#Rosalind Plowright

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On August 18, 1985, Sarah performed at the "Opera for Africa" charity gala at the Arena of Verona, Italy. She sang "Pie Jesu" with Paul Miles-Kingston while Andrew Lloyd Webber conducted the orchestra. At the end of the show, the three of them joined the stellar ensemble to sing Verdi's "Va, pensiero" from "Nabucco". José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Gwyneth Jones, Agnes Baltsa, Simon Estes, and Rosalind Plowright were some of the gala's most notable performers, accompanied by the Polish Katowice State Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Carlo Franci. "Opera for Africa" was a José Carreras initiative, a charity LP was released as well, all supporting the UN Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. 

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[Review] The Met’s Medea – a tour de force performance from Radvanovsky

Jonathan Gray sees Sondra Radvanovsky's "exciting, insightful, chilling, and terrifying" performance in the Met's intelligent new production of Medea.

Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role of Cherubini’s Medea. Photo by Marty Sohl, Met Opera Guest author Jonathan Gray sees the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Medea TitleMedeaCompanyThe Metropolitan OperaVenueMetropolitan Opera House, Lincoln CenterDate8 October 2022ReviewerJonathan Gray A scene from Cherubini’s Medea. Photo by Marty Sohl, Met Opera Medea strikes as much terror into the…

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Rosalind Plowright as The Old Baroness and Virginie Verrez as Erika in Samuel Barber’s opera Vanessa, Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2018.

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Staatsoper Stuttgart - "Cavalleria Rusticana" e "Luci mie traditrici"

Staatsoper Stuttgart – “Cavalleria Rusticana” e “Luci mie traditrici”

Foto ©Matthias Baus

Il dittico di ambientazione siciliana, composto dalla Cavalleria Rusticana di Mascagni e da Luci mie traditrici di Salvatore Sciarrino, era una delle nuove produzioni che alla Staatsoper Stuttgart erano state cancellate a causa della quarantena (more…)

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such a deceptively simple piece and I adore it

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Rosalind Plowright, ladies and gentlemen and gentle nonbinaries

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GLYNDEBOURNE 2018: VANESSA DE SAMUEL BARBER

GLYNDEBOURNE 2018: VANESSA DE SAMUEL BARBER

Virginie Verrez (Erika) i Emma Bell (Vanessa) Glyndebourne 2018 Fotografia Tristram Kenton gentilesa del GFO

La proposta m’interessava molt abans de veure-la perquè tinc una especial predilecció per aquesta òpera i per la música de Samuel Barber en general. He escoltat diverses vegades la gravació històrica amb els intèrprets que la varen estrenar, un quintet antològic format per Steber, Elias,…

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Rosalind Plowright [Sopran *1949 Worksop - England] Komponist: Giuseppe Verdi Oper: La forza del destino / Die Macht des Schicksals Rolle: Donna Leonora Szenen & Arie: 1) Son giunta! grazie, o Dio... Madre, pietosa Vergine... (atto II - Leonora & frati) 2) ab 6:50 Min Il santo nome, die Dio Signore... La vergine degli angeli... (atto II - Leonora, Padre Guardiano = Paata Burchuladze, Fra Melitone = Juan Pons & frati) 3) ab 19:26 Min Pace, pace, mio Dio... (atto IV - Leonora) Dirigent: Giuseppe Sinopoli Orchester: Philharmonia Orchestra Aufnahme: 09.1985 London

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Rosalind Plowright

Opera singer Rosalind Plowright was born in 1949 in Worksop, England. During a career of more than forty-five years, Plowright has performed at major opera houses throughout the world, including La Scala, the Royal Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. In 1980, she won an Olivier Award, and in 2007, was awarded an OBE for her services to music. 

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Il Trovatore: deserto sulla terra

Seconda Puntata: Presso i giardini del palazzo, notte inoltrata, dense nubi coprono la luna

Leonora, eroina preraffaellita dalle belle chiome, bellezza struggente e diafana d’un pallore alabastrino, si muove nella notte senza luna nei giardini del palazzo accompagnata dalla sua confidente Ines (soprano).

Che più t'arresti?... l'ora è tarda: vieni. Di te la regal donna Chiese, l'udisti.

Ines giustamente le fa notare che s’è fatta una certa, ma Leonora, quasi sognante, sospira.

Un'altra notte ancora Senza vederlo...

Intende il Trovatore. “Perigliosa fiamma tu nutri!”, le risponde Ines, e le chiede dove mai s’apprese la fiamma di cotanta passione. E dove vuoi che l’abbia appresa se non in un torneo, e cioè al talent show, Uomini e donne, lui, il misterioso cavaliero dal bruno cimiero? Vincitore per giunta, e lei che di persona le posa sulla testa la ghirlandina, tanto che non poté più levarselo dalla mente.

Civil guerra intanto arse (e cioè scoppiò la guerra civile, consolidata tradizione iberica) e per lungo tempo non lo vide più. Finché un bel giorno...

Quando suonar per l'aere, Infino allor sì muto, Dolci s'udiron e flebili Gli accordi d'un liuto

Queste le dovete ascoltare perché sono fra le più belle arie di Verdi (Rosalind Plowright, Arena di Verona, 1985, fra i cartoni delle uova).

Il mio destino compiersi Non può che a lui dappresso...

Insomma, cotta persa. Ines, fra sé e sé, ha già capito tutto (”non debba mai pentirsi chi tanto un giorno amò!”), dopodiché le due amiche si ritirano nei loro appartamenti.

Senonché il Conte di Luna, dal suo verone, ha inteso il canto della sua bella ma subito s’arresta al suono d’un liuto che s’accende fra le fresche frasche, è il Trovatore.

Deserto sulla terra, Col rio destino in guerra

Tutto precipita. Il Conte freme di gelosia, Leonora scende e subito va ad abbracciarlo scambiandolo, complice l’oscurità, per il Trovatore, tanto che quello protesta (”infida!”, e che cazzo). Leonora, sconvolta, improvvisa: no, guarda, io in realtà pensavo proprio a te, mio amato Conte di Luna, giurin giurello. Niente da fare, quello non ci casca.

I due galletti cosicché si ritrovano uno di fronte all’altro, il Trovatore si palesa come Manrico, ufficiale del principe Urgel, sguainando le spade cominciano a scambiarsi contumelie e si mettono a duellare per il più classico dei motivi, il possesso post-alessandrino della femmina. Leonora, dal canto suo, si offre in sacrifizio.

Piombi, ah! piombi il tuo furore Sulla rea che t'oltraggiò... Vibra il ferro in questo core, Che te amar non vuol, né può.

Ma quelli non ci sentono, mentre si allontanano per darsele di santa ragione lei sviene, priva dei sentimenti.

Alla prossima.

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May 21 in Music History

1633 Birth of composer Joseph de La Barre.

1669 FP of Draghi's "Achille in Sciro" Vienna.

1671 Birth of composer Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia

1680 Birth of composer Frederich Karl Erbach.

1720 Birth of composer Antonio Corbisiero.

1722 Birth of composer Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle.

1735 FP of Duni's "Nerone" Rome.

1739 FP of Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera-ballet Les Fêtes d'Hébé in Paris.

1740 Birth of Italian castrato Gasparo Pacchierotti in Ancona. 

1759 FP of M. Arne's "The Heiress or the Antigallican" London.

1812 Death of Austrian composer, pianist and violinist Joseph Wolfl in London. 

1815 FP of Generali's "L'impostore" Milan.

1825 FP of Herold's "Le Lapin blanc" Paris.

1841 Birth of Welsh composer Joseph Parry in Merthyr Tydfil.

1842 Death of Austrian tenor Benno Haberl. 

1841 Birth of composer Joseph Parry

1867 Birth of Belgian-born French conductor and composer Desire Paque.

1867 Death of Swedish soprano Signe Von Rappe. 

1876 The founding of the Mendelssohn Glee Club in NYC.

1879 Birth of Spanish violinist, conductor and composer Pablo Luna.

1888 Birth of composer May Aufderheide.

1890 Birth of conductor Albert van Raalte.

1890 Birth of American composer Harry Tierney in Perth Amboy, NJ. 

1891 FP of Cornelius and Lassen's "Gunlöd" unfinished it completed by Lassen, in Weimar.

1892 FP of Leoncavallo's opera Il Pagliacci at Teatro dal Verme. 

1892 FP of Berutti's "La Vendetta" Vercelli.

1895 Death of Austrian composer Franz von Suppé.

1898 Birth of Czech composer and violinist Charles Haba.

1905 Birth of composer Edward Lockspeiser.

1909 Birth of Italian bass Giulio Neri in Siena. 

1913 Birth of Greek pianist Gina Bachauer in Athens.

1920 FP of Fall's "Der goldene Vogel" Dresden.

1924 Birth of American composer Robert Parris in Philadelphia. 

1925 FP of Busoni's opera Doctor Faust in Dresden. 

1926 Birth of English bass Forbes Robinson in Macclesfield. 

1926 Death of Russian composer Georgi Lvovitch Catoire in Moscow. 

1928 Birth of bass Karl-Christian Kohn in Losheim. 1929 Birth of American pianist Charles Wadsworth in Barnesville, GA.

1929 FP of George Auric´s Les Enchantments a’alcine in Paris.

1932 FP of English pianist, composer and conductor Robert Sherlaw Johnson in Sunderland. 

1933 Birth of Swedish conductor Ulf Bjorlin in Stockholm.

1933 Birth of French trumpeter Maurice Andre.

1939 Birth of Swiss oboist and composer Heinz Holliger in Langenthal. 

1949 Birth of English soprano Rosalind Plowright in Worksop. 

1956 FP of Vincent Perischetti's Piano Sonata No. 7, at the Philadelphia Conservatory, with pianist Robert Smith.

1957 Birth of French-Canadian composer Linda Bouchard.

1960 Birth of Dutch composer Christiaan de Jong in Rotterdam.

1962 FP of Karlheinze Stockhausen's Momente for soprano, choruses, and instruments, in Cologne.

1964 Birth of American composer Lansing McLoskey in Mountain View, CA.

1968 Death of Italian conductor Arturo Basile in an automobile accident. 

1970 Birth of composer Karen Amanda Amrhein.

1975 FP of William Bergsma´s In Space in Seattle, WA.

1980 Death of French tenor Marcel Marcel-Genio. 

1980 FP of Jacob Druckman's Prism for orchestra. Baltimore Symphony, Sergiu Commissiona conducting. 

1983 FP of Dave Brubeck´s Pange Lingua Variations for chorus, jazz quartet, and orchestra, with Russell Gloyd conducting, at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, CA.

1987 FP of Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Mask of Orpheus. English National Opera, Elgar Howarth and Paul Daniel conducting at the London Coliseum.

2000 FP of Bruce Adolphe's Tyrannosaurus Sue 'A Cretaceous Concerto' with the Chicago Chamber Players at the Field Museum in Chicago.

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Rosalind Plowright Allerseelen Strauss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Yeh-iWM98

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Peter Grimes - Palau de les Arts

Peter Grimes – Palau de les Arts

Peter Grimes – Palau de les Arts Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten

1, 4, 7, 10, 13 febrero 2018 Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Ópera Valencia

Peter Grimes Gregory Kunde

Ellen Orford Leah Partridge

Balstrode Robert Bork

Auntie Dalia Schaechter

Sedley Rosalind Plowright

Swallow Andrew Greenan

Ned Keene Charles Rice

Reverend Adams Ted Schmitz

Bob Boles Richard Cox

Hobson Lukas Jakobski

Dirección…

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Richard Strauss: Elektra

 Zpět do Fotogalerie z inscenací   Susan Bullock Anna Gabler Rosalind Plowright, Susan Bullock Rosalind Plowright Susan Bullock, Károly Szemerédy Károly Szemerédy Károly Szemerédy Anna Gabler, Susan Bullock Anna Gabler,... - celý článek: Kritiky.cz http://ift.tt/2De30lG

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The Prague Summer Nights: Young Artists Music Festival is thrilled to announce that Rosalind Plowright, OBE-awarded soprano and 40-year veteran of the world's leading opera houses, will join our faculty to work with students on their dramatic interpretation and audition techniques! Apply for #PSN18 before December 15 for a reduced fee: PragueSummerNights.com/Apply