Cavalleria Rusticana - Easter Hymn (The Royal Opera)
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2017
- Eva-Maria Westbroek and The Royal Opera Chorus sing the Easter Hymn from Mascagni's Cavelleria Rusticana. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk
Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (The Players) are today Italian opera’s most famous double act, but they were written independently. Cavalleria rusticana came first, its hugely successful premiere in 1890 doubtless an influence on Leoncavallo. His Pagliacci in 1892 was another triumph. The two works, each undeniable masterpieces of the verismo tradition of realism, share dramatic concision, melodic richness and an obsession with violent jealousy.
Damiano Michieletto’s production was an Olivier-Award-winning hit when first presented in 2015. He sets both operas within the same village, allowing characters from one piece to reappear in the other and offering theatrical realism within visuals that are modern and yet timeless. The production was widely praised at its premiere, and summarized by the Financial Times as ‘a gripping evening all round’. - Розваги
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This was my Dad's favourite opera and his favourite song, wish he was still with me now! Listening 🎶 to this amazing performance brings back memories. Xx ❤❤❤
I'm totally with you on this love it so much makes me cry
He’s with you! 🥹♥️🌹
Just saw this tonight at the Royal Opera house. The finale performance. Breath taken away would be an understatement.
The Easter Hymn is one of the most powerful and uplifting I’ve ever heard. It literally sends chills when you hear it live. The English translation is all about praising God “ from whom all blessings flow”. Just amazing!
This is just BEAUTIFUL! I'm overwhelmed by God's inspiration to Mascagni!
I was NOT expecting the statue of the Mater Dolorosa to move (albeit that's what Santuzza's conscience leads her to imagine). That's more or less how that specific image of the Virgin Mary looks like for Easter in my country, and a wonderfully creative and accurate touch in this particular production. Quite terrifying to mentally perceive the often loving Mother of God angrily condemning one's soul like that!
You have seen my grandmother using guilt. That is nothing.
That makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Beautiful!
Opera Monde I've already subscribed to your channel. I don't waste any time when it comes to subscribing to classical music channels.
Opera Monde On the contrary, it's the only form of music which I can take seriously.
So beautiful. Brought me to tears. Thank you.
Una messa in scena degna dellla migliore opera italiana. Grande stile e grandi effetti - magnifico tutto ! Grazie !
Saw this production back in 2015, and am seeing it again in January. My favourite scene!
fredo1070 deze opera in den Bosch in de grote kerk wanneer?
Sends shivers down my spine. What an incredible voice!
Exactly! Eva marie westbroek has such a rich and heavy tone, perfect for the part
What incredible voiceS
Dois grandiosos espectáculos: Cavalleria Rusticana e Pagliacci. Duas das minhas óperas preferidas. Muito obrigado para quem os produzio.
What wonderful singing xx
Wunderschön!! Stimmgewaltig - und ein bezauberndes Bühnenbild! Danke!
There's an odd strain of commentary here that seems to think Mary's accusatory finger-pointing is meant to interpret the Virgin's actual response to Santuzza's prayer. It seems pretty clear it's a projection of Santuzza's tortured imagination--or perhaps even a projection of the village's scapegoating of her. It's a theatrical interpretation, not a theological one. The more subtle and remarkable bit of imagery is the "Panificio" sign above the bakery. The risen Christ seems to be symbolized literally as the bread of the people.
Can't agree with some of the comments below - your explanation sits well with me!
Same. I think it a clever way of showing Santuzza's guilt, and not some supernatural apparition meant to scare the sin out of her.
The issue is not that the play would have us understand this is literally the Virgin's reaction. It is precisely that the intent of this scene is very deliberately perverted and undermined in order to regurgitate and reinforce leftist cliches about "religion" (especially Christianity, especially Catholicity) fostering an unhealthy sense of guilt and punishment for conduct (in this case, premarital sex) that isn't even immoral (according to leftists). Mascagni's "Regina Caeli" isn't a hymn about the evils of Christianity; it is the literal center of his opera, signifying the presence of the crucified and risen Christ among His people (including the repentant Santuzza) and anticipating the vindication of both justice and mercy, later realized respectively in Turridu's death and Santuzza's reintegration via Mamma Lucia.
Jesus Christ is the bread of life
He died for all of us, so we could live
Healed by his stripes 🙏🙌
@@PaxVobiscum01 You seem obsessed by the term "leftist" here. It's, much more simply, an agnostic view of the fact that the small village dynamics - including religious rites and the use of religion as a way to punish deviants - play a major role in the fact of the opera and of the novel by affecting Santuzza and her actions. The director plays with the psychological aspect in both Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci. In Cavalleria Rusticana, it's this scene, that symbolises how Santuzza feels - in her own mind - condemned by the folkloristic interpretation of religion in a small Sicilian village of the XIX Century. The final reconciliation with Lucia happens BECAUSE she was excluded in the first place. In Pagliacci, it's how the drunk Canio perceives the play from the backstage. The key to read the scene here is psychology, not religion and even less personal faith. It would be even hard to see the choir as a premonition of "justice" in a religious sense, as both Turiddu and Santuzza are sinners... and Santuzza tells Alfio about the affair because she is envious/jealous and is seeking to hurt Lola (much clearer in the novel than in the opera), even more capital sins! Somebody here is triggered a bit too easily? :)
Yes our home was awakened with this hymnal every year thanks papa'
An excellent presentation; my college choir performed this and I was in the chorus!! Soooo beautiful and thank you for sharing. :)
@Jake
So lovely i h
Oh Lord, that was amazing.
Watched a production by Opera Australia in Melbourne in recent years - this scene most certainly gave me goosebumps (lapsed RC)!
Never too late to come back home. Agreed, it's an amazing scene - and the glory of the words always strikes home for me at Eastertide... let us sing, for the Lord is not dead, let us sing, for the Lord is risen again! What greater joy?
Oooh. You might have seen/heard my uncle Clive.
Beautiful and uplifting
This opera is featured in The Godfather Part 3.
Saw this production it was stunning.
My favourite Opera, see you in January ROH
Beautiful.
My college choir sang this and it has stuck with me
WHAT IS THE VIRGIN DOIIIING??? WHAT AN INVENTION
very good sung guys!!! i sung it several times
This virgin sure is judgy
Sensational- must try and see it!
Tears in my eyes and goosepimples forming. I am an atheist!
Santuzza feels social guilt (stating to be "scomunicata", in this context meaning sinful and not yet forgiven, hence unable to receive the communion) for having fornicated outside of marriage with Turiddu, who seduced her. A shameful behaviour for XIX Century Sicily and a sin for the Church. The pangs of social guilt and jealousy, both solvable by marrying Turiddu, are so overwhelming that Santuzza tries across the whole opera to convince Turiddu to get back with her, even by telling Alfio of the affair between Turiddu and Lola to stop the affair. An inconsiderate action that degenerates into Turiddu answering to Alfio's honour duel by drawing blood, meaning duel to the death: Turiddu does not fear death, as stated in the very first aria, since if Alfio dies he will be able to marry Lola. The Virgin Mary pointing the finger is a representation of the fact that Santuzza feels overwhelmingly guilty, and yet is unable to "fix" her situation as prescribed by the folk laws. She is not being forgiven by her "religion", that in a small Sicilian village corresponds to folklore and traditions, more than faith and dogma. The public procession itself is a folkloristic act, not a matter of faith and belief.
People getting enraged about this ROH direction cannot discern the folklore, the religious organisation (the Catholic Church), and the personal faith and feelings of Santuzza. The finger pointing is so strong EXACTLY because the Regina Coeli prayer part of this choir scene asks the Virgin for forgiveness of all sins (necessary to obtain the everlasting life quoted in the full version of the prayer), but Santuzza feels it is refused to her. Either a symbol that the villagers talk and do not forgive her, unlike the Catholic religion itself, or of the fact that she can foresee how her envy toward Lola (a capital sin) will soon drive her to commit another terrible act.
This is pretty clear if you read Verga's novel, which includes between the lines Santuzza's fornication and the fact that all the village talks about it, and in clear sight the fact that Santuzza is driven by pure envy and anger toward Lola, who stole her Turiddu.
Zackly! Don't get hung-up on Catholic dogma - you're missing the point. It's all about passion, guilt and hypocrisy.
Good explanation. A portrayal of profound anguish. But God was with her. The music proves it.
excellent
Fantastic Eva Mari, emotional aria
Precioso himno procesion
Wow
This is going to be tough to beat
That is Eva-Maria Westbroek, powerful dramatic soprano.
Alleluja!
Quia quem meruisti portare.
Alleluja!
Resurrexit sicut dixit.
Alleluja!
Santuzza, Lucia e Coro esterno
Inneggiamo,
Il Signor non è morto,
Ei fulgente
Ha dischiuso l’avel,
Inneggiam
Al Signore risorto
Oggi asceso
Alla gloria del Ciel!
INNEGGIAMO, IL SIGNOR
NON E MORTO
English translation
Chorus
Queen of Heaven, rejoice!
Alleluja!
Your son has risen
Alleluja!
from the dead as he said.
Alleluja!
Santuzza, Lucia e Coro esterno
Let us offer praise,
the Lord is not dead!
And in shining glory
the tomb has opened.
Let us praise
the risen lord, ascended today
to the glory of Heaven!
Linda
fab
Please upload voi lo sapete
mascagni italiano siciliano e immortale
Please what's the name of this piece.
Promise Ezeokonkwor It’s the Easter Song from the opera Cavalleria Rusticana.
Elina Garanca (Santuzza) or another singer?
Eva-Maria Westbroek.
Cette Santuzza est une horreur.
Bravo le chœur et l’orchestre.
Anyone know the soprano's name? Is it Diana Damrau?
John Meyer She doesn’t look like Diana Damrau to me.
Dutch soprano Eva Maria Westbroek. This is too dramatic repertoire for Damrau.
Ok. I get the general message, but why no sub-titles?
Whoever worked as an advisor for this opera at Covent Garden knew nothing about the Virgin Mother of God and her merciful heart.
I think it's meant to depict Santuzza's tortured imagination. If the Blessed Virgin Mary actually became animated in view of that whole Sicilian parish, you might expect a little more response from the faithful!
If the Blessed Mother was actually pointing at Santuzza, I'd expect the townspeople to be more than a little shocked! It's Santuzza's perspective.
Exactly . and she does not look like a radiant and pure Jewish woman here, just some nasty virago.
@@MSMillerNYC Correct. Everyone else would have freaked out if it actually happened in-universe.
It's an artistic way of showing Santuzza's self-inflicted guilt trip. Note how the lighting changes when the Virgin "moves" to show it's all in Santuzza's mind. Nobody else apparently notices this except her, and I think it a creative expression of how people internally process guilt on seeing the holy and good.
+music is very good. But having the Virgin point a finger at Santuzza as if accusing her is perverting the text. Don't they know any Italian?
philcoppa given that Santuzza was excommunicated, I see it as reminding her that she is no longer one of them, which make sense given when and where this production sets the action
my mother's side came from Sicily and in my experience Sicilians use 'scommunicata' loosely. She would not have been excommunicated just for fornication.
The virgin is not pointing her, but Santuzza feels like
Excommunication and the possibility of "being in the state of mortal sin" caused by fornication or adultery are two very different issues. Excommunication is a formal procedure in the Catholic Church and there is nothing in the libretto so substantiate such a claim. St Mary McKillop, for example, was excommunicated by her bishop during the formation of her order but she certainly wasn't "in the state of mortal sin", and her bishop had to lift his unjustified excommunication on his deathbed. Presenting the Blessed Virgin in this mediocre production in such a manner is just typical of the trash that one must endure today in the world of operatic stagings.
Expatmartin is right. Literally every Italian in 1890, and every culturally literate person besides, knows that simple fornication is not grounds for literal excommunication in Catholicism. Santuzza is a hypocritically shamed figure in the Sicily of her day, but the whole point of this episode in the opera is that God's grace is open to anyone who repents of their sin and orients themselves toward Him, their Good. When they don't outright ignore the past, leftists distortand mutilate it, lest their ideology be exposed for the vapid sanctimony and negation of reason and humanity which it is. It's why leftists are the most uneducated people in the world today -- well-schooled, yes, but historically, culturally, and philosophically illiterate.
Wonderful performance of the Easter Hymn from Cav. Horrible sets and costumes. People go to the opera to hear great music and see spectacle. Unfortunately, too many operatic productions these days are the victims of avant garde directors trying to make a name for themselves. It seldom comes off and the audience who usually have paid very high prices for the tickets go away disappointed with the experience. I'm not going to see Turandot in sweat pants.
This scene is ment to be dark abosulutely fabulous. That lady on my God what a fabulous soprano.
You can add fantastically beautiful music to Mary Worship, but it still makes it unbiblical.
Protestant joykiller. Go find some stained glass windows to destroy.
Duh! I'm sorry! all I had to do was read the above.
The jabbing Madonna wrecks this production. She it is who is asked to intercede for forgiveness. Totally inappropriate.
This is Santuzza's perspective, it is her guilt and shame. It's opera, and therefore like anything else (including faith!), you need the context.
@@laerwen it’s this producer’s perspective of religion.it’s usual these days to demean Christianity.
Santuzza is not without sin either, though it's obvious that other characters are guilty of much worse. She is also the most contrite as illustrated by her perspective portrayed in this scene, making her the heroine of the opera.
What a malpresentation of the Virgen Mary, mother of Jesus! Even a lady by night would not have give this gesture! The staging kills the performance, what a rotten thing to do!👎👎👎👎👎👎
What a horrible choreography!
I saw this production at the ROH. The evening was wrecked by an ugly piece of anti-Christian bigotry at the end of the Easter hymn where the Virgin is made to jab accusingly. This is totally out of keeping with the spirit of the hymn, which celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus, following his sacrificial death for the forgiveness of our sins. We can do without these secularist perversions. There have been similar secularist perversions evident in productions at the ROH of Parsifal in recent years.
Not only out of keeping with the spirit of the hymn celebrating the Resurrection (and the chorus didn't sound too happy about it either), but I think it out of keeping with the spirit of the Virgin who might weep in pity, but would never jab accusingly.
Artistic license - obviously a graven image doesn't point ..... it was in Santuzza's imagining - and therefore perfectly valid.
This is a representation of Santuzza's guilt and shame. Because this is theater and opera.
Again, totally contrary to the spirit of the piece and the opera. Anyone not a leftist can see this.
sorry, but it's like one of the the worst performances of this particular part of this particular opera. I mean the Santuzza part. And I'm not even comparing it to the performances from Caballe or Garanca: it's just not good without any comparison.
There’s no procession on Easter! Not in the Catholic Church and not in Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti’s and Guido Menasci’s libretto! If you’re going to suck this bad, don’t bother!
This aggressive gesture spoiled this opera for me. Pious Catholics pray that Mary will intercede for the forgiveness of their sins. This gratuitous invention is effectively an insult to this most revered figure.
It's Santuzza's guilt. Not literally the Virgin pointing at her. Please tell me you understand that this is opera and theater.
Chill mate,its just a fiction.Never happened.Its like getting cross if you saw the Easter bunny delivering Christmas presents .
The Soloist is wobbly and out-of-tune. The statue coming to life is nonsense.
a lot of people working hard , should never be criticized by someone with no credentials.bravo you tryer,s. boo smartarse..s;.
Interesting comment. In my opinion the soloist was magnificent and the effect of the statue mesmeric. How so few actions can convey so much. An ROH soprano wobbly and out of tune? Ah well, to each their own.
MrSkylark1 just listen to it on the cd.
Wow, you are obviously tone-deaf and without any musical taste or imagination. That’s an achievement, congratulations!
It's called vibrato.
The gorgeous music will be enjoyed forever but in a Couple of thousand more years 'god' will be where it belongs ;a fairy tale told to children.
lovely singing . awful costume and staging
This production sucks!