Music on Stage Volume III
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Load more
Recommended publications
-
Boston Early Music Festival Announces 2013 Festival
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2012 CONTACT: Kathleen Fay, Executive Director | Boston Early Music Festival 161 First Street, Suite 202 | Cambridge, MA 02142 617-661-1812 | [email protected] | www.bemf.org BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2013 FESTIVAL OPERATIC CENTERPIECE , HANDEL ’S ALMIRA Cambridge, MA – April 1, 2012 – The Boston Early Music Festival has announced plans for the 2013 Festival fully-staged Operatic Centerpiece Almira, the first opera by the celebrated and beloved Baroque composer, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), in its first modern-day historically-conceived production. Written when he was only 19, Almira tells a story of intrigue and romance in the court of the Queen of Castile, in a dazzling parade of entertainment and delight which Handel would often borrow from during his later career. One of the world’s leading Handel scholars, Professor Ellen T. Harris of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), has said that BEMF is the “perfect and only” organization to take on Handel’s earliest operatic masterpiece, as it requires BEMF’s unique collection of artistic talents: the musical leadership, precision, and expertise of BEMF Artistic Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs; the stimulating and informed stage direction and magnificent production designs of BEMF Stage Director in Residence Gilbert Blin; “the world’s finest continuo team, which you have”; the highly skilled BEMF Baroque Dance Ensemble to bring to life Almira ’s substantial dance sequences; the all-star BEMF Orchestra; and a wide range of superb voices. BEMF will offer five fully-staged performances of Handel’s Almira from June 9 to 16, 2013 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College (219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, USA), followed by three performances at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, USA) on June 21, 22, and 23, 2013 ; all performances will be sung in German with English subtitles. -
Voice Types in Opera
Voice Types in Opera In many of Central City Opera’s educational programs, we spend some time explaining the different voice types – and therefore character types – in opera. Usually in opera, a voice type (soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone, or bass) has as much to do with the SOUND as with the CHARACTER that the singer portrays. Composers will assign different voice types to characters so that there is a wide variety of vocal colors onstage to give the audience more information about the characters in the story. SOPRANO: “Sopranos get to be the heroine or the princess or the opera star.” – Eureka Street* “Sopranos always get to play the smart, sophisticated, sweet and supreme characters!” – The Great Opera Mix-up* A soprano is a woman’s voice type. There are many different kinds of sopranos within the general category: coloratura, lyric, and spinto are a few. Coloratura soprano: Diana Damrau as The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute (Mozart): https://youtu.be/dpVV9jShEzU Lyric soprano: Mirella Freni as Mimi in La bohème (Puccini): https://youtu.be/yTagFD_pkNo Spinto soprano: Leontyne Price as Aida in Aida (Verdi): https://youtu.be/IaV6sqFUTQ4?t=1m10s MEZZO SOPRANO: “There are also mezzos with a lower, more exciting woman’s voice…We get to be magical or mythical characters and sometimes… we get to be boys.” – Eureka Street “Mezzos play magnificent, magical, mysterious, and miffed characters.” – The Great Opera Mix-up A mezzo soprano is a woman’s voice type. Just like with sopranos, there are different kinds of mezzo sopranos: coloratura, lyric, and dramatic. -
Music in the Baroque Period
MUSIC A.D. 450–1995 BY MARK AMMONS, D.M.A. COPYRIGHT © 1995 Mark Twain Media, Inc. ISBN 978-1-58037-976-2 Printing No. 1890-EB Mark Twain Media, Inc., Publishers Distributed by Carson-Dellosa Publishing LLC The purchase of this book entitles the buyer to reproduce the student pages for classroom use only. Other permissions may be obtained by writing Mark Twain Media, Inc., Publishers. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Music: A.D. 450–1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ...................................................................................................................... iii Time Line ......................................................................................................................... iv Music in the Middle Ages ..................................................................................................1 Pope Gregory I and the Dove ...........................................................................................4 Leonin and Perotin Go to School ......................................................................................6 Troubadours, Trouvères, and Jongleurs............................................................................9 “New Art” vs. “Old Art” .....................................................................................................11 Music in the Renaissance ...............................................................................................13 Josquin: The Man, the Myth, the Great...........................................................................15 -
A Countertenor's Reference Guide to Operatic Repertoire
A COUNTERTENOR’S REFERENCE GUIDE TO OPERATIC REPERTOIRE Brad Morris A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF MUSIC May 2019 Committee: Christopher Scholl, Advisor Kevin Bylsma Eftychia Papanikolaou © 2019 Brad Morris All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Christopher Scholl, Advisor There are few resources available for countertenors to find operatic repertoire. The purpose of the thesis is to provide an operatic repertoire guide for countertenors, and teachers with countertenors as students. Arias were selected based on the premise that the original singer was a castrato, the original singer was a countertenor, or the role is commonly performed by countertenors of today. Information about the composer, information about the opera, and the pedagogical significance of each aria is listed within each section. Study sheets are provided after each aria to list additional resources for countertenors and teachers with countertenors as students. It is the goal that any countertenor or male soprano can find usable repertoire in this guide. iv I dedicate this thesis to all of the music educators who encouraged me on my countertenor journey and who pushed me to find my own path in this field. v PREFACE One of the hardships while working on my Master of Music degree was determining the lack of resources available to countertenors. While there are opera repertoire books for sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, tenors, baritones, and basses, none is readily available for countertenors. Although there are online resources, it requires a great deal of research to verify the validity of those sources. -
The Blake Collection in Memory of Nancy M
The Blake Collection In Memory of Nancy M. Blake BELLINI’S NORMA featuring CECILIA BARTOLI This tragic opera is set in Roman-occupied, first-century Gaul, features a title character, who although a Druid priestess, is in many ways a modern woman. Norma has secretly taken the Roman proconsul Pollione as her lover and had two children with him. Political and personal crises arise when the locals turn against the occupiers and Pollione turns to a new paramour. Norma “is a role with emotions ranging from haughty and demanding, to desperately passionate, to vengeful and defiant. And the singer must convey all of this while confronting some of the most vocally challenging music ever composed. And if that weren't intimidating enough for any singer, Norma and its composer have become almost synonymous with the specific and notoriously torturous style of opera known as bel canto — literally, ‘beautiful singing’” (“Love Among the Druids: Bellini's Norma,” NPR World of Opera, May 16, 2008). And Bartoli, one of the greatest living opera divas, is up to the challenges the role brings. (New York Public Radio’s WQXR’s “OperaVore” declared that “Bartoli is Fierce and Mercurial in Bellini's Norma,” Marion Lignana Rosenberg, June 09, 2013.) If you’re already a fan of this opera, you’ve no doubt heard a recording spotlighting the great soprano Maria Callas (and we have such a recording, too), but as the notes with the Bartoli recording point out, “The role of Norma was written for Giuditta Pasta, who sang what today’s listeners would consider to be mezzo-soprano roles,” making Bartoli more appropriate than Callas as Norma. -
Allusions and Historical Models in Gaston Leroux's the Phantom of the Opera
Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Honors Theses Carl Goodson Honors Program 2004 Allusions and Historical Models in Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera Joy A. Mills Ouachita Baptist University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/honors_theses Part of the French and Francophone Literature Commons, Other Theatre and Performance Studies Commons, and the Translation Studies Commons Recommended Citation Mills, Joy A., "Allusions and Historical Models in Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera" (2004). Honors Theses. 83. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/honors_theses/83 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Carl Goodson Honors Program at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, has a considerable number of allusions, some of which are accessible to modern American audiences, like references to Romeo and Juilet. Many of the references, however, are very specific to the operatic world or to other somewhat obscure fields. Knowledge of these allusions would greatly enhance the experience of readers of the novel, and would also contribute to their ability to interpret it. Thus my thesis aims to be helpful to those who read The Phantom of the Opera by providing a set of notes, as it were, to explain the allusions, with an emphasis on the extended allusion of the Palais Garnier and the historical models for the heroine, Christine Daae. Notes on Translations At the time of this writing, three English translations are commercially available of The Phantom of the Opera. -
Handel Rinaldo Tuesday 13 March 2018 6.30Pm, Hall
Handel Rinaldo Tuesday 13 March 2018 6.30pm, Hall The English Concert Harry Bicket conductor/harpsichord Iestyn Davies Rinaldo Jane Archibald Armida Sasha Cooke Goffredo Joélle Harvey Almirena/Siren Luca Pisaroni Argante Jakub Józef Orli ´nski Eustazio Owen Willetts Araldo/Donna/Mago Richard Haughton Richard There will be two intervals of 20 minutes following Act 1 and Act 2 Part of Barbican Presents 2017–18 We appreciate that it’s not always possible to prevent coughing during a performance. But, for the sake of other audience members and the artists, if you feel the need to cough or sneeze, please stifle it with a handkerchief. Programme produced by Harriet Smith; printed by Trade Winds Colour Printers Ltd; advertising by Cabbell (tel 020 3603 7930) Please turn off watch alarms, phones, pagers etc during the performance. Taking photographs, capturing images or using recording devices during a performance is strictly prohibited. If anything limits your enjoyment please let us know The City of London during your visit. Additional feedback can be given Corporation is the founder and online, as well as via feedback forms or the pods principal funder of located around the foyers. the Barbican Centre Welcome Tonight we welcome back Harry Bicket as delighted by the extravagant magical and The English Concert for Rinaldo, the effects as by Handel’s endlessly inventive latest instalment in their Handel opera music. And no wonder – for Rinaldo brings series. Last season we were treated to a together love, vengeance, forgiveness, spine-tingling performance of Ariodante, battle scenes and a splendid sorceress with a stellar cast led by Alice Coote. -
This Is Normal Text
AN EXAMINATION OF WORKS FOR SOPRANO: “LASCIA CH’IO PIANGA” FROM RINALDO, BY G.F. HANDEL; NUR WER DIE SEHNSUCHT KENNT, HEISS’ MICH NICHT REDEN, SO LASST MICH SCHEINEN, BY FRANZ SCHUBERT; AUF DEM STROM, BY FRANZ SCHUBERT; SI MES VERS AVAIENT DES AILES, L’ÉNAMOURÉE, A CHLORIS, BY REYNALDO HAHN; “ADIEU, NOTRE PETITE TABLE” FROM MANON, BY JULES MASSENET; HE’S GONE AWAY, THE NIGHTINGALE, BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE’S HAIR, ADAPTED AND ARRANGED BY CLIFFORD SHAW; “IN QUELLE TRINE MORBIDE” FROM MANON LESCAUT, BY GIACOMO PUCCINI by ELIZABETH ANN RODINA B.M., KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, 2006 A REPORT submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree MASTER OF MUSIC Department of Music College of Arts and Sciences KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Manhattan, Kansas 2008 Approved by: Major Professor Dr. Jennifer Edwards Copyright ELIZABETH ANN RODINA 2008 Abstract This report consists of extended program notes and translations for programmed songs and arias presented in recital by Elizabeth Ann Rodina on April 22, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in All Faith’s Chapel on the Kansas State University campus. Included on the recital were works by George Frideric Handel, Franz Schubert, Reynaldo Hahn, Jules Massenet, Clifford Shaw, and Giacomo Puccini. The program notes include biographical information about the composers and a textual and musical analysis of their works. Table of Contents List of Figures ................................................................................................................................ vi List of Tables .............................................................................................................................. -
Chan 3013 Bookcover.Qxd 15/10/07 11:14 Am Page 1
Chan 3013 bookcover.qxd 15/10/07 11:14 am Page 1 Chan 3013 Clive Barda/P.A.L. reatreat OperaticOperatic CHANDOS O PERA IN ENGLISH GG AARIASRIAS Dennis O’Neill as Riccardo in the 1994 Royal Opera House production of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera DENNIS O’NEILL PETE MOOES FOUNDATION CHAN 3013 BOOK.qxd 15/10/07 11:22 am Page 2 Great Operatic Arias with Dennis O’Neill Dennis O’Neill as Radames in the 1994 Royal Opera House production of Verdi’s Aida Photo © Donald Cooper 3 CHAN 3013 BOOK.qxd 15/10/07 11:22 am Page 4 Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) from A Masked Ball from Turandot Gustavus’s and Amelia’s Duet 1 Calaf’s Aria – ‘None may sleep!’ 3:44 [p. 44] 6 ‘Take my hand…’ – 1:31 [p. 45] (Nessun dorma) 7 ‘Don’t you know in my heart and my spirit…’ – 4:52 [p. 46] 8 ‘The sweetest glowing fire of love…’ 3:45 [p. 47] Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) (Teco io sto – Non sai tu che se l’anima mia) from Luisa Miller with Susan Bullock soprano 2 Rodolfo’s Aria – ‘Oft in the quiet evening hour…’ 4:19 [p. 44] (Quando le sere al placido) Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) from Lucia di Lammermoor from The Lombards at the First Crusade Aria Finale 3 Oronte’s Cavatina – ‘My heart is full of happiness’ 2:20 [p. 44] 9 ‘My ancestors lie here buried…’ – 4:33 [p. 48] (La mia letizia infondere) 10 ‘A lonely grave will shelter me…’ – 3:36 [p. -
Trabalho American Idol Versão Final
Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação XXII Congresso de Ciências da Comunicação na Região Sudeste – Volta Redonda - RJ – 22 a 24/06/2017 Da televisão ao ciberespaço: uma análise inicial das fanpages do programa American Idol no Facebook.1 Eduardo MACEDO2 Katarina GADELHA3 Pablo LAIGNIER4 UNESA, Rio de Janeiro, RJ RESUMO O objetivo deste trabalho é iniciar uma análise dos desdobramentos interativos do reality show musical American Idol no ciberespaço, com um enforque específico nas fanpages relacionadas ao programa no Facebook. A primeira seção apresenta a importância do programa American Idol para o formato dos reality shows musicais na atualidade; a segunda seção descreve o esquema geral do programa e algumas características de suas quinze temporadas; a terceira seção discute como os reality shows participam de uma “sociedade do espetáculo”, ao mesmo tempo em que oferecem novas possibilidades de interação e atividade dos espectadores em decorrência da convergência midiática; a quarta seção efetua uma análise empírica das fanpages relacionadas ao programa no Facebook. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Comunicação; Multimídia; Convergência; Reality Shows; American Idol. Introdução: Sobre o reality show musical American Idol Em 11 de junho de 2002, estreou na televisão americana o programa American Idol, cujo objetivo era determinar qual seria o melhor candidato na competição musical, apresentando ao público a nova voz estadunidense. Sobre o programa em questão, Monteiro (2014, p. 1) afirma: “A escolha é realizada por meio de uma hibridização entre o voto popular e as escolhas dos três juízes, que são experts da indústria musical, cultural, mercadológica e midiática, ou seja, são pessoas dotadas de conhecimentos específicos desse meio”. -
Song Catalogue February 2020 Artist Title 2 States Mast Magan 2 States Locha E Ulfat 2 Unlimited No Limit 2Pac Dear Mama 2Pac Changes 2Pac & Notorious B.I.G
Song Catalogue February 2020 Artist Title 2 States Mast Magan 2 States Locha_E_Ulfat 2 Unlimited No Limit 2Pac Dear Mama 2Pac Changes 2Pac & Notorious B.I.G. Runnin' (Trying To Live) 2Pac Feat. Dr. Dre California Love 3 Doors Down Kryptonite 3Oh!3 Feat. Katy Perry Starstrukk 3T Anything 4 Non Blondes What's Up 5 Seconds of Summer Youngblood 5 Seconds of Summer She's Kinda Hot 5 Seconds of Summer She Looks So Perfect 5 Seconds of Summer Hey Everybody 5 Seconds of Summer Good Girls 5 Seconds of Summer Girls Talk Boys 5 Seconds of Summer Don't Stop 5 Seconds of Summer Amnesia 5 Seconds of Summer (Feat. Julia Michaels) Lie to Me 5ive When The Lights Go Out 5ive We Will Rock You 5ive Let's Dance 5ive Keep On Movin' 5ive If Ya Getting Down 5ive Got The Feelin' 5ive Everybody Get Up 6LACK Feat. J Cole Pretty Little Fears 7Б Молодые ветра 10cc The Things We Do For Love 10cc Rubber Bullets 10cc I'm Not In Love 10cc I'm Mandy Fly Me 10cc Dreadlock Holiday 10cc Donna 30 Seconds To Mars The Kill 30 Seconds To Mars Rescue Me 30 Seconds To Mars Kings And Queens 30 Seconds To Mars From Yesterday 50 Cent Just A Lil Bit 50 Cent In Da Club 50 Cent Candy Shop 50 Cent Feat. Eminem & Adam Levine My Life 50 Cent Feat. Snoop Dogg and Young Jeezy Major Distribution 101 Dalmatians (Disney) Cruella De Vil 883 Nord Sud Ovest Est 911 A Little Bit More 1910 Fruitgum Company Simon Says 1927 If I Could "Weird Al" Yankovic Men In Brown "Weird Al" Yankovic Ebay "Weird Al" Yankovic Canadian Idiot A Bugs Life The Time Of Your Life A Chorus Line (Musical) What I Did For Love A Chorus Line (Musical) One A Chorus Line (Musical) Nothing A Goofy Movie After Today A Great Big World Feat. -
Simon Cowell's Compliments on Spectacular Performances On
LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network (ISSN: 2630-0672 (Print) | ISSN: 2672-9431 (Online) Volume: 14, No: 2, July – December 2021 Language Institute, Thammasat University https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/LEARN/index “I’m Going to Remember this Audition for a Long, Long Time!”: Simon Cowell’s Compliments on Spectacular Performances on America’s Got Talent and Britain’s Got Talent Pattrawut Charoenroop [email protected], School of Language and Communication, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand APA Citation: Charoenroop, P. (2021). “I’m going to remember this audition for a long, long time!”: Simon Cowell’s compliments on spectacular performances on America’s Got Talent and Britain’s Got Talent. LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 14(2), 88-114. Received Abstract 24/11/2020 Received in Most studies on talent competition shows (e.g., Culpeper & revised form Holmes, 2013; Garces-Conejos Blitvich et al., 2013; Tang, 12/01/2021 2016) do not delve into the role of judges giving positive Accepted comments to contestants. This paper investigates Simon 08/02/2021 Cowell’s compliments given to Golden Buzzer winners on America’s Got Talent (henceforth AGT) and Britain’s Got Keywords Talent (henceforth BGT) between 2016 and 2020. Apart compliment; compliment from the studies on compliments being scarce, the existing strategies; talent coding schemes are not fine-grained. This paper improves competition the coding schemes. Moreover, previous studies on shows; pragmatic compliments (e.g., Chen & Rau, 2015; Lin, 2020) compared variation judges’ pragmatic variations cross-culturally, but none of them compared the pragmatic variations of an individual judge.