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Parsifal and Canada: a Documentary Study
Parsifal and Canada: A Documentary Study The Canadian Opera Company is preparing to stage Parsifal in Toronto for the first time in 115 years; seven performances are planned for the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts from September 25 to October 18, 2020. Restrictions on public gatherings imposed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic have placed the production in jeopardy. Wagnerians have so far suffered the cancellation of the COC’s Flying Dutchman, Chicago Lyric Opera’s Ring cycle and the entire Bayreuth Festival for 2020. It will be a hard blow if the COC Parsifal follows in the footsteps of a projected performance of Parsifal in Montreal over 100 years ago. Quinlan Opera Company from England, which mounted a series of 20 operas in Montreal in the spring of 1914 (including a complete Ring cycle), announced plans to return in the fall of 1914 for another feast of opera, including Parsifal. But World War One intervened, the Parsifal production was cancelled, and the Quinlan company went out of business. Let us hope that history does not repeat itself.1 While we await news of whether the COC production will be mounted, it is an opportune time to reflect on Parsifal and its various resonances in Canadian music history. This article will consider three aspects of Parsifal and Canada: 1) a performance history, including both excerpts and complete presentations; 2) remarks on some Canadian singers who have sung Parsifal roles; and 3) Canadian scholarship on Parsifal. NB: The indication [DS] refers the reader to sources that are reproduced in the documentation portfolio that accompanies this article. -
IN SUMMER Lucerne Is a Wagner City
Der Ring des Nibelungen IN SUMMER Lucerne is a Wagner city. For six years – from 1866 to 1872 – the com- poser resided at the Villa Tribschen. This was a decisive period for him artistically as well as personally. It was here that he completed Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and resumed work on The Ring of the Nibelung, composing both the third act of Siegfried and Götterdäm- merung. Wagner’s Lucerne years also represented a turning point in his personal life. He moved into his new home on Lake Lucerne with Cosima von Bülow, whom he then married on 25 August 1870 in the Protestant parish church. And it was in Tribschen that two of the couple’s three children – their daughter Eva and son Siegfried – were born. To mark the composer’s 200th birthday, LUCERNE FESTIVAL is presenting the first complete performance of theRing cycle in the Wagner city of Lucerne, with the English conductor Jonathan Nott, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and internationally acclaimed Wagner singers, including Albert Dohmen as Wotan, the ruler of the gods, Petra Lang making her role debut as Brünnhilde, Torsten Kerl as Siegfried, Klaus Florian Vogt in the role of Siegmund, and the Russian bass Mikhail Petrenko in a threefold assignment as Fafner, Hunding, and Hagen. This concert presentation of the epoch-making work will enable us to focus on Wagner the musical revolutionary. The highly acclaimed acoustics of the KKL Lucerne’s Salle blanche concert hall will bring out the sonic details and nuances of Wagner’s astounding orchestration with a transparency that has not been heard before. -
Von Zürich Bis Tribschen Mit Dem Richard-Wagner-Verband Leipzig in Die Schweiz
Von Zürich bis Tribschen Mit dem Richard-Wagner-Verband Leipzig in die Schweiz Zürich Luzern 1. Tag Montag, 02.09.2019 Schloss Hohenschwangau „Tell trifft Wagner“ wurde vor einer idyllischen Bergkulisse auf der Wald - weidli-Wiese am Seelisberg im Sommer 2013 uraufgeführt. Obwohl die – Zwischenübernachtung im Allgäu (A) Begegnung der beiden völlig fiktiv ist, verbindet sie der Ort. Richard Wag - Am Morgen fahren Sie im modernen Komfortreisebus nach Schwangau ner hatte 1855 seine erste Frau Minna hier zur Molkekur untergebracht im Allgäu. Dort besuchen Sie das Schloss Hohenschwangau, welches im und unternahm später mit der zweiten Frau Cosima Ausflüge von Luzern frühen 12. Jahrhundert ehemals als Burg Schwanstein erbaut und rund nach Seelisberg. 700 Jahre später durch den Kronprinz Maximilian von Bayern im neugoti - Nach einem gemeinsamen Mittagessen fahren Sie zurück zum Hotel. schen Stil wieder aufgebaut wurde. Schloss Hohenschwangau diente Anschließend fahren Sie zur Einführung in das Stück „Tristan und Isolde, König Maximilian II. als Sommersitz und war zugleich die Kinderstube von 2. Aufzug“ nach Tribschen (ohne örtlichen Reiseleiter). König Ludwig II. Die prachtvolle Innenausstattung aus der Biedermeierzeit ist unverändert erhalten geblieben. Als besonderes Highlight besuchen Sie am Abend das Sinfonische Konzert „Tristan und Isolde, 2. Aufzug“ in Luzern (Organisation durch den Richard- Auf Sichtweite zu Schloss Hohenschwangau befindet sich am Nachbar - Wagner-Verband Leipzig). hang das Märchenschloss Ludwigs II., Schloss Neuschwanstein. Am späten Nachmittag fahren Sie weiter nach Ohlstadt zu Ihrem Hotel 4. Tag Donnerstag, 05.09.2019 Mariefeld Alpenblick und lassen den Abend bei einem gemeinsamen Abendessen – Zwischenübernachtung in Ludwigsburg (F, M, A) gemütlich ausklingen. Am Morgen fahren Sie nach Mariafeld, dem Wohnsitz der Familie Wille. -
WAGNER and the VOLSUNGS None of Wagner’S Works Is More Closely Linked with Old Norse, and More Especially Old Icelandic, Culture
WAGNER AND THE VOLSUNGS None of Wagner’s works is more closely linked with Old Norse, and more especially Old Icelandic, culture. It would be carrying coals to Newcastle if I tried to go further into the significance of the incom- parable eddic poems. I will just mention that on my first visit to Iceland I was allowed to gaze on the actual manuscript, even to leaf through it . It is worth noting that Richard Wagner possessed in his library the same Icelandic–German dictionary that is still used today. His copy bears clear signs of use. This also bears witness to his search for the meaning and essence of the genuinely mythical, its very foundation. Wolfgang Wagner Introduction to the program of the production of the Ring in Reykjavik, 1994 Selma Gu›mundsdóttir, president of Richard-Wagner-Félagi› á Íslandi, pre- senting Wolfgang Wagner with a facsimile edition of the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda on his eightieth birthday in Bayreuth, August 1999. Árni Björnsson Wagner and the Volsungs Icelandic Sources of Der Ring des Nibelungen Viking Society for Northern Research University College London 2003 © Árni Björnsson ISBN 978 0 903521 55 0 The cover illustration is of the eruption of Krafla, January 1981 (Photograph: Ómar Ragnarsson), and Wagner in 1871 (after an oil painting by Franz von Lenbach; cf. p. 51). Cover design by Augl‡singastofa Skaparans, Reykjavík. Printed by Short Run Press Limited, Exeter CONTENTS PREFACE ............................................................................................ 6 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 7 BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD WAGNER ............................ 17 CHRONOLOGY ............................................................................... 64 DEVELOPMENT OF GERMAN NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS ..68 ICELANDIC STUDIES IN GERMANY ......................................... -
SOMMARIO Una Premessa Sul Puro Umano E Wagner Oggi Il Puro
SOMMARIO L'ONTOLOGIA DELL'UMANO Una premessa sul puro umano e Wagner oggi Il puro umano VII L'intreccio XVII Wagner oggi XX RICHARD WAGNER LA POETICA DEL PURO UMANO A PARIGI: BERLIOZ, LISZT, WAGNER Un intreccio affascinante La malinconia dell'essere: la poetica della Romantik 3 La cultura musicale nella Parigi degli anni Trenta, una fìtta trama di relazioni 16 Berlioz, emancipazione del parametro timbrico 33 Liszt e Chopin, ricerca strumentale e compositiva 45 Wagner, «Un musicista tedesco a Parigi» 71 IN GERMANIA, LA POETICA DEL PURO UMANO Trame di passione Le composizioni strumentali giovanili 101 Mendelssohn e gli Schumann, incomprensioni e polemiche 123 I primi abbozzi teatrali e Le fate 133 II divieto d'amare, «Canto, canto e ancora canto, o tedeschi!» 144 Rienzi, «Armi», «Bandiere», «Onore», «Libertà» 153 L'Olandese volante, «Ah! Superbo oceano!» 170 http://d-nb.info/1024420035 Tannhàuser, «Potete voi tutti scoprirmi la natura dell'amore?» 196 Lohengrin, «Mai non dovrai domandarmi» 222 I Wibelunghi, i moti rivoluzionari, L'arte e la rivoluzione, Gesù di Nazareth 2S3 SCHOPENHAUER E LE «DIVINE PARTITURE» Gli scritti e i capolavori L'arrivo in Svizzera, Wieland il fabbro, Liszt, i brani pianistici, Berlioz 269 L'opera d'arte dell'avvenire, Il giudaismo nella musica, Opera e dramma, Una comunicazione ai miei amici 290 Schopenhauer, «Mi sentii subito profondamente attratto» 314 Wesendonck-Lieder, Parigi, Rossini, Ludwig II 322 Tristan, «Naufragare / affondare / inconsapevolmente / suprema letizia!» 359 Il libro bruno, La mia vita, Il -
Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 15, 1895
ACADEMY OF MUSIC, BROOKLYN. Boston Symphony Orchestra Mr. EMIL PAUR, Conductor. Fifteenth Season, 1895-96. PROGRAMME OF THE FIRST CONCERT Tuesday Evening, November 12, 1895 At 8.15 precisely. With Historical and Descriptive Notes by William F. Apthorp. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER. MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND, SQUARE, AND UPRIGHT PIANOS EUGEN D'ALBERT: From fullest conviction, I declare them to be the best Instru- ments of America. ........ DR. HANS VON BULOW : Their sound and touch are more sympathetic to my ears and hands than all others of the country. I declare them the absolutely best in America. ...... ALFRED GRUNFELD: I consider them the best instruments of our times. P. TSCHAIKOWSKY: Combines with great volume oj tone rare sympathetic and ?ioble tone color and Perfect action. ....... WAREROOMS BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, 22 and 24 E. Baltimore Street. 817 Pennsylvania Avenue. NEW YORK, 148 Fifth Avenue. (2) """ Boston Academy of i, Music, Symphony U Brooklyn. f\+msy\*% £_ci" t*d Fifteenth Season, 1895-96. \JJTC^IIC^Ll d. Eighth Season in Brooklyn. Forty-first Concert in Brooklyn. Mr. EMIL PAUR, Conductor. First Concert, Tuesday Evening, November 12, At 8.15 precisely. PROGRAMME. Wagner ------- Overture, " Rienzi ORCHESTRA. Leoncavallo ------- Prologue, " I Pagliacci Mr. CAMPANARI. Gluck ------- Aria, " Che faro " (Orpheus) Mme. scalchi. " Donizetti ------ Mad Scene from " Lucia Mme. MELBA (Flutb Obligato, M. MOL_.) Wagner _____ Prelude, " Tannhaeuser," Act EL Wagner ______ Prelude, " Lohengrin," Act HI. ORCHESTRA. " Gounod ___-- Aria from " La Reine de Saba Mr. D'AUBIGNE. " Arditi ------- Waltz Song, " Se saran Rose Mme. MELBA. Verdi ------- Monologue from " Falstaff Mr. CAMPANARI. Hector Berlioz _ _ _ _ a . -
SCHOLARLY PROGRAM NOTES of SELECTED WORKS by LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, RICHARD WAGNER, and JAMES STEPHENSON III Jeffrey Y
Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC Research Papers Graduate School 5-2017 SCHOLARLY PROGRAM NOTES OF SELECTED WORKS BY LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, RICHARD WAGNER, AND JAMES STEPHENSON III Jeffrey Y. Chow Southern Illinois University Carbondale, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/gs_rp CLOSING REMARKS In selecting music for this program, the works had instrumentation that fit with our ensemble, the Southern Illinois Sinfonietta, yet covering three major periods of music over just a little more than the past couple of centuries. As composers write more and more for a chamber ensemble like the musicians I have worked with to carry out this performance, it becomes more and more idiomatic for conductors like myself to explore their other compositions for orchestra, both small and large. Having performed my recital with musicians from both the within the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music core and from the outside, this entire community has helped shaped my studies & my work as a graduate student here at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, bringing it all to a glorious end. Recommended Citation Chow, Jeffrey Y. "SCHOLARLY PROGRAM NOTES OF SELECTED WORKS BY LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, RICHARD WAGNER, AND JAMES STEPHENSON III." (May 2017). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Papers by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. -
Don Pasquale
Gaetano Donizetti Don Pasquale CONDUCTOR Dramma buffo in three acts James Levine Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini and the composer PRODUCTION Otto Schenk Saturday, November 13, 2010, 1:00–3:45 pm SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Rolf Langenfass LIGHTING DESIGNER Duane Schuler This production of Don Pasquale was made possible by a generous gift from The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund. The revival of this production was made possible by a gift from The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation. GENERAL MANAGER Peter Gelb MUSIC DIRECTOR James Levine 2010–11 Season The 129th Metropolitan Opera performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale Conductor James Levine in o r d e r o f v o c a l a p p e a r a n c e Don Pasquale, an elderly bachelor John Del Carlo Dr. Malatesta, his physician Mariusz Kwiecien* Ernesto, Pasquale’s nephew Matthew Polenzani Norina, a youthful widow, beloved of Ernesto Anna Netrebko A Notary, Malatesta’s cousin Carlino Bernard Fitch Saturday, November 13, 2010, 1:00–3:45 pm This afternoon’s performance is being transmitted live in high definition to movie theaters worldwide. The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, the Neubauer Family Foundation. Bloomberg is the global corporate sponsor of The Met: Live in HD. Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera Mariusz Kwiecien as Chorus Master Donald Palumbo Dr. Malatesta and Musical Preparation Denise Massé, Joseph Colaneri, Anna Netrebko as Carrie-Ann Matheson, Carol Isaac, and Hemdi Kfir Norina in a scene Assistant Stage Directors J. Knighten Smit and from Donizetti’s Don Pasquale Kathleen Smith Belcher Prompter Carrie-Ann Matheson Met Titles Sonya Friedman Scenery, properties, and electrical props constructed and painted in Metropolitan Opera Shops Costumes executed by Metropolitan Opera Costume Department Wigs by Metropolitan Opera Wig Department Assistant to the costume designer Philip Heckman This performance is made possible in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. -
Wagmer Neypmd Good and Evil
36167_u01.qxd 1/7/08 4:06 PM Page 3 1. Wagner Lives Issues in Autobiography Wagner’s biography has been researched to within an inch of its life. It has been dissected, drenched with no end of detail, eroticized, vilified, heroi- cized, and several times filmed.1 Its foundations are the collected writings, which in the first instance Wagner edited himself in the spirit of an autobi- ographical enterprise;2 a separate and lengthy autobiography, Mein Leben (My life), dictated to his mistress and later second wife, Cosima, daughter of Franz Liszt;3 notebooks and diaries;4 photographs and portraits;5 an un- usually large number of letters;6 mounds of anecdotal gossip; and no end of documentation on the way he lived and how his contemporaries saw him.7 In this sense, he is almost the exact antithesis of Shakespeare, whose life, or at least what is safely known about it in terms of verifiable “facts,” can be told in a relatively short space. I have summarized the history of Wagner biography elsewhere.8 Here I want to look at Wagner’s own portrayals of his life, some issues they raise, the philosophical spirit in which I believe they were attempted, and their effect on the generation that came immediately after him. Biographers of Shakespeare have had to resort to imaginative recon- structions and not infrequently to knowingly forged documents that have accorded their subject more lives than a cat.9 In stark contrast, there appears to be only one life for Wagner, which he did his best to determine in large part himself. -
Richard Wagner RIENZI Der Letzte Der Tribunen
Richard Wagner RIENZI der letzte der Tribunen Grande opera tragica in cinque atti Libretto di Richard Wagner Dal romanzo “Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes” di Edward Bulwer-Lytton Traduzione italiana di Guido Manacorda Prima rappresentazione Dresda, Königliches Hoftheater 20 ottobre 1842 PERSONAGGI COLA DI RIENZI tribuno romano tenore IRENE, sua sorella soprano STEFANO COLONNA capo della famiglia Colonna basso ADRIANO suo figlio mezzosoprano PAOLO ORSINI capo della famiglia Orsini basso RAIMONDO legato pontificio basso BARONCELLI tenore CECCO DEL VECCHIO basso UN MESSO DI PACE soprano Cittadini romani, inviati delle città lombarde, nobili romani, cittadini di Roma, messi dipace, ecclesiastici di ogni ordine, guardie romane. Wagner: Rienzi – atto primo ATTO PRIMO [N° 1 - Introduzione] Scena I° Una via di Roma. Sullo sfondo la chiesa del Laterano; sul davanti a destra la casa di Rienzi. È notte (Orsini con 6-8 suoi partigiani davanti alla casa di Rienzi) ORSINI ORSINI È qui, è qui! Su, svelti amici. Hier ist’s, hier ist’s! Frisch auf, ihr Freunde. appoggioate la scala alla finestra! Zum Fenster legt die Leiter ein! (Due nobili salgono la scala ed entrano per una finestra aperta nella casa di Rienzi) La fanciulla più bella di Roma sarà mia, Das schönste Mädchen Roms sei mein; penso che sarete d’accordo con me. ihr sollt mich loben, ich versteh’s. (I due nobili portano Irene fuori dalla casa) IRENE IRENE Aiuto! Aiuto! O Dio! Zu Hilfe! Zu Hilfe! O Gott! GLI O RSINIANI DIE ORSINI Ah, che divertente rapimento Ha, welche lustige Entführung dalla casa del plebeo! aus des Plebejers Haus! IRENE IRENE Barbari! Osate un tale oltraggio? Barbaren! Wagt ihr solche Schmach? GLI O RSINIANI DIE ORSINI Non opporre resistenza, bella fanciulla, Nur nicht gesperrt, du hübsches Kind, Vedi: sono troppi gli aspiranti! du siehst, der Freier sind sehr viel! ORSINI ORSINI Vieni, pazzerella, non essere cattiva. -
Gottfried Semper. Ein Bild Seines Lebens Und Wirkens Mit Benutzun
GOTTFRIED SEMPER EIN BILD SEINES LEBENS UND WIRKENS MIT BENUTZUNG DER FAMILIENPAPIERE VON HANS SEMPER PROFESSOR DER KUNSTGESCHICHTE IN INNSBRUCK. BERLIN VERLAG VON S. CALVARY & CO. MDCCCLXXX. GOTTFRIED SEMPER EIN BILD SEINES LEBENS UND WIRKENS MIT BENUTZUNG DER FAMILIENPAPIERE HANS SEMPER PROFESSOR DER KUNSTGESCHICHTE IN INNSBRUCK. BERLIN VERLAG VON S. CALVARY & CO. MDCCCLXXX. (jTottfried Semper wurde am 29. November 1803 zu Hamburg als der zweitjüngste Sohn eines Wollen -Fabrikanten geboren und in der evangelisch -reformirten Kirche zu Altona getauft. Er erhielt eine sorg- fältige Erziehung und insbesondere übte der willensstarke Charakter sei- ner Mutter einen grossen Einfluss auf seine Entwickelung aus. — Trotz der strengen Zucht, unter der er heranwuchs, verkündigten doch schon mehrere Vorfälle seiner Kindheit, mit welcher unerschrockenen Energie er dereinst seinen Ueberzeugungen und seinem Streben Ausdruck und Gel- tung verschaffen würde. Er machte die Gymnasialstudien, die er glän- zend absolvirte, am Johanneum seiner Vaterstadt und legte dort den Grund zu seiner Liebe zum Alterthum, sowie zu seiner umfassenden Kenntniss der griechischen und römischen Literatur. Wie lebendig er schon in dieser Zeit den Geist der alten Schrift- steller in sich aufnahm, wie er aber trotz dieser Vorliebe für das klas- sische Alterthum dennoch von den Qualen nicht verschont blieb, die so mancher Jüngling empfindet, an den die Wahl des Lebensberufes heran- tritt, das zeigt eine Stelle aus einem Briefe, den er viele Jahre nachher an Regierungsrath Hagenbuch -
Richard Wagner on the Practice and Teaching of Singing
Richard Wagner on the Practice and Teaching of Singing By Peter Bassett [A paper presented to the 8th International Congress of Voice Teachers on 13 July 2013.] Weber and Beethoven were still alive when Wagner was a teenager, and their long shadows, together with those of Mozart and Marschner fell on all his early projects. His first completed opera Die Feen, composed in 1833 when he was just twenty years old, was never performed in his lifetime but, even if it had been, it wouldn’t have sounded as good as it does in the best recorded versions we know today. The type of singing familiar to Wagner was far from ideal, and many German singers of his era were poorly trained and had unsophisticated techniques. His sternest critic, Eduard Hanslick had something to say on the difference between German and Italian singers at that time: ‘With the Italians’ he said, ‘great certainty and evenness throughout the role; with the Germans an unequal alternation of brilliant and mediocre moments, which seems partly accidental.’ Wagner had to entrust his major roles to inadequately trained singers in many cases, which must have been challenging to say the least. He worked hard to improve matters, pouring much time and energy into the preparation of performances. ‘I do not care in the slightest’ he once said, ‘whether my works are performed. What I do care about is that they are performed as I intended them to be. Anyone who cannot, or will not, do so, had better leave them alone.’ David Breckbill has written that ‘The differences between the singing which Wagner knew and that which we hear today are considerable.