Un tramvai numit dorinţă (operǎ)

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Un tramvai numit dorinţă -- în engleză, A Streetcar Named Desire -- este o operă compusă de André Previn, cu un libret scris de Philip Littell în 1995. Este bazată pe piesa omonimă a dramaturgului american Tennessee Williams (vedeţi Un tramvai numit dorinţă). Premiera sa a avut loc la Opera din San Francisco (San Francisco Opera în timpul stagiunii 1998 - 1999).

Distribuţia:

Blanche -- Renée Fleming
Stanley -- Rodney Giffey
Stella -- Elizabeth Futral
Mitch -- Anthony Dean Griffey
Eunice -- Judith Forst
Steve -- Matthew Lord
Newspaper Collector - Jeffrey Lentz
The Mexican - Josepha Gayer
Pablo - Luis Oropeza
The Doctor - Ray Reinhardt
The Nurse - Lynne Soffer

Echipa tehnică:

Dirijor -- André Previn
Director de scană -- Colin Graham
Decor -- Michael Yeargan
Lumini -- Thomas J. Munn

As noted by Bernard Holland in his review in the New York Times of 21 September 1998, A Streetcar Named Desire is so operatic as a play that one wonders why more than 50 years have passed since its Broadway opening with no opera of note being made of it. ….The new setting of Tennessee Williams's play, with music by Andre Previn and a libretto by Philip Littell, answered a few questions and asked others. …..First of all, it sings very well. Mr. Previn has a fine ear for voices. He knows how to flatter and coax it and send it gracefully from one musical episode to the next…..one had the impression that Mr. Previn had been writing for the musical theater all his life.”

Regarding the music, Holland notes: “There are angry clashes of harmony and key, many Straussian gestures, sweet-as-honey popular melody and the kinds of corporate noodling and mumbling among the strings native to a Ligeti or a Penderecki. Mr. Previn is not ashamed to incorporate Hollywood code words, especially the wailing thrusts of saxophone, trumpet and clarinet to introduce dissolution and lurid sex.”

In his estimation of the main singers, Holland comments: “as beautifully as Renee Fleming sings and as assiduously as she pursues the part, she leaves a hole in the opera that nothing around it can fill. Ms. Fleming does everything an opera singer can do, but I am not sure that Blanche is a character that opera can ever reach. As Stanley in a baritone part, Rodney Gilfry sings strongly and summons the necessary physical menace. Elizabeth Futral made Stella a satisfying operatic character (and) Anthony Dean Griffey sang touchingly and surely in the tenor role of Mitch.”

[modifică] Referinţe

  • Holland, Bernard, "Pursuing The Soul Of Streetcar In Opera", New York Times, 21 septembrie 1998
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