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Ensemble - Deutsche Oper Berlin

Monica  Bacelli

Monica Bacelli

Monica Bacelli studierte bei Maria Vittoria Romano und Donato Martorella und schloss ihr Studium am Konservatorium von Pescara ab. Nachdem sie den Concorso Belli gewonnen hatte, gab sie ihr Debüt in Spoleto als Cherubino / LE NOZZE DI FIGARO und Dorabella / COSI FAN TUTTE. Seitdem hat ihre Karriere sie an große Theater in Italien und in der ganzen Welt geführt, darunter die Mailänder Scala, die Wiener Staatsoper, die Salzburger Festspiele, Covent Garden und San Francisco, sowie zu führenden Orchestern wie den Berliner Philharmonikern, dem Concertgebouw Amsterdam und der Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rom. Zu den Dirigenten, mit denen sie zusammengearbeitet hat, gehören Abbado, Bychkov, Chailly, Dudamel, Harding, Mehta, Muti, Ozawa, Pappano, Rattle und Bolton.

Ihr breit gefächertes Repertoire umfasst alle wichtigen Mozart-Partien für Mezzosopran (Idamante, Cherubino, Elvira, Dorabella und Sesto), Rossini, Barock (Monteverdi, Cavalli, Händel) sowie französische Opern wie LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN, WERTHER, DON QUICHOTTE und L'ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES.

Monica Bacelli ist als führende Interpretin zeitgenössischer Musik sowohl im Konzert als auch auf der Bühne anerkannt. Sie hat zahlreiche Uraufführungen gesungen, darunter den Bühnenmonolog LE BEL INDIFFERENT von Marco Tutino und die Titelrolle in Ivan Fedeles ANTIGONE beim Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Bekannt wurde sie durch ihre langjährige Zusammenarbeit mit Luciano Berio, der für sie die Rolle der Marina in OUTIS (Mailänder Scala) und Orvid in CRONACA DEL LUOGO schrieb, sowie durch das Kammermusikwerk „Altra voce“, das bei den Salzburger Festspielen im Rahmen des Pollini-Projekts aufgeführt und in New York, Tokio, Paris und Rom wiederholt wurde. Auch Berios „Folk Songs“ hat sie mehrfach gesungen, unter anderem an der Mailänder Scala, mit den Berliner Philharmonikern, dem Ensemble Intercontemporain und bei den Proms in London.

Ihre interpretatorische Neugier, ihr Interesse an Kammermusik und ihre Erforschung ungewöhnlichen Vokalrepertoires haben sie in den letzten Jahren zu einer Vielzahl von Projekten geführt, die von alter bis zu zeitgenössischer Musik reichen, mit einem Schwerpunkt auf dem italienischen Kunstlied des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Zu ihren jüngsten und zukünftigen Engagements gehören La Fortuna und Melanto / ULISSE an der Scala, Ottavia / POPPEA am Palais Garnier Paris, Isolier / LE COMTE ORY am Grand Théâtre de Geneve, IL RE ORSO an der Opera Comique in Paris, PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE an der La Monnaie Brüssel und beim Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2015 unter Daniele Gatti sowie Berlioz „Les Nuits d'été“ am Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Monica Bacelli ist Trägerin des Premio Abbiati.

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15
DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 15. Fensterchen

For almost two decades, the two creative minds behind our big band – Sebastian ‘Sese’ Krol and Rüdiger ‘Rübe’ Ruppert – have been curating brilliant evenings of jazz: a radiant highlight of this work took place on 19 September 2022, when Charles Mingus' “Epitaph” was performed in the sold-out Philharmonie. This concert was a tribute to Mingus' 100th birthday and was a sensation, which is now available as a CD on the EuroArts label. We are giving away this CD in today's Advent window.

Win one of two CDs of Charles Mingus' “Epitaph”, recorded live at the Philharmonie. If you want to be one of the winners, send an e-mail to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de today with the subject “The 15th little window”.

Charles Mingus caused a sensation in 1959 with his album ‘Ah Um’, which catapulted him into the pantheon of jazz. Immediately afterwards, he devoted himself to an even bolder vision: a suite for orchestra, part improvised, part composed – written for an ensemble of two complete big bands plus additional orchestral instruments. It was to be a work of the ‘third way’, combining jazz with the classical modernism of a Bartók and Stravinsky, but at the same time his personal opus summum. We are talking about ‘Epitaph’. In Berlin in 2022, conductor Titus Engel brought it to the stage: together with Charles Mingus' companion Randy Brecker, with musicians from the BigBand and the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Jazz Institute Berlin.

Charles Mingus himself never heard the full version of ‘Epitaph’. That's because the 1962 premiere was a fiasco, perhaps the biggest in jazz history. It happened at the Town Hall in New York: everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Mingus wrote highly complex music, but had only scheduled three rehearsals. Trombonist Jimmy Knepper became a copyist, transcribing sheet music that Mingus produced every day. There was no end to it, he kept changing, adding to and expanding the music. Knepper couldn't keep up. Mingus became bad-tempered, then angry, then hated the world. The pressure was on: the record company wanted to record live – extremely unusual at the time. Eventually the concert took place, the sheet music wasn't ready, the tension between the musicians was unmistakable, and the audience didn't like the badly played music. The concert ended in a police intervention. The second part was never played. Mingus died in 1979 without ever having heard his major work. The 500 pages of sheet music were discovered years later in an old suitcase belonging to his widow Sue.

‘The music is very varied, very dense, powerful, a unique work between genres,’ says Titus Engel in 2022. The conductor of this CD recording is – like Mingus – equally at home in the worlds of classical, new and jazz music, and he plays double bass like the master. And so the rarely heard work was brought to new life in this concert by the BigBand of the Deutsche Oper Berlin: Not only was there sufficient rehearsal time for the concert in Berlin and the atmosphere between the musicians was enthusiastic, but the sheet music was also newly created based on the critical new edition.

Listen to Charles Mingus' “Epitaph” conducted by Titus Engel with musicians from the BigBand and the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Jazz Institute Berlin, with Jorge Puerta (speaker / tenor) and Randy Brecker (trumpet). The CD was released on the EuroArts label.



Closing date: 15 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 16 December 2024. The CDs will be sent by post. The judges' decision is final.