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jeudi 22 juillet 2010

Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky (2008)

Recorded at the 2007 Salzburg Festival, this production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin features an excellent, young cast and the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by maestro Daniel Barenboim. Director Andrea Breth has created an intimate production that mines the depths of expression and charisma of her singer-actors and integrates silent secondary episodes and miniature dramas to heighten the intensity of the story. The title role--a tour de force for any baritone--is taken by Peter Mattei, who starred as Figaro in the Metropolitan Opera's HD Live Broadcast of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. He is joined by dazzling young Russian soprano Anna Samuil, a protégée of Daniel Barenboim who has been acclaimed as a vibrant new presence on the opera stage. The opera includes a wonderful performance from the young tenor, Joseph Kaiser, recently acclaimed for perfomances at The Met opposite Anna Netrebko in Roméo et Juliette, as well as a solid contribution from bass Ferruccio Furlanetto. The DVD has been filmed in HD, with 5.1 DTS surround sound and PCM stereo.

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lundi 21 juin 2010

Eugene Onegin- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, this production of Eugene Onegin was the centerpiece of the European Union Opera's inaugural program. Director Nikolaus Lehnhoff's production moves from a sunny first scene, carefree in the Russian country summer, all in whites and pale gold, to the black intensity of the St. Petersburg reception, a society tightly corseted, the polonaise seething with repressed emotion. Along the way, Tatyana's imaginative day-dreaming transforms into grim reality. In the letter scene, romantic novels are clearly a part of her bedroom; afterwards, the bookcase, though present awhile on stage, gradually sinks out of sight beneath the floor. Come the duel, a great white sheet draped across the stage blanks out everything that has been seen so far, before the black despair of the final scene. In the pit, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky electrifies Onegin with a Russian's passion.

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Eugene Onegin, a Russian dandy who is bored with life, inherits a country mansion from his uncle. When he moves to the country, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with the minor poet Vladimir Lensky. One day, Lensky takes Onegin to dine with the family of his fiancée Olga Larina. At this meeting, Olga's bookish sister, Tatyana (Tanya), falls in love with Onegin. That night, Tatyana writes a letter to Onegin professing her love and sends it to him. While this is something a heroine in one of Tatyana's French novels would have done, Russian society would consider it inappropriate for a young, unmarried girl to take the initiative. Contrary to her expectations, Onegin does not reply by letter. The two meet on his next visit where he rejects her advances in a speech that has been described as tactful yet condescending.

Later, Lensky nonchalantly invites Onegin to Tatyana's name day celebration promising a small gathering with just Tatyana, her sister, and her parents. When Onegin arrives, he finds instead a grandiose ball reminiscent of the fast-paced world he has grown tired of. To exact revenge on Lensky, Onegin proceeds to flirt and dance with Olga. Lensky leaves in a rage, and in the morning issues a challenge to Onegin to fight a duel. At the duel Onegin kills Lensky, then flees.

Tatyana visits Onegin's mansion where she reads through his books and the notes in the margins, and through this comes to believe that Onegin's character is merely a collage of different literary heroes, and so there is no "real Onegin." Later, Tanya is taken to Moscow and introduced to society. In this new environment, Tanya matures to such an extent that when Onegin later meets her in St. Petersburg, he fails to recognise her. When he realises who she is he tries to win her affection despite the fact that she is now married, but his advances are rebuffed. He writes her several letters but receives no reply. The book ends when Onegin manages to see Tanya and is once again rejected in a speech where she admits both her love for him and the absolute loyalty she nevertheless has for her husband. In echoing the speech he previously gave her, she also demonstrates her emotional and moral superiority to Onegin.

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The Great Composers: Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky[DVD + 2 CDs] (2006)

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CD1

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Piano Concerto N° 1 in B flat minor Op. 23: Allegro non troppo
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Piano Concerto N° 1 in B flat minor Op. 23: Andantino semplice
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Piano Concerto N° 1 in B flat minor Op. 23: Allegro con fuaco
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Violon Concerto in D major Op. 35: Allegro moderato
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Violon Concerto in D major Op. 35: Andante
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Violon Concerto in D major Op. 35: Allegro vivacissimo
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Dumka, for piano solo, in C minor Op. 59

CD2

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Swan Lake, Ballet suite Op.20 - 1. scene
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Swan Lake, Ballet suite Op. 20 - 2.valse
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Swan Lake, Ballet suite Op. 20 - 3.danse des cygnes
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Swan Lake, Ballet suite Op. 20 - 4.scene
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Swan Lake, Ballet siute Op. 20 - 5.danse hongroise (Csardas)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Swan Lake, Ballet siute Op. 20- 6.scene
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Sleeping Beauty, Ballet Op. 66A- 7.introduction - La Fée des l
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Sleeping Beauty, Ballet Op. 66A- 8.valse
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Nutcracker, Op. 71A - 9.ouverture miniature
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Nutcracker, Op. 71A - 10.marche
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Nutcracker, Op. 71A - 11.danse de la Fée dragée-sugar-plum fa
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Nutcracker, Op. 71A - 12.Danse russe (Trepak)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Nutcracker, Op. 71A - 13.Danse arabe
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Nutcracker, Op. 71A - 14.Danse Chinoise
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Nutcracker, Op. 71A - 15.Danse des Mirlitons
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Nutcracker, Op. 71a - 16. Valse des fleurs
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Waltz from Seranade for Strings in C major Op. 48
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Méditation Op 42/1
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyitch Mélodie Op. 42/3

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Eugene Onegin (2 CD)- Tchaikovsky -1988

Eugene Onegin (2 CD)- Tchaikovsky -1988
T. Allen, Freni, von Otter, Shicoff, Burchuladze, James Levine conducting
APE tracks | Opera | 648 MB | No scans+No cue or log | RS.com

Eugen Onegin est l’un des opéras russes, avec Boris Godounov de Moussorgski, les plus représentés hors de son terroir. Pour les Russes, il cristallise particulièrement bien l’âme nationale par ses personnages psychologiquement très aboutis et est, de ce fait, plus russe que Godounov. Pourtant hors de Russie, c’est plutôt Boris Godounov qui fait figure d’archétype de l’opéra russe, avec son abondance de voix graves et sa musique plus rugueuse. D’un point de vue musical, Eugen Onegin est en effet très influencé par l’opéra occidental, mais le sujet et les personnages sont particulièrement russes. L’adaptation de la grande œuvre de Pouchkine a été vécue au pays comme un blasphème par certains et il fallut presque 15 ans avant que l’œuvre de Tchaïkovski ne se fixe véritablement dans le répertoire.

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