Un guide d'écoute pour affiner son oreille avant (et/ou après !) le spectacle.
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Raphaëlle Blin, musicologue, vous propose d'étudier quelques passages de "La Traviata" de Verdi.

🎥 Pour aller plus loin, découvrez la vidéo d'introduction à l'œuvre : https://youtu.be/c-wL7inqqRw

Bonne écoute !


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Verdi : La Traviata
Carlo Rizzi, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, 
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Anna Netrebko, 
Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson etc.

Illustration © Gilles Aillaud

Opéra | Guide d'écoute | La Traviata de Verdi

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Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata

We follow the convulsions of Italian society -- foreign invasion, popular revolution, peasant revolt, liberal reform, Romantic pageantry, diplomatic dirty dealings, and patriotic war -- through which the residents of a fragmented, poor, and backwards section of Europe overthrew the puppet regimes of foreign rulers and challenged the internal power of the Church, to seize control of their own destiny and create a new nation-state that would take its place among the major powers of the world.

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Musical passage: "Va, Pensiero" from Nabuco, Lyrics by Temistocle Solera, music by Giuseppe Verdi, performed by Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra

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Rigoletto: Annotated Listening Guide

En este episodio de Detrás del telón, coreógrafo Ricardo Aponte comparte la sinopsis de Rigoletto. Las funciones en el Dorothy Chandler Pavilion serán del 31 de maio al 21 de junio. Las entradas ya están disponibles en LAOpera.org.

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James Conlon's Pre-Performance Talk on Rigoletto

En este episodio de Detrás del telón, Gerardo Kleinburg explora el clásico de Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto, a través de tres lentes: el contexto sociopolítico de la ópera, su estilo y estructura musical, y su lugar en el arco creativo de Verdi como compositor. 

Gerardo Kleinburg: Rigoletto

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In this episode, musicologist Dr. Holley Replogle-Wong illuminates the women of Rigoletto and their archetypes, drawing on history, literature, and fine arts. This lecture was recorded as part of Opera for Educators, LA Opera Connects' professional development series for teachers and anyone interested in a deeper dive. Tickets to Verdi's Rigoletto are available now at LAOpera.org. 

The Women of Verdi's Rigoletto with Dr. Holley Replogle-Wong

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Va, pensiero - Verdi (Practice Demo with Clarinet Guide – Soprano 1)

In this episode, LA Opera Chorus Director Jeremy Frank sits down with Rigoletto star Quinn Kelsey to discuss the baritone's artistic journey, his experience of embodying one of Verdi's most iconic roles, and how his Hawaiian cultural heritage has influenced it all. Playing now through June 21, tickets to Verdi's Rigoletto are available at LAOpera.org.

Rigoletto in Conversation with Quinn Kelsey and Jeremy Frank

This episode is an in-depth analysis of the music of Rigoletto, with LA Opera Chorus Director Jeremy Frank. From his piano, Jeremy takes us on a journey through the music of Rigoletto, providing context from the end of the bel canto period into Verdi's early, middle, and late periods. This episode was recorded as part of LA Opera's learning series, now known as Exploring Opera. Tickets for Rigoletto are available now at LA Opera.org.

Exploring Opera: Rigoletto with Jeremy Frank

Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written in 1846 it was Verdi's tenth opera and also the first of Shakespeare's plays which he adapted for the operatic stage.

In Act II Macbeth has murdered King Duncan and become king, but plots the murder of Banco and his son Fleance to thwart the prophecy that Banco’s children will rule Scotland. As the assassins lie in wait for Banco outside the castle, Banco sings his recitative and aria “Studia il passo  -Come dal ciel precipita” (Watch your step - How from the heaven falls), in which he warns his son about his feeling of foreboding. The aria’s noble, rich unfolding comes to an impassioned peak just before the coda, when the assassins strike him down but fail to halt his escaping son.

The aria was written for basso profondo (here transcribed for baritone). My attempt had me step out of my comfort zone, both in expression and in range. The piano as always was brilliantly played by Helen Roberts.
I hope you'll enjoy our performance.

Lyrics

Studia il passo, o mio figlio...
Usciam da queste tenèbre...
Un senso ignoto
Nascer mi sento in petto,
Pien di tristo presagio e di sospetto.

Come dal ciel precipita
L'ombra più sempre oscura!
In notte ugual trafissero
Duncano, il mio signor.
Mille affannose immagini
M'annunciano sventura,
E il mio pensiero ingombrano
Di larve e di terror.

English:

Be careful how you go, o my son...
Let’s go out from this darkness...
I feel something unknown
Growing in my heart,
Fraught with sad premonition and suspicion.

How the shade falls from heaven
More and more obscure !
On such another night as this
They stabbed to death Duncan, my lord.
A thousand nightmares
Are foretelling me misfortune,
And are oppressing my mind
With ghosts and dread.

Come dal ciel precipita (Macbeth - Giuseppe Verdi - with Helen Roberts)

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