Roger Waters: Ça Ira (There Is Hope)

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Roger Waters: Ça Ira (There Is Hope)
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Artist: Roger Waters
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Sony
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  • Roger Waters - Ça Ira
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. The Gathering Storm
  2. Overture
  3. A Garden In Vienna 1765
  4. 'Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine...'
  5. Kings, Sticks And Birds
  6. 'Honest Bird, Simple Bird...'
  7. 'I Want To Be King...'
  8. 'Let Us Break All The Shields...'
  9. The Grievences Of People
  10. France In Disarray
  11. 'To Laugh Is To Know How To Live...'
  12. 'Slavers, Landlords, Bigots At Your Door...'
  13. The Fall Of The Bastille
  14. 'To Freeze In The Dead Of Night...'
  15. 'So To The Streets In The Pouring Rain...'
  16. Dances And Marches
  17. 'Now Hear Ye!...'
  18. 'Flushed With Wine...'
  19. The Letter
  20. 'My Dear Cousin Bourbon Of Spain...'
  21. 'The Ship Of State Is All At Sea...'
  22. Silver, Sugar And Indigo
  23. 'To The Windward Isles...'
  24. The Papal Edict
  25. 'In Paris There's A Rumble Under The Ground...'
Music CD 2
  1. The Fugitive King
  2. 'But The Marquis Of Boulli Has A Trump Card Up His Sleeve...'
  3. 'To Take Your Hat off...'
  4. 'The Echoes Never Fade From That Fusillade...'
  5. The Commune De Paris
  6. 'Vive La Commune De Paris...'
  7. 'The National Assembly Is Confused...'
  8. The Execution Of Louis Capet
  9. 'Adieu Louis For You It's Over...'
  10. Marie Antoinette - The Last Night On Earth
  11. 'Adieu My Good And Tender Sister...'
  12. Liberty
  13. 'And In The Bushes Where They Survive...'

Free Music Notes for Roger Waters: Ça Ira (There Is Hope)

Free Music Review: One of the best new operas in YEARS!
Hit: 5 Stars

Forget everything you think you know about "rock" for a few hours. Forget your accumulated opinions about the lyricist and bass player on "Dark Side of the Moon" for a little while. There are connections, but let them happen later. Listen to this as an opera.

I have been an opera fan for forty years. My iPod is stuffed with operas from German, Italian, French, English, and Russian traditions. As far as modern operas go, I never liked the way things turned minimalist. What Debussy, Prokofiev, Joplin, and Britten established seemed to be forgotten for some fad of repetitive drivel. But this fits in where those minimalist things do not. It has melodies, for goodness sake! Imagine that! And the harmony fits in between the simplicity of popular music and the complexity of academic art music.

The subject is similar to Andrea Chenier, but the music is more modern. The music is similar to War and Peace, without the pomposity. I believe this is the direction opera should have gone. Perhaps it will, yet.

And then, after you listen to this on its own terms, as a modern opera, go ahead and think about Roger Waters and his musical career. During the forty years that Waters has been making music, about five were spent "riding the gravy train". His work in that period was the most commercially successful of its time. But that was preceded by ten years of experimentation, resulting in two movie scores and several moderately succesful albums. One could prove easily that his band's lengthy improvisations are the foundation of New Age music. There is no doubt that he took the idea of the concept album and the rock opera to their ultimate attainments. In the twenty-ish years following his departure from that band, he continued to create concept albums. But also during that time, he started work on this project. What do concept albums, half-hour spacey improvs, and opera have in common? Concepts, of course. We opera fans have always known about an overall concept. That's the whole point that the late rennaisance composers were trying to accomplish when they set Greek dramas to music. They had read in Plato that the dramas were sung, so they revived the idea. It was a simple concept, but it resulted in a musical genre that has lasted nearly 500 years.

In the end, I hope other opera fans will understand. I could say "it took a rock musician to bring the heart back into opera", but I won't, because Roger Waters is only a rock musician once in a while, when the spirit moves him. The rest of the time, he's a modern artist with a classical soul.

I wonder, now that waters has learned all this classical harmony and orchestration, how will it affect his future music. I can't wait to find out.
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Roger Waters: Ça Ira (There Is Hope) Poster

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Roger Waters has long been known for his musical ambition. The bassist and leader of Pink Floyd made that band famous in the 1970s and 1980s with concept-heavy albums as well as a certain self-aggrandizing image--attributes he maintained in his solo career. No wonder, then, to see that he's written what he calls as an opera. But don't be fooled: Waters's work has little to do with contemporary operas by the likes of John Adams or John Corigliano--even if the latter's 1991 The Ghosts of Versailles is set in Marie-Antoinette's Versailles, just as Waters's Ça Ira takes place during the French queen's last years, as the French Revolution unfurls. Based on a clunky libretto by Etienne and Nadine Roda-Gil, the show could have been a successful musical theater-­opera hybrid in the vein of Sweeney Todd but it falls closer to Andrew Lloyd Webber's historical pageants, without their recognizable melodies. Thankfully the cast holds the material aloft, especially Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel (no stranger to the world of musical theater, as shown on albums such as his tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein) and Chinese soprano Ying Huang. Note that this version comes as a double SACD set that includes a making-of DVD and a 60-page booklet. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

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