Cassandre Les Régates

C'est l'histoire de Cassandre, une jeune fille de 17 ans qui a le don d'entrevoir le futur mais la malédiction de ne pas être écoutée. …

Colin Davis’s 1969 recording remains a landmark event, the first time this grand opera of Meyerbeerian length, spectacular éclat and Wagnerian artistic ambition had found its way complete onto LP. It effectively changed views about Berlioz the opera composer and orchestral genius and has for many remained the yardstick by which all later performances have been judged. Although studio recorded, it was based on the Covent Garden casting of the day – Jon Vickers’s heroic Aeneas and Josephine Veasey’s voluptuous Dido – with a couple of Frenchmen to boost the ranks of lesser Trojans and Carthaginians…

It's stretching the conventional, technical definition of the term to call Swiss composer Michael Jarrell's spoken monodrama Cassandre an opera, but that's the composer's description of it, and as such, it ought to be respected. It does consist of a musical narrative accompanying a verbal narrative, so even though it doesn't involve singing, it comes closer to standard opera than some pieces that are so designated.

Livre culte en Angleterre, considéré comme l'un des premiers romans de suffragettes, Forte tête, paru en 1924 et encore inédit en France, est avant tout un inoubliable portrait de femme. Impossible de résister au charme drolatique d'Ursula, à son courage et à sa folle liberté !
Dans le Londres de 1909, Ursula Winfield est ce qu'on appelle une " forte tête ". …