{"id":1188,"date":"2017-02-18T17:37:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T17:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2017-02-18T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T17:41:11","slug":"fill-in-your-bingo-card-by-seeing-the-granddaddy-of-beethovens-fidelio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/2017\/02\/18\/fill-in-your-bingo-card-by-seeing-the-granddaddy-of-beethovens-fidelio\/","title":{"rendered":"Fill in Your Bingo Card by Seeing the Granddaddy of Beethoven’s Fidelio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great news! \u00a0If you are hoping to fill in your Bingo card for the predecessors of Beethoven’s Fidelio<\/em><\/strong>, see what\u00a0The Washington Concert Opera wrote this week:<\/p>\n

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“The idea of a strong female who ends up liberating somebody who’s been unjustly imprisoned, and helping bring down a powerful, evil person, I think that still really resonates today…” -Antony Walker<\/div>\n
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Anne Midgette’s piece\u00a0Strong woman confronts unjust ruler – opera tells, and retells, the story<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0available online now and in print this Sunday, takes a closer look at the three different versions of the “Leonore” story coming to DC and New York City in the coming weeks.<\/div>\n
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Check out the links below to buy tickets to these exciting performances!<\/div>\n
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Opera Lafayette<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
L\u00e9onore, ou l’amour conjugal\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Sunday, February 19<\/strong><\/div>\n
3 PM at Lisner Auditorium<\/div>\n
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Washington Concert Opera<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Beethoven’s\u00a0Leonore<\/em><\/div>\n
Sunday, March 5<\/div>\n
6 PM at Lisner Auditorium<\/div>\n
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Metropolitan Opera<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fidelio<\/em><\/p>\n

March 16 – April 8<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For a detailed look at the how a strong woman caused three different settings to spring forth in 1804\/1805 based on the libretto for\u00a0the French Leonore\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>of 1798–Paer (Italian), Mayr (Italian), and \u00a0Beethoven (German)–see John A. Rice’s\u00a0excellent Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792-1807<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

You’ve already got a\u00a0head start on your Bingo card by seeing (or hearing) music from Ferdinando Paer’s Leonora<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>in Parker & Paer’s A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Most recently, the full Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia (SONOVA) performed highlights of <\/a>A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in a free performances at the James Lee Community Theater in Falls Church, Virginia, on October 21, 2016.<\/p>\n

A chamber orchestra\u00a0performed in the world premiere of A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em><\/a> at the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint in Washington, DC, in January 2016.<\/p>\n

It was prescient of\u00a0Pam Schipper, writing in the Gaithersburg Town Courier<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in June 2014, to say that<\/p>\n

“Parker\u2019s \u201cA Roadkill Opera\u201d pairs the formerly obscure classical music of Ferdinando Paer<\/strong>, one of Beethoven\u2019s contemporaries, with Parker\u2019s semi-autobiographical libretto recounting the hour before the opening night performance of the sketch comedy \u201cRoadkill Live!!!\u201d on Independence Day 1988 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.”<\/em> [emphasis added]<\/p>\n

Paer’s Leonora<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0had been quite popular in its day, from its release in 1804 until the composer’s death in 1839. It was not performed again until Peter Maag revived it in the 1970s, going so far as to perform it on radio and to issue a boxed set of LPs. No other commercially released recording of the music from Paer’s Leonora<\/strong> <\/em>has been issued since, with the exception of Parker & Paer’s A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (studio album released July 4, 2013),\u00a0\u00a0which is built on the overture and first act of Paer’s Leonora.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Gaveaux’s 1798 Leonore<\/strong><\/em>, which started this chain, is receiving its U.S. premiere this week, on Sunday, February 19, 2017. Beethoven’s first crack at Leonore\/Fidelio<\/strong><\/em> is receiving its U.S. premiere on Sunday, March 5, 2017. To complete the cycle, all we need are productions of Mayr’s 1805 L’amour coniugale<\/strong> <\/em>and Paer’s 1804\u00a0Leonora<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Beethoven had a copy of Paer’s score for Leonora<\/strong><\/em> in his library, although it is unknown as to when he acquired it. They were friends and both worked in the same circles in Vienna.<\/p>\n

Sheet music and backing tracks for A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/em><\/a> are available through your local music shop or bookseller, and through online sales by the likes of Amazon<\/a>. That way you can do it yourself!<\/p>\n

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The seven generations of Leonore<\/strong> began with Gaveaux’s 1798 Leonore<\/strong>, followed by Paer’s 1804 Leonora<\/strong>, Mayr’s 1805 L’amor coniugale<\/strong>, and Beethoven’s three versions (beginning in 1805) of Leonora\/Fidelio<\/strong>, and culminating in Parker & Paer’s 2012 A Roadkill Opera<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great news! \u00a0If you are hoping to fill in your Bingo card for the predecessors of Beethoven’s Fidelio, see what\u00a0The Washington Concert Opera wrote this week: —————————— snip 8< ———————————— “The idea of a strong female who ends up liberating somebody who’s been unjustly imprisoned, and helping bring down a powerful, evil person, I think … Continue reading Fill in Your Bingo Card by Seeing the Granddaddy of Beethoven’s Fidelio<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}