An Opera in One Act. Par SHORE DAN. / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Opéra

Par LARUETTE JEAN-LOUIS. D'un petit volume déniché un peu par hasard à la bibliothèque de l'Arsenal a germé, après un jeu de piste passionnant, un opéra-comique : Cendrillon. C'est une ?uvre à tiroir, reflet d'une époque très particulière de la musique française, se glissant entre la fin du baroque flamboyant et le classicisme naissant. Le compositeur mêle des airs célèbres d'opéras (qu'il emprunte à des compositeurs comme Jean-Philippe Rameau, Egidio Duny, les parodiant parfois), à des chants populaires (les vaudevilles qui, par référence au texte original, permettaient le jeu de mot, le double sens) et compose ses propres pièces, qu'il adapte parfaitement au texte du librettiste Louis Anseaume. Rejouée pour la première fois en 2005 en version concert par l'ensemble Les Monts du Reuil à Vincennes, cette Cendrillon de 1759 n'a pas été sans poser beaucoup de questions. Nous tenions à respecter l'esprit d'une interprétation « baroque » attentive, tout en acceptant l'espace de liberté et de création suggéré par le genre. Nos choix s'appuient sur les conseils de musicologues et nous assumons la part évidente d'incertitude inhérente à l'interprétation d'un opéra-comique en vaudevilles de cette période. Soulignons que c'est devant la grande qualité du livret de Louis Anseaume et des airs de Jean-Louis Laruette que nous avons entrepris ce travail : Cendrillon nous dévoile un compositeur sensible qui s'exprime en demi-teintes et nous touche par ses mélodies tendres et délicates./ Répertoire / Conducteur

Oper in 4 Akten- Libretto von Bernhard Lang nach William Shakespeare und Arrigo Boito. Par LANG BERNHARD. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Par BIZET GEORGES. / Date parution : 2022-03-08/ Répertoire / Orchestre D'Harmonie

Ovvero Gl'odji delusi dal sangue. Par LOTTI ANTONIO. / Date parution : 2022-04-26/ Répertoire / Opéra

Edizione critica a cura di Claudio Toscani (testi in italiano e inglese). La fille du régiment, always one of Donizetti?s most popular stage works, was first performed at the Théâtre de l?Opéra-Comique in Paris on 11 February 1840. It was composed by Donizetti, to a libretto by Saint-Georges and Bayard, in 1839, for the French debut of soprano Juliette Bourgeois. Later on, Donizetti prepared an Italian version as well, using a libretto adaptation by Calisto Bassi, and making several alterations to the French version of the score (the premiere of the new version, entitled La figlia del reggimento, took place at La Scala Theatre in Milano on 3 October 1840). The opera enjoyed tremendous success ? at the Opéra-Comique alone, more than one thousand performances were given between 1840 and 1917 ?, and was widely staged in the major European and American opera houses. Owing to the lack of available autograph music sources ? only a few score sketches and fragments survive, kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France ?, the principal source for this edition is the printed score prepared by the Parisian publisher Georges Schonenberger during the spring of 1840. Together with the full score, Schonenberger also engraved and printed the orchestral parts. Previously, the publishing house had printed the piano vocal score of several selected numbers from La fille du régiment, as well as the complete score reduction of the work. The Schonenberger edition constitutes, however, a problematical source. The engravers had to work under great pressure - the score was assembled in less than a month -, and the final product turned out to be of mediocre quality, abounding in imperfections, errors, and inconsistencies affecting both the literary and the musical texts. This critical edition has therefore been realized, first of all, through a careful reconstruction process: the text handed down by tradition was compared with a number of sources (including the manuscript scores of the Italian version) that have enabled the editor to address the multiple problems posed by the principal source. The spoken dialogues, missing in the printed music sources, are derived from the libretto used for the première. The critical edition of La fille du régiment reinstates Tonio?s romance «Pour me rapprocher de Marie» from Act Two, included in the original libretto and actually sung at the première, but expunged from the Schonenberger edition of the score. Donizetti himself cut the romance soon after the première, possibly because of the tenor?s poor performance - as a result, the omission became customary. The appendices to this critical edition present, additionally, two unpublished variants, handed down in form of complete and autograph score: these pieces, crossed out or modified through the compositional process, add fresh new possibilities to current performance practices. The first one is a duet for Marie and Tonio that Donizetti had originally devised for Act Two, but later deleted from the score. The second one is a preliminary draft of the Act Two Finale, later expunged and replaced, in both music and literary text, by the final version.

Opera in three acts. ?Giulio Cesare in Egitto? is by far Handel?s most frequently performed opera owing its success not least to its subject matter, one of the best known love stories in world history. Already during Handel?s lifetime the popular work was often staged and therefore adapted by Handel for each of the performance conditions. The editor Hans Dieter Clausen has succeeded in editorially defining and practically presenting these adaptations ? essentially four versions ? on the basis of a meticulous study of the sources within the framework of the ?Halle Handel Edition?. The new edition allows for a performance of each of the four versions. The version of 1725 is particularly noteworthy because Handel newly devised the role of Sesto for the famous tenor Francesco Borosini. The libretto shows the Roman dictator Cesar in a friendly light. He instructs his enemy, the Egyptian tyrant Tolomeo, how to treat adversaries: he reconciles the widow and son of his enemy Pompeo who was murdered by Tolomeo: he is generous and just, hands on, but also diplomatic, thoughtful, aware of the limits of his power, and susceptible for art and nature. However, the actual protagonist of the opera is Cleopatra. In a masterly way Handel develops her character musically. In his extensive Foreword Hans Dieter Clausen not only decribes the genesis, historical background, reception and the edition of the opera, he also examines the musical and dramaturgical reworking of individual numbers in ?Giulio Cesare?. Handel was such an expert in adapting arias for new purposes and other characters that he did not only meet the needs at hand but often the new version surpassed the original. In this way, the reader gains, in passing, a well-founded insight into Handel?s work methods when designing and redevising his characters. The detailed Critical Commentary includes information on the comprehensive and highly complex source situation as well as on individual editorial decisions.

Par BERG ALBAN. Having circulated a piano score of his opera Wozzeck, Berg was asked to assemble a few excerpts ('bruchstücke,' or fragments) for an international music festival, as staging constraints made performance of the entire opera impossible. In great haste, Berg assembled the Drei Bruchstücke in time for rehearsals, and the ensuing premiere was a great success./ Répertoire / Soprano, Orchestre et Chœur d'Enfants ad lib

Le conte de Nanki-Poo et sa passion pour Yum-Yum a conquis les foules depuis ses débuts 1885 avec gracieuses, bien-aimés mélodies telles que 'Trois petites bonnes de l'école sont nous', 'Les fleurs qui fleurissent au printemps, tra-la, 'et bien d'autres.Maintenant disponible dans un nouvellement édité, nouvellement gravé plein score de publication basée sur autographe de Sullivan et la première édition de la partition complète, cette nouvelle édition de par Ephraim Jones et Carl Simpson corrige de nombreuses erreurs et intègre les changements plus tard, Livret de Gilbert. / SATB Et Orchestre

in Full Score. Par WAGNER RICHARD. Includes ballet music for Act 1 written for Ponis production. Authoritative edition. / Opéra-opérette / Répertoire / Opéra Full Score