#linda di chamounix

[opera-ghosts]

This 150 years old poster show us a performance in Vienna with the great Diva Adelina Patti (1843-1919) in Donizetti‘s Opera „Linda di Chamounix“. In the cast you can also find the Tenor Ernesto Nicolini. He was later one of her husbands. The conductor was the Composer Luigi Arditi .

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Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Lily Pons: Lakmé in Lakmé (1928 Mulhouse); Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor (1931 Met); Linda in Linda di Chamounix (1934 Met)

Marilyn Miller: Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 (1918 Broadway); Sally of the Alley in Sally (1920 Broadway); Sunny in Sunny (1925 Broadway); Joan Crawford in As Thousands Cheer (1933 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Lily Pons:

Marilyn Miller:

a bisexual queen and the namesake of marilyn monroe

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Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix / Act 1 - "Ah! tardai troppo... O luce di ...

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"Ah, tardai troppo" from G. Donizetti’s opera Linda di Chamounix 

[widevibratobitch]

happy birthday to yet another queen of my heart

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@e-s-me  (Thank you for the tag! ^^) 

Put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then choose your victims 

1.) Buttercup – Jack Stauber 

2.) La Hija De Juan Simón – Rosalía 

3.) Mystery of Love – Sufjan Stevans

4.) Reel Around the Fountain – The Smiths

5.) Wait Lets Go – Thee Oh Sees

6.) No Plan – Hozier

7.) Medicine (cover) – Harry Styles

8.) The Promise – Superfruit

9.) Love Crime – Siouxsie 

10.) O Luce Di Quest' Anima – Donizetti's opera 'Linda di Chamounix'

I’m tagging @luna-e-morye & @thepaintedlady-blog. Do what you want. :p

[strudl-fuer-alle]

The first engraving is a quote from Linda di Chamounix, the second is from an italian medieval elegy

Hidden messages

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Mad scenes

... were a popular convention of early 19th Century French and Italian opera, frequently afflicting the soprano heroine. They are famously difficult to sing and were often written as a way for a particularly talented singer to show off her technical prowess in a dramatically plausible way.

- Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor. She stabs her forced bridegroom Arthur to death, then shows up babbling (re: singing) madly about her beloved Edgard in the middle of the wedding party - blood splattered dress and all, few before she passes away as well. (In the original novel, Walter Scott's "Bride of Lamermoor" which was Very Loosely Based on a True Story, Lucia's madness is surprisingly un-aestheticised, so doesn't count).

- Linda in Linda di Chamounix has the unusual good fortune of getting over it and having a happily-ever-after.

- Margeurite in Gounod's Faust goes mad after falling pregnant and committing infanticide, and sings, of course, about flowers.

- Elvira, the heroine of Bellini's I Puritani, goes mad after her beloved Arturo apparently jilts her (he was actually on an important spy mission). She spends all of act II and most of act III in a very extended mad scene before being reunited with Arturo and getting a happy ending.

- Anna Bolena in Donizetti's opera of the same name fades in and out of madness at the place of execution. She imagines she is back at her wedding day to the King, and is terrified lest her true lover, Percy, should discover her treachery. She comes out of it at the end to go to her death with dignity and with dubious words of forgiveness for Enrico and Giovanna on her lips. Imogene in Vincenzo Bellini's Il Pirata loses it completely as her former lover turned Pirate is led to his execution. She ends the scene with a plea to the sun to veil its light, so she will not have to witness the hanging of her true love.

- Ambroise Thomas has an actual Ophelia in his operatic version of Hamlet complete with a mad scene complete with flowers and visions of mermaids.

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I’m angry at the Mariinsky theatre! Well, that happens quite a lot (complicated relationship, you know?))) This time it’s the schedule! They have this nasty habit of putting two things I want to see on the same evening! This time a couple of layers of my opera obsession will come together on 11 April - on the one hand, this season I wanted to continue with their bel canto consert series - last season I saw 3 or 4 not so common Donizetti and Bellini’s things - loved some while others not so much but this season they’re doing some more! I’ve already seen  Linda di Chamounix, so I decided to go to Gemma di Vergy (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_di_Vergy), Beatrice di Tenda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_di_Tenda) and La vestale by Spontini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_vestale_(Spontini)). With the last one (I think) being the rarest... But there’s ‘on the other hand’ as you can imagine... This year I wanted to see the whole Ring in the right order... I’ve seen them all but never all 4 in one run! And this time Elena Stikhina is going to be in three of them (not at all sure this rep is a good idea for her, but well - it’s another can of worms I’m not willing to open just now!) But Siegfried is on April 11 as well! It’s like you’ve got to be effing kidding me! 3 stages in this city alone! 11 months long season - and you’ve chosen the same day for two things I really want to see?!!! What the...Urgghhh... Should I stick with the Ring plan or just go to Die Walküre (which is my favourite part of the Ring and I think Sieglinde is the best fit for Stikhina out of them all)? Or should I abandon it, or at least Siegfried, and go hear La vestale? But then it’s not the whole Ring... and also these 4 are kind of expensive - unlike the bel canto nes in consert. So, as you’ve definitely realised if you read thus far, I’m really torn! Frustrating that is...

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OTD in Music History: Great “bel canto” Italian opera composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848) dies of tertiary syphilis in an asylum in Bergamo. A prolific “transitional” composer whose numerous operas – written in both Italian and French – are illustrative of the substantial musical evolution that took place in opera between Gioachino Rossini (1792 – 1868) and Guiseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901), several of Donizetti’s later works still continue to hold the stage, including “L’elisir d’amore” (1832), “Lucia di Lammermoor” (1835), and “Don Pasquale” (1843). Donizetti actually scored his first success with “Enrico di Borgogna” (1818), and during the next 12 years he cranked out more than 30 operas – although most of them were merely local hits in Italy and have long been forgotten. In 1830, "Anna Bolena” made his name across Europe, and two years later he scored a truly lasting success with “L’elisir d’amore.” Like Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835) before him, Donizetti eventually left Italy for Paris, where he began to successfully exploit the “French grand opera” model (which was essentially the 19th Century's versio of a Las Vegas show). By the early 1840s, however, Donizetti was well in the grip of the advanced syphilitic infection that would eventually kill him. He produced his last important opera, “Dom Sébastien” (1843), under the strain of near-constant headaches and occasional lapses of mental capacity; his final years were a sad story of mental and physical degeneration as he was confined to a series of asylums. Extremely popular during his own lifetime, after his premature death, Donizetti’s operas were almost entirely eclipsed by the later masterpieces of Verdi and Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924); it was only in the latter half of the 20th Century that the “bel canto” revival brought about the renewed interest in his work that continues to this day. PICTURED: A short undated (but c. 1840s) note regarding musical matters addressed by Donizetti to a “Monsieur Duclos,” who was affiliated with the famous Parisian “Theater-Italien” (the primary opera house that produced Italian opera within the city at that time).

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I was tagged by @basil-touche to list the 5 songs I listened to recently. Thank you for the tagging!

Rossini, La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake), Act II: Tanti affetti in un momento - Agnes Baltsa

Gluck, Che farò senza Euridice: Orfeo ed Euridice - Agnes Baltsa

Bellini, Ah ! Non credea mirarti: La Sonnambula - Maria Callas

Donizetti, Linda di Chamounix: Act 1 - Ah! tardai troppo - Joan Sutherland

Bizet, Carmen: Près des remparts de Séville - Agnes Baltsa

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 3

Pola Negri: Anieli in Śluby panieńskie (1912 Warsaw); Hedvig in The Wild Duck (1914 Warsaw); Yannaia in Sumurun (1917 Berlin)

Lily Pons: Lakmé in Lakmé (1928 Mulhouse); Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor (1931 Met); Linda in Linda di Chamounix (1934 Met)

Propaganda under the cut.

Pola Negri:

A bisexual femme fatale sex symbol from Poland, we love to see it! She dated Valentino and Chaplin and spent like two decades living with her oil heiress girlfriend. She was living the life, the hottest catch, ten out of ten would marry her

Lily Pons:

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La música al mediodía

Conciertos de música clásica y popular a cargo de intérpretes del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.

Domingos, 12 horas

Entrada libre / cupo limitado al aforo del recinto

Programa 15 de enero

Caro autor di mia doglia G. F. Händel Angélica Mendoza, soprano (1685- 1759) Joel Ramírez, tenor Non so piú cosa son cosa faccio W. A. Mozart Le nozze di Figaro, acto l (1756 – 1791) Liliana Cervantes, soprano Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo W. A. Mozart Cossi fan tutte, acto I (1756 – 1791) Hector Cisneros, barítono Ach! Ich füll’s W. A. Mozart Die Zauberflüte, acto I (1756 – 1791) Indra Diez de Sollano, soprano Seht auf die breiten Wiesen hin J. Haydn Die Jahreszeiten, der Sommer, parte II (1732 – 1809) Edson Cornejo, Barítono No no che non sei capace W. A. Mozart Aria de concierto, K419 (1756 – 1791) María Anaya, soprano O luce di quest’anima G. Donizetti Linda de Chamounix, acto I (1797-1848) Perla Varela Ranero, soprano Hm! Hm! Hm!... Die Zauberflüte, acto I W. A. Mozart Liliana Cervantes, Mariana Austria y (1756 – 1791) Angélica Mendoza, sopranos José Luis González, tenor Edson Cornejo, barítono Pourquoi me réveiller J. Massenet Werther, acto III (1842-1912) José Montañez, tenor Caro nome G. Verdi Rigoletto, acto II (1813-1901) Jimena León, soprano Sul fil d’un soffio etesio G. Verdi Falstaff, acto III (1813-1901) Batseba Camacho Ceja, soprano Chil bel songo G. Puccini La Rondine, acto II (1858 – 1924) Cecilia Torres, soprano Brindis G. Verdi La Traviata, acto I (1813-1901) Jimena León, soprano José Montañez, tenor Solistas Ensamble del CNM El ensamble está conformado por cantantes que cursan los últimos años de la Licenciatura de Canto Lírico Profesional. Cada uno de los integrantes cuenta con una trayectoria como solistas y coristas. Se han presentado en importantes foros y han cantado como solistas con varias orquestas profesionales mexicanas, además de tener un amplio repertorio que cubre diversas épocas de la música clásica. También abordan un repertorio de diferentes géneros musicales, tales como Ópera, Musical, Lieder, Chanson y Oratorio. Sopranos María Anaya Mariana Austria Batseba Camacho Liliana Cervantes Indra Diez de Sollano Karen González Jimena Hernández Martha López Perla Varela Mezzosopranos Itzel Beltrán Gaby Gómez Angélica Mendoza Cecilia Torres Tenores Antonio Arce Atonaltzin Delgado José Luis González José Montañez Joel Ramírez Barítonos Héctor Cisneros Edson Cornejo Carlos ronquillo Pianistas: Mtro. Fernando Núñez y Mtra. Pamela Soria Director: Germán Tort Es licenciado en dirección de orquesta por el Conservatorio Nacional de Música de México (CNM). Obtuvo el título en dirección de orquesta por el Conservatoire de Noisy-le-Sec en Francia. Realizó estudios en los conservatorios de Evry, Frédéric Chopin, de Noisy-le-Sec, L’Ecole Grégorien de Paris, L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris; The Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians en Estados Unidos; The Johannes School of Art en Canadá y en el CENART en México. Ha dirigido las orquestas sinfónicas de los conservatorios de Evry, Noisy-le-Sec, de L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, la Pierre Monteux Symphony Orchestra, la Orquesta de Cámara de la UNAM, Sinfónica del Ejército Nacional Mexicano, Sinfónica de la Marina Armada de México, Sinfónica “Carlos Chávez” y el Coro de la Marina. Actualmente es director del Ensamble de Música Contemporánea y de Solistas Ensamble (Coro de Cámara) del Conservatorio Nacional de Música. Es Profesor de las Cátedras de Dirección de Orquesta, Dirección Coral y en la licenciatura de educación musical, en el CNM. Además de director general del Instituto Artene.

Programa del 22 de enero

Pietro Locatelli (Italia, 1965-1764)

Sonata en Sol Menor para Violín y Clave

Largo

Allemanda

Largo

Allegro

 Maria Theresia Paradis (Austria, 1759-1824)

Siciliana

 Franz Schubert (Austria, 1797-1828)

Dúo en la mayor para violín y piano Op. 162

Allegro moderato

Scherzo Presto

Andantino

Allegro Vivace

 Intermedio

 Antonín Dvořák (República Checa, 1865-1957)

Humoreske Op. 101 núm. 7

 Jean Sibelius (Finlandia, 1865-1957)

Nocturno

 Enrique Espín Yépez (Ecuador, 1926 – México, 1997)

Tres danzas

Pasillo

Romanza

Danza Ecuatoriana

 Piotr Ilich Chaikovski (Rusia, 1840-1893)

Meditación

 Tomas Marín, violín*

José Alfonso Álvarez, piano

 *Concertista de Bellas Artes

 Tomás Marín

Estudió con Amelia Medina, y en el Conservatorio Nacional de Música con Joseph Smilovits. Ganó el Concurso Johann Sebastian Bach y el Prix de Rome cuando tenía 14 años de edad, lo que le valió la beca para estudiar en el Conservatorio de Santa Cecilia de Roma, con Rémy Principe. Posteriormente estudió con Georges Enescu y con Jacques Thibaud, quien lo invitó a su escuela Jacques Thibaud-Marguerite Long de París.

De regreso a México, ganó el primer lugar del Concurso Pablo Casals y volvió a Europa para asistir a los cursos de Sándor Végh y Maxim Jacobsen, en Basilea. También estudió con Joseph Sivo en Viena, y con Boris Belenky en Moscú. En México tomó los cursos de Henryk Szeryng. Se ha presentado como solista en América, Europa y Asia. Actualmente es integrante del grupo Concertistas de Bellas Artes.

José Alfonso Álvarez

Es graduado por la Escuela Nacional de Música de la UNAM (ENM) y por la Universidad Ramón Llull de Barcelona en la maestría en interpretación musical. Obtuvo el premio y medalla al mérito Gustavo Baz Prada otorgado por la UNAM en 2008; fue ganador del concurso de solistas de la Orquesta Sinfónica del IPN en 2007; y ganó los concursos internos de piano de la ENM en 2000 y 2001. Se ha presentado en México, Francia, España, Luxemburgo y Cuba. Participó en el Festival Internacional de Música de Cámara de San Miguel de Allende en 2013.

 Ha sido solista de las orquestas: de Cámara y Sinfónica de la ENM, Sinfónica de Puebla, Sinfónica del IPN, Sinfónica del estado de Puebla y Sinfónica de Coyoacán bajo la dirección de Ariel Waller, Julio Vigueras, Alfredo Ibarra, Román Revueltas, Armando Vargas y Eduardo Sánchez Zúber. Recientemente presentó su primer disco titulado Vivan nuestros valses mexicanos, con obras mexicanas inéditas para cuatro manos y piano solo, al lado del pianista Ulises Marcelo Hernández. Es maestro de piano de la Escuela Vida y Movimiento del Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli, así como de la ENM.

Programa del 29 de enero

Franz Schubert (Austria, 1797-1828)

Impromptu en la bemol mayor Op. póstumo 142 núm. 2

Sonata en la mayor op. 120

  Allegro moderato

  Andante

  Allegro

 Intermedio

 Franz Schubert

Fantasía en do mayor Op. 15 D 760, Wandererfantasie

  Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo

  Adagio

  Presto

  Allegro

 Daniel Rodríguez, piano

Es egresado como pianista concertista del Conservatorio Nacional de Música y de la Universidad de Música de Viena. Triunfador del Concurso Nacional de Piano Sala Chopin en la Ciudad de México en 1982; se presenta con regularidad en importantes escenarios del país, y recientemente toca a dúo con Daniel Rodríguez Badillo en la Ciudad de México y el interior de la República.

Sus maestros han sido: Alfonso Rendón y María Teresa Castrillón en México, Carmen Graf-Adnet en Austria, y France Clidat en Francia. Ha participado como ejecutante en clases magistrales con Jörg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda, Angélica Morales y Alicia de Larrocha. Asimismo, realizó estudios en la Escuela Normal de Música Alfred Cortot en París y se ha presentado como solista con importantes orquestas de México. Es invitado con regularidad como jurado de importantes concursos nacionales y ha impartido clases magistrales en varias ciudades del país. Ha grabado dos discos, uno con obras del compositor mexicano Isaías Noriega de la Vega y otro con obras de Manuel M. Ponce, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Darius Milhaud y Samuel Barber. Desde 1988 es integrante del grupo Concertistas de Bellas Artes.

[todayclassical]

May in 19 in Music History

1601 Death of Italian composer Costanzo Porta in Cremona.

1746 Birth of composer Johann Friedrich Peter. 

1755 Birth of composer Gabriele Prota.

1770 Birth of composer Antoine-Charles Glachant.

1786 Death of English composer John Stanley in London. 

1810 FP of Kreutzer's "Jerry und Bätely" Vienna.

1827 FP of Carafa's "Sangarido" Paris.

1839 Birth of composer Alice Mary Smith.

1842 FP of G. Donizetti's opera Linda di Chamounix in Vienna.

1859 Birth of Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba.

1873 Birth of composer Federico Gerdes.

1876 Birth of Italian soprano Rosina Storchio in Venice.

1876 Birth of composer Jan Ingenhoven.

1878 Birth of composer Adam von Ahn Carse.

1884 Birth of Belgian composer Arthur Meulemans Aarschot. 

1886 Birth of German harpist Joseph E. Schuecker.

1886 FP of Camille Saint-Saen's Symphony No. 3, the Organ Symphony for organ, two pianos and orchestra, in London.

1895 Birth of Scottish composer Cecil Gray.

1895 Birth of composer Albert Hay Malotte. 

1896 Birth of Swedish mezzo-soprano Kerstin Thorborg.

1901 Birth of composer Ivo Cruz.

1908 Birth of Italian soprano Gianina Perea Labia in Milan. 

1909 Birth of composer Schlomo Joffe.

1911 FP of Ravel's L'Heure espagnole at The Opera Comique in Paris.

1912 Birth of British organ craftsman Noel Mander.

1915 Birth of American composer Irving Gertz in Providence, RI. 

1915 FP of I. Stravinsky's Three Pieces for string quartet, in Paris.

1924 Birth of English composer Sandy Wilson. 1926 Birth of American composer Paul Cooper in Victoria, IL. 

1928 Birth of Austrian soprano Antonia Fahberg in Vienna. 

1928 Death of American composer Henry Gilbert in Cambridge, MA.

1929 Birth of composer Michael Adamis.

1930 Birth of Dutch composer Hans Kox Aarschot.

1931 Birth of composer Ruben Radica.

1931 Birth of Swiss tenor Eric Tappy in Lausanne. 

1932 FP of D. Shostakovich's incidental music for Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Vakhtangov Theater in Moscow.

1933 Birth of Spanish composer Abril Antón Garcia in Teruel.

1934 Birth of Dutch composer Christiaan Verhoog in The Hague Netherlands.

1934 Birth of Dutch pianist Jan Wijn.

1935 FP of Egk's "Die Zaubergeige" Frankfurt.

1935 Death of German-American composer Charles Martin Loeffler.

1939 Birth of American composer Richard Teitelbaum.

1939 Birth of American conductor George Posel in Cleveland. 

1939 FP of H. Cowell's Return for 3 percussionists and wailer. John Cage Percussion Group at the Cornish School in Seattle, WA.

1939 Birth of composer Tomasz Sikorski.

1940 Death of baritone Dinh Gilly. 

1941 Birth of French mezzo-soprano Jocelyne Taillon.

1941 Birth of composer Marc-Antonio Consoli.

1945 FP of Lockwood's "The Scarecrow" NYC.

1949 Birth of English baritone Stephen Varcoe in Lostwithiel, Cornwall.

1950 FP of Foss' "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Blooming, IN.

1953 Death of tenor Frank Mullings.

1954 Death of American composer, organist Charles Ives in NYC, at age 79. 

1959 Death of German soprano Margarete Teschemacher.

1960 FP of Bliss' "Tobias and the Angel" on BBC-TV, London.

1963 Death of Hungarian mezzo-soprano Margarethe Matzenauer. 

1967 FP of Ginastera's "Bomarzo" Washington, DC.  1977 FP of Argento's Mono Drama "A Water Bird Talk" Brooklyn Academy, NYC.

1979 Death of Belgian composer David van de Woestijne in Brussels. 

1980 FP of Holliger's "What Where" chamber opera, Frankfurt.

2000 FP of Robert X. Rodriguez's The Last Night of Don Juan for chorus and orchestra. San Antonio Symphony and chorus, Christopher Wilkins conducting.

2002 Death of American soprano Willa Stewart in Austin, TX. 

2002 FP of William Bolcom's Seventh Symphony, A Symphonic Concerto Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine conducting at Carnegie Hall in NYC.

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Alle eingeladen! Opernabend: Lust und Liebe!. Studierende der Klasse Prof. Turid Karlsen. Wann? : Freitag 13 April, um 19:00 Uhr. Wo? : Konzertsaal, HMDK Stuttgart (Urbanstraße 25, Stuttgart) Arien und Ensemble von Opern wie Die Zauberflöte, Die Fledermaus, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Linda di Chamounix, Rusalka, La Sonnambula, La Boheme und mehr... Ticket verfügbar: https://www.hmdk-stuttgart.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungskalender/datum/2018-04-01/veranstaltung/opernabend/ansicht/details/ (en Stuttgart, Germany)