In this series of podcasts, Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean gives listeners a taste of nine different types of traditional opera. Opéra comique, a native French form of lower-brow musical theater, features spoken dialogue, catchy tunes with easy-to-sing refrains, and middle-class values. Many of the opéra-comiques still performed today (including Carmen, The Daughter of the Regiment, and Beatrice and Benedict, as well as opéra-comique derivatives such as Faust and The Tales of Hoffmann) deal, sentimentally or ironically, with a way of life and a value system which now belongs mostly to ancient history.
Musical examples on the podcast include:
- •Act 3 Ensemble from Carmen, forces of Seattle Opera conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, 2019
- •Dialogue from La fille du régiment starring Spiro Malas and Monica Sinclair (Decca 1967)
- •March from Beatrice and Benedict, forces of Seattle Opera conducted by Ludovic Morlot, 2018
- •Trio from Beatrice and Benedict, Shelly Traverse, Hannah Hipp, Avery Amereau, and the orchestra of Seattle Opera conducted by Ludovic Morlot, 2018
- •“Tous les trois réunis”La fille du régiment, Spiro Malas, Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti and the orchestra of Covent Garden conducted by Richard Bonynge (Decca 1967)
- •“Que le Sultan Saladin” from Richard Coeur de Lion, Michel Trempont and chorus and orchestra de chambre de la RTB conducted by Edgard Doneux (EMI Classics 1956)
- •“Habanera” from Carmen, Zanda Svede and the chorus and orchestra of Seattle Opera conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, 2019
- •“Toreador Song” from Carmen, chorus and orchestra of Seattle Opera conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, 2019
- •Church Scene from Faust, Victoria de los Angeles, Boris Christoff, chorus and orchestra of Operá National de France conducted by André Cluytens (EMI 1953).
- •Portrait Trio from Les contes d’Hoffmann, Leah Partridge, Alfred Walker, Tichina Vaughn, and the orchestra of Seattle Opera conducted by Yves Abel, 2014
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