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Shéhérazade – Maurice Ravel / René Magritte
Shéhérazade est le titre de trois poèmes pour voix et orchestre de Maurice Ravel sur des vers de Tristan Klingsor. Asie à Jeane Hatto « Asie, Asie, Asie, Vieux pays merveilleux des contes de nourrice, Où dort la fantaisie Comme une impératrice En sa forêt tout emplie de mystères, Asie, Je voudrais m’en aller avec ma goélette Qui … Continue reading
Giuseppe Verdi: The Italian born a Frenchman
Addio, del passato bei sogni ridenti, Le rose del volto già son pallenti; L’amore d’Alfredo pur esso mi manca, Conforto, sostegno dell’anima stanca Ah, della traviata sorridi al desio; A lei, deh, perdona; tu accoglila, o Dio, Or tutto finì. Le gioie, i dolori tra poco avran fine, La tomba ai mortali di tutto è … Continue reading
Die Walküre – Richard Wagner / Daniel Barenboim
Sieglinde C’est toi l’Avril rêvé par mon âme, aux mois désolés d’hiver : mon coeur t’accueillit d’augustes frissons, quand tes yeux vers moi fleurirent. Tout pour moi fut étranger ; sans joie mon entourage ; mon coeur jamais ne comprit, ce qui vint jusqu’à moi. Mais toi seul ce coeur t’a reconnu : dès l’instant … Continue reading
Bomarzo: Mujica Láinez / Ginastera
Bomarzo is a novel by the Argentine writer Manuel Mujica Láinez, written in 1962 and later adapted by its author to an opera libretto set by Alberto Ginastera, which had its premiere in Washington, D.C., in 1967. It is set in the eerie and surrealistic Italian Renaissance town and palace of Bomarzo and concerns the … Continue reading
Porgy and Bess – George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. It was based on DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward. All three works deal with African-American life in the fictitious Catfish Row (based on the area of Cabbage Row) … Continue reading
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