Chat in exile
Betsy is back in Pike or wherever she hails from, so this week we don’t have the usual smörgåsbord of listening selections she ordinarily provides. Our Own Hans Lick, though, has nominated a brace of broadcasts of possible interest to the cher public.
CBC TWO, 1:00 pm: Don Quichotte, Comédie héroïque en 5 actes sur un livret de Henri Cain d’après ‘Le Chevalier de la longue figure’ de Jacques le Lorrain (1904, d’après Don Quixote de Cervantès). Music: Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Libretto: Henri Cain (1859-1937). This performance: La Monnaie, Brussells May 08, 2010.
Silvia Tro Santafé, mezzo-soprano…..Dulcinée
José Van Dam, bass…..Don Quichotte
Werner Van Mechelen, baritone…..Sancho Pança
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR, also at 1:00 pm: Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème, Oper in vier Akten. Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa und Luigi Illica. Aufzeichnung vom 6.9.10.
Rodolfo – Stephen Costello, Tenor
Mimi – Krassimira Stoyanova, Sopran
Marcello – Boaz Daniel, Bariton
Musetta – Alexandra Reinprecht, Sopran
Schaunard – Adam Plachetka, Bariton
Colline – Sorin Coliban, Bass
Benoit / Alcindoro – Alfred Sramek, Bass
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper; Leitung: Franz Welser-Möst.
Details for finding the online stations are, as always, at the indispensable Operacast. La Casa della Cieca may be found in the usual location.
PUH-LEASE tell me it’s going to be La Boheme! I saw that Don Quichotte via a Web cast, visually very interesting not so sure I want to listen to it again.
Stephen Stephen Stephen..and I’m dying to hear Stoyanova’s Mimi.
Idomeneo? with Joyce? BBC?
If I listen to something this afternoon, it will be Idomeneo.
That’s a tough one. Van Dam’s farewell Don Q’s were pretty moving IMHO (I found the visuals pretty blah). But Mimi and Rodolpho? Might have to toggle between the two.
Silvia Tro Santafe is well worth checking out, if you haven’t come across her yet. Like her a lot.
Van Dam is one of the greats of recent decades as far as I’m concerned, and I’m sorry I missed the farewell Quichottes.
I’ve only heard Tro Santafe on a recital CD (Spanish Heroines, if I remember rightly), and I have to say I wasn’t that impressed. Quite an individual, if slightly ‘bottled’ timbre, but my overall impression was that she was a bit rough round the edges.
At 2, Radio Clasica De Espana is broadcasting Graun’s Montezuma from Madrid
There is also a wonderful performance of MIGNON at 1:30pm on RADIO FRANCE:
samedi 18 septembre 2010
Mignon(1866) d’Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
Malia Bendi Merad, Soprano
Marie Lenormand, Mezzo-soprano
Blandine Staskiewicz, Mezzo-soprano
Ismael Jordi, Ténor
Frédéric Goncalves, Baryton
Nicolas Cavallier, Basse
Choeur Accentus
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
François-Xavier Roth, Direction
Jean-Louis Benoît, Mise en scène
Concert donné le 10 avril 2010 en la Salle Favart de l’Opéra Comique à Paris
Luigi Cherubini
LES ABENCERAGES
Noraime Margherita Rinaldi
Almanzor Francisco Ortiz
Gonzalve de Cordouz Jean Dupouy
Alamir Andrea Snarski
Kaled Ermanno Lorenzi
Alemar Jacques Mars
Abderame Mario Machì
Octair Carlo Schreiber
Egilone Carmen Lavani
1. Troubadour Angelo Degli Innocenti
Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica Rai di Milano
Leitung: Peter Maag
Diese Aufnahme entstand im Jahr 1975.
http://WWW.RADIOSTEPHANDSOM.AT at 2 PM EST, 8 PM Wien.
Couldn’t stand yet another Bohême.
I’ll settle for Don Quichotte with Van Dam. Not much of a score but Jules was 62 when he composed it, he had lost much of his creative inspiration. Four more operas were to follow from the old man.
Idomeneo for me too ……….
If anyone is recording the Racette Trittico (Podles as the Zia Principessa!) from San Francisco which is apparently on a Cleveland station then- hi!