Bartók, Saariaho, Sibelius, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, April 13 2011
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| Kaija Saariaho and Karita Mattila |
Conductor ..... Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Soloist ..... Karita Mattila
Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest
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Showing posts with label Mattila. Show all posts
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Bondi's Tosca from Bayrische Opernfestspiele on Arte & Happy Birthday (41) to Jonas Kaufmann
Tosca from the Munich Opera Festival will be presented tonight at 9 pm (Paris time) on Arte. It's the same Luc Bondi production which opened the 2009-2010 season at The Met, but the cast tonight will be different: Karita Mattila (Tosca), Jonas Kaufmann (Cavaradossi), Juha Uusitalo (Scarpia)... and maestro Fabio Luisi will conduct the excellent Bayerisches Staatsorchester.
Here is a trailer:
As you might have noticed Puccini is not my cup of tea, and recently I realized that even Tosca became tedium rich opera for my system... BUT it's Kaufmann and I'm gonna see it. Hopefully Karita will sound better than on the recent recordings.
Adrianne Pieczonka sounded gloriously last month in Berlin!
Here is a trailer:
As you might have noticed Puccini is not my cup of tea, and recently I realized that even Tosca became tedium rich opera for my system... BUT it's Kaufmann and I'm gonna see it. Hopefully Karita will sound better than on the recent recordings.
Adrianne Pieczonka sounded gloriously last month in Berlin!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
was the first European woman in science. She was physicist & mathematician, also known for her translations of many philosophical works from Greek and Latin, and in particular for her translation of Principia Mathematica to French. At the same time, she was a very eccentric woman for her time (she lived between 1706 and 1749). She was an amateur opera singer & actress, she played the harpsichord..., transgressed the rules of "proper female conduct" by practicing the horse-riding and fencing.... To that add the fact that she had many lovers, the most famous being Voltaire (who gave her the nickname Émilie du Châtelet which is also the name of this new opera.)
Several fragments of life of this larger-than-life lady are subject of the new opera by Kaija Saariaho, the Finnish composer who lives and creates in Paris and whose L'amour de loin we actually liked. Her librettist, Amin Maalouf, prepared the new work, she composed the musics, François Girard (who will direct the new production of Parsifal next year in Lyon, which will then travel to the Met in 2012) produced the show, and a good orchestra conducted by one of our fav maestros, Kazushi Ono premiered Émilie at Opéra de Lyon, last Monday, March 1. Karita Mattila, for whom Kaija composed this 80 mins long opera-monologue, was singing.
Several fragments of life of this larger-than-life lady are subject of the new opera by Kaija Saariaho, the Finnish composer who lives and creates in Paris and whose L'amour de loin we actually liked. Her librettist, Amin Maalouf, prepared the new work, she composed the musics, François Girard (who will direct the new production of Parsifal next year in Lyon, which will then travel to the Met in 2012) produced the show, and a good orchestra conducted by one of our fav maestros, Kazushi Ono premiered Émilie at Opéra de Lyon, last Monday, March 1. Karita Mattila, for whom Kaija composed this 80 mins long opera-monologue, was singing.
Photo by Heidi Piiroinen
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