Planning an opera season might be compared to three-dimension chess, but the mental work must pay off in emotionally intense theater. Pittsburgh Opera's 2011-12 season will offer a fresh blend of repertoire with singers chosen for their fit with specific roles. The programming is meant to span the much loved and well known, 'La Traviata' and 'Tosca,' to revisiting operas our company hasn't done for a very long time, 'The Pearl Fishers' and 'Abduction from the Seraglio,' " says general director Christopher Hahn.
Like many of his contemporaries, Mozart was fascinated with things Turkish. Indeed, there had been a generation-long struggle between the Turks and the Austrians. After the dangers of conflict subsided, it became fashionable to drink Turkish coffee, dress up in exotic "Oriental" clothes and even to host balls alla Turca. This was seen in such stage works as "The Abduction from the Seraglio" and Gluck's "The Pilgrims to Mecca. Eighteenth-century audiences were fascinated by plots involving Europeans enslaved by Turks, especially when there was a "happy ending." In "The Abduction from the Seraglio," Constanze and her European lover were released from bondage by a benevolent Turk. The same was true of Rezia and Ali in "The Pilgrims to Mecca," who are granted pardon and freedom from slaver...
This is the week of Mozart's birthday, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating with a Mozart marathon. Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, Associate Conductor Matthew Kraemer is leading the orchestra in the bright-timbred, athletic Symphony No. 35, known as the "Haffner" after the Salzburg family who commissioned it. The concert also includes the beautiful Oboe Concerto in C, featuring the BPO's principal oboist, Pierre Roy. Rounding out the concert are two unusual pieces that reflect the fad for "Turkish" music that swept Europe in Mozart's time. Composers played at conjuring up what was seen as the exotic atmosphere of the Middle East. The concert begins with the jingly, glittering overture to Mozart's opera "The Abduction from the Seraglio," a romantic comedy set in Tu...
Opera and symphony-orchestra audiences don't always see David Tolen, but they certainly hear him. As a percussionist, he has the important job of providing coloristic punctuation or rhythmic underpinning to scores by composers ranging from Bach to Bernstein, on instruments including timpani, marimba, cymbals, bass drum, and tam-tam. And he does it with quiet, steady, and reliable professionalism. Locally, Tolen regularly performs with the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra. His most recent SFSO performance was Dec. 17, in the overture to Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio and Mahler's Symphony No. 4.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a wildly brilliant man, multilingual and cosmopolitan, says Kurt Link, who sings the role of the bumbling Osmin in Portland Opera's "Abduction from the Seraglio" opening Saturday at Portland's Keller Auditorium. Mozart could create heavy opera and light operetta. "Abduction," though light and funny, was the 26-year-old Mozart's first big success, catapulting him into the high echelons of European composers. Premiering in Vienna in 1782, it inspired the much-heard "Amadeus" quote from Emperor Joseph II: "Too many notes my dear Mozart, too many notes," to which the cheeky Mozart replied, there were exactly enough.
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The heavenly listening life The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra's pair of holiday-themed concerts last weekend at the Lensic Performing Arts Center concluded with a program called "Heavenly Joys" on Dec. 17. After opening the show with the overture to Mozart's The Abduction From the Seraglio, the orchestra was joined by French cellist Timothee Marcel for Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major. The main attraction, however, was Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G Major, which occupied the concert's second half. The playing was superb throughout, with crisp and clean ensemble work that allowed detailed inner voicings to be heard as easily as the main melody lines.
Who doesn't love Mozart? Master of brilliant, breezy music matched to matters of the heart, Mozart endures and survives even a few glitches. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio" opened Saturday at Portland's Keller Auditorium to a full house, and continues tonight and Saturday. The final opera in director Christopher Mattaliano's season themed "Living Together: When Cultures Clash and Connect," the piece remains a crowd-pleaser not too heavy, not too light. The age-old battle of the sexes and cultural misunderstandings of East versus West keep the opera on a funny, high and harmonious note.
Opera at the Source The In Series takes over the Source Theatre for several nights this month and features intimate opera performances of two Mozart adaptations. " 'Cosi Fan Tutte' Goes Hollywood" is a comedic adaptation by Nick Olcott of Mozart and Da Ponte's opera; "Abduction from the Seraglio" is another comedic English adaption, written by Kelley Rourke. Performances continue through January with showtimes varying each week. 1835 14th St. NW. 202/518-0152.
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