Il re pastore
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Paul Goodwin...Rape of Lucretia at the Teatro Real Madrid and Orlando at Opera Australia Past highlights include Mozart's Figaro and Il Re Pastore at Opera North, Idomeneo in Graz, The Magic Flute at the Teatro Aalto in Essen, Monteverdi's Incoronatione... In this article: Paul Goodwin, George Frederic Handel, English Chamber Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky, Academy of Ancient Music, London, Helsinki, and Orlando |
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After training at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he moved to directing musicals, and even directed David Tennant in a pantomime at Dundee Rep. His first opera, Mozart's Il Re Pastore, for Opera North, came in 1993. "He...
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Il re pastore: Opera North. Rigoletto: Royal Opera House. Der Rosenkavalier: Opera North, Scottish Opera ... Opéra national du Rhin. Sweeney Todd: Opera North ...
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Biography of international Tenor Peter Bronder ... Opera North (Prunier/La Rondine, Hauptmann/Wozzeck, Alexander/Il Re Pastore) and ...
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... conducted in many of the major opera houses throughout North America and Europe. ... Canadian Opera Company [Mozart's Il Re Pastore], Edmonton Opera [The Rape of ...
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... d'Assise for the Leipzig Opera, Agenore in Il Re Pastore at the Buxton Festival and for Opera North, Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte for Scottish Opera and Pong ...
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... the next completed opera that Mozart wrote after Il re pastore, after his six ... the Mediterranean Sea coast, about 40 km north of Tyre, Lebanon and 40 km south ...
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Il re pastore (The Shepherd King) is an opera, K. 208, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Metastasio, edited by Gianbattista Varesco. It is an opera seria. The opera was first performed on April 23 1775 in Salzburg, at the Palace of the Archbishop Count Hieronymus von Colloredo.
In 1775 the opera was commissioned for a visit by the Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria, the youngest son of Empress Maria Theresa, to Salzburg. Mozart spent six weeks working on the opera. It consists of two acts and runs for approximately 107 minutes.
Metastasio wrote the libretto in 1751, basing it on a work by Torquato Tasso called Aminta. The libretto was picked up when Mozart (just 19 at the time) and his father saw a performance of it set to music composed by Felice Giardini — Mozart's version, however was two acts rather than Giardini's three, and has a few substantial changes. Each act lasts for around an hour in performance. The Salzburg court chaplain Varesco was largely responsibly for this editing of Metastasio's libretto.
It is often referred to not as an opera, but as a serenata, a type of dramatic cantata. The appearance of a quartet of lovers (Aminta and Elisa, Agenore and Tamiri) of somewhat dubious fidelity automatically puts a modern audience in mind of Così fan tutte. The principal psychological theme of the opera is, however, the demands of love against the demands of Kingship, as Aminta, the Shepherd-king, tussles with his conscience, and in this Il re pastore is closer in theme to Idomeneo than any other of Mozart's operas. Indeed, Idomeneo was the next completed opera that Mozart wrote after Il re pastore, after his six-year-long break from the stage.
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