with Pavarotti in Vienna in 1986. It is expertly structured, paced and balanced – close to flawless as operas go and nowhere as far- fetched in the action or as unbelievable in motivation as some others, as long as you make allowance for a bit of jiggery-pokery to do with fortune-telling and magic herbs. Its trio of main characters are credible and sympathetic; Riccardo/Gustavo is a likeable tenor-hero whose character is portrayed in some depth; he evinces the usual romantic ardour but also a sense of humour; Amelia is passionate and principled without being sentimentalised; Renato/Anckarström is not the vengeful monster of the type we see in Don Carlo in La forza del destino but a man wracked and tormented by the betrayal of his wife and best friend.