{"id":129414,"date":"2024-11-25T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/gig_review\/faculte-de-musique-de-ludem-une-soiree-a-lopera-efficace\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:30:45","slug":"faculte-de-musique-de-ludem-une-soiree-a-lopera-efficace","status":"publish","type":"gig_review","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/gig_review\/faculte-de-musique-de-ludem-une-soiree-a-lopera-efficace\/","title":{"rendered":"Facult\u00e9 de musique de l&#8217;UdeM | An Effective Evening at The Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The 2024-2025 season of the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s Faculty of Music is currently in full swing. Perched on the slopes of Mont-Royal at the top of the famous Vincent-d&#8217;Indy Avenue hill, around a hundred people gathered in Salle Claude-Champagne on Saturday to hear the current crop of young singers. It was a great opportunity to discover them in preparation for their production of <em>Hansel und Gretel<\/em> by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921), to be presented at the end of February. The students were accompanied by pianist\/conductor Robin Wheeler and Alona Milner.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A sober evening, presented in gala form without extravagant presentation or complex staging, but not lacking in quality moments. In this operatic evening, several excerpts from works covering a vast spectrum of the operatic repertoire were presented. From German Romantic opera to bel canto, operetta and Baroque opera, it was a seamless transition. This panorama allows us to see the different performers in action, in a variety of styles, lyrical expressions and character incarnations. Verdi&#8217;s Witches from <em>Macbeth<\/em> opened the evening. With piercing eyes, the sopranos and mezzos of this chorus presented a biting, menacing reading of this page of verismo. The few choral numbers that graced the program were among the evening&#8217;s most appreciated for their strength and technical precision. The overall sound was enveloping, the articulation just right and precise. A case in point was the excerpt from Mozart&#8217;s <em>Idomeneo<\/em> \u201cPlacido \u00e8 il mar\u2026 Soavi Zeffrini\u201d, where the balance of voices between the numerous women&#8217;s voices and the five men&#8217;s voices was soaring, balanced and complementary to Marie France Eba Koua&#8217;s singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of individual voices, several performances caught our attention. Among the men&#8217;s voices, baritone \u00c9lie Lefebvre-Pellegrino stood out for his beautiful, resonant, full, round and slightly brassy low register, coupled with good stage presence. His interpretation of Nilakantha&#8217;s aria from L\u00e9o Delibes&#8217; <em>Lakm\u00e9<\/em> was assured and committed, as was his performance as Count Almaviva in the duet \u201cCrudel! Perche s&#8217;ignora\u201d duet from <em>The Marriage of Figaro<\/em> with Kevisha Williams. However, his passages in the upper register still need to be stabilized. Fellow singer Th\u00e9o Raffin offered some of his best stage performances in <em>Don Giovanni&#8217;s<\/em> Leporello (\u201cSola, sola in buio loco\u201d) and <em>Romeo and Juliet&#8217;s <\/em>Mercutio (\u201cMab, la reine des mensonges\u201d). In both cases, his interventions were both interpretative and vocal. The only bass in the cohort, Andrew Erasmus delivered the difficult aria \u201cO du Mein Holder Abendstern\u201d from Wagner&#8217;s Tannh\u00e4user with finesse and sensitivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As for the female voices, Ma\u00eblig Querr\u00e9 (mezzo-soprano) made a good impression in her role as Romeo from Bellini&#8217;s <em>I Capuletti e i Montecchi.<\/em> Her agile, assured voice with a sonorous low register complemented Nicole Ross&#8217;s Giulietta, who, despite great strength and agility in her high notes, reached the end of her range by the end of the aria. Clo\u00e9e Morisette and Clotilde Moretti were equally sparkling in an excerpt from Carl Maria von Weber&#8217;s Freisch\u00fctz. Another name to remember is mezzo-soprano Julie Boutrais. She distinguished herself in the duet from Moneverdi&#8217;s opera<em> L&#8217;Incoronazione di Poppea<\/em>, performed with Salom\u00e9 Karam. Playing respectively King Nero and his lover Poppea, the two singers perfectly captured the passionate feelings and intoxication evoked in \u201cSignor, oggi rinasco\u201d as Nero announces to Poppea that she is to be his wife. Julie Boutrais also brought the evening to a close with her warm, embodied voice in <em>Dido and \u00c6neas<\/em>&#8216; final aria \u201cWhen I am laid in Earth\u201d, followed by the final chorus from the same opera. A moment that sent shivers down our spines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If we have to make one slight criticism of the concert, it&#8217;s the lack of detail in the program. A gala-style singing recital featuring a succession of arias, duets, trios and choruses from different periods and styles allows the singers to express themselves in a variety of roles and characters, and at the same time introduces the audience to protagonists and operas with which they may be less familiar. It would be a good idea to provide a little context for these works, to situate them for the audience. The excerpt from the trio \u201cJe vais d&#8217;un c\u0153ur aimant\u201d from Hector Berlioz&#8217;s opera <em>B\u00e9atrice et B\u00e9n\u00e9dict <\/em>is a good example. Ma\u00eblig Querr\u00e9, Ma\u00eflys Arbaoui-Westphal and Anne-Sophie Gagnon-Metellus performed this excerpt from a little-performed opus well, and would have deserved a little program note to appreciate it even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/467738220_980780157411229_6817069915648173093_n-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/467738220_980780157411229_6817069915648173093_n-2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/467738220_980780157411229_6817069915648173093_n-2-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024-2025 season of the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s Faculty of Music is currently in full swing. 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