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12/11/2015

Milhaud - La mere coupable

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Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Milhaud's opera La mere coupable given in Vienna.

Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Milhaud's opera La mere coupable given in Vienna at Theater an der Wien. Plus the BBC Philharmonic playing music by Berlioz and Poulenc.

Jonathan Swain presents Milhaud's La mere coupable, recorded in Vienna earlier this year at the Theater an der Wien, featuring Mireille Delunsch, Angelika Kirchschlager and Stefan Loges.

This rarely-performed opera by Milhaud is based on the final part of the Beaumarchais Figaro trilogy. While Mozart mines the class tensions with a comedic touch, Milhaud chooses to set Beaumarchais' more serious moral conclusion. In the intervening 20 years both the Count and Countess have had indiscretions resulting in illegitimate children, Leon and Florestine, both of whom are being brought up by the pair as their own. Figaro and Suzanne are still in their service, but their relationship is now in diffculties.

2pm:
Milhaud: La mère coupable - opera in 3 acts

Count Almaviva ..... Markus Butter (baritone)
Countess Rosine ..... Mireille Delunsch (soprano)
Chevalier Léon ..... Andrew Owens (tenor)
Florestine ..... Frederikke Kampmann (soprano)
Figaro ..... Stephan Loges (baritone)
Suzanne ..... Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano)
Begaers ..... Aris Argiris (baritone)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Leo Hussain (conductor) 

Followed by more performances from the BBC Philharmonic.

3.50pm:
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon (conductor)

4.00pm:
Poulenc: Concerto in D minor for two pianos and orchestra
Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier (pianos)
BBC Philharmonic
Edward Gardner (conductor).

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