10th Anniversary Gala
Dates: July :30 & August: 13
This evening’s anniversary concert is a celebration of the major works which have been performed here on Belle-île during these past 10 festival seasons. We will hear extracts from the four great Mozart operas, Don Giovanni (performed in 2006), Les Noces de Figaro (2001 and 2005), La Flûte Enchantée (2004) and Così fan tutte (2003), as well as from Bizet’s Carmen (2004), Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice (2005) and Verdi’s Falstaff (2006).
The diversity of the Lyrique en Mer’s repertoire is represented in works as different as Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (2002) and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle (2001).
Other popular works performed over these past ten seasons have included Verdi’s Rigoletto (2002) and Puccini’s La Bohème (2003), and going back to the very early days of the festival, excerpts of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville (1998) and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (1998).
The Festival Choir will remind us of some of the highlights of the Musique Sacrée concerts, singing the opening of Vivaldi’s Gloria (2005) and the great Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah (2004).
CARMEN Georges Bizet
Ouverture
DON PASQUALE Gaetano Donizetti
Duo: Pronta io son
Marcy Richardson, Luc Lalonde
DON GIOVANNI Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Recitativo Accompagnato et Aria : Or sai chi l’onore
Kerri Marcinko, Peter Tantsits
DON GIOVANNI Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Aria : Madamina, il catalogo e questo
Mark Risinger
CARMEN Georges Bizet
Quintette : Nous avons en tête une affaire
Trine Bastrup Møller, Samantha Malk, Shannon Wilson, Peter Tantsits, Luc Lalonde
ORPHEE ET EURYDICE Christoph Willibald Gluck
Chœur : Ah, dans ce bois
Talia Broering, Ann Clabaugh, Lori Guilbeau, Samantha Malk, Erika Grace Powell, Catherine Scott, Shannon Wilson, David Allen Bailey, Pablo Henares,
Benjamin Moore, David Pouliquen, Michael Weigand, Joseph Stanek, Zack Rabin
COSI FAN TUTTE Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Air, Deux Quintettes et Trio
Erin Elizabeth Smith, Trine Bastrup Møller, Peter Tantsits, Keith Harris, Michael Scarcelle
LA BOHÈME Giacomo Puccini
Duo : Rodolfo et Mimi
Kerri Marcinko, Alex Richardson
GLORIA Antonio Vivaldi
Gloria in excelsis Deo
LE MESSIE George Frideric Haendel
Hallelujah
Le Chœur du Festival
Entr’acte
LES NOCES DE FIGARO Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ouverture
LES NOCES DE FIGARO Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duos : Figaro et Susanna
Samantha Malk, Michael Scarcelle
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA Gioachino Rossini
Duo : Dunque io son
Trine Bastrup Møller, Keith Harris
LE CHÂTEAU DE BARBE-BLEUE Béla Bartók
L’entrée dans le château
Richard Cowan, Kerri Marcinko
DIDON ET ENÉE Henry Purcell
Air : When I am laid in earth
Chœur : With drooping wings
Marcy Richardson
avec Talia Broering, Ann Clabaugh, Lori Guilbeau, Samantha Malk, Erika Grace Powell, Catherine Scott, Shannon Wilson, David Allen Bailey, Pablo Henares, Benjamin Moore, David Pouliquen, Michael Weigand, Joseph Stanek, Zack Rabin
RIGOLETTO Giuseppe Verdi
Duo : Sparafucile et Rigoletto
William Andrew Stuckey, Mark Risinger
LA BOHÈME Giacomo Puccini
Duo : Rodolfo et Marcello
Willy Falk, Keith Harris
LA FLÛTE ENCHANTÉE Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quintette : Acte 1
Peter Tantsits, Michael Scarcelle, Talia Broering, Ann Clabaugh, Catherine Scott
FALSTAFF Giuseppe Verdi
Finale : Tutto nel mondo e burla
William Andrew Stuckey, Alex Richardson, Trine Bastrup Møller, Kerri Marcinko,
Keith Harris, Peter Tantsits, Marcy Richardson, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Luc Lalonde,
Mark Risinger, Michael Scarcelle, Talia Broering, Ann Clabaugh, Lori Guilbeau,
Samantha Malk, Erika Grace Powell, Catherine Scott, Shannon Wilson,
David Allen Bailey, Pablo Henares, Benjamin Moore, David Pouliquen,
Michael Weigand, Joseph Stanek, Zack Rabin
We hope you will enjoy this nostalgic evening, and we also have provided a list of the outstanding singers, our family of artists from past and present seasons, who have entertained and inspired us through these first ten years of Lyrique-en-Mer.
Roberto Accurso - Awet Andemicael - Dean Anthony - Mihajlo Arsenski -
Buffy Baggott - Adèle Belmont - Amy Blizzard - Allen Boxer - Jonathan Boyd -
Joyce Campana - Mark Calkins - Eduardo Chama - Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet - Yikun Chung - Shelby Condray - Vanessa Conlin - Richard Cowan - Jennifer Davison - Eric DeForest - Mark Doss - Edith Dowd - Mary Downing - Adrian Dwyer -
Willy Falk - Sean Fallen - Jacqueline Familant - Jacob Feldman - Karen Frankenstein - Bradley Garvin - Donald George - Angela Gilbert - Yvonne Gonzalez -
Jonathan Gunthorpe - Joseph Guyton - Keith Harris - Tamara Haskin - Malinda Haslett - Nathalie Havemeyer - Pablo Henares - Silvan Hilaire - Jason Howard -
Alexandra Hughes - Tami Jantzi - Christopher Joyce - Luc Lalonde - Kevin Langan - Brian Leerhuber - Gioacchino LiVigni - Clare McCaldin - Catherine McDaniel - Siphiwe McKenzie - Christopher McKim - Jing Ma Fan - Shannon Magee -
Samantha Malk Kerri Marcinko Tamara Matthews Claire Maupetit
Reveka Mavrovitis - Bengi Mayone - Malia Bendi Merad - Trine Bastrup Møller - David Adam Moore - Antonio Nagore - Esther Nam - Andrew Nolen - Daniel Okulitch - Jossie Perez - Lyubov Petrova - Joel Prieto - Tom Raskin - Michael Rees Davis -
Paul Rhodes - Alex Richardson - Marcy Richardson - Mark Risinger -
Anastasiya Roytman - Valerian Ruminski - Vanessa Salaz - Michael Scarcelle -
Erin Elizabeth Smith - Nigel Smith - Samuel Spade - Sally Steven - Tony Stevenson - William Andrew Stuckey - Peter Tantsits - Andrea Trebnik - Jean-Pierre Trevisani - Richard Troxell - Mark Uhlemann - Clotilde Van Dieren - Martin Vasquez -
Matthew Walley - Katrina Waters - Richard Wiegold - Sandra Zeltzer -
Sacred Music
Dates: July : 25 & August: 02 - 09 - 16
Te Deum Haydn
Exsultate Jubilate Mozart
Entracte
Great Mass in C minor , Mozart
TE DEUM
Franz Joseph Haydn
Among Haydn’s most dedicated admirers was the Empress Marie Therese, wife of Franz I of Austria. Musically gifted, she was fond of singing, and Haydn would often accompany her “pleasant but weak voice”. Their friendship led her to ask him repeatedly for specially composed church music. The first performance was given at Eisenstadt in September 1800, during the visit by Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton – the same time as the first performance of the Nelson Mass.
EXSULTATE, JUBILATE
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The motet Exsultate, Jubilate was composed when Mozart was just sixteen. Wolfgang and his father, Leopold had travelled to Milan in October 1772 for the premiere of the opera Lucio Silla. The famous castrato Venanzio Rauzzini had sung the role of Cecillo in the opera. Precisely why Mozart composed Exsultate, jubilate at that time, and why specifically for Rauzzini and not a female soprano, is not known, but the virtuosity of the piece and its florid, coloratura style at least give us some idea today of the quality of Rauzzini's voice.
Despite the fact that this short piece is not an opera, it is the only regularly-performed work which represents Mozart's early vocal music, Italian operatic style being one of the central factors of those works. Mozart combines the aria and recitative style of opera seria with the three part form of the Italian symphony, the final movement being the joyous Alleluia.
GRANDE MESSE EN UT
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Kyrie
Gloria in excelsis
Laudamus te
Gratias agimus tibi
Domine Deus
Qui tollis
Quoniam tu solus
Jesu Christe
Cum sancto Spiritu
Credo in unum Deum
Et incarnatus est
Sanctus – Osanna
Benedictus – Osanna
Mozart’s two greatest liturgical works, the Requiem and the Great Mass in C minor were also the two that he never completed. The reason of course for the Requiem to be unfinished was the composer’s death, but the circumstances surrounding the Great Mass in C minor are more to do with great upheavals in his life.
In 1782 Mozart married Constanze Weber, and in a letter to his disapproving father Leopold, he made a promise to write a great mass of thanksgiving for this marriage. Mozart had recently left the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg, an employer who had placed great constraints over Mozart’s creativity. It is clear from the structure of the mass that Mozart felt these limitations being lifted from him, as the work is more expansive, far grander, than any of the many mass settings he had written before – rather more in the style of the B minor mass by Bach.
Circumstances clearly intervened, and the mass was never finished. The mass lacks an Agnus Dei, and several movements of the Credo, but even in its unfinished form, it is a work of staggering ingenuity and incredible beauty. It was first performed in St Peter’s Church, Salzburg in 1783, with Constanze herself singing the soprano solo parts.
In its style, the mass draws considerably on Mozart’s study of the Baroque masters –the influence of Bach is very strong, especially in the great choral movements such as the fugal “Osanna”, but also Alessandro Scarlatti (in the “Domine Deus”) and Pergolesi (in the “Quoniam”). Some of the most exquisite writing is in the “Et incarnatus est”, which is a lilting siciliana for soprano and wind instruments. This movement is very similar to the aria “Se il padre perdei” Ilia’s aria from Idomeneo (written just two years earlier). Mozart is said to have enjoyed hearing Constanze sing this aria, accompanied by him at the piano.
Cocktail concert
Dates: July: 24, 27 & 31
Réduit B
These cocktail concerts are a great Lyrique-en-mer tradition and attract many regulars. Our artists perform extracts from the summer's repertoire, as well as a few arias of their own. At the end of the concert, audience members are offered a glass of champagne and the opportunity to chat with Festival artists.