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1 Feb
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 7pm
Luca Francesconi. Quartett
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Allison Cook soprano, the marquise de Merteuil
Robin Adams baryton, the vicomte de Valmont
Orchestra dell'Accademia del Teatro alla Scala
Conductor Sussan Mälkki
IRCAM computer music design Serge Lemouton
Recording of the choir and orchestra at La Scala in Milan Julien Aléonard
Carried by the music of Luca Francesconi and the words of Heiner Müller that reinvent the Dangerous Liaisons, the opera Quartett interpenetrates three worlds.
The interior, a post-apocalyptic space where two solitary monsters caught up in a delirium of masks, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, collide; the exterior, the thoughts and conspiracies of the protagonists; and outside, a space of metaphysical forces like attraction and magnetism, the only space capable of absorbing the psychological tension in Quartett.
IRCAM's technology was called upon to create this spatial staging for the work’s premiere at la Scala in Milan, directed by La Fura Dels Bauls: passage from a microscopic dimension to the occupation of almost the entire theater-world, vocal grafts that incarnate the feminine side of de Valmont and the masculinity of de Merteuil, the founding and sonorous ambiguities of a "quartet" for two.
Also on 2nd April.
Luca Francesconi : Quartett
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1 Feb
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 7.30pm
Marc-André Hamelin, Dvoøák and Ornstein
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Marc-André Hamelin
piano
Pacifica Quartet
Composer-pianists, once the norm, occupy a small but remarkable minority today. Marc-André Hamelin’s growing catalogue of compositions includes works for solo piano and a dark-hued set of nineteen variations for piano quintet. His Passacaglia serves as the ideal companion to Dvoøák’s Piano Quintet in A Op. 81, recognised among the genre’s masterworks.
The Pacifica Quartet and Hamelin turn to Leo Ornstein’s enchanting Piano Quintet of 1927, a monumental work brimming with scintillating energy, strong echoes of Jewish cantorial chant and vivid emotions.
Marc-André Hamelin : Passacaglia for piano quintet
Antonin Dvorak : Piano Quintet in A Op. 81
Leo Ornstein : Piano Quintet
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2 Feb
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 7.30pm
Powder Her Face
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
Conductor: Timothy Redmond
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
Designer: Ultz
Lighting Designer: Adam Silverman
Movement Director: Imogen Knight
Librettist: Philip Hensher
Duchess: Amanda Roocroft
Maid: Clare Eggington
Hotel Manager: Alan Ewing
Electrician: Alexander Sprague
Powder Her Face charts the glamorous rise and seedy fall of the notorious socialite beauty Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. A former deb of the year, the ‘Dirty Duchess’ was at the centre of a scandalous divorce case in 1963, the year of the Profumo Affair, when the Establishment was caught with its pin-striped trousers round its ankles. Drawing on episodes from the Duchess’s colourful life, not least her sexually voracious appetite, a mythical portrayal of this elegant yet ultimately tragic figure emerges
Powder Her Face launched Adès’s international career in 1995 and remains one of his most performed works. His dazzlingly precocious score is as witty, poignant and memorable as the Duchess herself, paying homage to the popular idioms of cabaret and tango, as well as to Weill, Berg and Stravinsky.
Making his opera directing debut is Joe Hill-Gibbins, one of the most exciting talents in British theatre, in a new site-specific production created within Ambika P3, London’s newest performing environment. Productions at the Royal Court (The Village Bike) and Young Vic (The Glass Menagerie) have earned Hill-Gibbins a loyal following and his recent National Theatre staging of Marlowe’s Edward II has only served to confirm his reputation. Returning to ENO after triumphs in Janácek, Britten and Strauss is Olivier Award-winning soprano Amanda Roocroft as the infamous Duchess.
Performances until April 19th.
Thomas Ades : Powder Her Face
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