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Maurice Maeterlinck wrote his libretto for Ariane et Barbe-Bleu for Grieg, who rejected it, but Paul Dukas was delighted when it was offered to him. Completed in 1907, Dukas' opera appeared five years after Debussy's Pelléas, which it resembles in some of its text setting and in its sense of mystery. (Mélisande appears in the Dukas as one of Bluebeard's wives, but it's impossible to know if Maeterlinck had her back story in mind when he wrote the 1892 play on which Debussy based his opera. Dukas directly quotes Debussy's opera in connection with his character of Mélisande.) Like Debussy's opera, Dukas' is mysterious and psychologically troubling; after Ariane succeeds in freeing Bluebeard's five previous wives (a sixth wife -- "the black fairy" is ominously unaccounted for), the wives choose to remain in captivity in Bluebeard's dank prison. The music of Dukas' opera is more overtly dramatic than Debussy's and has a Wagnerian grandeur filtered through the delicacy of a thoroughly French sensibility. Its ripe romanticism is well suited to the libretto's gothic sensibilities. Ariane et Barbe-Bleu has everything to make it a popular success -- a dramatic and emotionally engaging story that offers the opportunity for scenically spectacular stagings, grateful vocal writing, and a sumptuous score. Critics speculate that its obscurity may be related to the timing of its appearance, just after Pelléas, and just before Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle, which was based loosely on the same libretto; there were just too many Maeterlinckian symbolist operas for the repertoire to absorb in such a short time.
The opera receives a compelling and colorful performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, led by Leon Botstein. Almost the entire vocal responsibility falls on Ariane, sung passionately with warm tone by Lori Phillips. The remaining characters, the Nurse, the wives, and Bluebeard himself, have incidental roles, but all are well taken and beautifully sung. Telarc's sound is warm and spacious.
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Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Patricia Bardon, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Patricia Bardon, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Patricia Bardon, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Peter Rose, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Patricia Bardon, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Patricia Bardon, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Ana James, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Laura Vlasak Nolen, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Daphné Touchais, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Ana James, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Laura Vlasak Nolen, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah-Jane Davies, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Daphné Touchais, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Ana James, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Laura Vlasak Nolen, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah-Jane Davies, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Daphné Touchais, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Ana James, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Laura Vlasak Nolen, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah-Jane Davies, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Patricia Bardon, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Daphné Touchais, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Ana James, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Laura Vlasak Nolen, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah-Jane Davies, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Graeme Danby, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Paul Dukas, Composer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Everett Porter, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Maeterlinck, Author - Lori Phillips, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Botstein, Conductor, MainArtist - Daphné Touchais, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thomas C. Moore, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Ana James, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Daan van Aalst, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lynne Meloccaro, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Sarah-Jane Davies, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
Album review
Maurice Maeterlinck wrote his libretto for Ariane et Barbe-Bleu for Grieg, who rejected it, but Paul Dukas was delighted when it was offered to him. Completed in 1907, Dukas' opera appeared five years after Debussy's Pelléas, which it resembles in some of its text setting and in its sense of mystery. (Mélisande appears in the Dukas as one of Bluebeard's wives, but it's impossible to know if Maeterlinck had her back story in mind when he wrote the 1892 play on which Debussy based his opera. Dukas directly quotes Debussy's opera in connection with his character of Mélisande.) Like Debussy's opera, Dukas' is mysterious and psychologically troubling; after Ariane succeeds in freeing Bluebeard's five previous wives (a sixth wife -- "the black fairy" is ominously unaccounted for), the wives choose to remain in captivity in Bluebeard's dank prison. The music of Dukas' opera is more overtly dramatic than Debussy's and has a Wagnerian grandeur filtered through the delicacy of a thoroughly French sensibility. Its ripe romanticism is well suited to the libretto's gothic sensibilities. Ariane et Barbe-Bleu has everything to make it a popular success -- a dramatic and emotionally engaging story that offers the opportunity for scenically spectacular stagings, grateful vocal writing, and a sumptuous score. Critics speculate that its obscurity may be related to the timing of its appearance, just after Pelléas, and just before Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle, which was based loosely on the same libretto; there were just too many Maeterlinckian symbolist operas for the repertoire to absorb in such a short time.
The opera receives a compelling and colorful performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, led by Leon Botstein. Almost the entire vocal responsibility falls on Ariane, sung passionately with warm tone by Lori Phillips. The remaining characters, the Nurse, the wives, and Bluebeard himself, have incidental roles, but all are well taken and beautifully sung. Telarc's sound is warm and spacious.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:54:23
- Main artist: Leon Botstein
- Composer: Paul Dukas
- Label: Telarc
- Genre: Classical
© 2007 Telarc International Corp. ℗ 2007 Telarc International Corp.
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