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FULL PUCCINI la passion du féminin Documentary France 2024 Angela Gheorghiu, Ermonela Jaho, Nina Stemme, Asmik Grigorian
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: PUCCINI la passion du féminin
- Composer: Puccini Giacamo
- Libretto: N/A
- Venue & Opera Company: various
- Recorded: 2024
- Type: Other
- Singers: Angela Gheorghiu, Ermonela Jaho, Nina Stemme, Asmik Grigorian
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director:
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Information about the Recording
- Published by: ARTE
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
From “Manon Lescaut” to “Madame Butterfly” via “Tosca”, this encounter with the heroines of Puccini, who was one of the first to bring them to life so powerfully, is based on his most beautiful arias, passionately commented on by their performers.
For a long time, they were called Puccini’s “little women”. Manon Lescaut, Mimi in La bohème, the young geisha in Madame Butterfly, Tosca, the slave Liù in Princess Turandot…: heroines hanging on the goodwill of men, who love, suffer and, often, die. The composer, who shows himself to be very innovative in this, puts them in the foreground and instills in them a profoundly human force and complexity, expressed in the poignant intensity of their singing. Thanks in particular to their arias which have become extremely famous, his operas are today among the most performed throughout the world.
Bringing the rich Puccini year that marks the centenary of his death in style, this encounter with some of the most moving female figures in the lyrical repertoire is based first on his music, with interpretations and commentaries by great Puccini divas, filmed on the stages of Covent Garden, the Wiener Staatsoper or the Aix-en-Provence Festival, such as Angela Gheorghiu, Ermonela Jaho, Nina Stemme or Asmik Grigorian. “Even if you are a piece of wood, you cry”, sums up the latter about the aria “Senza mamma” by Sister Angelica, a character from Il trittico (“The Triptych”) that she had the honor of embodying. With them, Aurine Crémieu shows that Puccini, far from confining women to the role of victims in the face of often cowardly, ungrateful or predatory male heroes, exalts and glorifies them. A feminism ahead of its time inspired by his own love life, evoked here through elegant sequences filmed in Torre del Lago, the small town in Tuscany that was his home port. Haunted by guilt after the suicide, in 1909, of a young servant wrongly accused by his partner Elvira of being his mistress, Puccini tried to sublimate his torments through art, but was unable to complete Turandot, created posthumously.
Quoted from ARTE