Daugherty Michael：JACKIE O DVD

PROGRAM INFORMATION:
Excerpts from Michael Daugherty notes to this opera:

Jackie O was co-commissioned in 1995 by the Houston Grand Opera and Banff Centre and premiered in 1997 with great success.

Inspired by Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994), the opera focuses on the dramatic turning point of her life in the 1960s. The music I have composed for Jackie O explores the interplay of various musical idioms associated with "high" opera and "popular" musical theatre, rock and jazz.

The 1960s were also a time when political assassinations, civil rights reform, drugs, Woodstock, pop art and the Vietnam War were dramatically changing the face of America. The world turned an unwilling Jackie Kennedy, and later an unwilling Jackie Onassis, into a celebrity, and later an icon of the political and social turmoil of her time. Her storybook marriage in 1953 to John F. Kennedy and her journey to the White House endeared her to the public. President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 shocked the world. In 1968, her controversial second marriage to Greek shipping tycoon Aristotele Onassis allowed her to retreat from public life.

..To dramatize the opposition between the private and the public Jackie of W. Koestenbaum’s brilliant libretto, I create moments of extroverted grand spectacle such as "1968" and "Stiff Drink". These public moments are contrasted with more intimate solo arias such as "Egyptian Time" and introspective duets such as the "Flame Duet" and "Jack’s Song".

... each character in the opera has a unique sound world. Jackie’s arias are exotic, mournful and highly expressive. By contrast, the songs performed by Ari have a Vegas sound, reminiscent of Dean Martin or members of the Sixties "Rat Pack." Maria gets the operatic treatment, but since she was losing her voice in the sixties, Maria sings melodramatically in the low range, and even speaks on occasion. Liz Taylor sings bluesy, "cat-on-ahot-tin-roof" riffs, while Princess Grace croons a la Doris Day. Andy Warhol’s aria, like his art, is a series of inflected repetitions.

The chorus plays an important role throughout the opera.

STRONG POINTS:
WORLD PREMIERE ON DVD
"Daugherty may just provide the link to pop culture that classical music so desperately needs." - Time Out, New York, 1997
- Excellent international cast directed by Michieletto with Christopher Franklin on the podium
- Brilliant, enjoyable plot and performance

DVD EXTRA CONTENTS:
Interviews to Michael Daugherty, Fiona Mc Andrew, Nora Sourouzian, Simone Alberghini

BIOGRAPHY:

Born in 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Daugherty studied music composition at North Texas State University (1972-76) and Manhattan School of Music (1976-78), and computer music at Pierre Boulez’s IRCAM in Paris (1979-80). Daugherty received his doctorate in composition from Yale University in 1986. During this time he also collaborated with jazz arranger Gil Evans in New York, and pursued further studies with composer GyOrgy Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany (1982-84).

Michael Daugherty is one of the most performed and commissioned American composers of his generation. Daugherty came to international attention when his Metropolis Symphony (1988-93), a tribute to the Superman comics, was performed in 1995 at Carnegie Hall by conductor David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

He has received numerous awards for his music, including the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, recognition from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts

Track List:
1. Overture (Jackie’s Song)
Act I. The Happening
2. 1968
3. Jackie’s Coming!
4. Egyptian Time
5. Goldfinger
6. Painter’s Credo
7. Jackie’s Credo
8. Addio Del Passato
9. I Am Curious (Yellow)
10. Don’t Look Back
11. 1968 (reprise)
Act II. The Island
Scene 1 (On The "Christina")
12. I Resemble A God
13. Stiff Drink
14. All His Bright Light
15. I Will See You At The Lido
Scene 2 (On Skorpios)
16. The Flame Duet
17. Smash His Camera!
18. Jack’s Song
19. The New Frontier Is Here
20. Bows
Teatro Comunale, Bologna, 2008

導演
編劇
Conductor: Christopher Franklin
Direction: Damiano Michieletto

演員
Scenes: Paolo Fantin
Jackie O - Fiona Mc Andrew
Maria Callas - Nora Sourouzian
Aristotele Onassis - Simone Alberghini
Andy Warhol - Paul Carey Jones
Liz Taylor - Alice Quintavalla
Grace Kelly - Elizabeth Grayson
J.F.K.’s voice - Enea Scala
Orchestra of Teatro Comunale, Bologna
Ensemble of Teatro Rossini di Lugo