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==Performing Berenice (singers)== | ==Performing Berenice (singers)== | ||
On some occasions, in the earliest performances, Berenice was played to a male sopranist, like [[Benedetto Baldassarri]] in Rome, but already in the 18th century most of the interpreters were sopranos. Among them are | On some occasions, in the earliest performances, Berenice was played to a male sopranist, like [[Benedetto Baldassarri]] in Rome, but already in the 18th century most of the interpreters were sopranos. Among them are two of the most famous primedonne of the time--[[Faustina Bordoni]] and [[Antonia Maria Girelli]]. | ||
The role of Berenice in Magnard's opera was created by [[Marguerite Merentié]] in 1911. | |||
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| [[1714]] || [[Benedetto Baldassarri]] || [[Tito e Berenice (Titus and Berenice / 1714 Caldara / Capece), opera (music & libretto), Rome premiere (cast)]] || Italy || | | [[1714]] || [[Benedetto Baldassarri]] || [[Tito e Berenice (Titus and Berenice / 1714 Caldara / Capece), opera (music & libretto), Rome premiere (cast)]] || Italy || | ||
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| [[1725]] || [[Faustina Bordoni]] || [[Berenice (1725 Orlandini / Pasqualigo), opera (music & libretto), Venice premiere (cast)]] || Italy || | | [[1725]] || [[Faustina Bordoni]] || [[Berenice (1725 Orlandini / Pasqualigo), opera (music & libretto), Venice premiere (cast)]] || Italy || [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_Bordoni ] | ||
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| [[1770]] || [[Antonia Maria Girelli]] || [[Berenice (1770 Platania / Durandi), opera (music & libretto), Turin premiere (cast)]] || Italy || [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonia-maria-girelli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ] [http://www.quellusignolo.fr/sopranos/girelli.html ] | | [[1770]] || [[Antonia Maria Girelli]] || [[Berenice (1770 Platania / Durandi), opera (music & libretto), Turin premiere (cast)]] || Italy || [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonia-maria-girelli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ ] [http://www.quellusignolo.fr/sopranos/girelli.html ] | ||
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| [[1793]] || [[Catterina Lang]] || [[Tito e Berenice (Titus and Berenice / 1793 Nasolini / Foppa), opera (music & libretto), Venice premiere (cast)]] || Italy || | | [[1793]] || [[Catterina Lang]] || [[Tito e Berenice (Titus and Berenice / 1793 Nasolini / Foppa), opera (music & libretto), Venice premiere (cast)]] || Italy || | ||
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| [[1824]] || [[Clotilde Colombelle]] || [[Berenice in Roma (Berenice in Rome / 1824 Raimondi / Bordese), opera (music & libretto), Naples premiere (cast)]] || Italy || | | [[1824]] || [[Clotilde Colombelle]] || [[Berenice in Roma (Berenice in Rome / 1824 Raimondi / Bordese), opera (music & libretto), Naples premiere (cast)]] || Italy || [http://data.bnf.fr/14806758/clotilde_colombelle/ ] | ||
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| [[1858]] || [[Elena Kennet]] || [[La distruzione di Gerusalemme (The Destruction of Jerusalem / 1858 Pacini / Fioretti), oratorio (music & libretto), Florence premiere (cast)]] || Italy || | | [[1858]] || [[Elena Kennet]] || [[La distruzione di Gerusalemme (The Destruction of Jerusalem / 1858 Pacini / Fioretti), oratorio (music & libretto), Florence premiere (cast)]] || Italy || | ||
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| [[1911]] || [[Marguerite Mérentié]] || [[Bérénice (1911 Ruhlmann / @1909 Magnard), opera, Paris premiere (cast)]] || France || | | [[1911]] || [[Marguerite Mérentié]] || [[Bérénice (1911 Ruhlmann / @1909 Magnard), opera, Paris premiere (cast)]] || France || [http://www.isoldes-liebestod.net/Isolden_ohne_Liebestod/Merentie_Margerite.htm ] | ||
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| [[1992]] || [[ | | [[1992]] || [[Françoise Pollet]] || [[Bérénice (1992 Soustrout / @1909 Magnard), opera, Montpellier production, sound recording (cast)]] || France || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Pollet ] [http://www.hexagone.net/music/cvprofs/francoise%20pollet.htm ] | ||
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| [[2001]] || [[Virginia Todisco]] || [[Bérénice (2001 Delogu / @1909 Magnard), opera, Marseille production, sound recording (cast)]] || France || | | [[2001]] || [[Virginia Todisco]] || [[Bérénice (2001 Delogu / @1909 Magnard), opera, Marseille production, sound recording (cast)]] || France || | ||
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| [[2011]] || [[Michaela Martens]] || [[Bérénice (2011 Botstein / @1909 Magnard), opera, New York (Carnegie) production (cast)]] || United States || | | [[2011]] || [[Michaela Martens]] || [[Bérénice (2011 Botstein / @1909 Magnard), opera, New York (Carnegie) production (cast)]] || United States || | ||
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| [[2014]] || [[Catherine Hunold]] || [[Bérénice (2014 Ossonce / @1909 Magnard), opera, Tours production (cast)]] || France || | | [[2014]] || [[Catherine Hunold]] || [[Bérénice (2014 Ossonce / @1909 Magnard), opera, Tours production (cast)]] || France || [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Hunold ] | ||
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==Performing Berenice (dancers)== | ==Performing Berenice (dancers)== | ||
Revision as of 04:06, 30 May 2017
Works of music related to Berenice
Overview
As a love story, the affair between the Emperor Titus and Berenice for almost two centuries (mid-17th to mid-19th cent.) was a favorite operatic subject and attracted the attention of major composers. No work however reached that level of celebrity as to enter the contemporary repertoire.
Berenice always appears in company of Titus, not as an independent character. Her political role is downplayed, to focus solely on her unhappy love.
Berenice is alluded to, but is not present in the most popular libretto, La clemenza di Titus (1734) by Pietro Metastasio, which focuses on the life of Titus after the end of his love affair with the Jewish Queen.
In 1793 Tito e Berenice revived the interest on the love affair between Titus and Berenice and a few more operas followed, based on the subject (Berenice in Roma). Even some late versions of La clemenza di Tito" reintroduced Berenice as a singing character.
In 1909 Magnard made a final attempt to relaunch to character of Berenice. His opera is the only one to have been revived in recent years.
- [[Berenice in Roma, dramma in 2 atti (Verona, Teatro Filarmonico, 1805) by Carlo Mellara (1778-1840)
Performing Berenice (singers)
On some occasions, in the earliest performances, Berenice was played to a male sopranist, like Benedetto Baldassarri in Rome, but already in the 18th century most of the interpreters were sopranos. Among them are two of the most famous primedonne of the time--Faustina Bordoni and Antonia Maria Girelli.
The role of Berenice in Magnard's opera was created by Marguerite Merentié in 1911.
Performing Berenice (dancers)
Pages in category "Berenice--music (subject)"
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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- Il Tito (Titus / 1666 Cesti / Beregani), opera (music & libretto), Venice premiere
- Il Tito (1668 Binitti), opera
- Tito e Berenice (Titus and Berenice / 1714 Caldara / Capece), opera (music & libretto), Rome premiere (cast)
- Berenice (1725 Orlandini / Pasqualigo), opera (music & libretto), Venice premiere (cast)
- Il Titto / Titus l'empereur (Titus / 1731 Haendel), opera (music)
- Berenice (1764 Piccinni / @1725 Pasqualigo), opera (music), Naples premiere
- Berenice (1770 Platania / Durandi), opera (music & libretto), Turin premiere (cast)
- Tito e Berenice (Titus & Berenice / 1776 Mei / Lanfranchi-Rossi), opera (music & libretto), Pisa premiere
- Tito e Berenice (1782 Franchi), ballet
- Berenice (1786 Rust / @1770 Durandi), opera (music), Parma premiere
- Tito; o, La partenza di Berenice (1790 Angiolini), ballet
- Tito e Berenice (Titus and Berenice / 1793 Nasolini / Foppa), opera (music & libretto), Venice premiere (cast)
- Berenice in Roma (Berenice in Rome / 1824 Raimondi / Bordese), opera (music & libretto), Naples premiere (cast)
- La distruzione di Gerusalemme (The Destruction of Jerusalem / 1858 Pacini / Fioretti), oratorio (music & libretto), Florence premiere (cast)
- Titus et Bérénice (Titus and Berenice / 1860 Gastinel / Fournier), opera (music & libretto), Paris premiere
- Bérénice (1909 Magnard / Magnard), opera (music & libretto)
- Bérénice (1911 Ruhlmann / @1909 Magnard), opera, Paris premiere (cast)
- Bérénice (1992 Soustrout / @1909 Magnard), opera, Montpellier production, sound recording (cast)