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Rossini, Gioacchino (1792 - 1868) |
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L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI Mustafà, Bey vom Algir - Marco Vinco Arnold Schönberg Chor Inszenierung: Toni Servillo Aufführung des Festivals von Aix-en-Provence Juli 2006 ***** 1 DVDs - BelAir Classiques / Vertrieb Harmonia Mundi - BAC 025 - September 2008 *****
Man braucht nur im orientalischen Prunk zu bleiben, einen netten Harem hinzustellen und auch die Darsteller entsprechend zu schmücken, da hat man schon mal das Publikum gewonnen, das eben Schönes auf der Bühne sehen und geile Stimmen hören will. Nun, beides ist in dieser Aufführung gegeben. Und man sieht sogar viel nacktes Fleisch, da (der Chor der) Palasteunuchen (zahlreich!) seine Männerbrüste nackt in den WInd hält. Dazu türkenähnliche Kostüme, da offenbar auch der Librettist Algier in der Türkei dünkte. Auch Lindoro, der vor kurzem gefangen genommene italienische Sklave des Bey, darf unter der Weste seine Brust zeigen. Ansehnlich - genauso wie sein Tenor ausdrucksstark, stimmsicher und -gewaltig. Am beeindruckendsten kommt jedoch der Bass des Beys daher, da ist mit Marco Vinco eine gute Besetzung gelungen! Christianne Stotijn nimmt mit ihrem ausladenden Kleid in den Nationalfarben Italiens zwar einmal bühnenbildlich allen die Show, ist aber stimmlich und darstellerisch nicht die beste Verkörperung der den Bey um den FInger wickelnden Geliebten Lindoros, der Titel gebenden Italienerin in Algier. Dirk Carius *** Weitere Infos - Courtesy of TDK *** The Composer and the Work: Gioacchino Rossini was born in Pesaro on February 29th 1792 and died in Passy near Paris on November 13th 1868. The son of musicians (his father played the horn and his mother sang in travelling opera companies), Rossini himself studied singing and harmony in Bologna under the iron rod of Mattei. When he was eighteen, his first opera buffa, La cambiale di matrimonio, was performed in Venice. It was soon followed by other works in the same genre (L’Inganno felice, L’occasione fa il ladro, etc.). In 1813 the creation of Tancredi in Venice opened wide the doors of success, making him the uncontested master of the Italian operatic stage for many years to come. Works followed one another at breakneck speed: Il barbiere di Siviglia and Otello in 1816, La Cenerentola and Armida in 1817, La donna del lago in 1819, Maometto II in 1821 and Semiramide in 1823 to name a few. In 1824 he settled in Paris. It was here that he wrote his last opera, Guillaume Tell (1829), and lived until his death, continuing to influence Parisian musical life and devoting himself to certain passions such as cuisine (we have him to thank for the famous “tournedos” recipe). Rossini was asked to write a piece to fill up a gap in the schedule at the Teatro San Benedetto left by another composer’s failure to deliver, and given the time available (certainly less than a month), shortcuts were inevitably taken. First of all, it was decided to recycle, with some revisions, the libretto of an existing opera, Luigi Mosca’s L’italiana in Algeri of 1808, and not only were the recitatives outsourced, but at least one, if not two of the arias were as well: Haly’s “Le femmine d’Italia” and, more significantly, Lindoro’s second-act solo “Oh, come il cor di giubilo”. But the pay-off was that Rossini, relieved of these responsibilities, came up with a score of such wit and fresh inspiration that the second-hand plot was taken to a new level of irresistible humour and show-stopping silliness. The first performance was given on Saturday 22 May 1813, and a review that came out on the Monday talked of the “almost constant wild, general applause” that greeted the soloists.
ZUSATZINFORMATIONEN / HÖRPROBEN
Zusammenfassung des Geschehens Links zu Rossini -
Leben (Deutsche Rossini Gesellschaft) Die Rossini-Minireihe von EuroArts 2006 -
Der Heiratswechsel (La cambiale di matrimonio) (1810) + die Besprechung
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1 DVD
BelAir Classiques / Vertrieb Harmonia Mundi BAC 025 - September 2008
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Letztes Update: 15.09.2008, 02.22 Uhr |
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