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RUDOLF SCHOCK zingt SIR ARTHUR BLISS

zingt Sir Arthur Bliss



RUDOLF SCHOCK
SIR ARTHUR BLISS

Met Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Victoria de los Angeles and Joan Hammond sings Rudolf Schock in 1948, 1949 and 1950 from 'The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London .

Schock is the first German singer , after the second world war beyond the borders of his country should act.

Spring 1950:

Schock's London Agenda

(Privat Archiv Frau Gisela Schock)

Karl Rankl , artistic director and conductor of the Covent Garden Opera, Rudolf Schock committed upcoming talent at the Salzburg Festival in the summer of 1948. He lays down the condition that Schock as soon as possible are able to get his operas in English to sing. For someone who never had the opportunity to learn English, a difficult task. The documents in question the role of Rodolfo in 'La Bohème' Puccini (opening planned for Oct. 15, 1948) and thereafter successively 'Der Rosenkavalier' by Richard Strauss, Mozart's 'Magic Flute' and La Traviata "by Verdi .
In the premiere 'La Bohème' Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings the role of Mimi and in other roles include Ljuba Welitsch (Musette ) , Paolo Silveri (Marcello) and Geraint Evans (Schaunard ) hear. The presentation of
November 8, 1948 Mimi is sung by the New Zealand soprano Joan Hammond . Maria Stader Schock, in addition to "The Magic Flute as Pamina and act in 'La Traviata' again Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Karl Rankl conducts most performances.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf &

Rudolf Schock - Sidney

1949 (Privat Archiv Frau Gisela Schock)

After the opera season 1948 / 1949 takes Rudolf Schock invited by ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) on a concert tour of Australia on January 8, 1948 died tenor Richard Tauber legend . Schock's mission is: forty performances throughout Australia, which will broadcast the radio. These orchestral concerts (Eg conductors Otto Klemperer and Rafael Kubelik ) with operatic arias in their original language and "Liederabende '(including Brahms, Schubert and Wolf) with six songs composed entirely different programs. As a prelude to Australia for a May 24, 1949 Schubert recital on Radio Singapore agreed. After Australia will be traveling to New Zealand. In Melbourne Schock read in the newspaper (!), He also during the 1949/1950 season at Covent Garden connected. He will be the roles of last season include singing with the English soprano Victoria de los Angeles as Mimi.

'Mme Butterfly' (London 1950) Schwarzkopf / Schock

Added will be "Madame Butterfly" by Puccini (eg again Schwarzkopf) and the shortest possible time (as of October 1, 1949) the role of the young poet Hector Florac in the new opera by ARTHUR BLISS: "THE OLYMPIANS" . Transit to New Zealand is deleted.

SIR ARTHUR BLISS (1891-1975)
was a versatile English composer. He wrote orchestral music, music for solo voice, special music for wind bands and br assbands. A special love he had for the theater: he composed ballets and many stage and film music. During the second world war he was head of BBC music and on September 29, 1949 his opera 'The Olympians' its world premiere. What opera is concerned there would be only after 10 years half (short) Opera will follow: "Tobias and the Angel" . That happened in 1960 and, because I remember the name of that opera television can still remember, I suspect that 'Tobias' also on the Dutch television is broadcast. In 1950, Arthur Bliss and ennobled in 1953 he received the honorary title "Master of the Queen's Music '.

The premiere of "THE OLYMPIANS"
been a difficult affair. Only in the early years seventy Arthur Bliss doing a TV interview in an open book: The renowned novelist John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984) wrote the libretto of this opera about the distracting Olympic gods which according to legend, once a year descend on the earth as a traveling theater group on mere mortals to manifest. Priestley and Bliss are closely involved in the rehearsals, but that seems bad for their blood pressure. They greatly annoyed at the perceived lack of preparation for the premiere: the conductor Karl Rankl (1898-1968) doing everything at the last minute and the time that he spends the rehearsals, is far too short. Moreover Rankl talk and the subsequent top directors Peter Brook (1925) not at all together. They communicate only through notes.
premiered September 29, 1949 received mixed: some critical acclaim, others decidedly negative. Priestley believes that the first company looks just fine, The second part is as disjointed and the third and last act is a charade.

Is there a recording, which Rudolf Schock sings Arthur Bliss?

Rudolf Schock stresses in his biography that the role of Hector not the first, but - two days later - in the second presentation of 'The Olympians' sang. The world premiere of September 29, 1949 is Hector, the male half of earthly lovers, sung and played by the excellent James Johnston , one of the 'leading tenors' of the English opera you history (see and hear him on "YouTube").

However, it appears that in the archives of the BBC a (tape) recording is of Bliss' opera 'The Olympians' with Rudolf Schock in the role of Hector. That in itself is strange, because it would be logical that the BBC world premiere of James Johnston had committed.
fact is, however, that the list of radio broadcasting in Schock's biography, Bliss' opera mentioned. It would involve one of the later (better in playing?) Versions that is, those with Schock of December 18, 1949 . The additional information is that the tape recording retained remained would be. For me a good reason, to be included in the Bliss' Faschinatie series. I would be extremely grateful to the BBC when they record onto a CD yet!

Krijn de Blank, 09/01/2009 (end of September 2009 show: ' Rudolf Schock sings Anton Bruckner ')