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Master Class with Grace Bumbry
Grace Bumbry (CFA'55), an internationally known opera singer and a leading vocal teacher, instructs singers from the Boston University graduate voice degree programs and the Opera Institute during a master class at the College of Fine Arts (CFA). [...]Bumbry was in residence at BU's School of Music for several days and also gave a lecture as part of the Friends of the Libraries of Boston University lecture series.
Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Music on January 28, 2010.
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Il Matrimonio Segreto
While the world can’t get enough of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the 61 operas of his contemporary Domenico Cimarosa have been mostly relegated to obscurity. One exception is the Italian composer’s Il Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret [...]Marriage). See images from the CFA presentation of Il Matrimonio Segreto in this slideshow.
Read the full story on BU Today: /today/2012/il-matrimonio-segreto-an-upbeat-comical-opera/
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The Pit and the Proscenium
Take a peak behind the curtain at the rehearsal process for the BU Opera Institute's production of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. Get into the heads of student opera singers and wedge yourself into the orchestra pit with fifty other musicians.
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Video by Devin Hahn. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky
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Romeo et Juliette
Boston University College of Fine Arts
School of Music Opera Institute and School of Theatre
Presents Roméo et Juliette
Performed on April 22 and 24, 2011
Music by Charles Gounod
Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
after [...]Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: Family and Friends Reflect
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,†a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians. The conference concluded with a three-person panel led by Walfredo Toscanini, grandson of original Fanciulla conductor Arturo Toscanini; writer and music historian Harvey Sachs, author of Toscanini (1978), Reflections on Toscanini (1991), and The Letters of Arturo Toscanini (2002); and Cheryl Green, great-grand niece of David Belasco, whose play The Girl of the Golden West inspired Puccini to write Fanciulla.
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: Rhythm and Dance
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,†a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians, including Deborah Burton, a CFA assistant professor of music and former president of the New England Conference for Music Theory.
In the video above, Burton demonstrates the rhythms behind Puccini’s Fancuilla. “We hear the waltz, the polka, and the bolero,†she says. “These dances could have been inspired by the incidental music Puccini heard when he went to New York in 1907 and saw the Belasco plays Girl of the Golden West and Rose of the Rancho. Audiences of those plays would have heard two waltzes, a polka, two boleros, a habanera, and a cachucha.â€
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. It premiered (under the title Almaviva, or The Useless Precaution) on February 20, 1816, at the [...]Teatro Argentina, Rome. The overture, first written by Rossini for his operatic dramma serio Aureliano in Palmira, is a famous example of his characteristic Italian style.
Hosted by Boston University School of Music and School of Theatre on April 17, 2008.
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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: The Man Who Inspired the Opera
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,†a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians, including set and costume designer John Conklin. An instructor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and artistic advisor to the Boston Lyric Opera, Conklin has designed for the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Broadway and off-Broadway productions.
In the video above, Conklin recalls David Belasco, whose 1908 play The Girl of the Golden West inspired Puccini’s opera. “Belasco is remembered most for his connection with Puccini,†he says, “and this celebration of the premiere of Fanciulla brings him back into the limelight.â€
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: David Rosen on the Importance of Stage Manuals
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,†a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians, including David Rosen, a professor emeritus of music at Cornell University who specializes in Italian opera of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
In the video above, Rosen describes the importance of revisiting original stage manuals when producing Fanciulla. “Depending on their pedigree and closeness to the composer,†he says, “stage manuals may be crucial documents in reconstructing the authorial-approved visual element.â€
While Rosen maintains that not every production should be the same — the result would be boring — he also believes that opera producers should know the text of the work in order to know the baseline from which they are deviating. “We want, or should want, to reconstruct the authorial-sanctioned visual element,†he says.
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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