Mélissa Petit turns in a coloratura tour de force скачать в хорошем качестве

Mélissa Petit turns in a coloratura tour de force

THE SONGBIRD: French Soprano Mélissa Petit was born in 1990 in Saint-Raphaël. She studied singing both in her hometown and in Nice before joining the studio of the Hamburg State Opera in 2010. Petit joined the Zurich Opera company in 2015, singing Sophie (Werther), Marzelline, Annchen, and Créuse in Charpentier’s "Médée." Other notable appearances have included Micaela and Gilda at the Bregenz Festival, Juliette in Beijing and Düsseldorf, Papagena in Paris, and Strauss's Sophie in Geneva. In Salzburg, Petit has sung Bellezza in Handel's "Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno," Servilia, and Gluck's Euridice. THE MUSIC: Delibes wrote four operas, but only 'Lakme" is performed and recorded with any regularity. "Jean de Nivelle," his second opera, premiered in Paris in 1880, three years before "Lakme." It's an opera-comique with some darker undertones. The story is based on the historical figure Jean de Nivelle, a member of the House of Montmorency who refused to support Louis XI in his war against Charles the Bold. The soprano lead is Arlette, who gets caught in the middle of some romantic intrigues. Of her three arias, the true vocal showpiece is called a "fabliau" and comes in the middle of Act Two. (All this time, I thought Massenet's fabliau for Manon was the only one!) It seems that originally a fabliau was a type of tale in verse, common in medieval French literature. Here, Arlette sings the story of a grand mill owned by a father and his son. They get in a fight which stops the mill and the beautiful sound of the water as it turns through the paddles -- when they reunite, the mill comes back to life. The gimmick is that Arlette's long, looping vocal runs echo the sound of the water as it turns through the action of the mill. Because this work is unknown, I have added the vocal line from the score to the video so viewers can follow Arlette's intricate coloratura .