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Special offer. Carlisle Floyd: Prince of Players

Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, William Boggs

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The performance is excellent. As Kynaston, baritone Keith Phares sings well, articulates the text clearly, and is very touching in a role that requires a wide dramatic range. Kynaston has a...

Special offer. Carlisle Floyd: Prince of Players

Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, William Boggs

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The performance is excellent. As Kynaston, baritone Keith Phares sings well, articulates the text clearly, and is very touching in a role that requires a wide dramatic range. Kynaston has a...

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World Premiere Recording! The Florentine Opera brings Carlisle Floyd's daring new opera, "Prince of Players", to life! Floyd is one of the foremost composers and librettists of opera in the world today, and is considered the "Father of American Opera." During his long career, Floyd has composed 13 operas. His most recent, "Prince of Players", which premiered in March 2016 at the Houston Grand Opera, is based on the true story of Restoration-era actor Edward Kynaston (1640–1706). The plot centers on the crisis faced by Kynaston when, by royal decree, he is prohibited from plying the craft that made him famous—playing female roles. With this Milwaukee production, the Florentine Opera gives Prince of Players its world-premiere live recording.

Contents and tracklist

Othello? Ay, Desdemonda
Track length4:04
Not Again, Never Again! I Shall Not Be Humiliated Again!
Track length10:05
Do You Know How Many Roles We've Seen You In?
Track length4:57
Oh! You Startled Me!
Track length8:07
The Duke of Buckingham, Your Majesty
Track length14:24
Howl, Howl, Howl, Howl, Howl!
Track length13:52
Ned, Are You Alright? You Look a Fright
Track length4:57
Gents, It's My Esteemed Pleasure to Introduce
Track length6:59
Shall I Get a Physician?
Track length15:14
Ned, Ned! It's Tom!
Track length2:58
Bring Mistress Hughes to the Stage at Once
Track length9:57

Awards and reviews

September/October 2020

The performance is excellent. As Kynaston, baritone Keith Phares sings well, articulates the text clearly, and is very touching in a role that requires a wide dramatic range. Kynaston has a bar fight, two love scenes (one with each gender), and scenes where he portrays a Shakespeare character. Dramatically, Phares seems thoroughly inside the role. Kate Royal sings beautifully as Peg Hughes and is equally convincing dramatically.

March 2021

The highly percussive musical language— vocal and orchestral—is that of ‘American verismo’…Prince of Players won’t prove Floyd’s magnum opus, but it’s at least well crafted and diverting.

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