Berthold Goldschmidt : Beeatrice Cenci
Label:C Major Catalog #:751504
Discs : Blu-ray Disc or DVD
World Premiere recording on Video!
Release Date : 07/26/2019
Performers :: Dshamilja Kaiser (Alto), Christoph Pohl (Baritone), Christina Bock (Mezzo Soprano), Gal James (Soprano)
Orchestra/Ensemble : Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Chorus
Conductor : :Johannes Debus
Church corruption, human violence and a
daughter who plots revenge on her abusive father – Goldschmidt’s
Beatrice Cenci has every ingredient for a gripping opera.
At Bregenz,
Johannes Erath brought Beatrice Cenci on stage for the first time.
Although written 70 years ago, “one musically quickly associates Puccini
or other Romantics“ (Neue Zurcher Zeitung), underlined by Goldschmidt´s
own words, saying it became a real “Belcanto-Opera”. “
Johannes Debus conducts the Wiener Symphoniker with true feeling for the score“. ”In the title role, Gal
James is moving“ and ”the baritone Christoph Pohl has all the vocal
charisma.” (The Telegraph).
A “brilliantly focused staging of a
neglected work“ (The Telegraph), a “great, wonderful evening“ (Deutschlandfunk
Kultur).
REVIEW:
Goldschmidt set out to write a latterday bel canto work, and his vocal
lines are certainly always singable, over orchestral writing that
references Mahler, Busoni and Schreker as well as standard 19th-century
operatic models. The Bregenz cast, led by Gal James as Beatrice, with
Dshamilja Kaiser as her stepmother Lucrezia and Christoph Pohl as the
swaggering, monstrous Francisco Cenci, complete with diamante codpiece,
is a very decent one, and Johannes Debus makes sure that Goldschmidt’s
whirling, churning orchestral writing gets the attention it deserves.
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