The success of Georges Bizet's Carmen, which is regarded as the most performed opera in the world, now belies the disastrous premiere that took place at the Opéra-Comique on March 3, 1875. A room that fills up as the evening goes on, with orchestra and ill-prepared singers, critics who let loose on the morally dubious synopsis... The composer's...
"The Knight of the Rose", the fifth of Richard Strauss's fifteen operas, was performed for the first time in 1911 at the Dresden Semperoper. Composed after "Elektra", this "comedy in music" is the first of a lengthy partnership with the dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
The last of his eleven operas, "Iolanta" was created less than a year before the death of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. In December 1892, an exceptional evening took place at the Mariinski Theater: the double creation of "Iolanta", an opera in one act, and the ballet "The Nutcracker", still considered today as the second most performed ballet in the world...
A source of inspiration for a century in all artistic fields, theatre, cinema, musical comedy..., the novel "La Vie de Bohème" by Henri Murger is also at the origin of two operas composed simultaneously in Italy and bearing the same title : "La Bohème".
The flute repertoire is constantly evolving, although it is already one of the largest among all musical instruments. This choice allows flautists to be greedy, by looking for new pieces and constantly taking up new musical and instrumental challenges.
The Rosenkavalier Flutes Suite is the very first fantasy that Jean-Christophe wrote (2016).
A work inspired by Pushkin's eponymous novel, Eugen Onegin is, along with the Queen of Spades, one of Tchaikovsky's most famous operas. Premiered at the Maly Theater by students from the Moscow Conservatory in 1879, Eugen Onegin was successfully revived at the Bolshoi. Immediately, several musicians seized on the work to take up its outlines and...
Inspired by the travelogues of Théodore Marie Pavie, Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gilles suggest to Léo Delibes the subject of the booklet on which they are working: Gérald, a young British officer falls in love with the daughter of a Brahman named Lakmé. This impossible love will cause the loss of the beautiful Hindu who will commit suicide and...
No self-respecting flutist could ever go without adding fantaisies on operas to their repertoire. Created at the end of the 19th century, this musical form enables the great hits of the lyrical repertoire to leave theaters and enter more intimate concert formats, thus contributing to a broader diffusion of operatic music. Its advantages are many :...
Third opus of arrangements devoted to the works of a composer still too little explored by flautists, this new Fantaisie sur la Fanciulla del West by Giacomo Puccini continues its foray into the heart of the style of opera paraphrases, a genre very popular in the salons of the second half of the 19th century.
After composing his Madame...