#Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

[nonesuchrecords]

"Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was the antithesis of the operatic diva," Mairi Nicolson says of the subject of ABC Classic's latest Legends. "She was uncompromising, direct, honest, and intense. She gave of herself totally." You can hear the episode, including a number of her recordings, culminating in "Ich habe genug" from her 2003 Nonesuch album of Bach cantatas, here.

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube, Part 2

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1973 (Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Benjamin Luxon; conducted by John Pritchard; English subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1976 (Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Tokyo National Theatre, 1980 (Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Gundula Janowitz, Bernd Weikl; conducted by Karl Böhm; Japanese subtitles)

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1993 (Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley, Hillevi Martinpelto, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; Italian subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt; conducted by Bernard Haitink; English subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 1996 (Carlos Chaussón, Isabel Rey, Eva Mei, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Berlin State Opera, 2005 (Lauri Vasar, Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo; conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; French subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Nikolas Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Teatro all Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orasatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli; conducted by Gérard Korsten; English and Italian subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2015 (Adam Plachetka, Martina Janková, Anett Fritsch, Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Dan Ettinger; no subtitles)

Tosca

Carmine Gallone studio film, 1956 (Franca Duval dubbed by Maria Caniglia, Franco Corelli, Afro Poli dubbed by Giangiacomo Guelfi; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Gianfranco de Bosio film, 1976 (Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1978 (Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, Cornell MacNeil; conducted by James Conlon; no subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 1984 (Eva Marton, Jaume Aragall, Ingvar Wixell; conducted by Daniel Oren; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Maurizio Benini; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2011 (Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)

Finnish National Opera, 2018 (Ausrinė Stundytė, Andrea Carè, Tuomas Pursio; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; English subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala 2019 (Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Hungarian subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato; English subtitles)

Ópera de las Palmas, 2024 (Erika Grimaldi, Piotr Beczala, George Gagnidze; conducted by Ramón Tebar; no subtitles)

Don Giovanni

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lisa della Casa; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler; English subtitles)

Giacomo Vaccari studio film, 1960 (Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Teresa Stich-Randall, Leyla Gencer; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1987 (Samuel Ramey, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Julia Varady; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Thomas Allen, Claudio Desderi, Edita Gruberova, Ann Murray; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Peter Sellars studio film, 1990 (Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; conducted by Craig Smith; English subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 1997 (Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel, Carmela Remigio, Anna Caterina Antonacci; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Zürich Opera, 2000 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2002 (Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Alexandra Deshorties, Mirielle Delunsch; conducted by Daniel Harding; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2006 (Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, Maria Bayo, Sonia Ganassi; conducted by Victor Pablo Pérez; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2017 (Philippe Sly, Nahuel de Pierro, Eleonora Burratto, Isabel Leonard; conducted by J��rémie Rohrer; English subtitles)

Madama Butterfly

Mario Lanfranchi studio film, 1956 (Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

New York City Opera, 1982 (Judith Haddon, Jerry Hadley; conducted by Christopher Keene; English subtitles)

Frédéric Mitterand film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2004 (Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Daniel Oren; Spanish subtitles)

Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2009 (Raffaela Angeletti, Massimiliano Pisapia; conducted by Daniele Callegari; no subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2017 (Maria José Siri, Murat Karahan; conducted by Jonathan Darlington; no subtitles)

Wichita Grand Opera, 2017 (Yunnie Park, Kirk Dougherty; conducted by Martin Mazik; English subtitles)

Teatro San Carlo, 2019 (Evgenia Muraveva, Saimir Pirgu; conducted by Gabriele Ferro; no subtitles)

Rennes Opera House, 2022 (Karah Son, Angelo Villari; conducted by Rudolf Piehlmayer; French subtitles)

[insteading]

I was tagged by @scorpiostarseed to put 5 songs I actually listen to, and then tag 10 people. Thank you!

Seinabo Sey, Poetic.

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Phedre's "I fucked up" song from Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie. I actually imprinted on Bernarda Fink's recording, but that's harder to find. One of those rare pieces of music that makes me wish I drove, so I could roll around with my windows open scream-singing along with this and make other people listen to French baroque opera for a minute.

Janis Ian, Phoebe Snow, and Odetta, Hymn

The last movement of Michel-Richard DeLalande's De Profundis. I want this played at my memorial service because it is six and a half minutes of gorgeousness that probably no one there will have heard before, and I want very badly for them to hear it.

Gipsy Kings, Baila Me. I occasionally substitute teach an exercise class at my workplace. This is the thing in my playlist people are most excited about, and I get it: it's so joyous.

Honorable mentions to the Roches' Hammond Song, everything Cry Cry Cry ever sang together, and most of Prince's catalogue. True to form, I went for stuff I thought you were less likely to have heard already.

Probably if we are mutuals you have already been tagged by someone else, but just in case: @lipgloss-through-my-veins @ghostalservice @clairegregoryau @virgo-79 @starlithumanity @xoxoemynn @redshiftsinger @oatmilktruther @venusdebotticelli @scarrletmoon

[lesser-known-composers]

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) - Cruelle mère des amours from the opera Hippolyte et Aricie

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Phèdre

Les Arts Florissants under William Christie

[turangalila]

George Frideric Handel Duetto "Son nata a lagrimar" Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 [London: Cluer & B. Creake, 1724]

Duetto (Cornelia, poi Sesto)

Son nata a lagrimar/Son nato a sospirar e il dolce mio conforto, ah, sempre piangerò.

Se il fato ci tradì, sereno e lieto dì mai più sperar potrò. [Nicola Francesco Haym, after Giacomo Francesco Bussani, 1677/85]

_ Recital: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at Ravinia. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mezzo-Soprano. Drew Minter, Counter Tenor. Peter Serkin, Piano. (2009, Harmonia Mundi - 907500)

[miamiclasica]

Cumpliría setenta Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson hubiese cumplido 70 años, en recuerdo su obituario de julio de 2006. MELODIA INTERRUMPIDA Especial/El Nuevo Herald La desaparición de un gran artista duele. Más aún si es en absoluta plenitud. Crea un vacío insustituible. ¿Qué hubieran deparado Mozart, Schubert o Bellini de no haber muerto tan jóvenes?. La falta de personalidades entre los cantantes líricos actuales…

[vedaadesigns]

WIB : Research Analysis & Idea Generation (LO2)

Research Analysis

After doing some research on Conceptual Blending and the Metaphor Theory, I made the following inferences :

Both concepts help to perceive the world around us by juxtaposing knowledge mapped from two separate domains.

In cognitive linguistics, metaphors are used in order to understand one thing in terms of another. For e.g. ARGUMENT IS WAR [is a metaphor that makes us realise that we can not only talk about an argument in terms of war (such as winning or losing a war) but also we can actually win/lose an argument itself.]

Conceptual blending helps to combine two dissimilar concepts within a generic space to create a single blend. For e.g. if the generic space is "woman" (living being with thoughts and emotions) and the two inputs or dissimilar concepts are A. "Lorraine Hunt Lieberson" (an opera performer) and B. "Dido" (a tragic figure in Greek mythology), then the resulting conceptual blend would be "Lieberson-as-Dido" (a tragic character within an operatic production with Lieberson's voice).

I found both these theories to be very fascinating and am excited to see the scope of their practical applications within this brief in order to generate original ideas.

[dolenteimmagine]

Henry Purcell, Dido and Æneas: Your counsel all is urged in vain

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mezzo-soprano Lisa Saffer, Soprano Michael Dean, Baritone Nicholas McGegan, Conductor Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra 1993

[aschenblumen]

Atmen, du unsichtbares Gedicht! Immerfort um das eigne Sein rein eingetauscher Weltraum. Gegenwicht in dem ich mich rythmisch ereigne.

[marxsound]

some words about music-the neruda songs...

peter lieberson set the neruda poems to music for his wife lorraine  to sing. she had an aggressive cancer and they barley got the pieces recorded live w/ the boston symphony before she got too sick to go on... by the the time the cd came out (2005 or so ) she was dead ..... but the songs are well made and i*m glad to see that other singers have taken them up-hence the sarah connelly recordings from london and i might find more for U all  cheers

[oblivion-soave]

Currently listening to...

6/09/2018

Ensemble Masques, Vox Luminis’ Buxtehude: Abendmusiken, Steve Reich’s Steve Reich: Works 1965–1995, Gérard Grisey’s 4 chants pour franchir le seuil, Moondog’s A New Sound of an Old Instrument, Igor Stravinsky’s Renard, Histoire burlesque chantée et jouée performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket’s Händel Arias, Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee, William Walton’s Façade, Aaron Copland’s Music for the Theatre and Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartets.

[nonesuchrecords]

Happy 338th birthday, J.S. Bach! We're celebrating with a playlist of music by Bach performed by Jeremy Denk, Chris Thile, Brad Mehldau, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Richard Goode, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Edward Aldwell, Sérgio & Odair Assad, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Sergiu Luca, and Joshua Rifkin. You can hear it on Spotify and Apple Music here.

[allmymusic]

39 Handel Arias

I’m amazed that this is only the second album by the name “Handel Arias” featured here. I feel like I have listened to a lot more Handel than I normally ever would already...

I can’t believe it’s been 12 years from Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s death already; starting out as a violinist, she didn’t start to sing until in her late 20s, and didn’t sing in an opera until she was 31. She sang mostly baroque and contemporary repertoire, making her Met debut in John Harris Harbison’s The Great Gatsby.

This album has selections of music from Theodora and Serse, as well the cantata La Lucrezia in its entirety - trust Hunt to have a unique approach to the Handel arias album. The five arias from Theodora are all wonderful, and I cannot imagine anyone better suited to sing them. The cover image is from the 1996 Glyndebourne modern dress staging by Peter Sellars (with whom Hunt regularly worked), imagining Irene, the leader of the Christians in the oratorio, as something of a priestess, and that is what she evokes on this album too, an ethereal, serene reverence.

The cantata La Lucrezia is an all the more darker piece; it is based in Livy’s story on the origin of the Roman republic - Sextus Tarquinius, son of the king, rapes Lucretia, who commits suicide, and her death leads to the Roman rebellion that overthrows the monarchy. This cantata is about Lucretia’s inner turmoil after the rape, ending in her death. This cantata predates both of the operas flanking it by decades, and it is interesting to hear the difference in the style of music - to my uneducated ear La Lucrezia sounds almost renaissance like in its use of instruments, the music structurally much less complex. The leap from the emotional darkness of this piece to the pieces from Serse feels refreshing, but the contrast is pretty stark.

Fun fact: Ombra mai fu, one of the most famous (if not the most famous) arias Handel wrote, has nine words. Nine. Here is the text in its entirety:

Ombra mai fu di vegetabile cara ed amabile soave piu

Favourite tracks: tough call, but I’ll pick no 6, Defend her Heav’n, and no 9, New scenes of joy. Divine.

Handel Arias Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo The OAE HArry Bicket, conductor

[fatchance]

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (d. 2006) singing “New Scenes of Joy” from Handel’s Oratorio Theodora (1750). This recording is from 2004, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, directed by Harry Bicket. 

If there are angels, I suppose this is what they sound like when they sing.

New scenes of joy come crowding on While sorrow fleets away, Like mists before the rising sun That gives a glorious day.

[lesser-known-composers]

Years ago I didn’t like the music of Schumann. Now.....oh my goodness, now.....I just melt.....

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - Seit ich ihn gesehen Schumann - Frauenliebe und-leben, Op. 42. Julius Drake, piano.

[thedaysofdisorder]

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - Seit ich ihn gesehen (Since I saw him) Schumann - Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42 Julius Drake, piano