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Title L'opéra des opéras.

Publication Info. [Brussels] : Alpha Classics, [2018]
℗2017, ©2018

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 Talbott Media  CD 23669    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Talbott Media  CD 23669  Booklet    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 audio disc (74:10) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 011410
Description digital
optical
stereo
audio file
CD audio
Medium of Performance soprano voice 1 mezzo-soprano voice 1 tenor voice 1 mixed chorus SATB 1 orchestra 1 3 2
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Note Pasticcio, made up of excerpts of French operas from the Baroque. Includes recitatives and arias, duets, choruses, and purely instrumental movements (in part from ballets found in operas)
Title from disc label.
Performer Katherine Watson (La princesse0 ; Karine Deshayes (La reine magicienne) ; Reinoud van Mechelen (Le prince) ; Le concert spirituel ; Hervé Niquet, conductor.
Event Recorded 2017 October Opéra Royal de Versailles (France).
Note Accompanying booklet contains a discussion of the common use of pasticcios in France during the 17th and 18th centuries, biographical notes on the performers, and synopsis, all in French, English, and German. Information on the Opéra Royale and text of the opera are in English and French. The timeless characters of the prince, princess, and a witch who tries to destroy the couple reminded Hervé Niquet of the American television sitcom Bewitched, which he enjoyed as a child. That association resulted in the cover art depicting the three starring characters of the TV show.
Contents Titon et l'Aurore. Ouverture / Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (3:28) -- Le jugement de Pâris. Règne toujours / Toussaint Bertin de la Doué (2:52) -- Les fêtes d'Hébé. Pantomime / Jean-Philippe Rameau (:58) -- Le carnaval du Parnasse. Air lent et gracieux / Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (:58) -- Hippolyte et Aricie. Espoir, unique bien / Jean-Philippe Rameau (1:44) -- Achille et Déidamie. Timbales et trompettes / André Campra (2:07) -- Dardanus. Hâtons-nous; courons à la gloire / Jean-Philippe Rameau (2:07) -- Achille et Déidamie. Volez, jeune héros, volez dans les combats / André Campra (2:23) -- Les fêtes d'Hébé. Air pour Mars et charge militaire / Jean-Philippe Rameau (1:53) -- Les amours de Tempé. Prelude (:52) ; Hercule mourant. Dieu, grand dieu, sois sensible (2:21) ; Énée et Lavinie. Quel bruit affreux se fait entendre (2:20) / Antoine Dauvergne -- Les fêtes de Polymnie. Ce son brillant annonce la victoire (:38) ; Le temple de la gloire. Ô grandeur! ô clémence (1:25) ; Les fêtes d'Hébé. Éclatante trompette, annoncez (4:26) / Jean-Philippe Rameau -- Le fêtes grecques et romaines. Aimons-nous / François Colin de Blamont (1:24) -- Hippolyte et Aricie. Je vous entends / Jean-Philippe Rameau (:56) -- Scanderberg. Tout est prêt / François Francœur et François Rebel (2:55) -- Scylla et Glaucus. Prélude / Jean-Marie Leclair (2:00) -- Médée. Quel prix de mon amour (3:21) ; Noires filles du Styx (2:16) / Marc-Antoine Charpentier -- Méléagre. Prélude / Jean-Baptiste Stuck (:45) -- Scylla et Glaucus. Du flambeau de la nuit / Jean-Marie Leclair (:53) -- Alcyone. Tempête / Marin Marais (2:51) -- Dardanus. Lieux funestes / Jean-Philippe Rameau (3:29) -- Les muses. Il n'est plus / André Campra (2:19) -- Callirhoé. Entracte / André Cardinal Destouches et Antoine Dauvergne (1:34) -- Pyrame et Thisbé. Tout ce que j'adorais / François Francœur et François Rebel (1:19) -- Le carnaval de Venise. Mes yeux, fermez-vous à jamais / André Campra (2:57) -- Jephté. Quels pleurs (:41) ; Prélude (:36) / Michel Pignolet de Montéclair -- Hypermnestre. Je vous revois, princesse / Charles-Hubert Gervais (4:31) -- Armide. Passacaille / Jean-Baptiste Lully (8:29).
Summary Weaves a plot around three archetypal figures from French baroque opera, keeping the adaptation and retouching of texts to a minimum. The action is shared by a princess in love, a witch queen--her rival--and a valiant prince: the princess, secretly in love and enduring her sufferings with resignation; the witch queen, seeing her own passion for the prince unrequited, fuming with rage and jealousy; and the prince, who proclaims his love and his valor to the sound of trumpets and drums. All the requisite scenes of French baroque opera appear in turn, according to the rules of the genre: battle, religious invocations, sorcery, tempest, sleep, and love duets.
Language Sung in French.
Subject Operas -- Excerpts.
Operas -- Excerpts.
Genre/Form Pasticcios (Music)
Pasticcios (Music)
Operas.
Operas.
Art music.
Art music.
Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Excerpts.
Excerpts.
Added Author Watson, Katherine (Soprano), singer.
Deshayes, Karine, singer.
Mechelen, Reinoud van, singer.
Niquet, Hervé, conductor.
Concert spirituel (Musical group), singer, instrumentalist.
Music No. 3760014194429
ALPHA 442 Alpha Classics
442 Alpha Classics