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--ub-tabbed-active-title-color: inherit; --ub-tabbed-active-title-background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: left; \" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-title\">9<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div role=\"tab\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-9\" aria-controls=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-9\" aria-selected=\"false\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-title-wrap\" style=\"--ub-tabbed-title-background-color: #d09f62; --ub-tabbed-active-title-color: inherit; --ub-tabbed-active-title-background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: left; \" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-title\">10<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div role=\"tab\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-10\" aria-controls=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-10\" aria-selected=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-title-wrap active\" style=\"--ub-tabbed-title-background-color: #eeeeee; --ub-tabbed-active-title-color: inherit; --ub-tabbed-active-title-background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: left; \" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-title\">11<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tabs-content\" style=\"\"><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-0\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-0\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Prince Gremin Aria (<em>Lyubvi fse vozrast\u00ef pokorn\u00ef<\/em>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by Michel-Alexandre Broekaert)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Before becoming the subject of an opera by Tchaikovsky, the story of <em>Eugene Onegin<\/em> was already well known in Russia and beyond, through the eponymous novel by Alexander Pushkin. The libretto of the opera, enhanced by the composer himself, is strongly inspired by the novel, and finds its strength in the depth of the psychological development of the central characters as well as in the percipient and uncompromising view of the society of the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It is at the heart of this rather dark and melancholic opera that we find the scene of the <em>Prince Gremin\u2019s Aria<\/em>, an ode to happiness and to the power of love that knows no age. It takes place in the middle of a ball of the high society of Saint Petersburg, at the edge of the 18th century. Close-up on Eugene Onegin who, after many years of exile, contemplates the emptiness of his existence and remains tortured by his past actions. He recognizes Tatyana among the guests, a former neighbor he had once looked up to; but here she is transformed, elegant and with the bearing of a queen. Bewitched, Onegin tries not to let anything show while the lady&#8217;s husband, a former close friend and none other than Prince Gremin himself, spontaneously launches into an unbridled profession of love.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He has been bathed in happiness since his meeting with Tatyana and does not stop sharing his happiness. Renewed hope, renewed enthusiasm, that&#8217;s how he compares her to an angel who came to rescue him from his gloom, like a ray of sunshine in the mist of his existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This piece is a moment of grace that escapes from this opera with an oppressive dramatic charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Love is no respecter of age,<br>its transports bless alike<br>those in the bloom of youth<br>yet unacquainted with the world<br>and the grey-headed warrior<br>tempered by experience!<br>Onegin, I shan&#8217;t disguise the fact<br>that I love Tatyana to distraction!<br>My life was slipping drearily away;<br>she appeared and brightened it<br>like a ray of sunlight in a stormy sky,<br>and brought me life and youth, yes, youth and happiness!<br>Among these sly, poor-spirited,<br>foolish, pampered children,<br>these scoundrels both absurd and boring,<br>dull, fractious arbiters,<br>among the pious coquettes<br>and sycophantic slaves,<br>amid affable, modish hypocrisy<br>courteous, affectionate infidelities,<br>amid the icy censure<br>of cruel-hearted vanity,<br>amid the vexing vacuity<br>of calculation, thought and conversation,<br>she shines like a star<br>in the night&#8217;s darkest hour, in a pure, clear sky,<br>and to me she always appears<br>in the radiant,<br>radiant nimbus of an angel!<\/p>\n\n<\/div><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-1\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-1\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Andr\u00e9 Gagnon: Nelligan, <em>Le Vaisseau d\u2019or<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by No\u00e9mie Raymond-Friset)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A jewel in the crown of Quebec opera music, we had to include the aria <em>Vaisseau d&#8217;or<\/em> from Andr\u00e9 Gagnon&#8217;s opera <em>Nelligan<\/em>. The opera <em>Nelligan <\/em>occupies a special place in the history of Quebec operas, if not for the fact that it has already been the subject of several readaptations, which few Quebec opera works can boast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Based on a libretto by the author Michel Tremblay, it has been described as a musical drama, a romantic opera or a musical comedy (most of the work was created by singers from the popular music world). The work, created in 1990, has been presented five times to the Quebec public, and has been well received each time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This poignant aria, full of drama and nostalgia, closes the opera. \u00c9mile, old and confined to the asylum, reflects on his life and enters into dialogue with a younger version of himself, until he completely recalls and sings this famous poem. The music is luscious and colourful and takes us into the abyss of \u00c9mile Nelligan&#8217;s torment and his <em>Vaisseau d&#8217;or.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Le Vaisseau d&#8217;or<\/em>, the opera&#8217;s signature aria, has been immortalized by Quebec tenor Marc Hervieux and, with its cosmic union of \u00c9mile Nelligan&#8217;s heart-rending verses and Andr\u00e9 Gagnon&#8217;s poignant music, is one of Quebec&#8217;s greatest lyrical successes.\u202f\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">It was a great Vessel carved in solid gold:<br>Its masts touched the azure, on unknown seas;<br>The Cyprine of love, hair scattered, naked flesh<br>Was spread out at its prow, in the excessive sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">But one night he came to strike the great reef<br>In the deceptive ocean where the Siren sang,<br>And the horrible shipwreck inclined its hull<br>In the depths of the abyss, immutable coffin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">It was a golden vessel, whose diaphanous sides<br>Revealed treasures that the profane sailors,<br>Disgust, Hate and Neurosis, between them disputed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What is left of him in the brief storm?<br>What became my heart, a deserted ship?<br>Alas! it sank into the abyss of the Dream!<\/p>\n\n<\/div><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-2\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-2\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gabriel Faur\u00e9: Trois m\u00e9lodies Op.7, No.1, Apr\u00e8s un r\u00eave<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by Michel-Alexandre Broekaert)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Apr\u00e8s un r\u00eave<\/em> is a setting of Romain Bussine&#8217;s poem. It is one of Gabriel Faur\u00e9&#8217;s most popular melodies, and for good reason! Emblematic of the romantic and accessible style that characterizes his early works, this melody is distinguished by its supple and luminous melodic line, supported by enveloping and deeply evocative harmonies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The work has since been adapted many times for various instrumental ensembles, which has greatly contributed to its fame. Indeed, although is admirable in every way, the piece -here adapted for cello- loses none of its evocative power, quite the contrary. One is easily carried away by the happy marriage of timbres, while our thoughts escape to the dreamlike universe of dreams.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Since this album is based on adaptations of opera arias for the cello-piano formation, we are aware that the introduction of a humble melody constitutes a slight departure from our unifying concept. We happily decided to make this exception because, on the one hand, the atmosphere of this charming work fits naturally with that of our album. On the other hand, this very work triggered our curiosity to explore the sumptuous universe of opera, full of extraordinary melodies and captivating stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">In sleep made sweet by a vision of you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I dreamed of happiness, fervent illusion,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Your eyes were softer, your voice pure and ringing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You shone like a sky that was lit by the dawn;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You called me and I departed the earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">To flee with you toward the light,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The heavens parted their clouds for us,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We glimpsed unknown splendours, celestial fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Alas, alas, sad awakening from dreams!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I summon you, O night, give me back your delusions;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Return, return in radiance,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Return, O mysterious night!<\/p>\n\n<\/div><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-3\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-3\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ludwig van Beethoven, Variations &#8220;Bei M\u00e4nnern welche Liebe fuhlen&#8221;, aria from Mozart&#8217;s opera &#8220;The Magic Flute\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by Michel-Alexandre Broekaert)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Beethoven had a great admiration for Mozart, who was fourteen years older. He was particularly fascinated by his numerous operas, and this fascination led to the writing of four cycles of variations for various instruments. The cycle that interests us here was inspired by the opera <em>The Magic Flute<\/em>, which Beethoven had just attended in Vienna in 1801. It is therefore the work of a young Beethoven, still full of humour and tenderness, personality traits that emanate from this theme and variations, all in finesse and bonhomie.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The original aria is a duet sung by Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, and Papageno, a bird catcher. Meaning \u201cAmong men who know the feeling of love,&#8221; it extols the idea of love, bestowing upon it every virtue:\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;We want to sing the joy of love,\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">we live only of love.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Love softens all pain,\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">All creation is dedicated to love.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It gives salt to every day of our life\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And makes the wheel of nature turn.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This timeless theme of love, carried by Beethovenian mastery, ensures the durability of this work filled with surprises and moments of beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Pamina:<br>Men who feel the call of love<br>Do not lack a gentle heart.<br>Papageno:<br>To share these sweet desires<br>Is women\u2019s first duty.<br>Both:<br>We shall rejoice in love,<br>We live for love alone.<br>Pamina:<br>Love sweetens every sorrow,<br>All creatures pay it homage.<br>Papageno:<br>Love adds spice to our days on earth,<br>Love is at work throughout all nature.<br>Both:<br>Its exalted goal is manifest:<br>Nothing is more noble than man and wife.<br>Man and wife, and wife and man,<br>Attain divinity.<br>Translations by Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-4\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-4\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, <em>Summertime<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by Michel-Alexandre Broekaert)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Summertime<\/em> is one of the most popular melodies of all time and is featured at the very beginning of George Gershwin&#8217;s famous opera, <em>Porgy &amp; Bess<\/em>, which was premiered to the American public in 1935. It was intended to be sung by a classically trained singer, but this did not prevent a multitude of other musical genres from making it their own; the Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong signature version comes to mind, as does the first jazz adaptation of the piece, recorded by the legendary Billie Holiday only one year after the opera&#8217;s premiere.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In preparation for writing his opera, Gershwin did his homework and spent the summer of 1934 in the southern United States, near Charleston. This authentic experience allowed him to develop a typically American style, a synthesis of Western classical music and African-American folklore, which is distinguished by its own rhythms and idioms, crystallized in the famous spirituals, and of course, in jazz. The result is a unique and striking opera, and the jewel in the crown of it is undoubtedly the melody <em>Summertime<\/em>, a lullaby sung by a mother to her child, that will be repeated several times in the opera as the theme song of this work. The lyrics of the famous melody are attributed to a collaboration between Ira Gershwin, the composer&#8217;s brother, and DuBose Hayward, whose novel <em>Porgy<\/em>, written with his wife Dorothy, was the primary inspiration for <em>Porgy &amp; Bess<\/em>. Broadway giant Stephen Sondheim declared the lyrics of <em>Summertime<\/em> to be among the most successful and evocative in the repertoire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The version on this album gives the famous ballad the enveloping timbre of the cello, restoring the melancholy and haunting character of the original version.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Summertime,<br>And the livin&#8217; is easy<br>Fish are jumpin&#8217;<br>And the cotton is high<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Oh, Your daddy&#8217;s rich<br>And your mamma&#8217;s good lookin&#8217;<br>So hush little baby<br>Don&#8217;t you cry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">One of these mornings<br>You&#8217;re going to rise up singing<br>Then you&#8217;ll spread your wings<br>And you&#8217;ll take to the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">But until that morning<br>There&#8217;s a&#8217;nothing can harm you<br>With your daddy and mammy standing by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Summertime,<br>And the livin&#8217; is easy<br>Fish are jumpin&#8217;<br>And the cotton is high<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Your daddy&#8217;s rich<br>And your mamma&#8217;s good lookin&#8217;<br>So hush little baby<br>Don&#8217;t you cry<\/p>\n\n<\/div><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-5\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-5\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong><strong>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute<em> (Die Zauberfl\u00f6te), Der H\u00f6lle Rache<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by Alexander Koutelias)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The tease of comedy and the weight of drama; the freshness of new romantic infatuation and the scorn of unrequited love; the warmth of Enlightenment and the coldness of darkness. Mozart\u2019s beloved <em>The Magic Flute<\/em> covers with poise many conflicting elements of the human experience, relevant in both Enlightenment Austria of the 18th century as well as to the world today. The opera is set in a mythical non-European locale in an ancient era.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In this aria, the second of the Queen of the Night\u2019s tour-de-force arias of vocal virtuosity, she demands that her daughter Pamina kills her rival, the wise and benevolent Sarastro. Feeling conflicted given the kindness Sarastro has exhibited towards her, Pamina is handed a dagger by her mother who cackles with rage. The Queen of the Night threatens Pamina, stating that her disobeying will lead to her disownment and that, no matter what, Sarastro will die. This aria of dizzyingly intense vocal trills and jumps is one of the most oft-quoted excerpts from any opera.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The vengeance of Hell boils in my heart,<br>Death and despair flame about me!<br>If Sarastro does not through you feel<br>The pain of death,<br>Then you will be my daughter nevermore.<br>Disowned may you be forever,<br>Abandoned may you be forever,<br>Destroyed be forever<br>All the bonds of nature,<br>If not through you<br>Sarastro becomes pale!<br>Hear, Gods of Revenge,<br>Hear a mother&#8217;s oath!<\/p>\n\n<\/div><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-6\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-6\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">L\u00e9o Delibes: Lakm\u00e9, Duo des fleurs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by Michel-Alexandre Broekaert)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The <em>Duo des Fleurs<\/em>, which translates to the \u201cFlower Duet,\u201d is one of those arias of which one never tires. It is in the first moments of the opera <em>Lakm\u00e9<\/em> that we find it and its dreamlike charm operates every time. This opera remains one of the only works still performed by the French composer L\u00e9o Delibes, and for good reason. The music is intoxicating, lush and colorful, ready to dream and escape to exotic worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The story relates the fateful meeting of Lakm\u00e9, a Brahmin priestess, and Gerald, an English officer; all based in the 19th century, in a subjugated India, during the British colonial period. The inevitable clash of cultures will lead the two lovers to a tragic end, with the themes of revenge, honour and destructive passions as the backdrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The \u201dFlower Duet\u201d is a cantilena shared between Lakm\u00e9 and her maid Mallika, as they stand by an enchanting stream to pick flowers. It is a moment of great delicacy that wonderfully depicts the inner tranquility that animates our protagonists at this point in the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lakme:<br>Look Mallika! Lianes are in bloom<br>Casting downward their shadows<br>Over the sacred stream that flows calm and somber<br>Awakened by the sound of the song-happy birds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Mallika:<br>Oh dear mistress!<br>It&#8217;s time at last I see you smiling<br>The time has come and I am reading<br>What was closed up in the heart of Lakme!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lakme [in duet with Mallika]:<br>Dome canopy sweet jasmine<br>All the roses forever<br>Flowers in the morn freshly born<br>Call us to come together<br>Ah glide along and sing along<br>The current so strong<br>The sun so hot the water is shimmering<br>Hand skimming the surface nonchalantly<br>Cutting through the edge<br>While birds are singing singing sing enchanted<br>Dome canopy white jasmine<br>Call us to come together<br>Please<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Mallika [in duet with Lakme]:<br>Under dome canopy where the white jasmine<br>All the roses forever<br>River flowers in the morn freshly born<br>Let us both go down together<br>Gently we glide on and we float along<br>Follow the current so strong<br>The sun so hot the water is shimmering<br>Hand skimming the surface nonchalantly<br>Come let us reach the edge<br>Where the spring sleeps<br>And birds singing, sing enchanted<br>Under dome canopy where the white jasmine<br>Let us go down together<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lakme:<br>I, don&#8217;t know what overcame me<br>To fill my heart full of fear<br>When my father goes down alone to the doomed city<br>I tremble, I tremble, my dear<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Mallika:<br>Ganesha will watch over his protege<br>Up til the pond where the merry do play<br>With wings of snow swans are swimming<br>Come let us pick the lotus blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lakme:<br>Oh yes, let&#8217;s go where white swans are swimming<br>And let us pick the lotus blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lakme [in duet with Mallika]<br>Dome canopy sweet jasmine<br>All the roses forever<br>Flowers in the morn freshly born<br>Call us to come together<br>Ah glide along and sing along<br>The current so strong<br>The sun so hot the water is shimmering<br>Hand skimming the surface nonchalantly<br>Cutting through the edge<br>While birds are singing singing sing enchanted<br>Dome canopy white jasmine<br>Call us to come together<br>Please<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Mallika [in duet with Lakme]:<br>Under dome canopy where the white jasmine<br>All the roses forever<br>River flowers in the morn freshly born<br>Let us both go down together<br>Gently we glide on and we float along<br>Follow the current so strong<br>The sun so hot the water is shimmering<br>Hand skimming the surface nonchalantly<br>Come let us reach the edge<br>Where the spring sleeps<br>And birds singing, sing enchanted<br>Under dome canopy where the white jasmine<br>Let us go down together<\/p>\n\n<\/div><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-7\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-7\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Puccini:<\/strong> <strong>\u201cO mio babbino caro\u201d from<em> Gianni Schicchi<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by Alexander Koutelias)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Though some might claim this aria is a romantic aria, it must be stated that few popular operatic works are more poorly contextualized than this aria, an aria of beseeching.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Set in 1299 in the Republic of Florence, the young and beautiful Lauretta pleads with her father, the titular crotchety schemer Gianni Schicchi, to please give her hand to her beloved, the young and handsome Rinuccio. Rinuccio has brought Gianni Schicchi into the midst of a familial affair of the utmost secrecy: the lack of inheritance left to Rinuccio\u2019s family in the will of the pious family elder Buoso Donati. While most of the family wants nothing to do with the slimy Schicchi, Rinuccio believes he is the only person conniving enough who can help the family out their testamentary quagmire\u2026 as well as conveniently arrange the marriage between Rinuccio and Lauretta.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>O mio babbino caro<\/em>, Lauretta\u2019s three-minute solo imploring her father serves as a well-appreciated musical and dramatic pause from the fast-paced back-and-forth jabs of a family at each other\u2019s throats out of greed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">O my dear father<br>I like it, it is beautiful, beautiful<br>I want to go to Porta Rossa<br>to buy the ring!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Yes, yes, I want to go there!<br>And if I loved her in vain, I would go<br>to the Ponte Vecchio,<br>But to throw myself into the Arno!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I am pining and tormenting myself!<br>O God, I would like to die!<br>Father, have mercy, have mercy!<br>Father, have mercy, have mercy!<\/p>\n\n<\/div><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-8\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-8\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u00a0Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, <em>Casta Diva<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by Alexander Koutelias)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The occupation of Gaul by the Romans has just begun. The Gallic people, worshippers of Druidism, turn to their Chief Oroveso and his daughter the High Priestess Norma, to protect them from these foreign invaders of alien culture. Oroveso assures his people that Norma, with her prophetic aura, will stir the souls of the Roman delegates to agree to a just peace.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Unbeknownst to nearly everyone, Norma had previously abandoned her sacred vows of chastity and sired two children, who are only known of by her fellow priestess, Adalgisa. What is more, the father of these two children is none other than the Roman Pollione, who has now just been appointed the proconsul of Gaul. And now, Adalgisa has fallen in love with Pollione, creating a fiery love triangle between the two supposedly chaste Druid priestesses and the occupying Roman military governor. Would you expect anything less from an operatic plot?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">However, at the moment the audience hears Norma\u2019s enchanting cavatina \u201cCasta diva\u201d, the fire from both the love triangle as well as the rage of the oppressed are temporarily extinguished. Norma reverently holds up a branch of mistletoe and stands above the other Druids while a mellifluous flute soars above the orchestra. Norma then sings, addressing the moon as \u201cchaste goddess,\u201d asking it, in all of its beauty and zealousness, to bring peace to Earth that reflects the peace found in Heaven. The music of this entire aria could be a musical onomatopoeia for the intent of Norma\u2019s prayer, for the lusciousness and sheer beauty of this music evoke, with or without the sung words, both spiritual and temporal peace.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Given this aria, it is no wonder Oroveso believes Norma can use her prophetic power to bring peace to the Gallic people.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Virtuous Goddess, covering with silver<br>these sacred ancient plants,<br>turn towards us your fair face<br>cloudless and unveiled<br>Temper, oh Goddess,<br>you temper the ardent hearts<br>furthermore temper the audacious zeal,<br>spread on earth the same peace<br>that make you make reign in heaven<br>Complete the rite<br>and the sacred forest<br>should be cleansed of the profane<br>when the Spirit irate and gloomy,<br>will ask for the blood of the Romans.<br>From the Druidic temple<br>my voice will thunder.<br>He&#8217;ll fall; I can punish him.<br>But my heart doesn&#8217;t know to punish.<br>Ah! Come back to me beautiful<br>to your loyal first love;<br>and against the whole world<br>I shall protect you.<br>Ah! Come back to me beautiful<br>along with your serene radiance<br>and life in your womb,<br>and I&#8217;ll have homeland and sky.<br>Ah, come back again as you were then,<br>then when I gave you my heart,<br>Ah, come back to me.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-9\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-9\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u00a0Donizetti: L\u2019Elisir d\u2019amore, <em>Una furtiva lagrima<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by Alexander Koutelias)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The earnest yet simpleton Nemorino is one of the most lovable characters in all of opera: you can\u2019t help but find yourself rooting for him in every situation as he tries to woo the wealthy, educated, and emotionally detached landowner Adina, all against a lush pastoral backdrop of the Spanish countryside in the late 18th century. To buy a second bottle of a magic love potion (which is really a bottle of cheap wine sold by the travelling quack doctor Dulcamara), Nemorino signs up for the army to receive an inscription bonus: a bag of coins. His rival for Adina\u2019s heart, the suave Sergeant Belcore, is more than happy to recruit Nemorino for the army in order to get him out of the village.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">When Adina sees Nemorino surrounded by a group of women and in an inebriated state from downing his second bottle of the \u201clove potion,\u201d she runs away, leaving Nemorino saddened and wondering why the love potion is working on all the women besides Adina. In reality, all of the women of the village besides Adina had just found out that Nemorino inherited a substantial amount from his uncle, a fact of which not even Nemorino has yet become aware.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In his sad and inebriated state, he reflects on the \u201cfurtive tear\u201d he thought he saw in Adina\u2019s eye before she disappeared, what he believes symbolizes her love for him contained deep within her. Distraught to see that the love potion is not working on her and that he will have to leave the village with the army, overwhelmed by these deceitful characters, Nemorino sings with genuine and raw emotion, hued with rustic colors. Could this &#8220;furtive tear&#8221; in her eye mean that they might finally be falling in love? Perhaps the love potion works after all?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">A single secret tear<br>from her eye did spring:<br>as if she envied all the youths<br>that laughingly passed her by.<br>What more searching need I do?<br>What more searching need I do?<br>She loves me! Yes, she loves me, I see it. I see it.<br>For just an instant the beating<br>of her beautiful heart I could feel!<br>As if my sighs were hers,<br>and her sighs were mine!<br>The beating, the beating of her heart I could feel,<br>to merge my sighs with hers\u2026<br>Heavens! Yes, I could die!<br>I could ask for nothing more, nothing more.<br>Oh, heavens! Yes, I could, I could die!<br>I could ask for nothing more, nothing more.<br>Yes, I could die! Yes, I could die of love.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"wp-block-ub-tabbed-content-tab-content-wrap active\" id=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-panel-10\" aria-labelledby=\"ub-tabbed-content-e1d0251b-6fd9-4d8a-9cfd-b6fc7146f9cc-tab-10\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0Richard Wagner: Tannh\u00e4user, <em>O du, mein holder Abenstern<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Notes (by No\u00e9mie Raymond-Friset)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In this opera, essentially focused on the opposition between sacred and profane love, Wagner takes us into a medieval epic with philosophical flavors, where chaste and chivalrous love makes redemption to carnal passion. In the 13th century, near Eisenach, in the heart of Germany, the knight Tannh\u00e4user is a prisoner of the goddess Venus and her bewitching charms. Tired of this prison that offers nothing more than sensual pleasures and desiring to regain his spirituality, Tannh\u00e4user leaves the Goddess against her will, in order to return to his native countryside.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Soon after his return, Tannh\u00e4user is torn between his pure love for the beautiful Elisabeth and his lustful love for the goddess Venus. During a poetic joust where the winner is to be offered Elisabeth&#8217;s hand in marriage, Tannh\u00e4user, possessed by the goddess Venus, reveals his stay in her prison. The Wartburg knights then asked him to make a pilgrimage to meet the Pope to atone for his sins.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">After Tannh\u00e4user&#8217;s departure, the knight Wolfram, filled with a pious and chaste love for Elisabeth, and sensing the imminent death of the young woman, will offer a poignant prayer to the Evening Star (<em>Abenstern<\/em>) in order to guide Elisabeth on her way to heaven. In this aria, we find Venus, the evening star, who embodies the duality between carnal love and pure love, the main subject of the opera. She is both the star that shines in the darkness, bringing hope, and the goddess who instills sin.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This opera with a tragic ending, one of Richard Wagner&#8217;s most controversial, will see the hero find salvation, against all odds, beyond death.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d09f62\">Libretto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Wolfram:<br>Dusk covers the land like a premonition of death,<br>Wraps the valley in her dark mantle;<br>The soul that longs for those heights<br>Dreads to take its dark and awful flight.<br>Then you appear, O loveliest of stars,<br>And shed your gentle light from afar;<br>Your sweet glow cleaves the twilight gloom,<br>And as a friend you show the way out of the valley.<br>O you, my fair evening star,<br>Gladly have I always greeted you:<br>Greet her, from the depths of this heart,<br>Which has never betrayed her,<br>Greet her, when she passes,<br>When she soars above this mortal vale<br>To become a holy angel there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Translations by Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Recorded at the Concert Hall of the Conservatoire de musique de Montr\u00e9al, March 28-30, 2021 \u2022 Production, sound recording, editing and mastering : Pierre L\u00e9ger \u2022 Artistic direction : Duo Cavatine \u2022  Production : STORKCLASSICS \u2022 Photos : Tam Lan Truong \u2022 Graphic Design : R\u00e9jean Myette<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"55\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/duocavatine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CCA_RGB_colour_e.png?resize=300%2C55&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-402\" style=\"width:406px;height:74px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/duocavatine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CCA_RGB_colour_e.png?resize=300%2C55&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/duocavatine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CCA_RGB_colour_e.png?resize=1024%2C188&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/duocavatine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CCA_RGB_colour_e.png?resize=768%2C141&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/duocavatine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CCA_RGB_colour_e.png?resize=18%2C3&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/duocavatine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CCA_RGB_colour_e.png?resize=600%2C110&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/duocavatine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CCA_RGB_colour_e.png?w=1201&amp;ssl=1 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n$25.00 Buy Physical CD Recorded at the Concert Hall of the Conservatoire&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/duocavatine.com\/en\/music\/cd\/cellopera\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;CellOp\u00e9ra!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template\/_fullwidth.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CellOp\u00e9ra! 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