L'Avant-Scène Opéra no 270 : Rienzi

The First Norn

[Fastening the rope again.]

The night wanes,

Dark grows my vision;

I cannot find

The threads of the rope;

The strands are twisted and loose.

A horrible sight

Wildly vexes mine eyes:

The Rhinegold

That black Alberich stole.

Knowest thou more thereof?

The Second Norn

[With laborious haste winds the rope round the jagged rock at the mouth of the cave.]

The rock's sharp edge

Is cutting the rope;

The threads loosen

Their hold and grow slack;

They droop tangled and frayed.

From woe and wrath

Rises the Nibelung's ring

A curse of revenge

Ruthlessly gnaws at the strands:--

Canst thou the end foretell?

The Third Norn

[Hastily catching the rope which is thrown to her.]

The rope is too short,

Too loose it hangs;

It must be stretched,

Pulled straighter, before

Its end can reach to the north!

[She pulls hard at the rope, which breaks.]

It breaks!

The Second Norn

It breaks!

The Third Norn

It breaks!

[They take the pieces of broken rope and bind their bodies together with them.]

The Three Norns

So ends wisdom eternal!

The wise ones

Will utter no more.

Descend to Erda! Descend!

[They vanish. The dawn grows brighter; the firelight from the valley gradually fades. Sunrise; then broad daylight.]

Richard Wagner's Ring of the Niblung

An important addition to the newly produced orchestral materials by Schott Music is the fi rst publication of vocal scores of Richard Wagner's ten great operas in every important version. For the first time, we are able to offer theatres and interested opera-lovers vocal scores as urtext editions conceived following uniform editorial criteria : The score corresponds to the performance materials from the Complete Edition. For practical use in rehearsal and study, every vocal score includes rehearsal cues and bar numbers throughout. The publisher has secured the services of renowned musicologists associated with the Richard Wagner Complete Edition who convey detailed information in critical forewords. The forewords are given in three languages (German, English, French). Uniform and attractive front cover designs with reproductions of paintings from the Wagner era underline the series design of the edition. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE Performance directions by the singer Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld are incorporated in the vocal score from the Complete Edition's Tristan und Isolde volume. He entered these directions into his own copy of the Tristan part which he used at the 1865 Munich premiere. Richard Wagner was deeply impressed by his interpretation of the title role. For the first time in a vocal score of Tristan und Isolde all cuts are incorporated-with the corresponding transitional bars-which Wagner himself made, and approved, in two cases, were actually declared by him to be final. These cuts strikingly document Wagner's struggle with the final form of the work. For the first time in a single edition all of Wagner's own suggestions for ossias are found ; ossias which evolved from performances under his own direction. Egon Voss writes about this in his foreword to the vocal score : "Such 'pointers', as you might say, were current practice in the 19th century which Wagner, as the example shows, did not evade. He was enough of a practical man of the theatre to know that a badly sung top note is worse than doing without it. Wagner even tolerated the transposition of lengthier passages because he was less concerned with the letter of the score than with theatrical effectiveness. [... ] The present vocal score goes beyond the Complete Edition [... ] in that the ossias mentioned above are indicated in the vocal part itself, in small notes. They concern principally the role of Tristan, but also those of Isolde, Brangäne and Kurwenal. They rest in part on the Tristan edition within the Complete Edition but for the greater part go back to a source which could not be consulted for the Complete Edition because it was not yet accessible. This relates to a vocal score from the estate of the composer Peter Cornelius who was engaged by Wagner as repetiteur at the Vienna rehearsals in 1861-63. That the ossia bars go back to Wagner can be taken as certain, since in some places they are notated in his own hand. " (Egon Voss, quoted from the foreword to the vocal score) The transpositions mentioned by Egon Voss-two by Hans von Bülow for the revival of the work which he conducted in Munich in 1869 and the third suggested by Wagner himself in 1861-are printed in the appendix to the vocal score. The ossias, transpositions, and cuts are available for practical use in the theatre and in rehearsal. The cuts are also incorporated into the orchestral materials for Tristan und Isolde. This is also the case with ossias which affect the orchestral parts. WWV 90

Wagner Urtext-Klavierauszüge

Arranged for trombone quartet, these six choral pieces by classical composers from Gluck to Wagner will adorn every concert programme. They all are of solemn character. The players can choose between all-time favourites like Mozart's O Isis und Osiris and lesser known, yet very charming pieces like Conradin Kreutzer's Frühlingsandacht. Instrumentation : 4 trombones

Classic Hymns for Trombone Quartet - arranged by Rudi Köhler. 4 trombones. Partition et parties.

Tristan, a valiant Cornish knight, is bringing Isolda, princess of Ireland, over as a bride for his uncle, King Mark. He is himself in love with her, but owing to a blood feud between them, forces himself to conceal his passion. Isolda, in anger at his seeming unkindness, attempts to poison herself and him, but her attendant, Brangæna, changes the draft for a love potion, which enflames their passion beyond power of restraint...

Tristan and Isolda

Nouvelle traduction de l'opéra de Richard Wagner.



Iseult : Tristan !

Tristan : Délicieuse femme !

Iseult : Charmant homme !

Ensemble : Nos cours sont pleins de joie profonde, nos sens vibrent d'un bonheur sans fin !

Désir d'amour sans entrave, délice de la langueur amoureuse ! Cours amoureux enlevés au monde et conquis par moi ! Mon âme se consume d'amour !

(On ouvre brutalement les tentures... Le navire bruit d'une foule de marins et de chevaliers, qui lancent de joyeux hourras vers le rivage où se dresse une forteresse juchée sur un éperon rocheux élevé.

Tristan et Iseult, toujours plongés dans l'émerveillement mutuel, ne semblent pas réaliser ce qui se passe autour d'eux.)

Brangaine (aux servantes qui, à un signe d'elle, remontent sur le pont) : Vite, apportez le manteau royal...

(Se plaçant entre Iseult et Tristan.) Inconscients ! Mais regardez donc où nous sommes ! (Elle couvre Iseult du manteau royal.)

Tristan et Iseult

Crépuscule des dieux

Siegfried (L'avant Scène Opéra, #229)

An important addition to our newly produced orchestral materials is the first publication of vocal scores of Wagner's ten great operas, in every important version, based on the Complete Edition. The score corresponds to the performance materials from the Complete Edition. For practical use in rehearsal cues and bar numbers throughout. The publisher has secured the services of renewed musicologists associated with the Richard Wagner Complete Edition who convey detailed information in critical forewords. The forewords are given in three languages(German, English, French). Uniform and attractive front cover designs with reproductions of paintings from the Wagner era underline the series design of the edition. DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (1842-1880 version) "This piano reduction is based on the edition of Der fliegende Holländer from the Critical Complete Edition of Richard Wagner's works (Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke [Collected works], Vol. 4, III-VI, edited by Egon Voss, Mainz, 2000f.) The primary source for this edition was the first print of the score dating from 1845 which had however been augmented utilising the sources of additions undertaken after 1845, meaning that this edition is actually a compilation of the final versions of all individual sections or relevant details. The overture for example dates back to 1860 whereas No. 1 appears in the version from 1864. What is however most significant is that the versions from the Collected Editions based on new sources is without doubt closer to the original than the score from 1897 edited by Felix Weingartner which had previously formed the basis for all editions and logically also for all performances. " (Egon Voss, quoted from the foreword of the new Der fliegende Holländer vocal score) Original version and 1842-1880 version The original version of Der fliegende Holländer dates from 1841. Wagner, at the time a completely unknown Kapellmeister in France, trying to get a foothold in Paris, saw the opportunity for a stage work that would meet the fashion at the Paris Opera of performing several short works one after another. Der fliegende Holländer, conceived in 1840 and composed in 1841, seemed to him suited to the purpose. In 1841, even when Wagner no longer counted on a success in Paris, he still held to the conception of a one-act opera and offered the work to German opera houses under the title of "Romantic Opera in One Act and Three Scenes". This version is set in Scotland, taking as the literary model for the opera Heinrich Heine's novel fragment "From the Memoirs of Mr. Schnabelewopski", and the protagonists have English names. This version was never performed in Wagner's lifetime. Beginning in 1842, the work went through a tale of constant revision : Even before the Dresden premiere (2nd January 1843) Wagner undertook fundamental alterations. He transposed the location from Scotland to Norway, changed character's names as appropriate, divided the opera into three acts - not least due to considerations of scene changes - and transposed Senta's Ballad from A minor to G minor. It was in this version that the score of the opera went to print in 1845. For a performance in 1860 he composed the later so-called 'Tristan' or 'Redemption' ending to the Overture. Until the very end of his life, Wagner contemplated a plan for a final score or a definitive vocal score : it never came to be, so that to this day, as with Tannhäuser, we still do not have Der fliegende Holländer in a final version. Based on the research conducted in the creation of the Complete Edition, our editions contain, in one case the original version of 1841, while the other essentially goes back to the first printing of the score of 1845, but with the addition of the source material for the retouchings dating from 1842 to 1889. VOCAL SCORES The original version of the opera was made available for the first time in a vocal score in 2005 (ED 8065). The completely revised new edition of the vocal score of the 1842-1880 version appeared in 2011 (ED 20531). WWV 63

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