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Classical / Stage
The Canadian Opera Company Contemporary Modern Opera 1985
Performer: The Canadian Opera Company
Title: Louis Riel / Harry Somers, Mavor Moore, Jacques Languiraud
Style: Contemporary, Modern, Opera
Year 1985
Genre: Classical / Stage
Rating: 4.3
Votes: 928
MP3 size: 1222 mb
FLAC size: 1782 mb
WMA size: 1963 mb
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The Canadian Opera Company - Louis Riel / Harry Somers, Mavor Moore, Jacques Languiraud mp3 album


The Canadian Opera Company - Louis Riel / Harry Somers, Mavor Moore, Jacques Languiraud mp3 album

Tracklist

Side / Face 1, Louis Riel (18:07)
A1 Act I: Scene 1, U.S.-Canada Border, 1869
A2 Act I, Scene 2, Fort Garry
Side / Face 2, Louis Riel (24:51)
B1 Act I: Scene 2 (conclusion)
B2 Act I: Scene 3, The Prime Minister's Office, Ottawa
B3 Act I, Scene 4, The House Of Julie Riel
Side / Face 3, Louis Riel (19:17)
C1 Act II: Scene 1, The Prime Minister's Office, Ottawa
C2 Act II: Scene 2, Fort Garry
C3 Act II: Scene 3, Fort Garry, On The Day Of Scott's Execution
C4 Act II: Scene 4, A Railway Depot, Toronto
Side / Face 4, Louis Riel (17:17)
D1 Act II: Scene 5, The Prime Minister's Office, Ottawa
D2 Act II: Scene 6, The Courtyard, Fort Garry
Side / Face 5, Louis Riel (29:00)
E1 Act III: Scene 1, Riel's House, Montana, 1880
E2 Act III: Scene 2, The Prime Minister's Office, Ottawa
E3 Act III: Scene 3, Church In Frog Leg, Saskatchewan, 1885
Side / Face 6, Louis Riel (20:11)
F1 Act III: Scene 4, The Court Room, Regina
F2 Act III: Scene 5, Riel's Cell
F3 Act III: Scene 6, The Court Room, Regina
F4 Act III: Scene 7, A Street In Ottawa

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBC Enterprises
  • Manufactured By – World Records – WRC6-4160
  • Edited At – McClear Place
  • Mastered At – McClear Place
  • Pressed By – Quality Records Limited

Credits

  • Baritone Vocals [Louis Riel] – Bernard Turgeon
  • Booklet Editor [Teacher's Guide] – Patricia Martin Shand
  • Chorus – Chorus Of The Canadian Opera Company
  • Chorus Master – Charles M. Wilson
  • Conductor – Victor Feldbrill
  • Coordinator [CMC Distribution Service] – Susan M. Hicks
  • Creative Director – Leon Major
  • Design [Costume] – Wallace Russell
  • Design [Front Cover, Riel Book Design and Layout] – Parson Associates
  • Design [Lighting] – Marie Day
  • Editor [Book] – William Littler
  • Engineer [Original Recording] – Brian Wood
  • Executive Producer [Executive Director, Canadian Music Centre] – John A. Miller
  • Libretto By [English] – Mavor Moore
  • Libretto By [French] – Jacques Languirand
  • Music By – Harry Somers
  • Orchestra – National Arts Centre Orchestra
  • Photography By – Robert C. Ragsdale*
  • Producer [Original Recording] – Digby Peers
  • Producer [Sound Re-recording] – David Jaeger
  • Set Designer – Murray Laufer
  • Translated By [Book] – Henri Malebranche

Notes

Editing / Mastering Studio /Montage / Matrice - McClear Place Studios, Toronto, Ontario.

Music Drama in Three Acts.

Three LP's in box with glossy 36-page 12 x 12 booklet including many illustrations and photographs.

Cover of box and booklet credit only "The Canadian Opera Company," for which (at this time) Discogs includes specific ensembles but no collective identity exists at this time.

Specific artists and ensembles are named in booklet interior. Only a selection of the numerous credits have been provided here.

Cover and booklet proclaim:
"LIVE FROM THE / EN DIRECT DU KENNEDY CENTRE, WASHINGTON, D.C.
HISTORICAL RECORDING / 23 OCT. 1975 / ENREGISTREMENT D'ARCHIVES"

Book inside back cover lower left: (c) 1975 CBC Radio
Licenced to Centrediscs by CBC Radio / CBC Enterprises

LP Labels:
(p) 1985 Centrediscs/Centredisques
(c) 1985 Centrediscs/Centredisques

Matrices Markings:
-"QU" denotes Quality Recordings Limited
- "ᕋ" appears like a "G" with the final turn down and long rather than up, but also resembles the italic S also observed elsewhere. It appears frequently on Centredisc releases mastered by McClear Place.
- "X.P." is also associated with McClear Place masterings

Centrediscs became the primary source of Canadian Contemporary Classical releases in the 1980's.

This packaging of this production is remarkable for the lack of prominence given to any of the vocalists. The entire cast is identified on page 12 of the booklet, but this is practically the only reference to any performers by name. It has been packaged to emphasize its collaborative nature as an ensemble work.

Historical Context:

This work speaks to major figures and historical events in the emergence of Canada as a nation and was premiered on the Canadian Centenary Year . It's 1975 performance in Washington marks a coming out for Canada as a nation of cultural significance in the world of contemporary classical music. Judging from the representation of Canadian composers in the Discogs universe at this time, the assumption that Canadians are little more than hewers of wood and drawers of water (or oil) apparently still lingers 50 years later.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side 1, etched ["Qu" inverted]): WRC6 4160 A2 ᕋ Qu
  • Matrix / Runout (Side 2, etched ["QU" inverted]): WRC6 - 4160-2⋅ X.P. QU
  • Matrix / Runout (Side 3, etched ["-2" above ".7." "Qu" inverted]): WRC6 4160 S3⋅ -2 .7. X.P. Qu
  • Matrix / Runout (Side 4, etched ["Qu" inverted]): WRC6 4160-4 > Qu
  • Matrix / Runout (Side 5, etched ["Qu" inverted]): WRC6 - 4160⋅ SIDE FIVE⋅ (S) ᕋ.P. Qu
  • Matrix / Runout (Side 6, etched ["QU" inverted]): WRC6 - 4160-6⋅ X.P. S6. QU
Peles
Historical Context:This work speaks to major figures and historical events in the emergence of Canada as a nation and was premiered on the Canadian Centenary Year (1967). It's 1975 performance in Washington marks a coming out for Canada as a nation of cultural significance in the world of contemporary classical music. Judging from the representation of Canadian composers in the Discogs universe at this time, the assumption that Canadians are little more than hewers of wood and drawers of water (or oil) apparently still lingers 50 years later.
Connorise
Rare and historic. A time capsule addressing & participating in Canadian history by it's subject & creative choices, created & released in decades when Quebec nearly separated from Canada.Louis Riel was a charismatic leader celebrated by French-Canadians, Metis, and indigenous peoples for championing the rights of indigenous peoples in opposition to British Colonial expansionism expressed by the new Dominion of Canada, led by Prime Minister John A. MacDonald. Riel formed the first government in Manitoba, but MacDonald's government opposed him and he was driven into exile as a rebel. Fifteen years later the same tensions led to violent attacks upon the native peoples of Saskatchewan and Alberta, and ultimately, to Riel's execution.The tensions between rival linguistic cultures, religious affiliations (Catholics and Protestants), Indigenous peoples and Settlers, and the colonial exploitation of resources (capitalism) versus and resistance to environmental degradation of the natural world remain flashpoints for social reform or conflict to this day.The creators of this opera worked in a climate where these issues remained deeply-felt injustices and broken promises grinding against the insensitivity, neglect, and complacency of the status quo.
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