Source: https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/recording/intelligence-park
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 07:40:06+00:00

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Trained in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Harrhy sang the title-role of Cavalli's L'Egisto, going mad most convincingly, as well as Fenton in Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor, while still a student there. The following year he made the first of several visits to Batignano for Musica nel Chiostro, appearing in Rinaldo da Capua's intermezzo La Zingara as the Gypsy's brother and a dancing bear. In 1986 he toured with Opera 80 as Tom Rakewell in The Rake's Progress; though his rake sadly lacked moral fibre, he descended the primrose path in a most stylish manner. That year he sang one of the Shepherds in Monteverdi's Orfeo at a Promenade Concert and also the smuggler El Remendado in Carmen with Scottish Opera. His later roles for Scottish Opera included a sensitive study of the Novice in Billy Budd; a good-tempered Pedrillo in The Seraglio and a grumpy Mime in Das Rheingold, a foretaste of his double role in the Cobto's Ringlet in 1990.
Since winning awards at the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors, France, as well as the Hungarian Television International Conductors' Competition, Irishman Robert Houlihan's career has taken him to conduct leading orchestras in France, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Mexico, Venezuela, South Africa etc. In July 2000 Robert made his American Debut conducting at the "Mozart Festival" at Woodstock, Illinois. A native of Killarney, County Kerry, Robert lived in Metz, France from 1981 until 2002, where he conducted for several years at the Municipal Theatre. as well as frequently guest conducting l'Orchestre National de Lorraine, l'Orchestre de Chambre de Metz and his own ensemble le Nouvel Ensemble Instrumental.
01. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc i. Treble: Fathers beget2'56"
02. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc i. Paradies: I cannot work, D'Esperaudieu5'46"
03. The Intelligence Park: Interlude: The Banquet of Dummies1'26"
04. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc ii. Cramer: To greater and to richer heights2'39"
05. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc ii. Cramer: But ye must forgive me, sirs2'08"
06. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc ii: Cramer: Play for us, Paradies2'23"
07. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc ii. Jerusha: The smiling Dawn3'01"
08. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc ii. Faranesi: I would have you know, sirs4'48"
09. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc ii. Serafino: L'onda dal mar divisa2'06"
10. The Intelligence Park: Interlude. Chorus: To board! To board!1'19"
11. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc iii. D'Esperaudieu: And i said, Madam3'13"
12. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc iii. D'speraudieu: All through the evening5'12"
13. The Intelligence Park: Interlude. Cramer: Mourn! Mourn! Day is with Darkness fled.1'59"
14. The Intelligence Park: Act 1 sc iv. Paradies: Begin: Daub's Bower6'02"
01. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc i. Serafino, Jerusha: Gatto cieco1'10"
02. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc i. Jerusha, Faranesi: Fina...sera...rosa2'010"
03. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc i. Jerusha: L'onda dal mar divisa2'07"
04. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc i. Cramer: The tawny Nassau sun3'05"
05. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc ii. Paradies: Daub. Daub.1'47"
06. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc iii. D'Esperaudieu: The boy abandons me4'12"
07. The Intelligence Park: Interlude: D'Esperaudieu: Truly Dublin, you begin to bore me4'46"
08. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc iv: D'Esperaudieu: White bird featherless2'35"
09. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc v. Paradies: But this is foolishness!2'50"
10. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc v. D'Esperaudieu: Such passion! My! my! my!2'16"
11. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc v. Cramer: Sweet loving Jesus!1'16"
12. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc v. Paradies: My father's will annulled1'19"
13. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc v. Cramer: Burst Heavens asunder1'48"
14. The Intelligence Park: Act II sc v. Daub: Gia vicino - il momento2'49"
15. The Intelligence Park: Act 3: Prelude - Paradies' room1'46"
16. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 Station I. D'Esperaudieu: Nature inanimate1'53"
17. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 Station II. Serafino: Piu non sembra1'43"
18. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 Station III. Chorus: Bz! Bzz! Bzzz! Bzzzz!2'36"
19. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 Station IV. Serafino: Non sembra ardito e fiero2'51"
20. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 sc i. Jerusha: Dublin Packet Bari cruel finesse3'35"
21. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 sc ii. Paradies: Returned!1'25"
22. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 sc iii. Chorus: Deal. Deal. Deal. Deal.6'11"
23. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 sc iii. Chorus: Pallid the Sun3'16"
24. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 sc iii. Cramer: The devil take your damned medicines!1'23"
25. The Intelligence Park: Interlude. Chorus: Mourn! Mourn!1'56"
26. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 sc iv. Serafino: L'onda dal mar2'17"
27. The Intelligence Park: Act 3 sc iv. Serafino: Conservami il tuo amore2'30"
28. Act 3 sc v. Paradies: Calma del cor2'02"
The Intelligence Park, recorded in the 1990 Almeida Opera production and setting Vincent Deane's libretto of 18th-century Dublin, explores the relationship between an opera composer and the increasingly independent life of the characters he has created.
Recorded live at the Almeida Theatre, London in July 1991 for BBC Radio 3.

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