Béatrice Beer & Robert McFarland Sing Joseph Beer: Katzenaugen from "Polnische Hochzeit" скачать в хорошем качестве

Béatrice Beer & Robert McFarland Sing Joseph Beer: Katzenaugen from "Polnische Hochzeit"

"Katzenaugen" excerpted from "Polnische Hochzeit" Music by Joseph Beer www.JosephBeerComposer.com Libretto & Lyrics by Fritz Löhner-Beda and Alfred Grünwald Sung by Robert McFarland, Dramatic Baritone and Béatrice Beer, Soprano Kim Barroso, Piano www.RobertMcFarlandBaritone.com www.BeatriceBeer.com Quick Review Excerpts *** “simply superb…one of the most magical of all 20th century stage works” -- John Groves, Operetta Center, Amsterdam, Dec. 2018 *** "....extraordinary music. Powerful, written with great panache, worthy of the greatest composers" --Radio Krakow, Dec. 2020 *** “There are proud trumpets, powerful drums, heavy double basses, delicate strings and captivating melodic arias..... An extremely talented Jewish composer during raging fascism. The opera houses of Zurich, Stockholm, Vienna, Paris, Vienna, Warsaw and even South America staged this work"... -- Krakow Culture Forum, Dec. 2020 Background *** Composed in some three weeks by a “prodigy” youth in his mid-twenties, Polnische Hochzeit, published by a division of Universal Edition, premiered on April 3, 1937 at the Zurich Opera House; *** As Beer’s composition teacher and mentor Josef Marx wrote, the composer goes far beyond the conventional operetta genre here through the complexity, depth and wealth of sheer compositional genius and technique and creates a new genre of its own; *** Performed internationally during the 11 months following its premiere on over 40 stages and translated into 8 languages, sometimes bearing, as in Finland, the alternative title of Masurkka; *** In 1938, Maurice Lehmann, then director of the Théâtre du Châtelet, scheduled it for a French premiere starring Jan Kiepura & Marta Eggerth. Simultaneously, superstar tenor Richard Tauber was slated to be featured in a high-profile Viennese creation; *** With the Anschluss in March of 1938, the name of the “Jew Beer” was taken off the roster of Universal Edition, the Theater an der Wien among others and Polnische Hochzeit is banned from performance. With his life at stake, the composer had to flee Vienna, and all plans of performing Polnische Hochzeit were from then on abruptly ended; *** Published by the Stockholm-based Arvid Englind Publishing Co., the opera continued to be performed with tremendous success in Scandinavia from 1939 until 2000 and beyond despite the composer’s lack of cooperation; *** Live CD recording with the famed Munich Radio Orchestra and soloists and Gärtnerplatz Theatre chorus under the baton of Ulf Schirmer; *** Major revival by Austria’s second largest opera house Graz Oper 2018-2019; *** Performances at the Linz Opera in 2019; the production was awarded the prestigious Austrian Music Theater Prize in May 2020; *** Polish premiere at the ICE Krakow Convention Center in November 2020 under the baton of famed conductor Łukasz Borowicz; *** Major German premiere at Staatsoperetten Dresden April 2023-May 2024 Lyrics/Translations Kasimir Katzenaugen, süsse Katzenaugen, Cats' eyes, sweet cats' eyes, sie funkeln durch die Nacht, They shine through the night, Katzenaugen, wilde Katzenaugen, Cats' eyes, wild cats' eyes, ihr habt mich toll gemacht! You've driven me mad! Katzenaugen, heisse Katzenaugen, Cats' eyes, hot cats' eyes, sie halten dich im Bann, They hold you in their power, aber nimm dich in acht, So beware, nimm dich in acht, Beware, sei auf der Hut, Be on your guard, wilde Katzenaugen seh'n dich an! For wild cats' eyes are watching you! Suza Schöne Frauenaugen Beautiful women's eyes gibt es ohne Zahl. Are a dime a dozen, Schwarze, braune, blaue, Be they black, brown, or blue, jenach Wünsch und Wahl. According to each person's whim and wish. Kasimir Ist aber grau das Aug der Frau, How boring then are women's eyes, Erbebt mein Blut in wilder Glut! My blood quivers with wild passion for Suza/Kasimir Katzenaugen, süsse Katzenaugen, Cats' eyes, sweet cats' eyes, sie funkeln durch die Nacht, They shine through the night, Katzenaugen, wilde Katzenaugen, Cats' eyes, wild cats' eyes, ihr habt mich toll gemacht! You've driven me mad! Katzenaugen, heisse Katzenaugen, Cats' eyes, hot cats' eyes, sie halten dich im Bann, They hold you in their power, aber nimm dich in acht, So beware, nimm dich in acht, Beware, sei auf der Hut, Be on your guard, wilde Katzenaugen seh'n dich an! For wild cats' eyes are watching you! Giacomo Puccini/Joseph Beer Photo Montage: Artist Suzanne Beer Benjamin Kall, Audio Engineer Hillary Onitsky, Montage Christian Steiner, Photographer (Béatrice Beer)