Ernst Mahle and His Operas

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14791116

Keywords:

Ernst Mahle, Opera, Brazilian Opera

Abstract

The present paper, part of a doctoral research defended at the State University of Campinas -
UNICAMP, which focused on the critical edition of the score of the opera A Moreninha by composer Ernst Mahle, presents biographical data about the composer and his operatic production. To carry out the investigation, documents were collected from Mahle's personal collection and from the collection of the Piracicaba School of Music, in São Paulo, Brazil.

Author Biographies

  • Raíssa Amaral Magrini, State University of Campinas - UNICAMP (BRAZIL)

    RAÍSSA AMARAL holds a bachelor's, master's and doctorate in music with a major in lyric singing and interpretive practices (analysis and performance) from the Unicamp Institute of Arts, where she was supervised by Prof. Dr. Angelo José Fernandes. Also at Unicamp, he majored in popular music (guitar) under the guidance of Ulisses Rocha. She studied classical guitar with Sergio Napoleão Belluco and piano with Ms. Cidinha Mahle. She is a member of the Piracicaba Chamber Choir, performing as a soloist and chorister under conductor Ernst Mahle, and the Campinas Contemporary Choir, conducted by Angelo Fernandes. With Unicamp's Opera Studio she performed in Mozart's operas Don Giovanni as Donna Anna (conducted by Abel Rocha, in celebration of Unicamp's 50th anniversary), Die Zauberflöte as Pamina, Le Nozze di Figaro as the Countess of Almaviva and in Der Schauspieldirektor as Mademoiselle Silberklang. In H. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, she played Belinda and was Adina in Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore. She played Carolina in A Moreninha, an opera by Ernst Mahle conducted by the author himself. She has appeared in concerts with various orchestras such as the São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra (OSM), ORTHESP and the Minas Gerais Symphony Orchestra, among others. In the 2016 season at the Theatro de Ópera São Pedro, the São Paulo premiere of Alexander von Zemlisky's opera O Anão (The Dwarf), in which she performed as Ghita, stands out among her many works. 

  • Angelo José Fernandes, State University of Campinas - UNICAMP (BRAZIL)

    Angelo José Fernandes has distinguished himself with great success for his dedication to vocal music and singing pedagogy. A musician of diverse possibilities, he develops a broad artistic and pedagogical activity as a conductor, pianist, singer and singing teacher, and is constantly invited to perform concerts and give workshops, masterclasses and lectures in various Brazilian states. He is a lecturer at the Music Department of the Arts Institute of UNICAMP, a university where he is responsible for significant artistic and academic production. He teaches lyrical singing, directs the Contemporary Choir of Campinas (first place in the 2nd UC Choral Encounter, in Chile, on December 1, 2024) and the UNICAMP Opera Studio, as well as coordinating the CIDDIC - Center for Integration, Documentation and Cultural Dissemination. As a researcher, he was awarded a CNPq post-doctoral scholarship and has dedicated himself to the study of vocal technique in the practice of solo and choral singing in the various historical periods and styles of music composed for voice and its application in current performance.

References

- Livro

ALENCAR, José de Alencar. O Garatuja. Secretaria Municipal de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro, 1987.

STEIN, Deborah.; SPILLMAN, Robert. Poetry into song: performance and analysis of Lieder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

- Dissertações ou Teses

BARROS, Guilherme A. S. Goethe e o pensamento estético-musical de Ernst Mahle: um estudo do conceito de harmonia. 279f. Tese (Doutorado em Música) – Centro de Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2005.

RAMOS, Eliana Asano. A escrita pianística nas canções de Ernst Mahle. 478f. Tese (Doutorado em Música) – Instituto de Artes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, 2016.

RONTANI, Marcos. Escola de Música de Piracicaba Maestro Ernst Mahle – Empem: percurso histórico e princípios pedagógicos. 300f. Tese (Mestrado em Música) – Instituto de Artes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, 2014.

SILVESTRE, Gunnar Menezes. Maroquinhas Fru-Fru: uma abordagem contextual e interpretativa da ópera brasileira infantil. 86f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Música) – Escola de Música – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2016.

TAKEDA, Talita. Aspectos comunicativos na ópera contemporânea brasileira: uma análise do processo criativo do compositor Ronaldo Miranda. 217f. Dissertação (Mestre em Comunicação e Semiótica) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2015.

TOKESHI, Eliane. Ernst Mahle: Violin Sonatas and Sonatinas (1955-80). 129f. Tese (Doutorado em Música) – Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1999.

- Entrevistas publicadas

MAHLE, Ernst. Ópera brasileira nos palcos alemães. O Estado de São Paulo. São Paulo, 1980.

MAHLE, Ernst. Mahle comemora 40 anos de carreira com A Moreninha. Entrevista cedida à Malu Rigatto. Jornal de Piracicaba, Piracicaba, 1992.

- Entrevistas não publicadas

COSTA, Flávio Collins. Entrevista de Ernst Mahle, 2009. Piracicaba. Manuscrito. Associação Amigos Mahle.

- Trabalhos publicados online

BELKIN, Alan. Artistic orchestration. 2001. Disponível em: <https://alanbelkinmusic.com/bk.O/O.pdf>. Acesso em: 17 out. 2023.

LIVINGSTON-ISENHOUR, Tamara Elena; GARCIA, Thomas George Caracas. Choro: a social history of a Brazilian popular music. Disponível em: <https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345417/page/n7/mode/2up>. Acesso em: 20 set. 2023.

REVISTA CONCERTO. Os 90 anos de vida e ação de Ernst Mahle. Disponível em: <https://www.concerto.com.br/node/231100>. Acesso em: 21 set. 2023.

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Published

2024-12-30

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024)

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Articles

How to Cite

Ernst Mahle and His Operas. (2024). Journal of Brazilian Erudite Vocal Music, 2(2), 1-60. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14791116