八月の終わりには無性に海が恋しくなる。子供の時分は内陸に住んでいたので、遙か遠くに想い浮かべるだけだったが、今は波打際まで自転車でたった三分だ。なんだか現実ではないような不思議な気がする。
昨日の続きで、「
八月の濡れた砂」か「
遠い海の記憶(つぶやき岩の秘密)」かを海辺で聴こうかと思ったのだが、それでは余りに能がない。ドビュッシーの「
海」や、ディーリアスの「
海流/海の彷徨/藻塩草」や、エルガーの歌曲集「
海の絵」はこの夏さんざん聴いた。もう充分だろう。
だからまたもやBBCプロムズ。海といったらこのオペラだ。
Prom 55: Britten – Peter Grimes
on Friday 24 August
7.00pm – c. 10.30pm
at Royal Albert Hall
Britten:
Peter Grimes
concert performance
Stuart Skelton, tenor (Peter Grimes)
Amanda Roocroft, soprano (Ellen Orford)
Iain Paterson, bass-baritone (Captain Balstrode)
Rebecca de Pont Davies, mezzo-soprano (Auntie)
Matthew Best, baritone (Swallow)
Leigh Melrose, baritone (Ned Keene)
Michael Colvin, tenor (Bob Boles)
Felicity Palmer, mezzo-soprano (Mrs Sedley)
Gillian Ramm, soprano (First Niece)
Mairéad Buicke, soprano (Second Niece)
Darren Jeffery, bass-baritone (Hobson)
Stuart Kale, tenor (Rev Horace Adams)
ENO Chorus and Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
First staged a month after VE Day, Britten’s searing psychological
drama set in a claustrophobic Suffolk fishing community was the
critical and popular success that effectively established a new
kind of English operatic tradition.
ENO has kept the opera at the heart of its repertoire and tonight’s
concert performance is based on a sold-out production hailed as a
‘superb company achievement’ on its first outing in 2009.
Australian tenor Stuart Skelton once again heads the cast with his
remarkable, multifaceted portrayal of the disturbed outsider.
(まだ書き出し)