Hi Karen, just a word on Niel Shicoff, I read he is singing in the Met. as Eleazar in "La Juive" in 2003 Mazeltov.
Regards Leo -----Drogheda
-----Original Message----- From: Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...> To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com <> Date: 21 April 2000 17:08 Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Gretry
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 RRicciardi@S... wrote:
> Hello there, I was wondering if anybody is familiar with the work of a > French composer, a contemporary of Mozart (I believe) named André Grétry. > I've been told that he has very beautiful music. Any information will be > helpful.
Gretry was born in Liege, which is now part of Francophone Belgium, in 1741. He is generally credited for founding the French opera-comique school (i.e., operas with spoken dialogue rather than recitatives).
There is some information on him at the French Foreign Ministry Gallery of Composers website:
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/france/musique/composit/gretry.html
This page includes a sound clip from his opera LA CARAVANE DU CAIRE (The Caravan of Cairo).
A complete list of Gretry's works appears at: http://idt.net/~johnp3/ume/gretry.html
The libretto for Gretry's most famous opera, ZEMIRE AND AZOR appears at: http://www.castle.net/~rfrone/sfo/libretti/zemire.htm
A MIDI file of Zemire's ariette "La fauvette avec ses petites" appears at: http://www.castle.net/~rfrone/music/zemire01.mid
A synopsis and link to the French libretto of his RICHARD COEUR DE LION are at: http://www.castle.net/~rfrone/sfo/sfo-q-r.htm#richard_coeur_de_lion
Other operas and opera-ballets by Gretry include ISABELLE ET GERTRUDE, LE HURON, SYLVAIN, LE JUGEMENT DE MIDAS, DENYS LE TYRAN - MAITRE D'ECOLE A CORINTHE, LE CALIFE DE BAGDAD, L'AMANT JALOUX, CEPHALE ET PROCRIS, and LE TABLEAU PARLANT.
There is a streaming RealAudio file of Sumi Jo singing an excerpt from "Je romps la chaine qui m'engage from L'AMANT JALOUX at: http://www.towerrecords.com/ra/hurlPNM.exe?/towerlink/~pp-450351/0190176_010 2_07_0002.ra
There is a streaming RealAudio excerpt from the overture of LE JUDGEMENT DE MIDAS at: http://search.borders.com/fcgi-bin/hurlpnm?~z-473645/0142586_0101_07_0002.ra
Gretry also wrote the music that later had English text set on it by Lidie Edmunds to create the popular hymn "My Faith Has Found A Resting Place". His Concerto for Violin #5 in A minor (op 37) is a favourite party piece for solo violinsts.
A Belgian documentary about Gretry won the Cannes Film Festival documentary prize in 1955.
Karen ----- Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt, Der in den Zweigen wohnet; Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt, Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet. -- J.W. von Goethe, WILHELM MEISTER
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