HalifaxOperaFestival

Applications being accepted now for the 2023 season!

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Application form now available for 2023 Halifax Summer Opera Festival - https://t.co/QjI92ToIlP

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A wonderful review of HSOF 2022 by @operacanada https://t.co/rtsS1SfrM7

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Marie Antoinette and Gluck
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Gluck was the young Marie-Antoinette’s music teacher in her native city of Vienna before she married Louis XVI and became queen of France at the age of 18.

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Halifax Summer Opera Festival features Gluck’s Armide
Performances August 11 – August 14, 2022

A Crusade of the Heart, Vanquished by Hate

The NYTimes article - https://t.co/1kR6V9J4yH

More details: https://t.co/6pSYkCaqLm

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ARMIDE - Character Portrait: Crusaders

Ubalde and Le Chevalier Danois are Renaud’s companions who brave terrible dangers to rescue him from Armide’s enchantments.

Image source: by Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, (Exhibited at Paris, Salon, 1785,)

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Armide by Christoph Wilibald Gluck sung in French.

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"Gluck outraged the French. He committed what some called an artistic blasphemy: he dared to set one of Quinault’s libretti for Lully, and the most esteemed of all: Armide."

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Interesting article about how to banish self-consciousness and doubt when you are a performer. Several techniques to master stage-fright are outlined here.

Which ones if any do you use?

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ARMIDE - Character Portrait: La Haine - Hatred

Armide, struggling against her feelings of love for her enemy, Renaud, summons La Haine, the personification of Hatred, to stiffen her resolve to kill the Crusader.

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Meet Alberta soprano Elizabeth Fast, singing the role of the Demon Lucinde in the Halifax Summer Opera Festival production of Armide this summer!

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Halifax #Summer #Opera Festival returns with ARMIDE

Tickets: https://t.co/AOEWDuUfn7

"Nothing that #Gluck had written up to this time was so uninterruptedly perfect as this; its voluptuous, cloying beauty is in marked contrast to much of his music,.."

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Crusaders Ubalde and Carlo, battle to rescue their commander Renaud from the sorceress Armide. Their biggest threat is two demons who take the shape of their lovers back home, Lucinde and Melissse. https://t.co/gmIHnOICxR

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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

- Maria Callas

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Vocal exercise to improve your voice.

source: Brilliant Vocal Exercise From One Of The Greatest Opera Singers Mario Del Monaco, Which Will Improve Your Voice Enormously!

https://t.co/vUUPxOiE8K #voice #vocal #opera #singing

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"I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I’ve devoted my life to.”

- Luciano Pavarotti

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Meet Nova Scotian soprano Claire Hartlen, who is performing the role of Armide's friend Sidonie this summer with the Halifax Summer Opera Festival!

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Making her Halifax Summer Opera debut this year is New Brunswick soprano Amanda Godin, who will sing the role of Armide's close friend, Phénice in our production of Gluck's Armide. https://t.co/gmIHnOICxR

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GLUCK'S ARMIDE:

It’s a story about a clash of cultures and about male versus female power, but most of all it’s about the many ways that love can enchant, confuse, torment and destroy us.

Halifax Summer Opera Festival tickets: https://t.co/dgJTLatC3l

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The Halifax Summer Opera Festival would like to thank the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts for being our 2022 Season Sponsor of Gluck's Armide. https://t.co/LM4QHALSz4

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Making her Halifax Summer Opera Festival debut is French soprano Agnès Ménard in the title role of Armide. After her studies in France, Agnès relocated to Canada to study with Rosemarie Landry at L'Université de Montréal.

Tickets for Armide are available https://t.co/AOEWDuUfn7

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Marie Antoinette and Gluck
https://t.co/9DKvzc45An

Gluck was the young Marie-Antoinette’s music teacher in her native city of Vienna before she married Louis XVI and became queen of France at the age of 18.

#gluck #HSOF #MarieAntoinette #Armide