Hi Karen, just a word on Niel Shicoff, I read he is singing in the Met.
as Eleazar in "La Juive" in 2003 Mazeltov.
Regards Leo -----Drogheda
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From: Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com <>
Date: 21 April 2000 17:08
Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Gretry
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 RRicciardi@S... wrote:
> Hello there, I was wondering if anybody is familiar with the work of a
> French composer, a contemporary of Mozart (I believe) named André Grétry.
> I've been told that he has very beautiful music. Any information will be
> helpful.
Gretry was born in Liege, which is now part of Francophone Belgium, in
1741. He is generally credited for founding the French opera-comique
school (i.e., operas with spoken dialogue rather than recitatives).
There is some information on him at the French Foreign Ministry
Gallery of Composers website:
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/france/musique/composit/gretry.html
This page includes a sound clip from his opera LA CARAVANE DU CAIRE (The
Caravan of Cairo).
A complete list of Gretry's works appears at:
http://idt.net/~johnp3/ume/gretry.html
The libretto for Gretry's most famous opera, ZEMIRE AND AZOR appears at:
http://www.castle.net/~rfrone/sfo/libretti/zemire.htm
A MIDI file of Zemire's ariette "La fauvette avec ses petites" appears at:
http://www.castle.net/~rfrone/music/zemire01.mid
A synopsis and link to the French libretto of his RICHARD COEUR DE LION
are at:
http://www.castle.net/~rfrone/sfo/sfo-q-r.htm#richard_coeur_de_lion
Other operas and opera-ballets by Gretry include ISABELLE ET GERTRUDE, LE
HURON, SYLVAIN, LE JUGEMENT DE MIDAS, DENYS LE TYRAN - MAITRE D'ECOLE A
CORINTHE, LE CALIFE DE BAGDAD, L'AMANT JALOUX, CEPHALE ET PROCRIS, and LE
TABLEAU PARLANT.
There is a streaming RealAudio file of Sumi Jo singing an excerpt from "Je
romps la chaine qui m'engage from L'AMANT JALOUX at:
http://www.towerrecords.com/ra/hurlPNM.exe?/towerlink/~pp-450351/0190176_010
2_07_0002.ra
There is a streaming RealAudio excerpt from the overture of LE JUDGEMENT
DE MIDAS at:
http://search.borders.com/fcgi-bin/hurlpnm?~z-473645/0142586_0101_07_0002.ra
Gretry also wrote the music that later had English text set on it by Lidie
Edmunds to create the popular hymn "My Faith Has Found A Resting Place".
His Concerto for Violin #5 in A minor (op 37) is a favourite party piece
for solo violinsts.
A Belgian documentary about Gretry won the Cannes Film Festival
documentary prize in 1955.
Karen
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Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt,
Der in den Zweigen wohnet;
Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt,
Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet.
-- J.W. von Goethe, WILHELM MEISTER
My NEIL SHICOFF Website:
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html
My Website:
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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