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At first fêted, then pilloried and condemned, Perelà undergoes a quasi-passion, with only shapes seen in the clouds as a hint of resurrection. The title role's high tenor is superbly sung by... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2005
Catalogue No: MO782168
Label: Montaigne
Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Dusapin: Perela, uomo di fumo

Work length2:01:14

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Isabelle Philippe (soprano), Niels van Doesum (bass), Daniel Gundlach (vocals), John Graham Hall (tenor), Martine Mahe (contralto), Nicolas Courjal (bass-baritone), Friedemann Rohlig (bass), Nora Gubisch (mezzo-soprano), Elina Bordry (vocals), Claire Gardeil (vocals), Laurent Serou (vocals), Olga Tichina (vocals), Scott Wilde (bass), Chantal Perraud (soprano), Gilles Yanetti (vocals), Herve Martin (vocals), Gilles Hubert (vocals)
Opera National de Montpellier Chorus, Orchestre National de Montpellier
Alain Altinoglu

Act I Scene 1: Chorus: Pena! Rete! Lama! Pena! Rete! Lama! (Perela)

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Act I Scene 2: Chorus: Pena! Rete! Lama! Pena! Rete! Lama! (Perela, 2 Guards of the King)

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Act I Scene 3: Entrate, entrate signore! (Valet, Master of Ceremonies, Perela)

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Act I Scene 4: Dove io restai fino a stamane non era gia (Perela, Choir, Valet, Master of Ceremonies)

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Act I Scene 5: Chorus: Piano piano, due alla volta (Perela, Banker Rodella, Archibishop)

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Act I Scene 6: Chorus: Alloro (Alloro)

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Act II: Chorus: Noir tutte siamo tanto lusingate (Marchesa Oliva de Belllonda, Women)

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Act III: Io penso oramai come voi (Queen, Parrot, Perela)

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Act IV Scene 1: (On-stage band and orchestra solo)

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Act IV Scene 2: Pe … perepe … pepepe (Minister, Chorus, Archibishop, Banker Rodella, Photographers)

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Act IV Scene 3: Chorus: Silenzio! (Minister)

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Act IV Scene 4: Chorus: Il Re! (Alloro)

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Act V: Vi ricordate di me? (Marchesa Oliva de Bellonda, Perela)

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Act VI Scene 1: Folle! Folle! Padre mio! Padre mio! (Alloro's daughter, Choir)

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Act VI Scene 2: Chorus: Ma noi gli abbiamo affidato il codice, per Dio! (Archibishop)

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Act VII Scene 1: Imbecilli … (Pilone)

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Act VII Scene 2: Che cosa accade? Oh! non fossi mai tornato! (Perela, Marchesa di Bellonda)

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Act VIII Scene 1: Prima che il processo si apra (President of the Court, Oliva de Bellonda, Choir, Perela)

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Act VIII Scene 2: Aveste rapporti con l'imputado? (President of the Court, Archibishop, Rodella, Pilone, Choir, Oliva de Bellonda)

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Act IX: Io sono sotto questo camino e guardo su (Perela, Choir)

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Act X: Chorus: Come e solcato oggi il cielo!

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June 2005

At first fêted, then pilloried and condemned, Perelà undergoes a quasi-passion, with only shapes seen in the clouds as a hint of resurrection. The title role's high tenor is superbly sung by John Graham-Hall… Though much is lost without the visual spectacle, and the live recording does capture every nuance of Dusapin's rich score, this is a striking account of a significant work.

2010

Pascal Dusapin is among the most significant composers at work today and it is good to see Naïve releasing this live account of his fourth stage work.
Perelà is derived from Aldo Palazzeschi's 1911 futurist novel Perelà uomo di fumo. It concerns the eponymous hero's metamorphosis into existence, his arrival in a corrupt and decadent city – where he is first fêted as its saviour, then, after the accidental suicide of an admirer, condemned for his subversive influence – and his trial and incarceration, from where he returns to the ether.
It's a story which resonates in the past or present, from which Dusapin has fashioned not a narrow polemic or a moralistic opera, but one rich in incident of a necessarily symbolic yet never abstruse nature – an opera, moreover, whose complex textural and rhythmic interplay are derived from relatively simple harmonic means, ensuring musical cohesion over the course of 10 'chapters' which are widely contrasted in content and impact.
The opening chapter presents Perelà – created from the mothers Pena, Rete and Lama, the first two letters of each forming his name, and themselves reiterated as a kind of mantric trinity – on his way to the city, where he is accorded 'celebrity status', only to be knocked off a pedestal he never sought to occupy. Later chapters include a garish ball, with its on-stage orchestra and massed choir, a strange meeting with the Queen where the main conversation is provided by her parrot's repetition of 'Dieu', and the magical scene in which the solitary Perelà encounters a girl with a flute – the disembodied sonorities an understated pointer to his final evanescence.
The recording is an assured one. John Graham- Hall is superb in the title-role, its high tessitura accommodated with little strain. Nora Gubisch is commanding as the Marchesa whose hypochondria is not unempathetic, as witness her impassioned defence of Perelà in the trial scene. Isabelle Philippe's neutral tone is ideal for the Queen, as is Daniel Gundlach's hectoring falsetto for the Archbishop; the remaining roles are all characterfully delivered.
Alain Altinoglu directs with evident concern for the bigger picture, in sound which, for all its stage intrusions, has a realistic placement of voices and orchestra.

Perelà brilliantly succeeds. Dusapin holds one’s attention from first to last in a masterly way, mainly thanks to the remarkable invention displayed throughout….It is well worth the effort, and I for one firmly believe that Perelà is one of the most important and most successful recent operas.

Dusapin: Perelà - Uoma di fumo (Man of Smoke)

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