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Don Pasquale takes over PPO's concert

BY MANILA BULLETIN ENTERTAINMENT

Feb 24, 2024 07:54 AM

  

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AT A GLANCE

• For its seventhconcert, thePPOwill haveaconcert-style performance of the Italian operaunder the baton ofPPOmusic director and principal conductor Maestro Grzegorz Nowak.

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Filling the gap in the opera programming in the Philippines, the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra present Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale as part of its 39th concert season on March 8, 7:30 pm, at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater.

For its seventh concert, the PPO will have a concert-style performance of the Italian opera under the baton of PPO music director and principal conductor Maestro Grzegorz Nowak.

With the Italian libretto by Giovanni Ruffini, Don Pasquale is one of the most popular opera buffas, along with Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Donizetti’s other opera The Elixir of Love. It is known for its bright and colorful vocal, and truthful depiction of characters and genuine emotions.

First premiered at the Théâtre Italien in Paris on Jan. 3, 1843, the three-act opera follows the story of a wealthy old bachelor named Don Pasquale who decides to take a wife and produce an heir to disinherit his nephew Ernesto for refusing to enter an arranged marriage. Dottore Malatesta, a friend of the Don, promises to help Ernesto and his widowed sweetheart Norina.

Things take a humorous turn when his scheming plans are thwarted by a series of comical misunderstandings and mistaken identities. Will Don Pasquale change his mind and realize that marriage is not for him, and allow the couple to happily live ever after?

Find out as opera soloists Dorota Sobieska (as Norina), Matheus França (as Don Pasquale), Byeong In Park (as Dr. Malatesta), Nomher Nival (as Ernesto), and Zadkiel John Yarcia (as Notary) bring to life its entertaining plot and memorable characters. 

A talented soprano and stage director, Sobieska has participated in many opera productions and solo performances with an orchestra and piano. One of Ohio’s finest sopranos, her exceptional wide-ranging coloratura technique exemplifies glorious tones and passages with wonderful quality.

Brazilian bass with experienced remarkable growth in the solo landscape, França, is a product of the University of Brasília where he received his musical education. He also possesses a bachelor’s degree in Orchestral and Choral Conducting with excellence.

Alongside Dorota Sobieska and Matheus França, baritone Park will also take center stage. A student under acclaimed tenor Francisco Araiza at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany, Byeong In Park has been actively performing in opera productions and concerts around Europe and Asia. Currently based in the Philippines, Park continues to involve himself in most opera productions and concerts with several orchestras such as the PPO, the Manila Symphony Orchestra, the ABS-CBN Orchestra, and the Cebu Philharmonic Orchestra.

Another soloist with a deep, rich voice and an alumnus of the internationally acclaimed high school choir, Boscorale, baritone Yarcia is currently a student taking up a bachelor’s degree in music, majoring in voice, at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. The young baritone soloist received medals in the Opera and Broadway categories when he competed in the 2018 World Championships of Performing Arts in California, U.S.A.

Completing the cast is Nival, a first-prize winner in the vocal male category of the 2007 National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA) and the 2015 Jovita Fuentes Vocal Competition Male Category. A well-established tenor who has performed major roles in many CCP productions, he was also the recipient of the Mr. and Mrs. Tommy & Simonetta Steyer Encouragement Award at the prestigious Marcello Giordani Foundation International Vocal Competition 2013 in Vero Beach, Florida.

Tickets to PPO Concert VII: Don Pasquale are priced at Php3,000 (Orchestra Center), Php2,000 (Orchestra Side), Php2,500 (Loge Center), Php1,500 (Loge Side), and Php800 (Balcony 1).

The PPO concert season is made possible with partners SSI Group, Inc., TBWA\SMP, Ascott Bonifacio Global City, and Lyf Malate Manila.

Creating a New Music World: Liszt’s Hungarian Fantasia

By Maureen Buja, Interlude

The Fantasia / Fantasy as a genre in the 19th century (versus the 17th-century English fantasias, which were very different) gave the composer enormous range to use his imagination on whatever he had decided to fantasize about. In Liszt’s case, his Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Melodies from 1849–1852 takes Hungarian folk themes of contrasting character and, in a free form, makes improvisational-style permutations on the music.

Hermann Biow: Franz Liszt, 1943

To look at where Liszt got this material, we have to look back through his own catalogue. Liszt’s Magyar Rhapsodiak/Ungarische Rhapsodien, S242/R105c, which was written for solo piano around 1846–1847, uses many of the same melodies that appear later in his Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 in F minor, S242/R106, perhaps the most famous of his Hungarian Rhapsody cycle of 19 works, written in 1847.

Some of the melodies in the 14th Rhapsody come from Hungarian folk songs, such as ‘Magosan repül a daru’ (The Crane Flies High), which is used in the slow introduction, and the well-known ‘Koltó csárdás’ is used in the quick section, while others are of ‘uncertain origin’, and may, in fact have been written by Liszt himself.

In the case of the Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien (Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Melodies), S. 123. Liszt created a work for piano and orchestra that takes the earlier works for piano solo and transforms them into something greater. The piano ‘improvisations’ are set against a dancing orchestral backdrop that only serves to place them in greater contrast.

The work was dedicated to Hans von Bülow, one of his early students and eventual husband of his daughter Cosima (who later left von Bülow for Richard Wagner). The premiere was given in Pest, Hungary, on 1 June 1853, with von Bülow at the piano.

Fritz Leuchart: Hans von Bülow

This 1953 performance was recorded with Julian von Karolyi on the piano and Edmund Nick leading the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra was founded in 1893 and was the orchestra for three important Mahler premieres: His symphonies nos. 4 and 8, and was where the posthumous premiere of Das Lied von der Erde, conducted by Bruno Walter, was given. Wilhelm Furtwängler made his conducting debut with the orchestra in 1908. Due to the loss of players, the orchestra ceased during WWII but was restarted by the city of Munich under new leadership and its current name. The leadership by Sergiu Celibidache from 1979 to 1996 restored the orchestra’s reputation and quality. Celibidache was succeeded by some of the leading conductors of the modern age: James Levine (1999–2004), Christian Thielemann (2004–2011), Lorin Maazel (2012–2014), and Valery Gergiev (2015–2022). In 2023, Israeli conductor Lahav Shandi was announced as chief conductor starting in the 2026–27 season.

Edmund Nick

Edmund Nick (1891–1874) was a German conductor, composer, and music critic. Although his degree was in law from the University of Graz in 1918, by 1919 he was working as an accompanist in Breslau. In 1933, he moved to Berlin and in 1945 to Munich, where he was a cabaret director and then, in 1947, chief conductor of the Bavarian State Opera. He was professor (1949) at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and from 1952–1956, was head of the music department of West German Radio, Cologne.

Julian von Karoly

Julian von Karolyi was a German-Hungarian pianist (1914–1993) who studied with Josef Pembaur, Jr., in Munich, Max von Pauer in Leipzig, Alfred Cortot in Paris, and Ernő Dohnányi in Budapest. He was known for his interpretations of Chopin and Liszt and made his debut recital in Berlin in 1934. He continued to perform throughout the war in Hungary, Germany, Spain, and Scandinavia. After the war, he made his base in Munich and started a series of international tours through Europe, North and South America, and Asia.

Performed by

Julian von Karolyi
Edmund Nick
Orchestre Philharmonique de Munich

Recorded in 1953