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PLÁCIDO DOMINGO Program PROGRAM 25/02 PLÁCIDO DOMINGO Program PROGRAM GIOACCHINO ROSSINI (1792 - 1868) RICHARD RODGERS (1902 - 1979) Ouverture til Italienerinden i Algier. Some Enchanted Evening (En fortryllet aften) fra South Pacific. UMBERTO GIORDANO (1867 - 1948) (Plácido Domingo) Nemico della patria? (En fjende af landet?) fra Andrea Chénier. FREDERICK LOEWE (1901 - 1988) (Plácido Domingo) I Could Have Danced All Night (Jeg kunne have danset hele aftenen) fra My Fair Lady. FRANCESCO CILEA (1866 - 1950) (Angel Blue) Io son l’umile ancella (Jeg er kun en ydmyg tjener) fra Adriana Lecouvreur. MITCH LEIGH (1928 - 2014) (Angel Blue) The Impossible Dream (Den umulige drøm) fra Man of La Mancha. GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813 - 1901) (Plácido Domingo) Pura siccome un angelo (Ren som en engel) fra La Traviata. JEROME KERN (1885 - 1945) (Plácido Domingo, Micaëla Oeste) All the Things You Are (Alle de ting, du er) fra Very Warm for May. Ouverture til Un giorno di regno (En regnfuld dag). (Micaëla Oeste) Mira, d’acerbe lagrime (Se, med bitre tårer) fra Trubaduren. LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918 - 1990) (Placido Domingo, Angel Blue) Tonight (I aften) fra West Side Story. (Plácido Domingo, Angel Blue) CHARLES GOUNOD (1818 - 1893) Je veux vivre (Jeg vil leve) fra Romeo og Julie. HAROLD ARLEN (1905 - 1986) (Micaëla Oeste) Over the Rainbow (Over regnbuen) fra Troldmanden fra Oz. (Angel Blue) JOHANN STRAUSS DEN YNGRE (1825 - 1899) So muss allein ich bleiben (Så bliver jeg alene) fra FRANZ LEHÁR (1870 - 1948) Flagermusen. Lippen schweigen (Læberne tier) fra Den Glade Enke. (Plácido Domingo, Angel Blue, Micaëla Oeste) (Plácido Domingo, Micaëla Oeste) AMADEO VIVES (1871 - 1932) PAUSE La canción del arlequin (Harlekins sang) fra La Generala. (Micaëla Oeste) LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918 - 1990) FEDERICO MORENO TORROBA (1891 - 1982) Ouverture til Candide. Amor, vida de mi vida (Kærlighed, livet i mit liv) fra Maravilla. (Plácido Domingo) OM DE MEDVIRKENDE PLÁCIDO DOMINGO, TENOR ANGEL BLUE, SOPRAN Som en af operahistoriens største stjerner nogen- Store roller ved operakompagnier i både USA og sinde er Plácido Domingo uafbrudt på farten. Skønt Europa har bragt Angel Blue frem i rampelyset som han er fyldt 74 år, har han foruden et omfattende et varmt navn lige nu. Engagementer ved Bregrenz koncert- og turnéprogram i hele verden påtaget og Edinburgh Festivalerne, Theater an der Wien, sig administrative opgaver som direktør for Los Wigmore Hall, London og optrædener med Angeles Opera og er desuden en højt respekteret Berlinerfilharmonikerne, Englands Nationalopera dirigent. og Israels filharmoniske orkester har allerede sikret den unge sanger sit renomme som kunstner. ’Kongen af Opera’ bliver han kaldt. Hans gyldne, Financial Times har kaldt hende for ”en enestående kraftfulde stemme rummer så stor fleksibilitet, at stemme i sin generation”. han har kunnet brede sig over en enorm repertoire- mæssig spændvidde. 145 operaroller, over 100 ind- Angel Blue er født og opvokset i Californien, spilninger, elleve grammyer, fire spillefilm, over hvor hun vakte opsigt som vinder af adskillige 3.800 forestillinger gennem en karriere på over 50 skønhedskonkurrencer: Miss Hollywood 2005, år – for nu at sige det med tal. Miss Southern California 2006 m.fl. Sammen med José Carreras og Luciano Pavarotti Angel Blue bor i dag i London. har han som en tredjedel af ’De tre tenorer’ indtaget Læs mere på www.angeljoyblue.com adskillige kæmpestadions i hele verden. Med trioen er han medindehaver af rekorden for den bedst MICAËLA OESTE, SOPRAN sælgende klassiske indspilning nogensinde. ”En krystalren stemme – Chic og klasse som Grace Kelly” skrev en avis. Micaëla Oeste har imponeret Plácido Domingo er født i Spanien som søn af to både publikum og anmeldere på mange store scener populære zarzuela-sangere. Da han var otte år, som blandt andet Carnegie Hall, San Diego Opera flyttede familien til Mexico, hvor han uddannede og Los Angeles Opera. sig og fik sine første roller. Han fik operadebut i New York i 1965 og har siden optrådt på samtlige af Allerede i en ung alder triumferede hun med de største operascener i verden. adskillige roller – blandt andet Ophelia i Hamlet – på Washington National Opera. Siden har En vigtig side af Plácido Domingos kunstneriske hun optrådt med så forskellige ensembler som virke har været forbundet med godgørende formål. Stockholm Sinfonietta, Baden-Baden symfonikerne Han har rejst millioner af dollars til støtte for blandt og Den polske opera. andet jordskælvsofre i Mexico og ofre for storme i Sydamerika og New Orleans. UNESCO udnævnte Hun er født i Tyskland men opvokset i USA, hvor ham i 2012 til ’Goodwill Ambassador’. hun studerede på Northwestern University i Læs mere på www.placidodomingo.com Chicago og University of Central Arkansas. Læs mere på www.micaelaoeste.com EUGENE KOHN, DIRIGENT Karrieren begyndte som akkompagnatør af nogle af de helt store operanavne som Maria Callas og Luciano Pavarotti, men efter dirigentdebuten på Metropolitan Opera i New York i 1980 har Eugene Kohn været efterspurgt på dirigentpodier i hele verden. Man har kunnet se ham i spidsen for operaer i blandt andet Wien, Hamborg, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris og Buenos Aires, Desuden har han har været musikdirektør for Puerto Rico Symfonikerne igennem otte år. Eugene Kohn har som dirigent samarbejdet med blandt andre Bryn Terfel, Anna Netrebko og Angela Gheorghiu ligesom han gennem mange år har været musikdirektør på Placido Domingos verdensturnéer. AALBORG SYMFONIORKESTER Aalborg Symfoniorkester blev grundlagt i 1943 som Aalborg By-Orkester og tæller i sin nuværende form 65 musikere. Som landsdelsorkester har Aalborg Symfoniorkester et omfattende aktivitetsniveau. Kernen i orkestrets virke er symfonikoncerterne, hvor orkestret i løbet af en sæson præsenterer solister og dirigenter fra den absolutte verdenselite. Dertil kommer kammerkoncerter, pædagogiske koncerter på skoler, koncerter i samarbejde med andre kulturelle institutioner samt offentlige familie- og børnekoncerter, ligesom man for nylig kunne opleve orkestret ved danske Melodi Grand Prix. Aalborg Symfoniorkester spiller også til operaer og balletter. Orkestret akkompagnerer ofte Den Jyske Opera, og når Det Kgl. Teater er på turné vest for Storebælt, er det med Aalborg Symfoniorkester i orkestergraven. Orkestret har derfor fået kælenavnet ”Det Kgl. Kapel i Provinsen”. OM MUSIKKEN 1. DEL berømmelse som komponist af fnuglette Mancha’, der er inspireret af Cevantes’ Stemningen ved aftenens tour de force på grund af de farverige fortællinger og østrigske valse, der jo danner lydtæppe til Don Quixote. Fra Broadway vandrede gennem det ypperste fra sangens verden den storslåede musik. mangen en nytårsdagstristesse. melodien videre til film (1972 – med Peter slås an af Aalborg Symfoniorkester med Fra La Traviata hører vi den letlevende O’Toole i hovedrollen) og utallige andre en ouverture af ’den italienske Mozart’, pige Violetta blive bedt om at forlade sin Fra forvekslingskomedien Flagermusen indspilninger. Rossini. Det begynder ganske, ganske elskede Afredo. Placido Domingo synger stammer denne trio, hvor heltinden og sagte, men oboen tager snart fat i den første her rollen som Alfredos far, der kræver hendes kammerpige tager afsked med von Efter Judy Garlands glansnummer fra af koncertens lange række af vidunderlige at Violetta ofrer sig på trods af sin ægte Eisentein, som er på vej i fængsel. filmen The Wizard of Oz (1939) vender vi melodier. kærlighed. Dette offer er nødvendigt, tilbage til Europa. fortæller han, fordi Violettas dårlige 2. DEL Hanna Glawari – den glade enke – erklærer En drabelig historie om den franske ry ellers vil skade resten af familien – Igen slår Aalborg Symfoniorkester tonen sin kærlighed til grev Danilo i en af de revolutionshelt Andrea Chénier danner heriblandt Alfredos englefromme søster. an. Vi er nu på den anden side af Atlanten mest elskede valse fra operarepertoiret. rammen om de første toner fra aftenens Ouverturen i denne Verdi-afdeling stam- og musikken tilsættes glans og friskhed ”For hvert valsetrin falder vore sjæle mere hovedperson, Plácido Domingo. I den dra- mer fra en af Verdis få komiske operaer, fra det bedste af amerikansk film- og i takt”, synger Hanna og Danilo sammen. matiske baryton-arie reflekterer Andrea ’Un giorno di regno’ (Konge for en dag). musicaltradition. Chéniers tjener over livet, døden og Til sidst vender koncerten sig mod ungdommens idealistiske drømme om en Fra operaen Trubaduren får vi den Bernstein er kongen i denne sammenhæng, Spanien. Amadeo Vives og Federico bedre verden. dramatiske duet ’Mira, d’acerbe lagrime’ og i denne halvdel af koncerten får Torroba spillede store roller i et af flere (Se, med bitre tårer), hvor Leonora kaster vi selvfølgelig hittet Tonight fra den spanske tiltag, der skulle genoplive Angel Blue træder ind på scenen som den sig for fødderne af Grev di Luna for at bede udødelige West Side Story. Men lyden spansk musik, dans og teater i midten af omsværmede skuespillerinde Adriana om nåde for sin elskede – den tilfange- af Broadway er også lyden af Rodgers, 1900-tallet. Blandt andet komponerede Lecouvreur, der befinder sig midt i en tagne trubadur Manrico. Greven er ben- Kern, Leigh og Loewe. Fællestræk er det de en lang række folkelige zarzuela’er – dramatisk kærlighedshistorie. Hun be- hård og giver sig ikke. Under duetten er store klangfulde orkester og avancerede en særlig spansk variation af et dramatisk undres og tilbedes, men fortæller i denne Leonora forgiftet til døde, idet hendes plan arrangementer, som alt sammen flyder værk på grænsen mellem teater, dans og arie,
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