OPERA MASTERCLASS - Lawrence Brownlee & Brian Jagde Masterclass - Opera for Peace

Created to promote cultural understanding across continents, Opera for Peace works to develop the next generation of opera professionals to become ambassadors of important values, acting as a positive influence on society and future generations. During a week in April 2024, Opera for Peace brought together a diverse group of emerging artists from across the globe at the Villa Medici in Rome to learn from each other and from a selection of their artist Ambassadors, some of the greatest artists of today. This film features six singers who followed masterclasses with Opera for Peace Ambassadors and tenors, Lawrence Brownlee and Brian Jagde.
Lawrence Brownlee is a leading figure in opera, both as a tenor on the world's top stages, and as a voice for activism and diversity in the industry. Captivating audiences and critics around the globe, he has been hailed as “an international star in the bel canto operatic repertory” (New York Times). Heralded internationally as an artist with ‘a remarkable future’ (Opera World), American tenor Brian Jagde has a celebrated career on the world’s leading opera stages. In the 23/24 season Brian returned to Covent Garden and Metropolitan Opera as Don Alvaro in Verdi’s La forza del destino, followed by his house debut in Cavalleria rusticana at Teatro alla Scala.
Streamed on OperaVision on 28 June 2024 at 19:00 CET and available until 28 December 2024 at 12:00 CET: operavision.eu...
ARTISTS
Tenor
Víctor Jiménez Moral (Spain)
Sopranos
Livia Louis-Joseph Dogué (France/Martinique)
Celine Mun (South Korea)
Khayakazi Madlala (South Africa)
Baritone
Maxim Lisiin (Russia)
Mezzo-soprano
Hannah Jones (USA)
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Tenors and Opera for Peace Ambassadors
Lawrence Brownlee
Brian Jagde
Pianist and Opera for Peace Artistic and Musical Advisor
Kamal Khan
Pianist
Naoki Hayashi
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[@StMrMoose]

I enjoyed this. I'm not an opera singer, but I find the techniques and interpretation interesting.

[@MichelElGhoul]

Amazing Masterclass !!!! Larry and Brian are the best ! Thank you so much for the oppurtunity to learn from this ! Thanks @operaforpeace @opervision !

[@anitaweber814]

It will be great 👏👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🌹🌹🌹

[@MaestroFriedrich]

Khayakazi Madlala is a wow

[@otakukinois9315]

4:30 PLAN

[@mannail888]

Beyond parody: this Jagde mister, conducting masterclass as if he's Schwarzkopf, Ludwig or Bergonzi..... Hard to believe lyric arts has sunk so low.

[@deadwalke9588]

Well out of three names you mentioned, only two were actually good. Schwarzkopf was a stuck up, throaty, Germanic Soprano who should've taken her own advice. Jagde has the right ideas and the insight that I wished he would incorporate into his own singing.

[@mannail888]

@@deadwalke9588 Then, what's your take on Kaufmann, the big P, Horne, Domingo, Nilsson, Jones, Gobbi and Gencer?

[@deadwalke9588]

@@mannail888 Kaufmann, as well as Domingo, are pushed up Lyrics singing repertoire that have accelerated the destruction of their voices. At least, Kaufmann has variations of "color" that can mask his deficiencies, but it doesn't do too much. Nilsson was a horrible teacher in her own right and when compared to other dramatic sopranos, wasn't a dramatic but a spinto with a great extension to sing Wagnerian roles. Jones was good until she attempted Turandot and then she threw her voice out of balance. Gobbi was shockingly good at coloratura (his "Hai gia vinta la causa" is SUPERB) and Gencer was an artist that had issues of being boring at times (a lot of her bel canto repertoire bordered on the frantic and the Verdi heroines proved she was a lyric).

[@mannail888]

@@deadwalke9588 @mannail888 3 個月前 (已編輯) Hard to believe a so-called singer whose main claim to prosperity is wall-quaking high notes, never mind those high notes were scooped up from beneath 90% of the time, not to mention skating through opera after opera without producing one single ounce of legato, (the one golden criteria that governs all kinds of singing, be it folk, jazz, cantata, r & b, pop, oratorio, stadium hard rock or even electronic dance beat/hip hop/rap), treading and thus abusing the Italian rep with a most Teutonic approach, interpretative insight as abundant as none has been held in the highest regard by generations of certain operagoers. Really ballistic, but then, Hofmannsthal once wrote: "Es sind die mehreren Dinge auf der Welt, so dass sie ein's nicht glauben tät', wenn man sie möcht' erzählen hör'n. Alleinig wer's erlebt, der glaubt daran und weiss nicht wie."

[@mannail888]

Hard to believe a so-called singer whose main claim to prosperity is wall-quaking high notes, never mind those high notes were scooped up from beneath 90% of the time, not to mention skating through opera after opera without producing one single ounce of legato, (the one golden criteria that governs all kinds of singing, be it folk, jazz, cantata, r & b, pop, oratorio, stadium hard rock or even electronic dance beat/hip hop/rap), treading and thus abusing the Italian rep with a most Teutonic/Scandinavian approach, interpretative insight as abundant as none has been held in the highest regard by generations of certain operagoers. Really ballistic, but then, Hofmannsthal once wrote: "Es sind die mehreren Dinge auf der Welt, so dass sie ein's nicht glauben tät', wenn man sie möcht' erzählen hör'n. Alleinig wer's erlebt, der glaubt daran und weiss nicht wie."

[@mannail888]

Hard to believe a so-called singer whose main claim to prosperity is wall-quaking high notes, never mind those high notes were scooped up from beneath 90% of the time, not to mention skating through opera after opera without producing one single ounce of legato, (the one golden criteria that governs all kinds of singing, be it folk, jazz, cantata, r & b, pop, oratorio, stadium hard rock or even electronic dance beat/hip hop/rap), treading and thus abusing the Italian rep with a most Teutonic/Scandinavian approach, interpretative insight as abundant as none has been held in the highest regard by generations of certain operagoers. Really ballistic, but then, Hofmannsthal once wrote: "Es sind die mehreren Dinge auf der Welt, so dass sie ein's nicht glauben tät', wenn man sie möcht' erzählen hör'n. Alleinig wer's erlebt, der glaubt daran und weiss nicht wie."

[@victorm3054]

Just Cringe