Feb 14, 2010
Feb 13, 2010
Feb 3, 2010
Jan 25, 2010
Kaufmann's Werther broadcast
Massenet's Werther will be broadcast live tomorrow on Arte, but also on the web via Arte Live Web, the Paris Opera Website or Medici.tv (countries restrictions on the latter, but the broadcast will be available for all on Feb.3rd).
Broadcast Tuesday Jan.26 starting at 8:30pm (Paris time).
Jan 15, 2010
Live from Liège
The Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium will stream Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi live on its website Opera Live on Feb.2, 2010 (8 pm Paris time).
The cast includes Patrizia Ciofi as Giulietta and Laura Polverelli as Romeo.
Dec 21, 2009
The Opéra de Lyon on Arte Live Web
Photo Opéra de Lyon
Arte Live Web will broadcast the performance of Chostakovitch's Cheryomushki on Dec.29 (from 8 pm) from the Opéra de Lyon.
Dec 19, 2009
Great: Schubert's 9th by Muti
Riccardo Muti
Berliner Philarmoniker
Teatro S.Carlo di Napoli
Mezzo broadcast, May 1st, 2009
"Concert Europa 2009"
Schubert
Symphony #9 in C Major, "The Great", D944
Mesmerizing.
Hypnotizing.
Fascinating.
Perfect Muti, in a nutshell.
Dec 18, 2009
A love story
Riccardo Muti explaining how he fell in love with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Also: Muti's acceptance speech for 2010 Musician of the year Award (a showcase of Muti's sense of humor) - how to conduct Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.
As suggested by a reader...
Dec 6, 2009
Concert éducatif Haydn - Pleyel
Orchestre Les Siècles
Conduction - François-Xavier Roth
Host - Pierre Charvet
Giovanni von Essen
Joseph Haydn
Symphonie n°8 "Le Soir" (extrait)
Symphonie n°45 "Les Adieux" (extrait)
Symphonie n°88 (extrait)
Concerto pour violoncelle n°2 en ré Majeur (extrait)
Trio de Londres, 2 flûtes et violoncelle (extrait)
Libre adaptation de l'hymne allemand
W.A. Mozart
Réduction pour 2 flûtes de la Flûte Enchantée
Salle Pleyel, Dec. 6, 2009
Program here
Concert available for the next two months on Arte Live Web.
A "concert éducatif" at the Salle Pleyel in Paris is not something I would normally attend, but I jumped on the opportunity to watch it via Arte Live Web, and I did enjoy this hour of music very much.
The concert was centered around Joseph Haydn's music, with extracts from symphonies, concerti, chamber music, with two Mozart extracts and even a traditional Irish piece, all that played in a casual, friendly and joyful manner by the orchestra and conductor.
Such concerts are commendable and necessary, to educate children about the beauty and depth of classical music (even if Haydn is not really the master of multi-layered scores, but his music is simple enough to be understood by children). It shows them how fun it really is, and how easy it is to get caught into it - an experience they'll hopefully never forget.
That Arte decided to broadcast is yet another brilliant idea, because broadening the audience of such quality learning experiences is also broadening the accessibility of classical music, and hopefully engraved these emotions into even more children of all ages.
Orphée aux Enfers - Aix 2009
Orphée aux Enfers
opéra-bouffe en 2 actes et 4 tableaux de Jacques Offenbach
livret d'Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy
Eurydice - Pauline Courtin
Orphée - Julien Behr
Aristée/Pluton - Mathias Vidal
Jupiter - Vincent Deliau
L'Opinion Publique - Marie Gautrot
John Styx - Jerome Billy
Mercure - Paul Cremazy
Cupidon - Emmanuelle de Negri
Diane - Soula Parassidis
Vénus - Marie Kalinine
Minerve - Estelle Kaique
Junon - Sabine Revault d'Allonnes
Choeur du Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Camerata Salzburg
Conductor - Alain Altinoglu
Director - Yves Baunesne
Aix, Théâtre de l'Archevêché
Arte broadcast, July 16, 2009
Acte 2, Jupiter
I'm afraid the production of Yves Baunesne leaves me with yet another bad taste in the mouth.
The music of Offenbach is already cliché as it is, as well as the libretto, and addind every other vaudevillesque cliché there is quite quickly disconnected by from the performance.
The facts that every cast member (Julien Behr as Orphée excepted)has such a limited stage presence and that the actors' direction is so rough sure amplifies the mediocrity of the production.
Acte 2, 3e tableau, l'Olympe
"Ce formidable bordel!" (to use Ionesco's words) is what this production really is, constantly shifting between boring tricks alla Scribe and boring grotesque tricks (Jupiter metamorphosis into a fly in Act 2, the choice of the director to have Eurydice say the spoken dialogues with a strong "Titi"-Parisian accent - quite absurd considering the gap with the music, ...).
Both the sets, the lights and the costumes are also a disappointment, beeing anything but original, edgy, smart or enlightning.
Acte 2, 4e tableau
The musical interpretation is equally as bad, singers, orchestra and conductor included.
Most of these young singers haven't developed yet, and their technique is lacking some basics (intensity and projection mainly); the conduction of Alain Altinoglu I also disliked, lacking emotion, color and brightness (the strings were especially to blame), and the overall tempo did remind me more of military marches than of Offenbach's usual spiciness.
Overall a production to forget.
Dec 5, 2009
Carmen - Scala - Dec.4
Anita Rachvelishvili as Carmen
Renaud Machart, the very trustworthy musical critic of Le Monde, was yesterday evening attending the performance of Carmen at La Scala for journalists and under-30 audiences (read: the general rehearsal opened to the public).
He is definitely not happy.
The French diction ranges from mediocre to unbearable, he says, and the cast is overall pretty weak (he especially has tough critics for Erwin Schrott (Escamillo) and Adriana Damato (Micaëla). But he's forgiving with young Riccardo Massi (Don José) that had to step in yesterday when Kaufmann cancelled, supposedly to keep his strength for the real prima on Dec.7.
Machart is not kind also for both Barenboim - uneven and therefore having a bad understanding of the score (with sometimes a feel of Wagner to the music, that Machart dismisses as heresy).
And finally, Machart has also some criticisms for director Emma Dante - and is left wandering whether she was eaten by tradition or managed to play with it.
Dec 3, 2009
Scala Opening Night on Arte
Once again, Arte will broadcast the Opening Night at La Scala on Dec.7 (8:45 pm Paris time).
This year of course Carmen opens the season, directed by Emma Dante, and conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
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