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TRISTAN ET ISOLDE à l'Opéra Bastille : des voix superbes!

TRISTAN ET ISOLDE à l’Opéra Bastille : des voix superbes!

Tristan & Isolde ouvre la saison Opéra  à Bastille en beauté.

TRISTAN ET ISOLDE – Photo : Vincent PONTET

Cet Opéra de Richard Wagner est un de ses plus célèbres et la version qui nous est proposée est une création de 2005, dans une mise en scène de Peter Sellars et Bill Viola. On le sait les œuvres de Wagner durent généralement plus longtemps que les opéras italiens. Mais cela ne doit pas vous…

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The soprano Hermine Bosetti (1875-1936) was in the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera in 1900 when Gustav Mahler was director and then from 1901 to 1924 a celebrated singer at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. She has appeared on many other stages and there are some recordings of this beautiful voice.

Her real name was Hermine von Flick. She studied singing under Ms. Aurelie Jäger-Wilczek in Vienna and made her debut in 1898 at the Hoftheater in Wiesbaden as Ännchen in ‘’Freischütz’’. She remained there until 1900 and in the 1900-1901 season sang at the Vienna Court Opera. Since 1901 until her retirement (1926) she was a member of the Munich Court Opera. In 1903 she appeared in the Munich premiere of the opera ‘’Le Donne curiose’’ by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (in the Residenztheater) as Colombine, in 1906 she sang here (again at the Residenztheater) in the premiere of the opera ‘’I Quattro Rusteghi’’ by E. Wolf-Ferrari, in 1912 at the Court Opera in the world premiere of the opera ‘’Franfreluche’’ by Wilhelm Mauke. In 1910 she created G. Puccini's Butterfly for Munich, in 1911 the Octavian in R. Strauss’s ‘’Rosenkavalier’’ and J. Massenet's Manon, in 1913 the Zerbinetta in ‘’Ariadne auf Naxos’’ by R. Strauss. She appeared as a guest in 1905 and 1914 at the Berlin Court Opera, in 1910 at the Court Opera in Dresden, in the 1908-1911 seasons several times at the Vienna Court Opera, in the 1905-1915 seasons at the Court Theater of Stuttgart, in 1907 at the Deutsches Theater in Prague, in 1908 at the Vienna Volksoper, from 1906 to 1915 at the Frankfurt a.M. Opera House, also at the opera houses of Cologne and Leipzig, at the Stadttheater in Bremen, in 1906 and 1907 at the Riga Opera House, in 1912 at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and in 1921 at the Stadttheater in Basel. Guest performances also brought her great successes in Russia; she sang in St. Petersburg among others as a partner of Mattia Battistini. In 1912 she made guest appearances at the Municipal Theater of Zurich as Susanna in ‘’Figaros Hochzeit’’, Violetta in ‘’Traviata’’ and as Frau Fluth in ‘’Lustigen Weibern von Windsor’’. At the Covent Garden Opera (1907) she appeared in ‘’Bartered bride’’ by B. Smetana's and ‘’Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’’ of R. Wagner. In 1913 she was heard at His Majesty's Theater of London in the English premiere of the Richard Strauss’s opera ‘’Ariadne auf Naxos’’. The same season, again at the Covent Garden Opera she sang the role of Octavian in R. Strauss’s ‘’Rosenkavalier’’. She remained active until 1926 at the Munich Opera (1924-1926 as a guest). From 1924 to 1930 she was a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt a.M., then in Munich. Her daughter Elly Bosetti appeared in the 1930’s as soprano (debut in 1935 at the Municipal Theater of Bamberg as Lola in ‘’Cavalleria Rusticana’’).

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February 02 in Music History

1594 Death of Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina in Rome at age 68. 

1669 Birth of French composer and organist Louis Marchand, in Lyons.  1673 Death of German composer Kaspar Forster, at age 56 in Oliva. 

1687 FP of Pallavicino's La Gierusalemme Liberata at the Hoftheater in Dresden.

1714 Birth of German organist and composer Gottfried August Homilius in Rosenthal. 

1727 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 52 Ich habe genug on the Feast of the Purification, was part of Bach's third annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig.

1731 FP of Handel's opera Porus, King of India which ran for sixteen performances.

1748 Birth of German composer Christian Gottfried Thomas.

1750 Death of German composer Johann Graf, at age 65.

1762 Birth of castrato Girolamo Crescentini in Urbino. 

1770 Birth of bass Giuseppe Naldi in Bologna. 

1773 Birth of composer Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek.

1779 Death of German composer Georg Philipp Kress, at age 59.

1780 Birth of American composer Ananias Davisson

1785 Birth of mezzo-soprano Isabella Colbran in Madrid.

1789 Death of French composer and organist Armand-Louis Couperin, at 63.

1790 Birth of tenor Domenico Donzelli in Bergamo. 

1794 Death of soprano Marie Fel.

1795 FP of Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 102 in B.

1804 Birth of composer Leopold Eugen Mechura.

1817 Birth of composer Jose Maria de la Purificación Ventura.

1822 Death of French composer and violinist Jean-Baptiste Davaux, at age 79 in Paris.  1827 Death of composer Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, at age 62. 1837 Birth of German-Bavarian conductor and composer Max Zenger in Munich.  1840 Birth of French composer Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray.  1844 Birth of Dutch composer and Haarlem music school director, Leander Schlegel, in Oegstgeest.

1847 Birth of pianist and composer Jules Francois Blasini, in Curacaos. 1850 Birth of composer Makar Grigori Yekmalyan.

1869 Birth of baritone Jean Perier in Paris. 

1873 Birth of Austrian operetta composer Leopold Fall in Olmütz. 1875 Birth of Austrian-American violinist Fritz Kreisler in Vienna. 

1875 Death of bass Luigi Agnesi. 

1877 Birth of tenor Frantisek Krampera in Prague.  

1882 Birth of soprano Evgeniya Bronskaya in St Petersburg.  

1882 Death of Italian composer Fabio Campana, at age 63. 1883 Birth of Russian composer Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin in Rostov on Don.  1883 Birth of Mexican composer Candelario Huízar in Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico. 

1887 Death of tenor Georg Unger. 

1888 Birth of English pianist Irene Scharrer in London. 

1890 FP of Antonin Dvorák's Symphony No. 8, Op. 88, in Prague. Composer conducting. 

1893 Birth of soprano Jeanne Dusseau in Glasgow. 

1900 FP of Gustave Charpentiers opera Louise at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

1900 Birth of soprano Anni Frind in Nixdorf, Czech.

1901 Birth of Russian-American violinist Jascha Heifetz in Vilnius. 

1901 Birth of German baritone Gerhard Hüsch in Hanover. 

1902 Death of composer Emanuil Mandlov, at age 42. 1904 Birth of composer Jose Enrique Pedreira. 1908 Birth of Slovenian composer Pavel Sivic in Slovenia. 

1908 Birth of Italian composer Renzo Rossellini.

1909 Death of German composer Johann Georg Herzog, at age 86. 1911 Birth of French organist and composer Jean-Jacques Grunenwald. 

1914 Birth of tenor Donat Antonovich Donatov in Pietrovich.  

1919 Birth of Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa in Berne. 

1919 Death of composer Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, at age 55. 

1920 FP of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Song of the Nightingale at the Paris Opéra with choreography by Massine. 

1921 FP of Luis Bretan's opera Luceafarul 'The Evening Star', in Cluj, Romania. 

1923 Death of baritone Robert Leonhardt. 

1926 FP of Henry Cowell's String Quartet No. 1 Quartett Pedantic at Aeolian Hall by the Ralph Henkle String Quartet in NYC.

1921 Death of composer Luigi Mancinelli, at 72.

1925 Birth of composer Michel Paul Philippot.

1927 Birth of composer Richard Vance Maxfield in Seattle, WA. 

1928 Death of English composer Frederick Iliffe in Oxford.

1929 Birth of composer Reiner Bredeemeyer.

1929 Birth of tenor Waldemar Kmentt in Vienna.

1930 Birth of bass Reiner Suss in Chemnitz. 

1930 Birth of American composer Herbert Bielawa.

1933 Birth of baritone Patrick McGuigan in Dublin. 

1934 Birth of mezzo-soprano Maura Moreira in Brazil. 

1937 Birth of American soprano Martina Arroyo in NYC.  1941 Birth of French-American composer Serge Tcherepnin near Paris. 1944 Birth of English conductor Andrew Frank Davis in Ashbridge. 1944 Birth of American pianist Ursula Oppens in NYC. 1951 Birth of American composer Andrew Gelt in Albuquerque, NM.

1952 Death of German composer Gustav Strube, at age 85. 1954 Death of composer Theodor Rogalski, at age 52. 1956 Death of mezzo-soprano Marie Klanova-Panznerova. 

1960 Birth of American composer Harold Colin Cowherd.

1960 Death of composer Jeno Huszka, at age 84. 1961 Death of composer Adolf Vogl, at age 87. 1965 Death of composer Richard Wurz, at age 79. 1968 Birth of English composer Simon Wickham-Smith in Rustington.

1969 Death of MET Opera tenor Giovanni Martinelli at age 83.  1970 Death of composer Jaroslav Vogel, at age 76.

1971 Death of soprano and coach Franziska Martiensson-Lohmann. 

1974 Death of Belgian composer Jean Absil in Brussels at age 80. 1976 Death of composer Maurice Jacobson, at age 80. 1977 FP of Ned Rorem's A Quaker Reader for organ, in NYC.

1979 Birth of composer Marcus Hoffman.

1981 Death of soprano Xenia Belmas. 

1984 Death of soprano Margherita Perras.

1985 Death of bass Marco Stefanoni.

1986 Death of coach Margaret Krauss. 1987 Death of English composer and conductor Spike Partick Hughes.

1988 Death of British pianist Solomon Cutner.

1993 FP of Liebermann's Quintet for Piano & Strings, Peter Orth, piano; the Franciscan Quartet. 1993 Death of baritone Gino Bechi.

2000 Death of tenor Marcel Vercammen. 

2002 FP of Philip Glass' Symphony No. 6. American Composers Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies at Carnegie Hall in NYC.

2003 Death of American composer Lou Harrison at age 85 in Lafayette, Indiana.

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Hans Bechstein (1872 - 1943),  Tenor . First he received his education as pianist as well as as an actor at the Academy of music in Munich and began his stage activity in 1893 at the Municipal Theater of Luzern as an actor. Then he appeared in Meiningen, Nuremberg and at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich (1899-1900), where he already began to appear as singer. Then he stuied singing in Munich and made his debut as singer at the  Stadttheater of Lübeck (1902-1903). Then he sang at the Hoftheater of Altenburg in Thuringia, in the 1907-1908 season at the Stadttheater of Mülhausen (Elsaß), in the 1908-1911 seasons at the Stadttheater of Bremen. He counted as one of the most significant tenors of character parts in Germany. His best part was Mime in Nibelungenring, which he sang more than 300 times at important international guest performances. He appeared as Mime in the 1907-1914 seasons at the Covent Garden in London. In 1922 he created the part of Mime during the first entire performance of the Ring Cycle at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He guested at the Hofopern in Dresden (1905) and Berlin (1909, as Mime), in Amsterdam (1908 as Steuermann in ‘’Fliegenden Holländer’’), at the Hoftheatern of Mannheim (1909) and Wiesbaden (1910), at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in 1922 at Rio de Janeiro. In 1913 he sang at the Covent Garden in the English première of the opera ‘’Colonel Chabert’’ of Waltershausen. The same year he formed in the première there of Richard Strauss’s ‘’Der Rosenkavalier’’ as Valzacchi. During the 1920’s he took part in an USA tour with appearances in Chicago and Philadelphia and was often to be heard at the Staatsoper in Munich. He also appeared as an operetta singer. He was active in Munich also in an educational area. Since 1933 he had to give up as a Jew in Germany his career.