Name: Armida
Start: 2022-10-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: O’Reilly Theatre

Organization

Wexford Festival Opera

Maestro

Norbert Baxa

Cantor

Libuse Santorisova

A nymph

Cenógrafo

Hartmut Schörghofer

Estilista

Baixo

Jozef Benci

Hydraot

Soprano

Jennifer Davis

Armida

Jan Hnyk

Petr

Barítono

Rory Dunne

Bohumir

Tenor

Gerard Schneider

Rinald

Seán Boylan

Muezzin

Josef Moravec

Sven

Josef Kovačič

Ubald

Siren

Stanisław Kuflyuk

Ismen

Chris Mosz

Dudo

Diretor de Palco

Assistant Lighting Designer

Daisy Long

Assistant Stage Director

Monika Hliněnská

Designer de Vídeo

Raffaele Acquaviva

Designer de Iluminação

D M Wood

J K Tyl Theatre

tcheco

Wexford

Irlanda

O’Reilly Theatre

Armida Dvořák,A

Public

Private

inglês

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentista

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Continuo

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Ator

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Chorus Director

Compositor

Coral

Coreógrafo

Dançarino

Designer de Som

Dramaturgo

Estilista de cabelo

Extra

Illustrator

Libretista

Maquiador

Mestre de Coro

Orchestra Operations

Orquestra

Other

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Poet

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Repetidor

Stage Manager

Teacher

Tradutor

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contralto

Contratenor

Mezzo-soprano

Baixo-barítono

Alto

Silent

Spoken

Vocalista Infantil

Armida is based, unusually for a 20th-century opera, on a source that was especially popular in 17th- and 18th-century operas. Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, a largely mythified account of the Crusades, tells the story of the love of the Saracen sorceress Armida for the Christian warrior Rinaldo. It inspired around 100 operas and ballets — most famously operas by Handel, Gluck, Haydn. There was a late flowering of interest in the story in Rossini’s Armida in 1817, and then almost a century later Dvořák turned his attention to it.

His Armida was premiered four years after the much more famous Rusalka, with the same soprano creating both title roles. The difficult-to-understand aspect of the opera’s neglect has to do with Dvořák’s music, some of it very characteristic of the composer’s finest work — especially the music of his American period. It also represents the peak of his admiration for Wagner and to be fair, with its cast of Christian knights pitted against a pagan magician and female sorceress, to say nothing of an enchanted garden, Parsifal is not the most improbable model.

So it is fair to conclude that its neglect has more to do with the old-fashioned nature of the libretto — a throwback to Quinault’s text for Lully’s Armide — and it is hardly surprising that the story found little favour in fin de siècle Prague, where the opera was premiered in 1904. Although the librettist Vrchlický — a poet nominated for the Nobel Prize eight times — had already translated the whole of Gerusalemme liberata into Czech, it’s fair to say that he was better at oratorio texts than opera librettos. Not since his first opera, Alfred, had Dvořák set a non-Slavonic subject, making this perhaps something of a surprise turning in his last opera, but a fascinating one nonetheless.

English

Armida by Dvořák, dom 23 out 2022, De (2022/2022), Dirigido por Hartmut Schörghofer,, Regente Norbert Baxa, O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, Irlanda

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