Martinů: Julietta
Juanita Lascarro (Julietta) & Kurt Streit (Michel)
Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Sebastian Weigle
Sebastian Weigle draws incisive playing from the Frankfurters, teasing out the crunchy textures…[Lascarro is] intense and passionate…[Streit] attacks Michel’s treacherously high-lying, declamatory...
Martinů: Julietta
Juanita Lascarro (Julietta) & Kurt Streit (Michel)
Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Sebastian Weigle
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Sebastian Weigle draws incisive playing from the Frankfurters, teasing out the crunchy textures…[Lascarro is] intense and passionate…[Streit] attacks Michel’s treacherously high-lying, declamatory...
About
Which life experiences do we retain as memories – and why? Can one really share memories with other people – and if so, can we be certain that we are speaking of the same experience? What is the lowest common denominator of reality?
The very modern opera Julietta by Bohuslav Martinů is concerned with these and other questions. It is being presented by OehmsClassics in this live recording made in June-July 2015 by the Frankfurt Opera.
Contents and tracklist
- Kurt Streit (vocals), Nina Tarandek (vocals), Magnús Baldvinsson (vocals), Marta Herman (vocals), Maria Pantiukhova (vocals), Andreas Bauer (vocals), Boris Grappe (vocals), Beau Gibson (vocals), Juanita Lascarro (vocals)
- Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, Chor der Oper Frankfurt
- Sebastian Weigle
- Recording Venue: Live recording, Germany
Act I Scene 2: Was passiert hier? (Vogelverkäuferin, Fischverkäuferin, Kleiner Araber, Chorus)
Track length1:19
Act I Scene 3: Wird dieser Krach noch lange dauern? (Mann am Fenster, Vogelverkäuferin, Fischverkäuferin, Kleiner Araber, Chorus)
Track length2:10
Act I Scene 4: Dieses lärmende Instrument, es stört dich nicht? (Mann am Fenster, Kleiner Araber)
Track length2:03
Act I Scene 5: He! Mein Herr Musiker, ich bitte um etwas Ruhe! (Mann mit Helm, Kleiner Araber, Mann am Fenster, Michel)
Track length1:10
Act I Scene 6: Was ist los hier, was ist los hier? (Kommissar, Mann mit Helm, Mann am Fenster)
Track length0:45
Act I Scene 7: Welch Hotel denn? (Kommissar, Michel, Alter Araber, Mann mit Helm, Mann am Fenster, Kleiner Araber, Chorus)
Track length5:08
Act I Scene 7: Ich glaube, es war ein Spielzeug, eine Spielzeugente (Kommissar, Michel, Alter Araber, Mann mit Helm, Mann am Fenster, Kleiner Araber, Chorus)
Track length6:46
Act I Scene 8: Meine Herren, vor Ihnen steht ein völlig desorientierter Mensch (Michel, Mann am Fenster, Mann mit Helm)
Track length1:08
Act I Scene 8: Hörn Sie! Ich bin gebor‘n in Perigeux (Michel, Mann am Fenster, Mann mit Helm, Vogelverkäuferin, Fischverkäuferin, Juliette, Kommissar)
Track length6:21
- Judita Nagyová (vocals)
- Recording Venue: Live recording, Germany
Act II Scene 3: Guten Abend, meine Herrn und Damen! (Altvater „Jugend“, Alter Mann, Alte Frau)
Track length3:26
Act II Scene 5: Ah, endlich da! (Juliette, Michel, Chorus, Verkäufer von Erinnerungen)
Track length9:06
Act II Scene 6: Mesdames et Messieurs (Verkäufer von Erinnerungen, Juliette, Michel)
Track length6:50
Act II Scene 7: Gnade, Freunde, Gnade! (Michel, Mann mit Helm, Mann am Fenster, Alter Araber, Chorus, Handleser)
Track length5:40
- Michael McCown (vocals)
- Recording Venue: Live recording, Germany
Act III Scene 4: Ah, das war phantastisch! (Hotelboy, Michel, Beamter, Stimme hinter der Bühne)
Track length1:39
Act III Scene 5: Hab mich gefragt schon, wieso kommt der heut nicht? (Beamter, Sträfling)
Track length3:27
Act III Scene 6: Sind Sie der Lokführer vom Orientexpress? (Beamter, Lokomotivführer, Michel)
Track length3:45
Act III Scene 7: Lassen Sie die Tür bitte einen Spalt offen! (Michel, Beamter, Sträfling, Chorus)
Track length8:48
Awards and reviews
September 2016
Sebastian Weigle draws incisive playing from the Frankfurters, teasing out the crunchy textures…[Lascarro is] intense and passionate…[Streit] attacks Michel’s treacherously high-lying, declamatory music with an intelligence and suppleness…the supporting cast are admirably focused
November 2016
it is very well worth hearing for the warm flexibility of that orchestral performance, and for the casting in the two central roles. Juanita Lascarro, possessed of a soprano with plenty of mezzo-like glow, gives a fully rounded portrait—if that’s possible—of the mysteriously inscrutable Julietta, apparently a figment of Michel’s dreams. Kurt Streit sings with ardent energy and is entirely believable in Michel’s haplessly lovesick predicament. The sense of a sonic dream is very strong.
