Hello all, You all know that the language of the concert reviews is sometimes a bit 'special' and you'll understand my difficulties in the task of translating this one from a Spanish magazine, Ópera Actual. I beg your pardon for the numerous grammar inaccuracies.
At the same time, you all know what's the relation between the article and LilyPond: although not mentioned in the text, the first opera by Valentin Villenave is licensed as free software, and it has been fully typeset using Lily. It has been a remarkable absolute première and the article gives a very good value to the work and the performance. I take this opportunity to say Kudos! to all the great lilyponders who are using, developing and promoting this great piece of software. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% *Montpellier. Opéra Comédie Villenave: Affaire Étrangère; absolute premiere. N. Courjal, M. Di Sapia, C. Hunold, V. Cortez, D. Noble, Y. Saelens, C. Amoit. Conductor: S. Jean. Stage manager: R. Mitou. February 5, 2009 A foreigner arrived to an imaginary country, aboard a spacecraft. The king, who knew little about how to reign, influenced by the chief guard, decided to kill him as neither God nor the queen wanted to intervene in the decision. After some anything but trivial back and forth, it was the foreigner who ended up by sending all to the space and stayed as the new king. The story, antireligious without irreverence and anarchying without violence, was treated as a comic --Lewis Trondheim, author of the libretto, is a great specialist-- and garnered cheers and applauses at the curtain down. Valentin Villenave, in this his opera prima, illustrated the profuse text from his twenty-and-a-few years with inspired themes and varied and original orchestral combinations, very well interpreted from the pit by Samuel Jean, along with singing lines supported on the French prosody. Also the Richard Mitou's regia, simple and effective in a stylized framework by Pierre Heydorff contributed to the success of this premiere. While every voice defended his character with verve, were the contrasts of color, pitch ranges and rhythms who created the wealth of this vocal performance. This did not avoided us to applaud safety and virile emission of Marco Di Sapia (the foreigner), the elegant phrasing of Nicolas Courjal (the king), the subtlety and richness of timbre of Catherine Hunold (the queen), the power and clear elocution of Yves Saelens (chief guard), the excellent French diction of the Romanian singer Delia Noble (the doctor) and the presence of Viorica Cortez in the modest role of God. %%%%%%%%%%%%% You have a pretty-printable version behind of this link: http://www.paconet.org/opera-actual-v-villenave-montpellier.zip The opera has its own site: http://valentin.villenave.info/opera -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
