{"id":1339,"date":"2011-09-26T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T12:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2015-10-07T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:46:47","slug":"weberberlioz-at-the-proms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2011\/09\/26\/weberberlioz-at-the-proms\/","title":{"rendered":"Weber\/Berlioz at the Proms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband went to the penultimate night of the Proms. It&#8217;s no longer invariably Beethoven 9; this time it was a semi-staged performance of <em>Der Freisch\u00fctz<\/em> in the adaptation by Berlioz, which sets recitatives to music and uses <em>Invitation to the Dance<\/em> as a ballet. Plus we think some re-orchestration of other bits.\u00a0 It was performed by Monteverdi Choir forces, Orchestre R\u00e9volutionnaire et Romantique and John Eliot Gardiner.<\/p>\n<p>This was as close to being staged as you could get in a concert performance, with only sets missing.\u00a0 In fact, strictly concert performances of operas, with singers ranged across the front of the stage in a line and not interacting with one another, are rather rare now.\u00a0 The most effective use of the Royal Albert Hall&#8217;s space was in the Wolf&#8217;s Glen scene, when chorus members were distributed round the hall.\u00a0 The principals were all satisfactory, though there was some slightly wooden acting; for some reason it is usually tenors who have this problem.\u00a0 Sophie Karth\u00e4user (Agathe) was definitely on the exhibitionist side. The French text and the setting of usually-spoken dialogue to music gave this old friend new clothes, but ones which fitted.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a review from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2011\/sep\/11\/prom-73-die-freischutz-review\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2011\/sep\/11\/prom-73-die-freischutz-review', 'Guardian');\" title=\"Guardian\">Guardian<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband went to the penultimate night of the Proms. It&#8217;s no longer invariably Beethoven 9; this time it was a semi-staged performance of Der Freisch\u00fctz in the adaptation by Berlioz, which sets recitatives to music and uses Invitation to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2011\/09\/26\/weberberlioz-at-the-proms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[97,515,514,513,138,687,516,512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3850,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/3850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}