David and Jonathan
July 16th 2008 01:38
Link: www.cityrecitalhall.com
Launch of Pinchgut Opera’s David and Jonathan box office opens Monday 21 July 2008
Pinchgut Opera has built its reputation presenting lesser-known opera masterpieces. Continuing with its adventurous programming, Pinchgut will give Australian audiences a three hundred and twenty year old work never before seen here.
Written by one of France's great baroque composers, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, David and Jonathan will have its Australian premiere performance at City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney, opening 3 December 2008. The work was first performed in Paris in 1688 and was then forgotten for three hundred years.
David Parkin, winner of ABC TV’s Operatunity Oz competition, joins Pinchgut Opera singing the role of the Voice of Samuel. Since his rise to fame, David has been heard in concerts, but opera audiences haven’t had a chance to see him until now.
Pinchgut’s co-artistic director Antony Walker (also Music Director at Pittsburgh Opera and Artistic Director and Conductor of Washington Concert Opera in Washington DC) will return after a year’s absence to conduct.
Swedish tenor Anders Dahlin, a specialist in the French haute-contre style, will sing the role of David, and Australia’s leading early music soprano Sara Macliver will sing Jonathan. The Orchestra of the Antipodes will perform on authentic French Baroque instruments and Cantillation will be the chorus. American Chas Rader-Shieber (New York City Opera, Glimmerglass, Pittsburgh Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago) will make his Australian debut to direct the production.
The opera based on the bible story, deals with political intrigue, the love between two rivals, and the final battle between Saul and David. It is a masterpiece of the French Baroque, with some of the most heart-wrenching music ever written, and deals with issues that are as relevant today as they were three hundred years ago. Sydney audiences hear very little music from the French Baroque period and Pinchgut’s production and recording of Rameau’s Dardanus in 2005 was greeted with critical and popular acclaim.
Experience David and Jonathan at the City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney on 3, 6, 7 & 8 December. Bookings NOW OPEN on ph (02) 8256 2222 and online:
Pinchgut Opera has built its reputation presenting lesser-known opera masterpieces. Continuing with its adventurous programming, Pinchgut will give Australian audiences a three hundred and twenty year old work never before seen here.
Written by one of France's great baroque composers, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, David and Jonathan will have its Australian premiere performance at City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney, opening 3 December 2008. The work was first performed in Paris in 1688 and was then forgotten for three hundred years.
David Parkin, winner of ABC TV’s Operatunity Oz competition, joins Pinchgut Opera singing the role of the Voice of Samuel. Since his rise to fame, David has been heard in concerts, but opera audiences haven’t had a chance to see him until now.
I was really excited when I heard that Pinchgut wanted to cast me in their 2008 production. This will be my first contracted operatic role since winning Operatunity Oz in 2006. Opera Australia has had me covering both Masetto and the Commendatore in Don Giovanni which has been fantastic experience for me, but this time I know from the beginning that I will actually get to sing, and not just be on standby. I’m really looking forward to getting into rehearsals and working with Antony Walker on this role. It will be my first experience with French Baroque music and I can’t think of a better way to start. Singer David Parkin
Pinchgut’s co-artistic director Antony Walker (also Music Director at Pittsburgh Opera and Artistic Director and Conductor of Washington Concert Opera in Washington DC) will return after a year’s absence to conduct.
My interest in French music goes back to my childhood, when I lived in Paris for two years. I have always been fascinated by the elegance, subtlety and restrained passion of French Baroque music. Our audience was captivated by Rameau's Dardanus, and I believe that Sydney will be similarly seduced by Marc-Antoine Charpentier's passionate and moving treatment of David and Jonathan. Conductor Antony Walker
Swedish tenor Anders Dahlin, a specialist in the French haute-contre style, will sing the role of David, and Australia’s leading early music soprano Sara Macliver will sing Jonathan. The Orchestra of the Antipodes will perform on authentic French Baroque instruments and Cantillation will be the chorus. American Chas Rader-Shieber (New York City Opera, Glimmerglass, Pittsburgh Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago) will make his Australian debut to direct the production.
The opera based on the bible story, deals with political intrigue, the love between two rivals, and the final battle between Saul and David. It is a masterpiece of the French Baroque, with some of the most heart-wrenching music ever written, and deals with issues that are as relevant today as they were three hundred years ago. Sydney audiences hear very little music from the French Baroque period and Pinchgut’s production and recording of Rameau’s Dardanus in 2005 was greeted with critical and popular acclaim.
Experience David and Jonathan at the City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney on 3, 6, 7 & 8 December. Bookings NOW OPEN on ph (02) 8256 2222 and online:
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