Episode 93: 18193 Meyerbeer - Le Prophete

Episode 93: 18193 Meyerbeer - Le Prophete

After the brilliant success of their grand opera Les Huguenots (1836), Meyerbeer and his librettist Scribe decided to collaborate again on a piece based on a historical religious conflict. Meyerbeer's great personal wealth and his duties as official court composer to King Frederick William IV of Prussia meant that there was no hurry to complete the opera, and it was more than a decade in the composition and planning. Le prophète was first performed by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier on 16 April 1849. In the audience at the work's premiere were Chopin, Verdi, Théophile Gautier, Delacroix, Ivan Turgenev and Berlioz, among others. The production featured costumes by Paul Lormier and sets by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry (acts 1 and 4), Charles Séchan (acts 2 and 5), and Édouard Desplechin (act 3). It involved the first use ever on stage of Léon Foucault and Jules Duboscq's electric arc light (régulateur à arc électrique), imitating the effect of sunlight. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Meyerbeer: Le prophète (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

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Episode 77: 18077 Uncovered Vol. 2: Florence B. Price

Episode 77: 18077 Uncovered Vol. 2: Florence B. Price

GRAMMY Award-winning Catalyst Quartet releases UNCOVERED Volume 2: Florence B. Price on Azica Records. The album is the second issue of a multi-volume anthology highlighting string quartet works by hi...

4 Helmi 20222h 5min

Episode 200: 18200 Météores

Episode 200: 18200 Météores

Jasmin Lacasse Roy is an accomplished musician who draws his inspiration from a wide range of sources: from Hendrix to Debussy. In addition to several other awards, he won first prizes at the Internat...

3 Helmi 202236min

Episode 94: 18194 Meyerbeer - The Skaters

Episode 94: 18194 Meyerbeer - The Skaters

This episode introduces Giacomo Meyerbeer, our featured opera composer for the month of February 2022. Meyerbeer is almost a completely unknown opera composer in today's world, although he was the mos...

2 Helmi 202229min

Episode 89: 18189 Chaplin - City Lights

Episode 89: 18189 Chaplin - City Lights

Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill in City Lights (1931) City Lights proved to be the hardest and longest undertaking of Chaplin’s career. By the time it was completed he had spent two years and ei...

1 Helmi 20221h

Episode 98: 18198 Ludovico Einaudi: Underwater

Episode 98: 18198 Ludovico Einaudi: Underwater

Fresh from this year’s triumph of the Nomadland and The Father soundtracks, illustrious composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi announces Underwater, his first new solo piano album in 20 years. 1. Lumin...

31 Tammi 202258min

Episode 72: 18072 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Episode 72: 18072 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottf...

30 Tammi 20224h 2min

Episode 75: 18075 Paganini: 9 Caprices

Episode 75: 18075 Paganini: 9 Caprices

In January 2022, violinist Sean Lee and pianist Peter Dugan celebrate Paganini in the first-ever performance of all 24 Caprices in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s 52-year history as well...

29 Tammi 202222min

Episode 47: 18047 From Rags to Riches

Episode 47: 18047 From Rags to Riches

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) releases From Rags to Riches: 100 Years of American Song on its new in-house label, NYFOS Records. The label’s debut album features the acclaimed voices of mezzo-sopr...

28 Tammi 20221h 7min

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