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with Ileana Cotrubas, Francisco Araiza, and José van Dam led by Levine appeared on Trove Thursday six years ago.īesides today’s Haydn work, I came up with this shared repertoire for Sills and Fleming: Faust, Manon, Louise, Lucrezia Borgia, The Merry Widow, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Daphne (well, just the final scene for Sills), Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate…there must be others?Īnd what other roles should they have shared? Why no Sills Sonnambula, a role Fleming performed when she was covering for Ruth Ann Swenson? Wouldn’t Fleming early on have been a captivating Baby Doe? What about a Sills Nozze di Figaro Countess or Arabella?īoth versions of Haydn’s great oratorio can be downloaded by clicking on the icon of a cloud with an arrow pointing downward on the audio player above and the resulting mp3 files will appear in your download directory.
The Les Arts Florissants Haydn helped cleanse my ears (and eyes) of the misbegotten staging earlier that year at Lincoln Center by La Fura del Bals which was drably conducted by Laurence Equilbey.ĭie Jahreszeiten, Haydn’s other miraculous oratorio.
John Eliot Gardiner atypically used five singers rather than just three, while the radiant Garbriel and Eva of Sandrine Piau was the common feature of both a Paris concert under Hervé Niquet and William Christie’s glorious version at Alice Tully Hall in 2018. I’ve heard the work many other times over the years, but the last four instances have featured period-instrument orchestras and smallish choruses. Never a Hong fan, I found her efficient rather than inspired, and though Bostridge and Pape were fine the afternoon failed to jell. I didn’t get a chance to hear it live until 1980 when I attended a James Conlon-led performance at the Cincinnati May Festival, with festival regulars Benita Valente, John Aler and John Shirley-Quirk, there was the usual huge chorus which made a mighty noise with the glorious Handel-influenced choruses that crown the oratorio.Īfter Boston, Levine also led the work with Metropolitan Opera forces at Carnegie Hall in 2002, again with Pape, plus Hei-Kyung Hong and Ian Bostridge.
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