Mephistopheles & Other Bad Guys Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster
Album info
Album-Release:
2018
HRA-Release:
03.08.2018
Label: PentaTone
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Artist: Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893): Faust, CG 4 (Excerpts):
- 1 Faust, CG 4 (Excerpts): Le veau d'or est toujours debout 02:17
- 2 Faust, CG 4 (Excerpts): Vous qui faites l'endormie 03:10
- Arrigo Boito (1842 - 1918): Mefistofele (Excerpts):
- 3 Mefistofele (Excerpts): Son lo Spirito che nega 03:53
- 4 Mefistofele (Excerpts): Ecco il mondo 02:43
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): 6 Songs, Op. 75:
- 5 6 Songs, Op. 75: No. 3, Aus Goethes Faust (Arr. D. Shostakovich for Voice & Orchestra) 02:13
- Fidelio, Op. 72:
- 6 Fidelio, Op. 72: Ha! Welch ein Augenblick! 03:27
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384 (Excerpts):
- 7 Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384 (Excerpts): Wer ein Liebchen hat gefunden 02:19
- 8 Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384 (Excerpts): O, wie will ich triumphieren 03:44
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826): Der Freischütz, J. 277:
- 9 Der Freischütz, J. 277: Schweig! Damit dich niemand warnt 03:17
- Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880): Les contes d'Hoffmann (Excerpts):
- 10 Les contes d'Hoffmann (Excerpts): Prologue. Dans les rôles d'amoureux langoureux 02:41
- 11 Les contes d'Hoffmann (Excerpts): Scintille, diamant 02:40
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): I Lombardi alla prima crociata:
- 12 I Lombardi alla prima crociata: Sciagurata! 05:02
- Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869): La damnation de Faust, Op. 24, H. 111 (Excerpts):
- 13 La damnation de Faust, Op. 24, H. 111 (Excerpts): Voici des roses 02:37
- 14 La damnation de Faust, Op. 24, H. 111 (Excerpts): Devant la maison "Serenade of Mephistopheles" 02:21
- Gordon Getty (b.1933): Mephistopheles to Faust:
- 15 Mephistopheles to Faust (Version for Voice & Orchestra) 03:00
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881): Mephistopheles's Song in Auerbach's Cellar "Song of the Flea":
- 16 Mephistopheles's Song in Auerbach's Cellar "Song of the Flea" (Arr. I. Stravinsky for Voice & Orchestra) 03:09
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): The Rake's Progress:
- 17 The Rake's Progress: I Burn, I Burn! I Freeze! 01:49
- Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864): Robert le diable:
- 18 Robert le diable: Voici donc les débris du monastère antique 03:08
- Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883): Das Rheingold, WWV 86A:
- 19 Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Bin ich nun frei "Alberich's Curse" 03:31
Info for Mephistopheles & Other Bad Guys
Mephistopheles und andere Bad Guys – Kevin Short auf den Spuren der Bösewichte der Oper: In der Oper werden bestimme Stimmfächer oft mit gewissen Personentypen assoziiert. Gerade für das Bass-Fach gibt es diverse Assoziationen – als Vater, Bösewicht, älterer Mann, religiöse Figur, komischer Charakter, oder als Kombination all dieser Figuren. Eine wiederkehrende Rolle des Basses verdient besondere Betrachtung: die des bösen, üblen, sogar teuflischen Charakters. Die vorliegende Sammlung von Arien beleuchtet nun eben diesen faszinierenden Stereotyp. Die 19 Arien von Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Gounod, Offenbach, Verdi, Boito, Mussorsky, Stravinsky und Getty nehmen den Zuhörer mit auf eine spannende musikalische Reise durch 200 Jahre Musikgeschichte, die zeigt, wie Komponisten die Bassstimme für die Darstellung dieser "finsteren" Charaktere in einer breiten Palette von Stilen und Genres einsetzten.
Der mitreißende Sänger dieses farbenreichen Programms ist der Amerikanische Bass-Bariton Kevin Short, dessen kraftvolle Stimme mühelos alle Bandbreiten dieses Charakterfachs abdeckt – von sinnlich-beschwörend bis unheilvoll grollend. Begleitet wird er vom Ochestre Philharmonique de Marseille unter der Leitung von Lawrence Foster.
Kevin Short, Bassbariton
Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille
Lawrence Foster, Dirigent
Kevin Short
Versatile American bass-baritone Kevin Short is thrilling audiences around the globe in a wide range of repertoire ranging from the depths of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Monteverdi’s L’Coronazione di Poppea to Verdi’s Attila, Carmen’s Escamillo and Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer.
A sampling of his North America appearances include performances with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera Pacific, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Sarasota Opera Company, Spoleto Opera Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Vancouver Opera, Edmonton Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and the Opera de las Americas.
His European and Asian credits include appearances with multiple opera companies, orchestras, and festivals. A few of which include Paris’ Opera Comique, Welsh National Opera, Kazan State Theater-Russia, Theatre Caen, Grand Theatre du Luxembourg, Oper der Stadt Köln, Stadttheater Stuttgart, Theater Aachen, Theater Basel, Theater Bern, Theater St. Gallen, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Savonlinna Festival-Finland; Bregenzer Festspiele-Austria, Baden-Baden Festspiele-Germany, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence-France, Festival Montpellier-France, l’Opéra de Rouen-France, l’Opéra de Reims-France, Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto, Japan and festivals in Beijing, China; Hanoi, Vietnam; and Granada, Valencia, and Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Kevin also enjoys an active concert and recital schedule and has worked with the Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Handel and Haydn Orchestra-Boston, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Filharmonisch Orkest, Swiss and Italian RAI Orchestra, Radio France Orchestra, Marseille Philharmonie, Gulbenkian Orchestra-Lisbon, Portugal, Parma Reggio Emilia Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic, Thüringen Symphony Orchestra-Germany, Jena Symphony-Germany,Moscow Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Symphony, Russia, Omsk Philharmonic-Russia, Siberian State Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, Hiroshima Symphony, the Kazan Symphony for the opening of the Universiade Games in Kazan, Russia, and the Winter Olympics Festival Orchestra for the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Kevin received his training at Morgan State University, B.S., the Curtis Institute of Music, M.M., and the Juilliard School of Music’s American Opera Center. While attending these institutions he was a prize winner in numerous competitions and garnered many awards. A few highlights include the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Internazionale Concorso per Voce Verdiane, the Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition, the Bruce Yarnell Competition for Basses and Baritones, the Liederkranz Competition, and awards from the Sullivan Foundation, Opera Index, Shoshana Foundation, and the George London Foundation.
Booklet for Mephistopheles & Other Bad Guys