Król Roger - Roxana's Song (The Royal Opera)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Georgia Jarman sings Roxana's Song from Karol Szymanowski's Król Roger, with Mariusz Kwiecień as King Roger, Kim Begley as Edrisi and the ladies of the Royal Opera Chorus, in Kasper Holten's production for The Royal Opera, May 2015. Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
Find out more at www.roh.org.uk/krolroger
Polish composer Karol Szymanowski began to gather ideas for Król Roger (King Roger), his second and final opera, in 1918. He was in part inspired by Euripides' The Bacchae, in which King Pentheus attempts to suppress the hedonistic worship of Bacchus but ultimately succumbs to his temptation and is destroyed in a bloody frenzy. Szymanowski's cousin, the poet Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, provided the original libretto; but in Szymanowski's arduous six-year gestation of the piece he altered the third act. His King Roger instead becomes a Nietzschean hero, who resists his desire and emerges 'strong enough for freedom'. But the focus of the opera is Roger's agonizing indecision - and the glorious music of the Act II Bacchic dance leaves a profound impression of the power of sensual temptation.
Szymanowski's music for the opera is opulently scored. The three short acts - commonly called the Byzantine, the Oriental and the Hellenic - brilliantly incorporate distinct musical styles. There are passages of exquisite lyricism, such as Roxana's soaring Act II aria, alongside thrilling writing for the chorus. Kasper Holten's new production (The Royal Opera's first) finds in Roger's indecision an expression of the struggle we all face - the struggle between intelligence and instinct in what is the innate duality of human nature.
W 140 rocznice urodzin Karola Szymanowskiego, cudownie jest patrzeć jak dzieła wielkiego polskiego kompozytora są podziwiane i chętnie wykonywane na całym świecie przez wszystkie pokolenia muzyków ❤
I really love her voice and how she does the phrasing.
Need to watch the whole opera!
Beautiful Roksana!!! Bravo für polish language!!!
A frankly unmatched example of heavy-handed symbolism with the set design including Roger literally living in a giant model of his own head.
Great Karol Szymanowski
Georgia sounds amazing!
SUPERBE !
💙💙 oh !
Przepięknie, ale jeszcze piękniej brzmi po polsku.
b p To jest po polsku :P
Nie słychać :p
Król Roger
Roksana! Jej śpiew!
Edrisi
Słuchajmy, Królu!
Roksana
A…!
Uśnijcie krwawe sny Króla Rogera,
Niech balsam nocy spłynie na jego wolę,
Niech żądne, mściwe serce łaską się napełni.
A…!
Chór
A…!
Król Roger
Czy słyszysz jej śpiew?
Edrisi
Jak cudna pieśń!
Roksana
A…!
Bądź łaskaw Królu, na Pasterza,
Niech jak zmęczona, syta krwi pantera
Gniew twój minie.
Bądź łaskaw Królu, na Pasterza.
A…!
Król Roger
Błaga o łaskę dla Pasterza!
Słyszysz?
Edrisi
Jej serce rozkwita jak lotos nocą!
Roksana
A…!
Nocy dzisiejszej jastrząb nie goni ptaszyny,
Węże usnęły na łodygach lilii,
Łaskawość zsyła biały płomień planet.
A…!
Chór
A…!
I've seen this alive in Royal
Oh well... apparently if you're not Polish, you just can't sing in this language and be understood by another Polish :/ anyway, she's great. He is awesome too ;)
Krowa Paulinka
Aż tak źle nie jest - parę słów zrozumiałam :)
Perhaps you should read the libretto first!
Peter Roberts Who, me? I am Polish and this lady should sing the libretto to me. She is the one who should take care of making this opera (her role at least) understandable to me. I mean of course, I understand it, Polish is a very difficult language so I don't really expect her to have a perfect diction but she isn't even trying lol she sings it beautifully and that will do here though because this opera is so messed up that I don't think even the guy who wrote it knew what he was writing about.
To be fair, I can't understand English when it's sung either.
Same, even with the English subs I can't make out more than a few words :D Mariusz Kwiecień is perfectly understandable though. But I don't blame her, our language is a b*tch.
She's spelling Polish so bad...
Have you ever tried to sing it? I did. And I am a polish soprano. It is very difficult even for polish to sing it so high and pronunce these really hard words well. Well done for pronunciation! Good work. Just few very little things to improve, really little.
I am just not convinced about the sound. The beggining and the ending is not in tune!! She definitely should check scores more carefully...
@@bozenabujnicka I recommend Ewa Tracz's interpretation. This singer is OK for a foreigner, though.
Love her voice but her polsh... Nah