Release Date: 01 January 2001
Label: Naxos - Historical / Naxos Historical
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 636943113523
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: MOZART
Description
WolfgangAmadeus Mozart (1756 -1791): Don Giovanni GlyndebourneWhen JohnChristie had the opera-house built on his country estate a! Glyndebourne in1934, he had intended to start the first of his summer two-week opera seasonswith Mozart's Don Giovanni or with an ambitious Wagner series, leadingto a full Ring cycle. His wife, the soprano Audrey Mildmay, persuadedhim, however, that other works might better suit the start of the venture in ahouse of this size, with an auditorium that seated 331. In the event the firstGlyndebourne season, in 1934, offered two other Mozart operas, Le nozze diFigaro and Cosi fan tutte. The timing of the whole scheme wasopportune. Events in Germany, with Hitler's accession to power in theprevious year, meant that a number of distinguished directors and musicians wereavailable. Carl Ebert, who had trained as an actor under Max Reinhardt andturned to direction at the Landestheater in Darmstadt, before his appointmentto the Stadtische Oper in Berlin in 1931, had been compelled to move in 1933 todirect the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and was available to take charge of theGlyndebourne Mozart productions, for which the house became so well known. Withhim came the conductor Fritz Busch, music director of the Dresden Staatsoper since1922, a man who had enjoyed congenial collaboration with Ebert at Salzburg in1932 with Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and at the Berlin StadtischeOper in Verdi. Dismissed for his overt opposition to the National Socialists,he too had moved to Buenos Aires and it was on hisinsistence that he should bring Ebert with him that he accepted the responsibilityfor music at Glyndebourne, continuing together with him for the seasons from1934 unti11939. Rudolf Bing, who had served as assistant to Ebert in Darmstadtand for three years as assistant to the Intendant of the Charlottenburg Operain Berlin, joined Ebert and Busch in 1936 as general manager at Glyndebourne. Closely involvedin the whole enterprise was the soprano Audrey Mildmay. She had studied inLondon and Vienna and after tours of Canada and the United States had returnedin 1928 to join the Carl Rosa Company, for which she sang the roles of Gretel, Micaela,Olympia and Nedda, among others, as well as that of Zerlina, which she repeatedin the 1936 Glyndebourne production of Don Giovanni. Her Masetto was theScottish baritone Roy Henderson, who had taken the part of the Count in theopening Glyndebourne production of 1934. 1936 brought the Glyndebourne debut ofthe Hungarian tenor Koloman von Pataky, otherwise known as Kalman Pataky, who hadacquired his skill in Mozart interpretation during his years at the ViennaStaatsoper, where he appeared until the Anschluss. He was distinguished, inparticular, for his Mozart roles, Tamino, Belmonte and, as in the 1936Glyndebourne season, Don Ottavio. The American soprano Ina Souez, who had sungLiu to Eva Turner's icy Turandot at Covent Garden in 1929 and appeared asFiordiligi in the first Glyndebour
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