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The Ghosts of Versailles - Wikipedia
The Ghosts of Versailles is an opera in two acts, with music by John Corigliano to an English libretto by William M. Hoffman. The Metropolitan Opera had commissioned the work from Corigliano in 1980 in celebration of its 100th anniversary, with the premiere scheduled for 1983.
The Ghosts of Versailles - Standard Version - John Corigliano
Bored and listless, even the King is uninterested when Beaumarchais arrives and declares his love for the Queen. As Marie Antoinette is too haunted by her execution to reciprocate his love, Beaumarchais announces his intention to change her fate through the plot of his new opera 'A Figaro for Antonia.'
The Ghosts of Versailles - U.S. Opera
2009年1月1日 · As the opera begins, the ghosts of the court of Louis XVI arrive at the theatre of Versailles. The king reveals that he knows that a commoner is courting his wife, Marie Antoinette, but he doesn't care.
The Ghosts of Versailles: Director’s Note | Metropolitan Opera
The superficial world of opera buffa can often surprise its audience with its subtext: Whether the authors intended it or not—and with their past records of compassionate attitudes toward humanity, I cannot believe they did not intend it—The Ghosts of …
Metropolitan Opera Archives
"The Ghosts of Versailles" is the first work commissioned by the Met in almost a quarter century, and it is in every way a distinguished contribution to American opera. Indeed, "Ghosts" ranks with the best of Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Virgil Thomson and Philip Glass, and it is certainly one of the most amazing first operas (for both ...
John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles - medici.tv
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Royal Opera of Versailles in this historical journey, with hints of Mozart and Rossini! Trapped in limbo, the victims of the French Revolution—still traumatized by their executions on Earth—await their ultimate fate with apprehension.
The Ghosts of Versailles Synopsis and Further Reading
The Ghosts of Versailles is set in Marie Antoinette’s private theater at Versailles in the present. The ghost of the playwright Beaumarchais, author of The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, has fallen madly in love with the ghost of the executed Queen Marie Antoinette, who after two centuries still grieves for her lost life.
CORIGLIANO THe Ghosts of Versailles Metropolitan Opera [WK]: …
This opera was originally commissioned in the early 1980s, but did not reach the Met until 1991. Its origins lie in a conversation between Levine and the composer, with the latter saying he had long been interested in writing an opera buffa that would be on a grand scale.
The Ghosts of Versailles
1992年1月10日 · One possible sequel is told in John Corigliano’s “grand opera buffa” The Ghosts of Versailles—an uproariously funny and deeply moving work inspired by Beaumarchais’s third Figaro play, La Mère Coupable, and commissioned by the Met to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
The Ghosts of Versailles - Opéra de Versailles / Château de Versailles …
In purgatory, the Ghosts of Versailles are waiting impatiently for Beaumarchais’ new play: what if he manages to save Marie Antoinette from the scaffold? Here is Count Almaviva, the famous Figaro, but also Rosina and Cherubino, plunged into a thousand twists and turns to make the famous Queen’s Necklace disappear, thwarting the spies of the ...