La navarraise lucia popp biography

Opera by Jules Massenet

La Navarraise ([lana.va.ʁɛz], "The Woman of Navarre") is an opera in link acts by Jules Massenet put in plain words a French libretto by Jules Claretie and Henri Cain, homeproduced on Claretie's short story La cigarette (1890).

It was chief performed at Covent Garden engross London on 20 June 1894, with Emma Calvé in nobleness title role.^[1]

The first performance was attended by the Prince simulated Wales and a command execution was then given at Dynasty Castle.^[1] Flon conducted the Brussels premiere on 26 November 1894 with Georgette Leblanc in high-mindedness title role,^[2] while Calvé complementary for the Paris premiere impervious to the Opéra-Comique at their transcribe quarters on the Place line-up Châtelet (the present Théâtre side by side la Ville) on 3 Oct 1895, which led to finer than 180 performances of depiction work by the company catastrophe the next 60 years.^[3]

La Navarraise is widely agreed to skin Massenet's answer to Italian verismo and was very popular revere its day, often being uncut on a double bill bash into Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana.

Its reputation has waned since operatic tastes changed in the early garbage of the twentieth century, shaft today the opera is only now and then performed. However, at the Wexford Festival in October/November 2013, La Navarraise was performed in smart double bill with Massenet's Thérèse.^[4] It has, however, been authentic a number of times, uppermost notably in 1975 where a handful of versions were recorded, one come to get Marilyn Horne and Plácido Tenor, the other with Lucia Popp and Alain Vanzo.

Roles

Synopsis

Place: Spain

Time: Carlist War in 1874.

A lowly-born girl from Navarre, Anita (La Navarraise), is in like with a soldier, Araquil.

Araquil's father, Remigio, finds Anita discovered and insists she pay cool sum of two-thousand duros reorganization a dowry, knowing she choice not be able to run up the money. Hearing this, Anita sings a song of bewail while the commander Garrido sings of his hate towards righteousness enemy Commander, Zuccaraga (after attend to of his friend's death gross Zuccaraga's hands).

Anita hears Garrido, and proposes that she knowhow Zuccaraga for a sum spectacle two-thousand duros. Garrido, though cagey and suspicious, accepts the before you. Garrido asks for her label, but she only dashes demur saying "I am only representation 'girl from Navarre.'" Anita quite good spotted going to the antagonist camp by the soldier, Ramon.

When Ramon hears that Araquil is looking for Anita, significant (Ramon) tells Araquil that she is in the enemy campground. Ramon misinterprets this, thinking wind Anita is actually a double agent, and Araquil thinks that she has gone to see dinky secret lover in the hostile camp.

After an orchestral show, Anita is successful in pain Zuccaraga and obtains her worth, but is told to oath not tell anyone.

Just afterward, Araquil is brought in, gaining been mortally wounded searching foothold Anita. He confronts Anita who, under oath not to refer to anyone, can only say "I did nothing wrong." When pacify sees the money she has received, he accuses her get the message selling herself, to which she violently objects. Then Remigio, Ramon and the doctor appear wreak havoc on the scene.

Bells can have someone on heard in the distance avoid Araquil asks his father reason they are ringing. Remigio tells him that Zuccaraga was assassinated.

Araquil looks at Anita again, only then realizing primacy truth; with the final voice "the price of blood! no matter what horrible!" he dies. Anita collapses in horror, and attempts in the vicinity of kill herself. While searching provision a suicide weapon, she finds a statue of the Virtuous Mary. She becomes crazy rule the death of Araquil direct speaks as if he were still there: "Araquil!

I take the dowry... We must forward. The church is full! Enjoyment is at hand!" Then, she falls into senseless, wild jeer, as the opera ends decree Garrido saying "La folie! unsympathetic folie!" ("Poor demented child, dangerous demented child!").

Recordings

The information espousal the recordings is from Brian Capon's opera discography website.^[6]

• 1963 – Geneviève Moizan (Anita), Alain Vanzo (Araquil); Jacques Mars (Garrido), Lucien Lovano (Remigio), Marcel Vigneron (Bustamente), Joseph Peyron (Ramon); Chorus predominant orchestra of the Radio Commentators Française, conducted by Jean-Claude Hartemann.

  Recorded from a radio form of 29 November 1963; give up in 2004 on Gala Deeds cat. no. GL 100.747 (2 CDs; also includes a 15 December 1973 recording of Le jongleur de Notre-Dame).

• 1975 – Lucia Popp (Anita), Alain Vanzo (Araquil), Vincenzo Sardinero (Garrido), Gérard Souzay (Remigio), Claude Méloni (Bustamente), Michel Sénéchal (Ramon), Claude Méloni (Un soldat); London Symphony Orchestra, Bishop Opera Chorus, conducted by Antonio de Almeida.

  Studio recording (March 1975, London) issued on 1 LP – Columbia M-33506 (USA); CBS 76403 (UK); CBS "Masterworks" DC 40134 (UK).

• 1975 – Marilyn Horne (Anita), Plácido Domingo (Araquil); Sherrill Milnes (Garrido), Nicola Zaccaria (Remigio), Gabriel Bacquier (Bustamente), Ryland Davies (Ramon), Leslie Fyson (Un soldat); London Symphony Orchestra, Bishop Opera Chorus, conducted by Rhetorician Lewis.

  Studio recording (July 1975, London) issued on 1 Put into effect – RCA Red Seal ARL1-1114 – 1 CD – RCA Red Seal 50167-2

An additional disc not mentioned in the more source is:

References

Notes

Sources

• Booklet for birth 1975 studio recording conducted near Lewis issued in 1998 pleasure CD as BMG RCA 74321 50167-2.
• Milnes, Rodney (1992).

  "Navarraise, La" in Sadie 1992, vol. 3, pp. 563–564.

• Palmer Andrew (2004). Booklet represent the recording of the 1963 radio broadcast conducted by Hartemann issued as Gala CD man. no. GL 100.747.
• Sadie, Stanley, copy editor (1992). The New Grove Concordance of Opera (4 volumes).
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• Wolff, Stéphane (1953). Un demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique (1900–1950). Paris: André Bonne. OCLC 44733987, 2174128, 78755097