Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violanta on Blu-ray Disc
Violanta
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Eine Produktion des Teatro Regio Torino, Regie: Pier Luigi Pizzi
- Language:
- Deutsch
- Laufzeit:
- 88 Min.
- Sound Format:
- stereo / DTS-HD 5.1 MA
- Picture:
- 16:9 (1080i)
- Subtitles:
- Italienisch, Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Japanisch, Koreanisch
- Artists:
- Annemarie Kremer, Michael Kupfer-Radecky, Norman Reinhardt, Peter Sonn, Anna Maria Chiuri, Gabriel Alexander Wernick, Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Pinchas Steinberg
- Label:
- Dynamic
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2020
- Age release:
- FSK (volunteer German film censoring) approved as of 0 years
- Item number:
- 9831640
- UPC/EAN:
- 8007144578763
- Release date:
- 17.7.2020
Audiovisuelles Debüt für die frühe Korngold-Oper »Violanta«
Auf dem Programm des Opernhauses in Turin stand im Januar 2020, als italienische Erstaufführung, Erich Wolfgang Korngolds Oper »Violanta«. Die Aufführungen wurden selbstverständlich in originaler deutscher Sprache gesungen.
Die spätromantische Geschichte um Liebe, Eifersucht und – gegen Ende – tödlichen Hass zählt zu den großen Meisterwerken des Komponisten vor seiner Emigration in die USA, obwohl sie seltener aufgeführt wird als beispielsweise »Die tote Stadt«. Das Erstaunliche: Korngold schrieb das Werk im Alter von 17 Jahren und es war bereits seine zweite Oper. Trotz der Jugend des Komponisten zeigt »Violanta« bereits alle Facetten seines bemerkenswerten Könnens.
Die Inszenierung der Produktion lag in den Händen von Pier Luigi Pizzi. In den Hauptrollen brillieren Annemarie Kremer, Michael Kupfer-Radecky und Norman Reinhardt. Mit Pinchas Steinberg lag die musikalische Leitung bei einem echten Opernkenner und -könner.
- Dies ist die erste audiovisuelle Einspielung der »Violanta«; die 1980 entstandene Erstaufnahme von Marek Janowski ist lange vergriffen
- Die Uraufführung im Hoftheater München leitete niemand Geringeres als Bruno Walter
- Die Aufführung wurde im Januar 2020 im Turiner Teatro Regio in 4K gefilmt
Product Information
The musical setting of the work is one where different styles meet and clash. The work is imbued with German romanticism, but we also hear echoes of the world of operetta, and of the lightness of Strauss. Violanta’s score has flashes of Debussy at the same time as Schönberg and Bartók; it wraps the listener in a gloomy atmosphere before expanding a few measures later into a hugely intense, lyrical phrase. Although Violanta might initially appear as a verismo love drama, some elements actually distance it from this connotation.Korngold's music, with its highly refined orchestration, perfectly paints the contrast between the dark and deathly atmosphere of the oppressive world which Simone forces upon his wife and the sudden glimpses of life, sensuality and passion brought by Alfonso, making Violanta one of the masterpieces of the early twentieth century. Driven by a powerful desire to take revenge on the man who had seduced her sister, leading to her suicide, Violanta persuades her husband Simone to become her accomplice and kill him. But after meeting and enticing her victim – Alfonso, the illegitimate son of the King of Naples – her feelings turn into passion, and her heart is overturned. So strong is her love for him now that in order to save Alfonso’s life she takes the blow meant for him and dies.Korngold sets this opera in an imaginary, decadent fifteenth-century Venice, reflecting a fascination for the Renaissance and for the themes of passion and death that were in vogue at the time. Pier Luigi Pizzi, stage director, costume and lighting designer for this production, chose to set the action at the beginning of the 1920s in a decadent Venice, where distant echoes of a melancholic Carnival add a sense of gloom to the whole performance. Here is how he decided to portray the main characters:
“Violanta is an eerie woman; she’s moody, delusional and eccentric; a dark lady, vaguely vampiric. This opera is a bourgeois drama about lack of communication. This yearning for a total, absolute life without any rules signifies the failure to lead a normal life, to resign to routine, to accept one’s solitude ... Alfonso is a seducer in the style of D’Annunzio, no woman can resist him ... One must look at these characters from a certain distance, with irony, make them live in the literary environment in which they were born ... Simone Trovai is the typical cuckolded husband. Pathetic... I based my direction on a story which I try to strip of all banalities, also its setting, preferring to exploit the dramatic atmosphere created by the music.”
Conductor Pinchas Steinberg declared: “This music is full of colours, full of emotions; it’s incredible the scale of emotions and colours and expression that [Korngold] puts in this score, not only for the orchestra but also for the singers, and it’s a miracle that a 17-year-old boy could write such a thing...”
The audio samples belong to the article Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957): Violanta (CD). The track list may differ for this item.
Disk 1 von 1 (Blu-ray Disc)
Violanta op. 8 (Oper in 1 Akt)
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1 Vorspiel
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2 Unsere Barke blüht schon (1. Akt)
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3 He, was machst du?
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4 Und kümmerst dich, was sie auch tut?
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5 Schweigt still!
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6 Ich hol dich. Komm!
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7 Lass! Eure Lustigkeit ist mir zum Ekel
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8 Er hat verführt
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9 Und der ist dort, sagst du? Per dio! Einmal hat...
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10 Violanta?
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11 Umbrannt sah von tausend Lichtern ich ihn
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12 Heut lachen?
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13 Dann hör ich durch Nacht und Stille
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14 Warum sagst du mir das?
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15 Violanta! - Ja, du wirst ihn töten
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16 Dicht Aug in Aug werd ich
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17 Barbara! Bring Lichter!
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18 Intermezzo
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19 Der Sommer will sich neigen
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20 Locke nur, locke, buhlerischer Traum!
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21 Wie schön seid ihr
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22 Noch nicht das Lied!
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23 Sterben wollt ich oft
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24 Mona Violanta...?
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25 Nie hab ich gelebt im Augenblick
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26 Reine Lieb
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27 Violanta!
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28 Du riefst, hier bin ich
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29 Still...Hab Dank
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30 Zum Fest! Zum Fest!
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