Name: Lalla-Roukh
Start: 2022-10-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: O’Reilly Theatre

Organization

Wexford Festival Opera

Stage director

Orpha Phelan

Conductor

David Angus

Libretto

Michel Carré

Tenor

Pablo Bemsch

Noureddin

Set designer

Madeleine Boyd

Costume designer

Baritone

Ben McAteer

Baskir

Soprano

Niamh O'Sullivan

Mirza

Bass

Emyr Wyn Jones

Bakbara

Thomas D Hopkinson

Kaboul

Gabrielle Philiponet

Lalla-Roukh

Choreographer

Amy Share-Kissiov

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Wexford

Ireland

O’Reilly Theatre

Lalla-Roukh David

Public

engelsk

Approved

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Orchestra

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Countertenor

Singer

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Born in Dublin to a mother who came from Wexford, Moore enjoyed immediate success with his Irish Melodies — the source of such famous songs as The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer — and his ‘Oriental romance’ Lalla Rookh increased that fame. Tapping into Romantic sensibilities and capitalising on the popularity of The Thousand and One Nights, it inspired several operas by composers as diverse as Gaspare Spontini and Anton Rubinstein, not to mention Charles Villiers Stanford’s first opera The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, heard at Wexford in 2019. Further indicating its wide appeal to composers, there is also Schumann’s great choral-orchestral work Paradies und die Peri.

Even in this company, David’s work stands out for its delicate evocation of Kashmir and Samarkand. It has been praised for its ‘dreamy atmosphere and aromatic orchestration’. The hard-to-please Héctor Berlioz was quick to admire Lalla Roukh and it was almost instantly recognised as the composer’s masterpiece.

Wexford audiences will know David from his somewhat heavier Herculanum, staged at the festival in 2016 and dating from four years before Lalla Roukh. He enjoyed an unusual career, beginning with his apprenticeship as a young boy in the cathedral choir at Aix-en-Provence. Most of his creative work was done in Paris, but when it came to musical exoticism he knew what he was talking — or, rather, writing — about. Having joined the radical religious sect of the Saint-Simonians, when it was disbanded by the government he travelled with a group of friends preaching its gospel in the Ottoman lands and going as far as Egypt. His remarkable ode-symphonie Le Désert was an early musical manifestation of this, but Lalla Roukhis a more mature example of his talent for evoking the picturesque.

English

Lalla-Roukh by David, Félicien, søn. 30 okt. 2022, Fra (2022/2022), Instrueret af Orpha Phelan,, Dirigent David Angus, O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, Ireland

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