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The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Ballet)
The Twelve Dancing Princesses is a ballet inspired by Die zertanzten Schuhe, a fairy tale collected by the brothers Grimm. The excerpt below features the second and third dances of the ballet.
The video opens with the princesses, having outrun their chaperones, entering a clearing in the woods and dancing for the sheer joy of it. One of the princesses notices a hunting horn on the ground... Curious, she goes looking for where it could have come from and stumbles upon a hunter. He holds out his hand and she returns the horn, but he tosses it aside and invites her to dance.
ABOUT THE VIDEO
In this video, The Entrance of the Princesses is being performed to a four-hand piano reduction of the full score performed by Matt Savage and Adam Merrill
Filmed at : The José Mateo Ballet Theatre
Filmed by : Julia Rogler; Edited by : Matthew Rogler
Music by : Robert Rogler
Performed by : Pianists Matt Savage & Adam Merrill
Choreography : Maria Rogler
Dancers : Sara Brownell, Louise Hautfeuille, Alisa Korkhin. Nikolia Mamalakis, Paris Mills, Rimi Nakada, Maria Rogler, Johanna Sigurdardottir, Annabelle Thibodeau, Nations Wilkes-Davis, and Nina Yoshida
The Falcon (Chamber Opera)
Based on the play by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Falcon is a chamber opera in one act. The performance below contains an excerpt from the 23d song in the opera—bars 1421 through 1473.
Count Federigo is desperately in love with the widow Lady Giovanna, so much so that he impoverishes himself buying gifts for her. Lady Giovanna will not admit that she returns his love because her family violently disapproves... Her critically ill son asks her to bring him Count Federigo’s falcon because he believes the bird can heal him. Desperate, Lady Giovanna visits Count Federigo but finds him in such a state of poverty that she cannot bring herself to ask him for his last possession.
In No, for He Would Marry Me, we find Count Federigo and Lady Giovanna towards the end of the opera as she is gathering her nerve to ask him for his falcon in hopes of saving her son.
Music by : Robert Rogler
Performed by : Carlo Miguel Bunyi, baritone; Lauren Florek, soprano; Piano reduction of full score performed by Matt Savage
Filmed and recorded at the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio in Boston, Massachusetts
Filmed by : Julia Rogler; Edited by : Matthew Rogler
The Song of Songs (Oratorio)
The Song of Songs is a musical setting of the biblical book by the same name.
King Solomon has espied a beautiful Shulamite woman working in a vineyard and orders that she be brought to him. She resists the king’s advances because she is in love with another. In the video, Lauren Florek sings an aria from the second act in which the women in the king’s harem ask her why she’s so attached to her country lover when she is courted by the king himself. This is her answer.
This video contains an excerpt from the second part of the oratorio—bars 1286 through 1399.
Music by : Robert Rogler
Performed by : Lauren Florek, soprano; Piano reduction of full score performed by Matt Savage
Filmed and recorded at the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio in Boston, Massachusetts.
Filmed by : Julia Rogler; Edited by : Matthew Rogler