This week’s installment options her Idamante in an Idomeneo carried out by Colin Davis and co-starring Stuart Burrows and Yvonne Kenny, in addition to a broadcast of her large Penelope in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria wherein she nobly waited for the Ulisse of Benjamin Luxon who died late final month at 87.
Peter Corridor’s manufacturing of the Monteverdi premiered on the Glyndebourne Competition in 1972. At this time’s recording options that 12 months’s forged collectively at a live performance efficiency given on the Proms. Some could also be accustomed to Baker and Luxon from the movie made at Glyndebourne the next summer time with a barely totally different forged.
This broadcast was one of many very first recordings I purchased once I bought my first reel-to-reel tape recorder in highschool. I’d not beforehand heard Ulisse, and I listened to it time and again. Though immediately I acknowledge Raymond Leppard’s “realization” of the rating will be excessive, I stay vastly affected by it and notably by Baker and Luxon’s portrayals, in addition to Richard Lewis’s touching Eumete and Alexander Oliver’s witty Iro.
Idamante was a job Baker solely carried out throughout this run of Götz Friedrich’s controversial manufacturing for Idomeneo’s premiere at Covent Backyard. Baker’s most typical Mozart stage roles have been Dorabella which she carried out with the Scottish Opera and Vitellia wherein she was efficiently (in line with most) forged towards kind. Since I used to be certain that Magdalena Cononovici was not the primary selection for Elettra, I did some investigating. I used to be stunned to find that Gabriela Benackova was initially introduced to carry out the position!
Baker by no means appeared on the Met (or in any staged opera within the US), and neither did Kenny. Burrows sang usually there throughout the Seventies, however Luxon sang simply two performances of Eugene Onegin with the corporate in 1980.
ARTEK opens its 40th season subsequent month with three live performance performances of Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria that includes rising tenor Richard Pittsinger (son of Patricia Schuman and David Pittsinger) because the returning hero.
Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria
Penelope: Janet Baker
Minerva: Anne Howells
Melanto: Janet Hughes
Ericlea: Virginia Popova
Giunone: Vivien Townley
Fortuna: Patricia Craig
Amore: Laureen Livingstone
L’umana Fragilità: Annabel Hunt
Ulisse: Benjamin Luxon
Telemaco: Ian Caley
Eurimaco: John Wakefield
Iro: Alexander Oliver
Eumete: Richard Lewis
Nettuno: Clifford Grant
Giove: David Hughes
Antinoo/Tempo: Ugo Trama
Pisandro: John Fryatt
Anfinomo: Bernard Dickerson
London Philharmonic
Conductor: Raymond Leppard
Glyndebourne Competition Opera at Royal Albert Corridor Proms
3 August 1972
Broadcast
Mozart: Idomeneo, Re di Creta
Ilia: Yvonne Kenny
Elettra: Magdalena Cononovici
Idamante: Janet Baker
Idomeneo: Stuart Burrows
Arbace: John Lanigan
Excessive Priest: Thomas Allen
Neptune: Gwynne Howell
Conductor: Colin Davis
Royal Opera, Covent Backyard
18 March 1978
Broadcast
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