ALCESTE OPERA GARNIER PROFESSIONALSinging the massive and expressive role of Paris, is the soprano Ella Taylor, who won second prize in the 2020 Ferrier Awards and is making their professional stage debut. Bampton has gathered a wonderful cast including, as always, young professionals who are emerging into significant national and international careers. Paris ardently woos her in a sequence of ravishing arias and ensembles, including the exquisite and much-loved O del mio dolce ardor. Gluck’s extraordinary opera charts the passionate and tempestuous encounter between the legendary Helen and Prince Paris of Troy. Scored for four soprano voices with chorus and dancers, and with colourful and exciting orchestration, Bampton’s performances aim to bring this enchanting and sensuous work to new audiences. The production is designed and directed by Jeremy Gray and the conductor is Thomas Blunt. Despite its significance in Gluck’s canon and its glorious quality, Paris and Helen is very rarely performed and is little-known. It is given in a new English translation by Gilly French as Paris and Helen. These performances have been rescheduled from 2020, which marked 250 years since the opera’s premiere in 1770. ‘….another hidden gem Bampton Classical Opera has unearthed‘ Seen and Heard International ‘ The music is of a high order throughout, scarcely explaining the almost total neglect of a significant work by a great composer.’ The Stage a work of shining beauty, an exquisite, at moments rapturous outpouring of romantic lyricism with few parallels in 18th-century opera‘ Max Loppert, Opera Magazineįollowing performances at Bampton in July, and Westonbirt School on 30 August, Bampton Classical Opera ( click here) will bring their highly-praised production of Gluck’s major work, Paride ed Elena to St John’s Smith Square on 24 September, which will be the first-ever London staging of this opera. He is also featured on DVD in the Stuttgart Opera production of Alceste (SudWest Rundfunk and Arte), the Netherlands Opera production of St François d’Asisse from (Opus Arte) and the Teatro Real production of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2021 – Christoph Willibald Gluck Paris and HelenįIRST-EVER LONDON STAGING, ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE, FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER Recordings include Rossini’s Armida with Renée Fleming on Sony Classics, Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with James Levine on Deutsche Grammophon, Lizsts’ Christus on MD&G and Oh Fair to See, a collection of English Art Song with Peter Lockwood for Globe and Thomas Ades’ The Tempest with EMI. Recent engagements include: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in Madrid, Moscow and Athens, Kat’a Kabanova the Paris Opera/Garnier and Salome in Liege, Il Prigioniero in Madrid, the premiere of the new Phillip Glass opera The Perfect American in Madrid and London and Saint Francois d’Assise in Buenos Aires. The title role in the Berlioz La Damnation de Faust is perhaps his signature concert role and one which he sings worldwide with conductors such as Prêtre, de Waart, Soustrot, von Dohnányi, and Soudant. He maintains an active international concert presence with major orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony, the BBC and Royal Philharmonic Symphonies, l’Orchestre de Paris, l’Orchestre National de France and l’Orchestre de la Radio-France, Berlin Symphony Orchestra… among many others. The career of American tenor Donald Kaasch has taken him to the principal theatres of the world in title and leading roles at the Netherlands Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Colòn in Buenos Aires, Grande Théâtre de Genève, l’Opéra de Paris, TMP Châtelet, Zürich Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Australian Opera/Sydney, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, The Royal Opera House, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Teatro Reggio di Parma, Los Angeles Opera, etc.
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