tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post902612533256924033..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Bizet in ProvenceDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-61750216059468651622011-07-11T14:47:43.187+01:002011-07-11T14:47:43.187+01:00One of the bonuses of the Minkowski disc, at least...One of the bonuses of the Minkowski disc, at least in its supposedly limited-edition packaging, is that it included the original story from Lettres de mon moulin on which Daudet based the full-length play. It's only a couple of pages long and the characters have different names.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-32833660546468006002011-07-11T14:44:03.818+01:002011-07-11T14:44:03.818+01:00Lettres de Mon Moulin is a wonderful book......wri...Lettres de Mon Moulin is a wonderful book......written when Daudet was in his twenties and clearly a young man's work. It has a kind of music about it ( especially in French). Arlesienne evolved from the original as part of the Lettres where I like best La Mule du Pape: "Qui n'a pas vu Avignon du temps des Papes n'a rien vu........"<br /><br />RecommmendedDavid Damantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-65213460316276334322011-07-09T10:31:49.548+01:002011-07-09T10:31:49.548+01:00You are right, Donald: a message not quite from th...You are right, Donald: a message not quite from the other side kicking me up the backside. If only you knew the problems of trying to squeeze in a labour of love between work that earns me a living (and there's less of that about than when I wrote Vol. 1). But I swore an oath to my dear Noelle before she died that I would do it, and I shall.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-70249516179715938792011-07-09T09:09:08.191+01:002011-07-09T09:09:08.191+01:00I am waiting desperately for volume 2 of Prokofiev...I am waiting desperately for volume 2 of Prokofiev and as I am 76 please move along with it so I can read it before I am senile or departed.<br /><br />DonaldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-28079963054860918872011-07-08T09:01:18.649+01:002011-07-08T09:01:18.649+01:00Didn't Djamileh get an airing in Opera North&#...Didn't Djamileh get an airing in Opera North's '8 Little Greats' series? I saw four of them, but not that one.<br /><br />According to James Harding, Massenet's Therese is the one we should be campaigning for. I once heard a recording, but with the very odd-sounding Sutherland sidekick Huguette Tourangeau. Didn't make an impression then, but that was a very long time ago.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-33689291059492957742011-07-08T08:51:09.185+01:002011-07-08T08:51:09.185+01:00Looking forward to Saturday morning, David.
Whate...Looking forward to Saturday morning, David.<br /><br />Whatever happened to Djamileh, so popular in it's day. For example, it was one of the most frequently performed operas at the Hofoper in Vienna during Mahler's reign there.Roger Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16716925882482994792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-83846634794625222722011-07-07T18:33:09.633+01:002011-07-07T18:33:09.633+01:00Yes, I picked up on the tweak ('gay'/'...Yes, I picked up on the tweak ('gay'/'away' substituted for 'queer'/'here') in a stop-press addition to the TAD Buzz piece.<br /><br />As for the rich experience of former theatregoing days, we may not get quite so much in terms of incidental music these days, but Richard Jones's new production of 'Government Inspector' (as it is called) has a totally integrated and suitably wacky score from David Sawer. The whole thing is brilliant and choreographed/musically timed to the nth degree.<br /><br />Anyway, hope you'll listen in.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-3811626103403559252011-07-07T18:09:33.818+01:002011-07-07T18:09:33.818+01:00Many years ago I bought a recording of the complet...Many years ago I bought a recording of the complete L'Arlesienne music without any dramatic context and even that was a revelation. I loved he various music cues and hearing that so many had chorus. I also gained a new appreciation of the suites in terms of the construction of the individual movements out of various of the music cues from the full score.<br /><br />And I thought again of what a rich experience going to the theater must have been in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. <br /><br />As you've brought up Mr. Hall's imperiled opera, Parterre announced that all is settled by a change so minor and so meaning so much the exact same thing that it seems obvious Opera North and the school caved under international ridicule and disapproval rather than because of a change that can't even be considered cosmetic.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-39774401377722281282011-07-06T14:48:29.122+01:002011-07-06T14:48:29.122+01:00The dream team, of course, at least as far as your...The dream team, of course, at least as far as your Cendrillon and Fairy Godmother went. Actually having been to the Chelsea Opera concert performance with a mezzo Prince - as was the one I was in at the City Lit back in '86 - I returned to the recording expecting to be disconcerted by Gedda. But I reckon he still sounds youthful and ardent, and what you lose in the blend of voices you gain in the passion and the Werther echoes.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-45399270314617353502011-07-06T14:36:17.848+01:002011-07-06T14:36:17.848+01:00Looking forward to listening to the Bizet - partic...Looking forward to listening to the Bizet - particularly as it is one of my favourites. And I know I'll learn to enjoy it even more!<br /><br />The Cendrillon doesn't sound as good as it should be. We had a production many years ago in Ottawa - Von Stade, Della Jones, Ruth Welting, Maureen Forrester and Louis Quilico in a John Copley production designed by John Pascoe. Mario Bernardi was the conductor and it was filmed for television. It was a magical evening - despite a bit of the longeurs you mentioned. It was unfortunate that Von Stade recorded it with a tenor Prince - as I recall Gedda a bit past his prime to boot.Willymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652532356102638621noreply@blogger.com