#benjamin bruns

[mozart2006]

Staatsoper Stuttgart -Die Frau ohne Schatten (in italiano)

Foto ©Matthias Baus Per i lettori poco pratici della lingua tedesca, ecco la mia recensione tradotta in italiano

[josefavomjaaga]

When writing Soult I’d like to mention and write his aides as well, but I don’t think I have a very good grasp on their personalities rather than treating them as a collective excitable drunk blob - if you had to describe each of them in a few words/traits, what would that be?

That's a harder question than I thought because "collective excitable drunk blob" is precisely how I see them, too, most of the time. 😁

So, looking at them a little more closely:

Saint-Chamans: not exactly the brightest one, stubborn, feeling rather entitled, more adventurer than soldier, childlike to the point of childishness

Petiet: similar sense of entitledness, but whinier and somewhat insecure, often feels like he's left out, the "silent kid" (?), loves getting presents, extremely proud when he feels Soult is pleased with him

Lameth: outspoken, rather clever, ambitious and courageous, great sense of humour, also the least scared of his imposing marshal/dragon, dares to contradict him on occasion

Brun: the "good kid" who feels he needs to clean up after his unruly siblings and occasionally even his marshal/dragon, good education, silent, independent thinker, hard worker

That's the main four during the imperial period, I guess, of the others I do not have a very clear picture myself. Little Anthoine de Saint-Joseph seems to have been the Benjamin of the military family, the little one everybody felt they needed to protect a little (and who probably was very proud when the "big brothers" included him in their shenanigans). You could also include Bory de Saint-Vincent as the guy who is always off doing stuff that has nothing to do with the campaign, like collecting plants or drawing landscapes. Not sure what you would do with Pierre Soult and Coco Lefebvre - in your AU, they would need to be dragons, I guess?

Then there's of course Franceschi who started out as Soult's aide but had moved on to become a cavalry general and aide-de-camp to Joseph Bonaparte. He seems to have been very brave personally, but also a very affable, accomodating character, often trying to mediate (between Soult and Saint-Chamans but also Soult and Joseph). As a painter and close friend of Dragon!Soult, maybe Soult would put him in charge of the painting collection?

(And now I have an image in my head of the ADCs clumsily hanging up Soult's treasured hoard of human artwork in whatever place Soult dozes in, with Soult barking orders because the paintings are not placed correctly, are crooked, Louise trying to calm him down and Franceschi finally taking over and arranging the collection as it should be.)

[tuttocenere]

Schubert, Winterreise, Lars David Nilsson / Peter Mattei, 2019

I listened to this album out of some completionist impulse. See, I have internet acquaintances who really like this singer. So when I saw he had recorded a Winterreise, naturally I had to hear it.

I like how the cover is the exact opposite of Benjamin Bruns'. Drawing up the coat collar, hair all gelled, but staring at the viewer in front of a light background instead of walking away towards a dark forest.

But enough about the visuals. Is it good? Honestly, yes. I really like the piano. It has a nice pearly sound like a little river. The singing is beautiful and even has a bit of emotional expression here and there. The pronunciation is not really wrong, but mushy and incomprehensible, not how I prefer it. It does help the music flow and flow if you're just listening to it for ambiance and don't want to understand the text.

In short, this record makes every part of the Winterreise lovely, even the ones that aren't really meant to be. That might sound like I don't like it, but I do.

How I found it: searched for winterreise in my music app

[shaddad]

da série le nouveau monde de benjamin le brun

[canadianabroadvery]

The Photography of Benjamin Le Brun

1) Entertainment workers

2)  The three Nymphs

https://www.witness-this.com/photo/benjamin-le-brun

[grompf3]

Politique française : la gauche, le verre d'eau et le crachat.

Causons politique française.

Petite allégorie de la gauche.

Vous marchez dans le désert. Vous avez soif.

Vous avez très soif.

Vous avez très, très soif.

Vous crevez de soif.

Et moi, Tonton Grompf, je débarque, et je vous propose un verre d'eau. Un grand verre d'eau.

Et je crache, ostensiblement, dans le grand verre d'eau. Devant vous.

Un gros crachat, bien épais, bien jaune.

Et je vous tends le grand verre d'eau. Avec ce gros crachat, bien épais, bien jaune.

Vous ne le prenez pas. Vous reculez, avec une expression mêlant dégoût et colère.

Et moi je vous fais : "Quoi ? Pourquoi tu le prends pas ce verre d'eau ? Tu prétendais avoir soif ! TU FAISAIS SEMBLANT, C'EST ÇA ? TU DIS QUE TU AS SOIF, MAIS DANS LE FOND C'EST PAS VRAI ! TU TE FOCALISES SUR CETTE HISTOIRE DE CRACHAT, MAIS CE N'EST QU'UN PRÉTEXTE !"

...

Vous arrivez à imaginer la scène ?

J'écrivais ça début avril 2022 :

Et je peux le réécrire maintenant. Et je pourrai sans doute le réécrire encore en 2027. Ça dure depuis des années.

Les débats chez les sympathisants de gauche en France me font penser à ce verre d'eau que je vous tends, avec un gros crachat dedans.

Et je vous accuse de chercher des prétextes, des excuses pour ne pas boire.

Le prétexte. L'excuse.

Pourtant, si vraiment je voulais vous désaltérer, je me contenterais de vous tendre un verre d'eau. Je ne m'amuserais pas à cracher dedans avant de vous le tendre.

Ça veut dire quoi avoir des idéaux de gauche ?

Vaste question et je vais pas y répondre.

Mais je vais vous poser 2-3 questions.

Première question. Est-ce que c'est un truc fondamental de gauche que de raconter n'importe quoi sur la Russie et l'Ukraine depuis des années, en prônant une politique qui reviendrait à laisser Poutine asservir les Ukrainiens et massacrer ceux qui refuseraient son joug ?

Vous voyez pas de quoi je cause ? Je vous donne des exemples alors...

Deuxième question. Est-ce que c'est un truc fondamental de la gauche que de soutenir un charlatan fraudeur dans le cadre d'une crise sanitaire très grave et de s'en prendre à celles et ceux qui dénoncent ce charlatanisme et cette fraude ? Autre question, très liée à celle-ci. Est-ce que c'est un truc fondamental de la gauche que de semer la peur et la confusion sur les vaccins, alors que toute l'ED, toute la complosphère et tous les rouge-bruns s'amusent déjà à ça ?

Vous voyez pas de quoi je cause ? Je vous donne des exemples alors...

Troisième question. Est-ce que c'est un truc fondamental de gauche que de diffuser des sous-entendus conspis à quasiment chaque élection, par exemple en remettant en cause les résultat ?

Etc

Etc

Etc

Et je pourrais vous poser plein d'autres questions sur d'autres sujets.

...

Je reviens à mon allégorie.

Vous avez soif, très soif.

Je vous tends ce verre d'eau.

Je crache dedans. Devant vous. Impossible pour vous de faire semblant de ne pas voir. Vous m'avez vu cracher. Vous le voyez ce truc jaunâtre flottant dans l'eau.

Alors ? Vous buvez ?

Hein ?

C'est urgent ? Y'a pas de temps à perdre ? Y'a pas le choix ? On réfléchira après ? Ceux qui refuseront seront complices de la droite et de l'extrême-droite ?

Ça fait combien d'années que c'est urgent ? Qu'il n'y a pas de temps à perdre ? Qu'il n'y a pas le choix ? Qu'on réfléchira après ? Que ceux qui refusent sont complices de la droite et de l'extrême-droite ?

Et ça va durer encore combien d'années ?

Petite parenthèse me concernant. Je suis l'actu française... Mais je ne suis ni de nationalité française, ni résident en France. Je suis binational suisse et espagnol.

Je suis l'actu française.

Entre autres parce que les conséquences vont au-delà de querelles franco-françaises.

À l'échelle du continent européen, je m'imagine par exemple ce que ça donnerait d'avoir en France une Assemblée sans majorité claire... Mais où il y aurait quand-même une majorité pour bloquer l'aide militaire à l'Ukraine.

J'essaie d'imaginer.

Et ne me dites pas que le Président de la République gère la politique étrangère et la défense. S'il faut envoyer de l'aide, il faut du pognon. Donc il faut des budgets votés à l'Assemblée.

...

Bon, je vous laisse. Je vais me servir un verre d'eau du robinet. Bien claire et bien fraîche.

[philippedurand8900]

RETRAITES - Meetings unitaire partout en France !

Retrouvez les meetings unitaires près de chez vous !

(Ordre chronologique. Liste mise à jour régulièrement avec les compléments d'informations et de nouvelles dates. )

PARIS - 25/01 à 19h30 Digital Village, 21 rue Albert Bayet. Avec Elsa Faucillon pour le PCF, Sandrine Rousseau (EELV), Arthur Delaporte ( PS), Sophie Taillé-Polian (EELV), Danielle Simonnet (LFI).

BEAUVAIS - 26/01 à 19h30 Salle du Pré-Martinet. Avec Stéphane Peu pour le PCF, Cyrielle Châtelain (EELV), Antoine Léaument ( LFI), Benjamin Lucas (Génération·s), Philippe Brun (PS).

AUXERRE - 27/01 à 19h - Salle de réception Jules Ferry rive droite. Avec Pascal Savoldelli pour le PCF, Florence Loury (EELV), Mani Cambfort (secrétaire départementale PS), Arnaud Legall (LFI).

NYONS - 27/01. Avec Jean-Marc Durand pour le PCF, Manuel Bompard (LFI), Marie Pochon (EELV).

MOULINS - 27/01 à 18h30. Avec Yannick Monnet pour le PCF, Marianne Maximi (LFI).

SOTTEVILLE-LES-ROUEN - 30/01 à 19h Salle buddicum. Avec Hubert Wulfranc pour le PCF, Alma Dufour (LFI), Gérard Leseul (PS), Julie Godichaud (conseillère municipale EELV).

TULLE - 30/01 à 19h30 Salle Latreille bas. Avec Nicolas Marlin pour le PCF, Damien Maudet (LFI), François Piquemal (LFI), Chloé Herzhaft (EELV).

LA COURNEUVE - 1/02 Salle des fêtes rue Gabriel Péri. Avec Soumya Bourouaha pour le PCF, Raquel Garrido (LFI), Fathia Keloua-Hachi et Stéphane Troussel (PS), parlementaire EELV.

SAINT-NAZAIRE - 1/02 à 20h Salle Alvéole. Avec Véronique Mahé pour le PCF, Matthias Tavel (LFI), Mathilde Panot (présidente du groupe parlementaire LFI), Philippe Brun (PS), Julie Laernoes (EELV), Arash Saedi (coordinateur national Generation·s).

DIEPPE - 2/02 à 18H Salle des congrès. Avec Sébastien Jumel et Fabien Gay pour le PCF, François Ruffin (LFI), Marie-Charlotte Garin (EELV).

LILLE - 2/02 à 19h. Avec Fabien Roussel pour le PCF, Marine Tondelier (EELV) ; Roger Vicot (PS), LFI, Generation·s.

TOURS - 2/02 à 19h30 Centre de vie du Sanitas, 10 Pl. Neuve avec Ian Brossat pour le PCF, François Piquemal (LFI), Charles Fournier (EELV), Evelyne Dourille-Feer, (économiste et membre d’Attac).

SAINT-AGATHON - 3/02 à 19h30 Salle de la Grande Ourse, 9 rue de Hent Meur. Avec Pascal Bonneau pour le PCF, Murielle LEPVRAUD, Manon AUBRY et François Piquemal (LFI), Hervé Guihard (Place publique), Gérard Mauduit (Ensemble), Christian Renard (POI), Tugdual Le Lay (Génération·s).

NÎMES - 10/02 à 19h Centre Andre Malraux 2 Avenue de Lattre de Tassigny 30000 Nîmes. Avec Fabien Roussel pour le PCF, Boris Vallaud (PS), Manuel Bompard (LFI), Raymonde Poncet (EELV).

CLERMONT-FERRAND - 10/02 à 19h Maison du Peuple. Avec André Chassaigne pour le PCF, Sophie Taillé-Polian (Génération·s), Christine Pires-Beaune (PS), Marianne Maximi (LFI).

[mozart2006]

Staatsoper Stuttgart - Die Frau ohne Schatten

Foto ©Matthias Baus Die Neuproduktion von Die Frau ohne Schatten, mit der die Staatsoper Stuttgart die Spielzeit 2023/24 eröffnete, war ursprünglich vor drei Jahren geplant Continue reading Untitled

[monotonous-minutia]

favorite Sesto moments from the Vienna 2016 La clemenza di Tito

(Margarita Gritskova as Sesto)

[tuttocenere]

Schubert, Winterreise, Karola Theill / Benjamin Bruns, 2021

This one's very beautiful to me. I listened to it while walking along the castle walls in 15° light rain and I did not want to turn around, spent the whole time just gazing down at the city. Saw some geese leave for the winter, saw all the people already decked out in their black and grey winter gear, really enjoyed all of it.

The piano stays in the background here, the focus is on the singing. And that I like a lot. It's very expressive from the very first note. And it has some really cool character development over the course of the piece.

Winterreise is often played as the narrator starting out relatively calm and becoming increasingly desperate as the story goes on. But I think it should be the opposite. The singer starts out in turmoil, and walking through the frozen landscape, he slowly comes to terms with his fate. Whether the hurdy-gurdy man at the end represents death or some sort of new goal, at least he now knows where he's going.

And this is what I am hearing in this recording. So naturally I like it.

How I found it: I have liked this singer ever since he appeared in that 2010ish Flying Dutchman recording.

[shaddad]

da série le centre des loisirs de benjamin le brun

[verdiprati]

Mostly mezzo Mondays: rarities with DiDonato and Desandre, recitals with Padmore and Gens

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

This week’s list has two themes: rarely-performed works with notable performers and recitals by singers whose work I’m not very familiar with, but who are liked by people who also like singers I like (can you follow that?).

Mark Padmore and Roger Vignoles perform Schubert’s song cycle Die schöne Müllerin at the Teatro de la Zarzuela. Thursday, May 4 on Radio Clásica. 

The rarely-performed French baroque opera Alcione, with a cast led by up-and-comers Lea Desandre and Cyril Auvity, will be livestreamed from the Opera Comique (performance info here). Jordi Savall conducts Le Concert des Nations performing the music by Marin Marais. Saturday, May 6 on Culturebox. (Video livestream of a fully staged opera.)

Schubert’s Mass No. 5 in A Major might or might not count as “rare” but I don’t think it’s very commonly performed. A recent performance by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with standout soloists (Genia Kühmeier, Claudia Huckle, Benjamin Bruns, and Matthew Rose) will be broadcast Saturday, May 6 on Kulturradio RBB. 

Joyce DiDonato made her solo debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last fall singing a work that was also new to the CSO: “La Canzone dei Ricordi,” a song cycle by Giuseppe Martucci. (Review here; full program in PDF here.) Sunday, May 7 on WFMT.

Véronique Gens and Susan Manoff perform a program of French song in a short lunchtime recital at the Wigmore Hall. Monday, May 8 on BBC Radio 3.

[runnning-outof-time]

My Peaky Playlist

I was trying to think of the best way to do this because I don’t have Spotify (please don’t roast me), so I couldn’t just post a playlist.

So down below I’ve listed the songs that I have on my ‘Peaky playlist’ aka songs that remind me of Tommy/Peaky Blinders and help me get into writing.

Disclaimer: I started this playlist when I started writing To Be Alone, so a lot of the songs will probably be reminiscent of that story, but I’ve found it helpful/fitting as I continued to keep writing for Peaky. Also the songs are in no particular order...I just copied my playlist from how I added them

State Lines - Novo Amor

I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Jos Slovick

How to Win - The Native Sibling

To Be Alone - Hozier

March of Flames - Erick Serna and The Killing Floor

All My Tears - Ane Brun

Dipped In Bleach - Liam St. John

Grandfather Collar - Liam St. John (HUGE Tommy vibes)

Climbing up the Walls - Radiohead

Work Song - Hozier

False God - Ryan Hurd

Anything You Want - Bishop Gunn

Devil Is a Woman - Bishop Gunn

Silver Street - Bishop Gunn

Makin’ It - Bishop Gunn

Is This Desire? - PJ Harvey

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (duh)

Woman at the Well - Israel Nash

Just Like Water - Israel Nash

Rain Plans - Israel Nash

Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5

Shiver - Maroon 5

Secret - Maroon 5

Ticking Bomb - Aloe Blacc

Shackles & Chains - Benjamin Josif & Rupert Pope

River Run - Benjamin Josif & Rupert Pope

Colors - Black Pumas

Come to Your Senses - Alexandria Shipp & Vanessa Hudgens

To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra

Put Me in the Ground - Daniel Nunnelee

Rear View - Rafael Casal

No Feels - Rafael Casal & Daveed Diggs

Shivers - Ed Sheeran

Afterglow - Ed Sheeran

Make It Rain - Ed Sheeran

I’m a Mess - Ed Sheeran

Bloodstream - Ed Sheeran

I See Fire - Ed Sheeran

Kiss Me - Ed Sheeran

This - Ed Sheeran

Give Me Love - Ed Sheeran

Stardust Chords - Greta Van Fleet

Broken Bells - Greta Van Fleet

Woman - Harry Styles

No Plan - Hozier

Take Me to Church - Hozier

My Fair Lady - KALEO

Free the Slave - KALEO

Brother Run Fast - KALEO

Backbone - KALEO

Into My Mother’s Arms - KALEO

Way Down We Go - KALEO

Broken Bones - KALEO

Save Yourself - KALEO

I Can’t Go On Without You - KALEO

All the Pretty Girls - KALEO

Heaven Loves a Fire - LAOUD

FOR YOUR LOVE - Måneskin

VENT’ANNI - Måneskin

Bridges Burn - NEEDTOBREATHE

Brother - Kodaline

High Hopes - Kodaline

The Beach - The Neighbourhood

Prey - The Neighbourhood

Single - The Neighbourhood

Afraid - The Neighbourhood

Quicksand - Rafael Casal

Between Heaven & Hell - Rob Saffi

Copy Comic - Robert Francis

Please - Sawyer Fredericks

Crossfire - Stephen

Remembering Myself - Stephen

The War - SYML

Lady May - Tyler Childers

All Your’n - Tyler Childers

Nose on the Grindstone - Tyler Childers

Mountain Hymn - Rhiannon Giddens

Unshaken - D’Angelo

Crash of Worlds - Rocco DeLuca

Something in the Water - Daveed Diggs

The Devil Inside - Daniel Murphy, Anthony Sanudo & Eric Serna

I Know You - Skylar Grey

I Need You - M83

Young and Beautiful - Lana Del Ray

Wicked Games - The Weeknd

Unsteady - X Ambassadors

Intro - The xx

casual sabotage - YUNGBLUD

love song - YUNGBLUD

11 Minutes - YUNGBLUD

Lonely Heart - 5 Seconds of Summer

Lover of Mine - 5 Seconds of Summer

Easier (Live From The Vault) - 5 Seconds of Summer

Lie to Me (Acoustic) - 5 Seconds of Summer

Teeth (Live From The Vault) - 5 Seconds of Summer

No Shame (Live From The Vault) - 5 Seconds of Summer

All Along the Watchtower - Billy Valentine & The Forest Rangers

House of the Rising Sun - The White Buffalo

Your Hand In Mine - Explosions In the Sky

Toxic - Liam St. John

Ozark - Liam St. John

Eleanor Thornton - Liam St. John

Sleeping on the Blacktop - Colter Wall

Outlaw - Morgan Wallen

Cover Me Up - Morgan Wallen

Alabama - Bishop Gunn

Pyramid Song - Radiohead

Love Is Blindness - Jack White

Come On Over - Royal Blood

Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys

To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey

Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish

when the party’s over - Billie Eilish

bury a friend - Billie Eilish

bellyache - Billie Eilish

Catherine - PJ Harvey

Breathless - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Bring It On - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Abattoir Blues - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Sex, Drugs, Etc. - Beach Weather

Rexanimarum - Israel Nash

Catch the Sun - Doves

Seven Day Mile - The Frames

You and Whose Army - Radiohead

1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins

Arabella - Arctic Monkeys

The Meetings of the Waters - Fionn Regan

I Might Be Wrong - Radiohead

Stone - Whiskey Myers

Frogman - Whiskey Myers

COMPLETE MESS - 5 Seconds of Summer

Can’t You See - The Marshall Tucker Band

War Pigs - Black Sabbath

Ballad of a Thin Man - Richard Hawley

Turning Page - Sleeping At Last

A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall - Laura Marling

Forefathers - Liam St. John

Bury My Bones - Whiskey Myers

Reckoning - Whiskey Myers

Song of a Dead Man - Taylor John Williams

Blue Veins - The Raconteurs

Into It - Chase Atlantic

When Under Ether - PJ Harvey

Go It Alone - Beck

What He Wrote - Laura Marling

Held On Too Long - Hueston

Unmade - Thom Yorke

Pana-Vision - The Smile

Nothing Personal - Des Rocs

Skinny - KALEO

I Want More (Live at Skalholt) - KALEO

I’m Here - Celeste

Top Yourself - The Raconteurs

Naked - FINNEAS

Ain’t Nobody - Bones Owens

Burning House - Cam

Bad Man - Dustin Douglas & the Electric Gentlemen

Heavy - The Glorious Sons

Too Bad - Rival Sons

Sacred Tongue - Rival Sons

I Will Destroy the Void in You - The Glorious Sons

Where I’ve Been - Rival Sons

There’s already a lot, but I’m sure I’ll be adding more. Let me know what you think of the selections I made, or if you have any other suggestions — I always enjoy talking music!

You’re amazing if you made it down to the bottom here. ☺️💕

@look-at-the-soul & @holacia2 thanks for asking me to share — I hope you find some good songs amongst this list!

[surrealistnyc]

New Year's Day, 2022

Newly and recently published:

Victor BRAUNER, Je suis le rêve. Je suis l'inspiration, exhibition catalogue, (Le Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 2020)

Robert DESNOS, The Die is Cast, (Wakefield Press, 2021)

Pierre DHAINAUT, Ici, (Arfuyen, 2021)

Guy GIRARD, Ciel de paille, (Sonambula, 2020), for availability email info@sonambula.org

Raul HENAO, La Llave oculta, (self-published, 2020) for availability email mediumnimico@gmail.com

Jacques LACOMBLEZ, Caies d’ombre, (Sonambula, 2020)

Antoine-Vincent L'AMOUR & Sabatini LA SIESTA, Rêves hybrides, (Sonambula, 2021)

César MORO, Eternidad de la Noche. Cartas de César Moro a Emilio Westphalen 1939-1955, (FCE, 2021)

Gérard de NERVAL, The Illuminated, (Wakefield Press, 2022)

Paul NOUGÉ, Subversion of Images, (Wakefield Press, 2021)

Wolfgang PAALEN, Wolfgang Paalen, exhibition catalogue (Belvedere, 2019)

Benjamin PÉRET, Cahiers Benjamin Péret, no. 10, Sept. 2021

André PIEYRE DE MANDIARGUES, Visions de Mandiargues, edited by Alexandre Castant and Iwona Tokarska-Castant, (Filigranes Editions, 2020)

Jean RAY, Malpertuis (Wakefield Press, 2021)

Bertrand SCHMITT, Znamení Surrealismu, essays, (Analogon, 2021)

Jindřich ŠTYRSKY, Poésie de Jindřich Štyrský, a bilingual Czech/French edition translated and presented by Petr Kral, (Ab irato, 2021)

TOYEN, The Dreaming Rebel: Toyen, exhibition catalogue, edited by Anna Pravdová, Annie Le Brun, Annabelle Görgen-Lammers, (National Gallery Prague, 2021)

Also of interest:

J.G. Ballard, hardback reprint of RE/Search #8/9 devoted to Ballard, with much related to his interest in Surrealism, edited by V. Vale

Richard Khaitzine, Secrets d’Alcôve: Fulcanelli et la cosmosphère, (Arts et Symboles, 2021)

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