Voici quelques infos concernant les artistes composant le “Randy Johnston Trio” qui participera cette année à célébrer la Fête de la Musique en Nouvelle Calédonie, à invitation de l’AMJ-BECA (Association des Musiciens de Jazz & Blues pour les Échanges et la Création Artistique).

Randy Johnston [http://www.randyjohnston.net] est originaire de Detroit (Michigan USA), installé à New York depuis de nombreuses années, il fait aujourd’hui parti des plus grands guitaristes de Jazz, Soul-Jazz aux États-Unis, il est notamment le guitariste attitré du légendaire saxophoniste alto Lou Donaldson. Randy a également joué et enregistré avec Lonnie Smith, Houston Person, Etta Jones, Lionel Hampton, Jack Mc Duff, Joey Defrancesco, Lee Konitz, Johnny Griffin, Tom Harrell pour ne nommer que quelques uns. Ses influences sont multiples et diverses : Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino, Georges Benson, Kenny Burrell, BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Raney pour ce qui concerne les guitaristes, et Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Mc Coy Tyner, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles pour le reste…

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MY FAIR LADY - Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe

For Henry Higgins, professor of linguistics and confirmed misogynist, transforming a streeturchin into a lady is a trivial task, done to honour a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering. Until, of course, he meets the proud little cockney, Eliza Doolittle, and finds that his raw material might not be so easy to mould. Lerner and Loewe’s exuberant adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion was always destined to be a smash hit.

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Carmen - G. Bizet
From: 24 January 2008 - To: 28 March 2008
“Carmen has an iconic sensuality but, most of all, she is a free spirit.” Francesca Zambello

Who is that woman? The way she moves, those eyes, that voice… Is Carmen the ultimate femme fatale? Opera Australia is thrilled to present a new production of Bizet’s most famous opera, directed by Francesca Zambello, and conducted by Opera Australia’s Music Director Richard Hickox. Zambello’s production, created for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, is gritty and exotic, while Bizet’s seductive score somehow taps straight into the heart of gypsy song.

Carmen’s steamy ‘Habanera’ is charged with raw passion and the fiery choruses will fill every inch of the theatre. Don José is not the first man to fall for Carmen’s seductive wiles, and nor will he be the last. But the mysterious gypsy leads this innocent soldier from his duty into a world of bullfighting, smuggling and wild dancing, where the turn of a card will decide his fate, and hers. Kirstin Chávez has created Bizet’s bewitching heroine on stages across America. Now she comes to Sydney to star in this compelling new production, while the spirited Pamela Helen Stephen who has turned heads on stages across Europe and the US, will make her Melbourne debut in the title role.

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Don Giovanni - W.A. Mozart Set in the Spanish Catholic society of the 17th Century, it places the flamboyant freedom-loving seducer in the most morally repressive environment possible, but Don Giovanni’s refusal to repent makes him one of the first great modern anti-heroes.

Teddy Tahu Rhodes pulls on his thigh length boots once more to sing the role which he has made his own. Joining him is John Pringle as his jaded sidekick Leporello, Kate Ladner as Donna Anna and Fiona Janes as feisty Donna Elvira. Tiffany Speight is Zerlina to Richard Anderson’s Masetto and, as the Commendatore, fellow New Zealander Jud Arthur will stop Teddy Tahu Rhodes in his tracks. To conduct this masterpiece, Opera Australia welcomes Hungarian Imre Palló, making his debut with the company.

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Le 16 septembre 1977, la soprano, née Maria Kalogeropoulos, décédait à Paris à l’âge de 53 ans. “Les Dieux s’ennuyaient, ils ont rappelé leur voix”, avait dit à l’époque le couturier Yves Saint Laurent. La ville de Paris, où la tragédienne a passé les 16 dernières années de sa vie, rend hommage dimanche 16 septembre. Des images de plusieurs de ses prestations ainsi qu’un documentaire sur sa vie seront projetés sur écran géant pour le public, invité à se rassembler sur le parvis de l’Hôtel de ville.

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