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L'incoronazione Di Poppea Discography
These lists show the audio and visual recordings of '' L'incoronazione di Poppea'' by Claudio Monteverdi. The opera was premiered in Venice in 1642-43, but after a 1651 revival in Naples it remained unperformed for 250 years. It began to enter the general opera repertory in the 1960s, and thereafter was increasingly performed in leading opera houses and festivals. Summary of recording history The first recording of ''L'incoronazione'', with Walter Goehr conducting the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in a live stage performance, was issued in 1954. This LP version, which won a Grand Prix du Disque in 1954, is the only recording of the opera that predates the revival of the piece that began with the 1962 Glyndebourne Festival production. In 1963 Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Staatsoper issued a version described by ''The Gramophone'' as "far from authentic", while the following year John Pritchard and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra recorded an abridged version using Leppard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Title Page Of The 1656 Libretto Of L'incoronazione Di Poppea
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Concerto Vocale
Concerto Vocale is a Belgian musical ensemble for baroque music. History Concerto Vocale was founded in Amsterdam in 1977 by the Belgian countertenor and conductor René Jacobs. The vocal ensemble has included sopranos María Cristina Kiehr and Martina Bovet, countertenor Andreas Scholl, tenors Gerd Türk and , baritones and , and basses Ulrich Messthaler and Franz-Josef Selig. It is complemented by an instrumental ensemble including, among others, Jean Tubéry, William Dongois and Gottfried Bach. Selected discography * 1978: 3 ''Leçons de Ténèbres du Mercredy Sainct,'' H.96, H.97, H.98, 3 ''Répons'' ''du Mercrediy Sainct,'' H.111, H.112'','' H.113, 3 ''Leçons de Ténèbres du Jeudy Sainct,'' H.102, H.103, H.109 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (recorded 08/1977 and 01/1978) 3 LP Harmonia Mundi HM 1005/6/7 * 1979: 3 ''Leçons de Ténèbres du Vendredy Sainct,'' H.105, H.106, H.110, 6 ''Répons du Mercredy Sainct.'' H.114.H.115, H.116, H.117, H.118, H.119 by Marc-Antoine Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna Staatsoper
The Vienna State Opera (, ) is an opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, and designs by Josef Hlávka. The opera house was inaugurated as the "Vienna Court Opera" (''Wiener Hofoper'') in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It became known by its current name after the establishment of the First Austrian Republic in 1921. The Vienna State Opera is the successor of the old Vienna Court Opera (built in 1636 inside the Hofburg). The new site was chosen and the construction paid by Emperor Franz Joseph in 1861. The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from the Vienna State Opera's orchestra. The building is also the home of the Vienna State Ballet, and it hosts the annual Vienna Opera Ball during the carnival season. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Wiener (baritone)
Otto Wiener (February 13, 1911 – August 5, 2000) was an Austrian baritone, notable for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner. He was born in Vienna, joined the Vienna Boys' Choir at the age of six, and started his adult career as a concert singer before making his stage debut in 1953 at Graz in the title-role of ''Simon Boccanegra''. He subsequently sang with the opera companies at Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Berlin and performed at the Vienna State Opera from 1957 onwards and at the Bavarian State Opera from 1960. He appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1955 and sang there in the stage première of Frank Martin's ''Le mystère de la Nativité''. Wiener first appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 1957, and sang there until 1963 as Hans Sachs in ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'', Gunther in ''Götterdämmerung'', Wotan/Wanderer in ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' and in the title-role of ''Der fliegende Holländer''. In 1962 he performed the role of Sachs at both the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarita Lilowa
Margarita Lilowa (26 July 1935 – 13 April 2012)ORF-Online: ''Kammersängerin Margarita Lilowa gestorben'' access-date 20 April 2018) was a Bulgarian-Austrian opera singer (/). Life Born in , (Bulgaria), Lilowa studied singing and choral conducting at the National Academy o ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Stolze
Gerhard Stolze (1 October 1926, Dessau – 11 March 1979, Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was a German operatic tenor. He was a character tenor best known as a Wagner singer. His signature role was Mime (''Das Rheingold'', ''Siegfried''). Other important roles were David (''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg''), Loge (''Das Rheingold''), Aegisth ('' Elektra'') and Herod (''Salome''). He also sang the Captain in ''Wozzeck'' and, the roles of Oberon (''A Midsummer Night's Dream'') and the Emperor Nero, both of which were originally written for countertenor. He recorded Mozart's high-tenor ''Singspiel'' roles, Monostatos and Pedrillo. He portrays Mime on both the studio recordings of ''Siegfried'' by Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti. His voice was very high, thin, and piercing, and capable of an extraordinary range of colors. His style sharply divided critics and audiences, especially in the roles of Mime and Herod. It was denigrated as being over-neurotic, glorified sprechstimme by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sena Jurinac
Srebrenka "Sena" Jurinac () (24 October 1921 – 22 November 2011) was a Bosnian-born Austrian operatic soprano. Biography Jurinac was born in Travnik, Bosnia-Herzegovina (then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), the daughter of a Croatian father (a doctor) and a Viennese mother. She studied at the Zagreb Academy of Music, and with Milka Kostrenčić. Her voice was pitched exactly between soprano and mezzo. Her repertoire included Poppea, Elisabetta (''Don Carlos''), Desdemona (''Otello''), Elisabeth (''Tannhäuser''), Ilia, Iphigenia, Jenůfa, Leonora (''La forza del destino''), the Composer (''Ariadne auf Naxos''), Marie (''Wozzeck''), Pamina (''The Magic Flute''), Mimi, Butterfly and Tosca. In many operas, her repertoire included more than one major role: Cherubino and Countess Almaviva, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, Amor and Eurydice, Leonore and Marzelline (''Fidelio''), Marina and Fyodor (''Boris Godunov''); Octavian and the Marschallin. She also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonhalle Orchestra
Tonhalle is a German word meaning "tone hall", a concert hall. It may refer to: * Tonhalle Düsseldorf * Tonhalle Orchester Zürich * Tonhalle, Zürich, a concert venue {{Disambig German words and phrases ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kelch
Franz Kelch (1 November 19155 June 2013) was a German bass-baritone lied and oratorio singer. His discography includes works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, George Frideric Handel, and Claudio Monteverdi. Biography Franz Kelch was born in Bayreuth. He started voice training in difficult times in 1937 with Henriette Klink in Nürnberg after mandatory military service. He had to interrupt his studies with the outbreak of World War II. After he returned from a prisoner-of-war-camp, he started teaching and singing for the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian broadcast) in programs of early music and new works of Munich composers such as Joseph Haas, Hermann Zilcher or Wolfgang Jacobi. In 1948, Franz Kelch was the soloist for '' A German Requiem'' of Brahms with the Münchner Philharmoniker, then Bach's ''Mass in B minor'' with the Heinrich-Schütz-Kreis conducted by Michael Schneider, and Beethoven's '' 9th Symphony'' with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Joseph Keilberth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Gähwiller
Sylvia Gähwiller (5 July 1909 – 19 March 1999) was a Swiss operatic soprano and a voice teacher. She was most successful as a concert and recital singer, who also performed works by contemporary composers. Life and career Born in Zürich, Gähwiller studied piano at the Breslau conservatory from 1926 to 1928, then at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin from 1927 to 1928. She studied further in Vienna from 1928 to 1930, piano with Friedrich Wührer and composition with Karl Weigl. In 1932 she received the diploma to teach voice. From 1936 to 1941, she studied voice with Ria Ginster at the Zürich Conservatory. Gähwiller was engaged at the Theater St. Gallen from 1941 to 1942 where she continued to appear as a guest until 1947. She appeared there as Pamina in Mozart's ''Die Zauberflöte'', Konstanze in his ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'', Countess Almaviva in his ''Le nozze di Figaro'', Baroness Freimann in Lortzing's ''Der Wildschütz'', Mimì in Puccini's ''La bohème'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuelle Haïm
Emmanuelle Haïm (; born 11 May 1962) is a French harpsichordist and conductor with a particular interest in early music and Baroque music. Early life, student and assistant years Haïm was born and grew up in Paris, and was raised Catholic although her father is Jewish. Her musical education began early, after her father's purchase of a grand piano, and a visit to her family by Zoltán Kocsis when she was age 8. She was also interested in dance as a child, but was diagnosed with a curved spine at age 10, and wore a body corset for 10 years. Haïm spent 13 years studying at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, where she studied organ with André Isoir. She came to focus on the harpsichord, which she studied with Kenneth Gilbert and Christophe Rousset, and was awarded five first prizes at the Conservatoire. William Christie invited her to work with his ensemble Les Arts Florissants, as a continuo player and musical assistant. On Christie's recommendat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Minkowski
Marc Minkowski (born 4 October 1962) is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works, and is the current general director of Opéra national de Bordeaux. His mother, Mary Anne (Wade), is American, and his father was Alexandre Minkowski, a Polish-French professor of pediatrics and one of the founders of neonatology. Marc Minkowski is a Chevalier du Mérite. Life and career Marc Minkowski was born in Paris. His maternal grandmother, Edith Wade, was a violinist. He began his musical career as a bassoonist for René Clemencic's Clemencic Consort and Philippe Pierlot's Ricercar Consort. In 1982, Minkowski formed " Les Musiciens du Louvre", an orchestra dedicated to showcasing French Baroque music which has championed works by Marin Marais (opera '' Alcyone''), Jean-Joseph Mouret (opera ''Les amours de Ragonde''), Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully (opera '' Phaëton'' at Opéra National de Lyon) and Jean- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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